Virtual Organisms

Author : Mark Ward
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466874305

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Virtual Organisms by Mark Ward Pdf

Harmless artificial life forms are on the loose on the Internet. Computer viruses and even robots are now able to evolve like their biological counterparts. Telecommunications companies are sending small packets of software to go forth and multiply to cope with ever-increasing telephone traffic. Protein-based computers are on the agenda, and a team in Japan is building an organic brain as clever as a kitten. Welcome to the startling world of Artificial Life. Artificial Life scientists are taking inanimate materials such as computer software and robots and making them behave just like living organisms. In the process they are discovering much about what drives evolution and just what it means to say that something is alive. Virtual Organisms traces the origins of this field from the days when it was practiced by a few maverick scientists to the present and the current boom in Alife research. Leading technology correspondent Mark Ward presents a fascinating survey of current ideas about the origins of life and the engines of evolution. Through interviews with leading developers of Artificial Life, and through his own compelling research, Ward shows how the convergence of technology with biology has enormous implications. In an accessible, entertaining manner, Virtual Organisms reveals an unexplored avenue in predicting the future of Artificial Life, and whether new forms of Alife may be evolving beyond their designer's control.

Author : Mark Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029088379

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Virtual Organisms by Mark Ward Pdf

Author : Juan J. Romero,Penousal Machado
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540728771

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The Art of Artificial Evolution by Juan J. Romero,Penousal Machado Pdf

This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date survey of the relevant bioinspired computing research fields – such as evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence and ant colony algorithms – and examines applications in art, music and design. The editors and contributors are researchers and artists with deep experience of the related science, tools and applications, and the book includes overviews of historical developments and future perspectives.

Author : Karin Ohlenschlager,Peter Weibel,Alfred Weidinger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262048156

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Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau by Karin Ohlenschlager,Peter Weibel,Alfred Weidinger Pdf

“More than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium”: a captivating look at thirty years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Working at the intersection of natural science, technology, and art, Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the “Art of Interface”—innovative technical interfaces that enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Early on, the pair used algorithms to represent not only forms of the living but also their evolution and growth. Edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger, this publication in the Leonardo book series brings together key works of the artists since the early 1990s in pictures and text contextualized by renowned international authors: Reinhard Kannonier, Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Birgit Mersmann, Tomoe Moriyama, Karin Ohlenschläger, Ingeborg Reichle, and Siegfried Zielinski. In the artists’ installations, which are possible only through interactions with the viewer, devices designed by the artist couple produce novel virtual realities and immersive environments. In “Portrait on the Fly,” for instance, a viewer stands in front of an interactive plasma screen, behind which a swarm of thousands of flies is moving. Gradually, the flies settle on the shadowed areas of the projection, thereby collectively reproducing the person’s likeness. Works such as these, now almost classics of digital art, open a new horizon in which artworks can function as living systems. As Peter Weibel writes, their work is “more than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium; it shows mythical creatures, artificial creatures, [and] a so far unseen panorama of imagination and technical ingenuity.”

Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134454754

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Virtual Theatres by Gabriella Giannachi Pdf

The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyzes the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts practices through discussion of a variety of artists and performers including: * blast Theory * Merce Cunningham * Eduardo Kac * forced entertainment * Lynn Hershman * Jodi Orlan * Guillermo Gómez-Peña * Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca * Jeffrey Shaw * Stelarc. Virtual Theatres not only allows for a reinterpretation of what is possible in the world of performance practice, but also demonstrates how 'virtuality' has come to represent a major parameter for our understanding and experience of contemporary art and life.

Author : C. Frasson,K. Kabassi,A. Voulodimos
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781643682051

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Novelties in Intelligent Digital Systems by C. Frasson,K. Kabassi,A. Voulodimos Pdf

Artificial intelligence and intelligent digital systems have become indispensible to many areas of modern life. This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Novelties in Intelligent Digital Systems (NIDS2021), held in Athens, Greece, from 30 September to 1 October 2021. The conference took place as a virtual event due to COVID-19 restrictions. The NIDS conference lays special emphasis on the novelties of intelligent systems and on the interdisciplinary research which enables, supports, and enhances Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software development. It promotes high-quality research, creating a forum for the exploration of challenges and new advances in AI, and addresses experts, researchers and scholars in the fields of artificial and computational intelligence in systems and in computer sciences in general, enabling them to learn more about pertinent, strongly related and mutually complementary fields. The conference promotes an exchange of ideas, reinforcing and expanding the network of researchers, academics, and market representatives. The 30 accepted papers included here have each been reviewed rigorously by two or three reviewers through a double-blind process which reflects the commitment of the IIS academic community to make NIDS a top-flight, selective and high-quality conference. They are grouped in 6 sections, and cover the topics of Learning; Extended Reality; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Health and Environment; Brain Assessment and Reasoning; and Computer Vision Describing some very significant research and reflecting many interesting new ideas, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Author : Claus Emmeche
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691225159

