Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

Artificial Life, Volume I: Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems (Proceedings Volume in the Santa ... Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, V. 6.)

Computers & Technology

Langton, Christopher G.

Santa Fe Institute

Computer Science

Routledge

<p>The proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on the synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 1990, comprise 30 papers covering current research which employs computers and other media in attempts to simulate and even synthesize such complex biological phenomena as the origin and evolution of life, multi-cellular growth and development, adaptive behavior, ecological and population dynamics, and the behavior of insect colonies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Artificial Life: Volume Ii (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

Basic Books

<p>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.</p>

Artificial Life II (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

Taylor, Charles

Farmer, J. Doyne

Rasmussen, Steen

Westview Press

Artificial Life Iii (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sci

Artificial Life Iii (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

Science & Math

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