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Artificial Life II (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)
by Christopher G. Langton, Charles Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Westview Press (2003-04-17)
ISBN: 0201525712
EAN: 9780201525717
Dewey Decimal #: 577
Paperback: 880 pages
SKU: 00-E298-0FF8
Condition: Good
Comments: No marks or highlights on text. Front cover has a crease and signs of wear
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Product Description
Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial" media. In addition to uncovering new ways to study life as we know it, a life extends research to the larger domain of life as it could be, whatever it might be made of and wherever it might be found in the universe.This proceedings volume, based on the second artificial life workshop held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990, reflects the evolution and horizons of this rich field of study, and builds on the proceedings of the seminal first workshop, held at Los Alamos in 1987 (also available from Addison Wesley). This compendium includes more than 30 papers spanning the spectrum of a-life research, from studies of the origin of life to models of complex systems.
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Artificial Life is the new Artificial Intelligence.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-03-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are intrested in how biological systems can be simulated via computer or in what contect computer programs or computer simulations can be called alive -- this is the book to read.
Eventhou the articials in this book are technical reports from a scientific conference most provide easy reading for the layperson.
Artificial Life is a fassinating scientific endevor that seeks to do for biology what Artificial Instelligence did for psychology -- model biological processes, instead of mental processes on the computer and look to biology as a model for computation -- using techniques such as Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Neural Networks.
I find that all the books I've read that were published by the Santa Fe Institute to be intresting -- how ever the Artifical Life series is the easiest for an armchair scientist to grasp.
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