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The Garden in the Machine by Claus Emmeche Pdf

What is life? Is it just the biologically familiar--birds, trees, snails, people--or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate? What role does intelligence play in separating the organic from the inorganic, the living from the inert? Does life evolve along a predestined path, or does it suddenly emerge from what appeared lifeless and programmatic? In this easily accessible and wide-ranging survey, Claus Emmeche outlines many of the challenges and controversies involved in the dynamic and curious science of artificial life. Emmeche describes the work being done by an international network of biologists, computer scientists, and physicists who are using computers to study life as it could be, or as it might evolve under conditions different from those on earth. Many artificial-life researchers believe that they can create new life in the computer by simulating the processes observed in traditional, biological life-forms. The flight of a flock of birds, for example, can be reproduced faithfully and in all its complexity by a relatively simple computer program that is designed to generate electronic "boids." Are these "boids" then alive? The central problem, Emmeche notes, lies in defining the salient differences between biological life and computer simulations of its processes. And yet, if we can breathe life into a computer, what might this mean for our other assumptions about what it means to be alive? The Garden in the Machine touches on every aspect of this complex and rapidly developing discipline, including its connections to artificial intelligence, chaos theory, computational theory, and studies of emergence. Drawing on the most current work in the field, this book is a major overview of artificial life. Professionals and nonscientists alike will find it an invaluable guide to concepts and technologies that may forever change our definition of life.

Author : Ian Gwilt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350133242

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Making Data by Ian Gwilt Pdf

For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways. The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements. Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon.

Author : Merrill L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811686269

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Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places by Merrill L. Johnson Pdf

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer’s perspective. How can the geographer’s craft be applied to social virtual worlds? This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in these worlds has waxed and waned during the twenty-first century, and the meaning of their concocted spaces. Examining one of the key features of the social virtual world, the avatar, the book focuses on its user's motivations and identity choices. The book draws on the geographical understanding of place to examine where avatars live, work, and roam, and describes how virtual-world places resemble and diverge from actual-world places. A mixed-methods survey conducted in Second Life adds additional breadth to the discussion, whilst a series of vignettes gives extra life to the subject matter. This original exploration of the content and meaning of social virtual worlds is an essential resource for geographers, and for anyone interested in the virtual world experience.

Author : Zhen Lei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ecology
ISBN : MSU:31293025044078

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Digital Organisms in a Virtual Ecosystem Design and Implementation by Zhen Lei Pdf

Author : Fernando Almeida e Costa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540749134

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Advances in Artificial Life by Fernando Almeida e Costa Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry.

Author : Mitra Baratchi,Lu Cao,Walter A. Kosters,Jefrey Lijffijt,Jan N. van Rijn,Frank W. Takes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030766405

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by Mitra Baratchi,Lu Cao,Walter A. Kosters,Jefrey Lijffijt,Jan N. van Rijn,Frank W. Takes Pdf

This book contains a selection of the best papers of the 32nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC/Benelearn 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in November 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 regular submissions. They address various aspects of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing, agent technology, game theory, problem solving, machine learning, human-agent interaction, AI and education, and data analysis. The chapter 11 is published open access under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License) Chapter “Gaining Insight into Determinants of Physical Activity Using Bayesian Network Learning” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com..

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128003169

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Advances in the Study of Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields. Initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior Makes another important contribution to the development of the field Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139487528

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The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics by Luciano Floridi Pdf

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and hence on contemporary ethical debates. The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, first published in 2010, provides an ambitious and authoritative introduction to the field, with discussions of a range of topics including privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, cyber warfare, and online pornography. It offers an accessible and thoughtful survey of the transformations brought about by ICTs and their implications for the future of human life and society, for the evaluation of behaviour, and for the evolution of moral values and rights. It will be a valuable book for all who are interested in the ethical aspects of the information society in which we live.

Author : Mark A. Bedau,Carol E. Cleland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139488655

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The Nature of Life by Mark A. Bedau,Carol E. Cleland Pdf

Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects original historical and contemporary sources to explore the wide range of issues surrounding the nature of life. Selections ranging from Aristotle and Descartes to Sagan and Dawkins are organised around four broad themes covering classical discussions of life, the origins and extent of natural life, contemporary artificial life creations and the definition and meaning of 'life' in its most general form. Each section is preceded by an extensive introduction connecting the various ideas discussed in individual chapters and providing helpful background material for understanding them. With its interdisciplinary perspective, this fascinating collection is essential reading for scientists and philosophers interested in astrobiology, synthetic biology and the philosophy of life.