Additions and changes

• 19 August: Change in tutorial list: New tutorial "Introduction to Ant Algorithms" is given by Marco Dorigo. It substitutes the earlier (and similar) tutorial by Guy Theraulaz on Collective Intelligence.
• 18 August: Social Program: Artificial Life in Switzerland in 18th Century.
• 22 July: Description of demonstrations.
• 8 July: Workshops on Thursday. Program available.
• 2 July: Tutorial list extended and completed. Chris Langton will deliver an informal dinner talk on Thursday evening. Camera-ready proceedings sent to Springer-Verlag.
• 8 June: Keynote Lectures confirmed.
• 19 May: BibTeX style file added to camera-ready section (thanks to Jason Noble). Using this file you can match better Springer format requirements.
• 6 May: Accommodation availability guaranteed until 26th July.
• 3 May: Notification to authors by e-mail.
• 2 May: Registration open for Course on Behavior-Based and Bio-inspired Robotics. ECAL'99 participants save 300.- CHF on normal registration.
• 1 May: Thanks to sponsors, tutorials are now free for participants!
• 25 April: Swissair becomes official carrier of ECAL'99. Reduced fares for participants.
• 26 March: Link added to new program on Universal Information Ecosystems launched by the European Commission.
• 28 February: Paper deadline is over (28 February). All members of the Scientific and Advisory Committee are now busy reviewing the papers. Each submitted paper is reviewed by at least 3 independent referees.
• 23 February: Alife Creators Contest is now ONLINE.
• 16 Feb: Tutorials: a preliminary list. New tutorials will be continuously added.
• 4 Feb: Electronic submission is open now.
• 16 Jan: Alife Creators Contest!
• 15 Jan: Student Grants
• 15 Jan: Intensive 3-day course on Behavior-Based Robotics at the EPFL just before ECAL99. Link.
• 10 Jan: Young Researcher Award
• 1 Jan: Sponsors are coming in!
• 17 Dec: Call for debates, demos, and other events is now open.
• 17 Dec: ECAL99 will be followed by the European Workshop on Robot Learning. Added link to EWLR page.
• 1 Dec: Screen background version of ECAL99 poster downloadable.