MIT ALife talks 1994-1998

MIT ALife group

Founded by Carlo Maley, Geo Homsy and Erik Rauch for discussion of the modeling and synthesis of molecular systems; continued by Alexander Wait as ALife Boston.

February 6, 1995. Eric Olson on philosophical critique of strong artificial life.
February 20, 1995. Lisa Tucker-Kellogg on optimal sequence selection in proteins by simulated evolution.
March 6, 1995. Jeremy Wertheimer on reasoning from experiments to causal models in molecular physiology.
March 23, 1995. Annie Wu on addition of introns to genetic algorithms.
April 26, 1995. Mark Bedau on measuring adaptive evolution.
September 21, 1995. Una-May O'Reilly on Program Discovery Using Adaptive Search Techniques.
October 2, 1995. Lysander Menezes on Modeling death structure transitions in populations.
October 16, 1995. Erich Prem on Grounding and the Entailment Structure in Robots and Artificial Life.
October 30, 1995. Anthony Kiszewski on The Effect of Patchy Population Distributions on the Persistence of Pathogens.
November 13, 1995. Vince Darley on modelling feedback and propagation of information in economic systems with the title "Natural Rationality is Bounded".
November 27, 1995. Peter Goss on modelling the genetic switch in lambda viruses.
November 30, 1995. Nelson Minar on the general purpose modelling tool, Swarm.
December 4, 1995. Anne Foerst on The courage to doubt: Possibilities for a Dialogue between AI and Theology.
December 12, 1995. Michael Donoghue on Complexity, homology, and patterns in the evolution of biological characters.

March 8, 1996. Carlo Maley on "Simulating Ecological Invasions".
March 18, 1996. Kazuhiro Saitou on Automated Optimal Design of Mechanical Conformational Switches.
April 8, 1996. Michael Best on "An Ecology of the Net".
April 22, 1996. Una-May O'Reilly on Using the Fitness Landscape Metaphor for Computer Based Evolution, part I.
May 6, 1996. Una-May O'Reilly and Vince Darley on Fitness Landscapes, part II.
September 16, 1996. Brendan Kitts on Optimizing swarm fitness by partial regulation.
October 10, 1996. Stephanie Forrest on The Ecology of Echo.
October 21, 1996. Vince Darley on Cooperation and Conflict in Search.
November 4, 1996. Anne Foerst on Anthropological Concepts of AI.
November 11, 1996. Peter Stadler on Mutation, Recombination, and Fitness Landscapes: Correlation Measures and Spectral Graph Theory.
November 18, 1996. Carlo Maley on DNA computation.

February 24, 1997. Una-May O'Reilly on How the dependency relationships between program Statements affect Genetic Programming.
March 10, 1997. Holly Yanco on Minimal behaviors in Minimats.
March 31, 1997. Carlo Maley on effects of classification systems on diversity patterns.
April 14, 1997. Johnathan Rees on Pargellis' paper on Artificial Worlds for Artificial Life.
April 28, 1997. Michael Best will speak on competition and niche behavior in memes.
May 19, 1997. Rolf Pfeifer on Two case studies on ants: "Didabots" and "Sahabots".
September 22, 1997. Rolf Pfeifer on Evolving morphologies using genome-based cell-to-cell communication.
October 6, 1997. Carlo Maley on Validation in a Model of Evolutionary Ecology.
October 20, 1997. Raissa D'Souza on Reversible Cellular Automata on the CAM8.
November 3, 1997. Peter Goss on Stochastic Petri Nets.
November 17, 1997. Belinda Chang on Molecular Fossils: Reconstructing ancestral visual pigment proteins.
December 3, 1997. Vladimir Gontar on A Discrete Biochemical Reaction Dynamics for Physiology.

February 9, 1998. Etienne Delacroix on Art Programming Environment.
March 19, 1998. Dave Cliff on Knowledge-Based Vision and Simple Visual Machines.
March 30, 1998. Richard Watson on Heirarchical building blocks in GAs.
April 13, 1998. Carlo Maley on Sex and Biodiversity.
April 27, 1998. Carlo Maley on Evolution of Biodiversity (thesis defense).
May 14 1998. Sevan Ficici on Coevolving Communicative Behavior in a Linear Pursuer-Evader Game