ARTIFICIAL LIFE
The 1999 International EPFL-Latsis Foundation Conference
13-17 September 1999
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
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CONFERENCE REPORTS Henrik Lund,Aahrus University, Denmark http://www.daimi.au.dk/~hhl/ECAL99_report.html
Rens Kortmann, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Ray Walshe, Dublin City University, Ireland If you have written up a report of the conference, send it to ecal99@epfl.ch and we'll post it here. |
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KEYNOTE LECTURES H. Meinhardt, Max-Planck, Tuebingen From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation
W.D. Hamilton, Oxford University
L. Steels, Sony CSL Paris and VUB, Bruxelles
T. Lenton, Edinburgh Research Station C. Langton: Evening Talk at conference dinner
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What's new [19 August 1999]
| Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary research enterprise aimed at understanding life-as-it-is and life-as-it-could-be, and at synthetizing life-like phenomena in chemical, electronic, software, and other artificial media. Artificial Life redefines the concepts of artificial and natural, blurring the borders between traditional disciplines and providing new insights into the origin and principles of life. Artificial Life attempts to answer questions such as: How did biological life develop from inorganic components? What are the main principles of self-organization that characterize life-as-it-is and life-as-it-could-be? What are the rules of interaction between evolution and other self-organizing processes? How can we synthetize machines (circuits, robots, software) that have life-like characteristics? And many more. See the list of broad areas covered by the accepted contributions or visit our essential Artificial Life links. |  |
ECAL99 will be immediately followed by the
European Workshop on Learning Robots on Saturday 18 September 1999.
Please note that EWLR is organized independently of ECAL99 by Jeremy Wyatt and John Demiris and requires separate registration.