Artificial life organizations
- Artificial life organizations
International Society of Artificial Life
ISAL is a "democratic, international, professional society dedicated to promoting scientific research and education relating to artificial life, including sponsoring conferences, publishing scientific journals and newsletters, and maintaining web sites related to artificial life." [ [http://www.alife.org/mission.html Artificial Life - Governance ] ] ]The ISAL organizes a biannual professional conference on artificial life called the "International Conference on Artificial Life". Each conference is uniquely identified with a roman numeral. One such conference is [http://www.alifexi.org/ Alife XI] , to be held in August 2008 in Winchester, England [ [http://www.alifexi.org/ Alife XI ] ]
The ISAL also publishes the preeminent artificial life scholarly journal "Artificial Life" through MIT Press.
* [http://www.alife.org/ ISAL homepage]
* [http://www.alifexi.org/ Alife XI]
Biota.org
Biota.org is run by Tom Barbalet, and "promotes and assists the engineering of complete, biologically-inspired, synthetic ecosystems and organisms" [ [http://www.biota.org/about/ Biota.org: About ] ] . Biota.org ran an annual Digital Biota Conference Series from 1996 to 2001. [ [http://www.biota.org/ Biota.org: The Artificial Life Project ] ] More recently, Biota.org has hosted a "collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users" through a podcast. [ [http://www.biota.org/podcast/ Biota.org: Podcast ] ]
* [http://www.biota.org/ Biota.org Homepage]
* [http://www.biota.org/podcast/ Podcasts]
* [http://www.biota.org/conferences/ Conference proceedings]
Grey Thumb Society
The Grey Thumb Society is a group of "scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists... with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems, and other related topics" [http://www.greythumb.org/wiki/WikiHome] based in Boston. Members also run a [http://www.greythumb.org/blog/ blog] of artificial life related topics.
* [http://www.greythumb.org Grey Thumb homepage]
* [http://www.greythumb.org/blog/ Grey Thumb blog]
* [http://www.biota.org/podcast/ Biota.org podcast interviews]
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