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Launch of Enchanted Bit website and Whittle app
13 Nov 2023
I am pleased to announce the launch of my new Enchanted Bit website, which will showcase some of my projects and side-projects on topics relating to Artificial Life and more. With the tagline Artificial Life and AI in words and software, it covers both software apps and print books.
Read full article »Speaking at EPFL on the History of Self-Reproducing Machines
08 May 2023
I am excited to be travelling to EPFL in Switzerland this week to present a guest lecture on the early history of self-reproducing machines.
Read full article »Speaking at Creativity Unleashed workshop
28 Apr 2023
It was a pleasure to give an invited talk at the Creativity Unleashed workshop today, organised by Cross Labs in Kyoto. My talk was entitled Living Space: Substrates suitable for the open-ended evolution of creative behaviours.
Read full article »New paper in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation journal
15 Jul 2022
Another journal paper to come out of my ongoing collaboration with Alan Dorin and colleagues at Monash University on agent-based models of pollination dynamics is published today in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
Read full article »Barricelli's final paper on Artificial Life available here!
25 May 2022
In Chapter 5 of Rise of the Self-Replicators I discuss Nils Aall Barricelli’s pioneering work in the 1950s on evolving self-replicating digital organisms. There I mention his final paper on the topic, published in 1987 and entitled Suggestions for the starting of numeric evolution processes to evolve symbioorganisms capable of developing a language and technology of their own.
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