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Welcome
I'm Tom Barbalet and this is a continuation of the Biota Podcasts. For more information check out;
Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Next Episode
Friday, August 15th, 8pm Pacific, An Artificial Quality of Life (Hard topic following ALIFE XI)
Friday, August 22nd, 8pm Pacific, Zann Gill - book + ideas
Artificial Life isn't Just Genetic Algorithms
Open Source and Artificial Life Revisit
Promoting Artificial Life Projects - a How-To
Facebook Groups
Befriending all - many lived in existing GreyThumb areas or potential areas for future GreyThumbs
Artificial Life XI
Jamie Matthews
Larry Yaeger
Biota CDs
GreyThumb News
Boston
Netherlands?
Silicon Valley
Osher Yadgar
Scott Davis (& John Cumbers)
Apologies
Steve Grand - theatre OBE
Bruce Damer - ten years of the farm (spoke to Galen and passed on my congratulations)
Remember Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Question for this week
What is history? Functional? Descriptive? What people find out or what people already know.
Are there different kinds of history?
What is the history of artificial life?
The classical history
The Conway centric history
- Who is John Horton Conway?
- Why is he important in artificial life?
- Can we still talk with him about artificial life?
The Langton centric history
- Who is Christopher Langton?
- Why is he important in artificial life?
- Can we still talk with him about artificial life?
The Dawkins centric history
- Who is Richard Dawkins?
- Why is he important in artificial life?
- Can we still talk with him about artificial life?
What happened in the 1990s?
Functional versus academic history?
What are we refering back to through this history?
The dead-beat dad narrative
Should we propose a functional history of artificial life
Thanks
Next week
An Artificial Quality of Life
