News: The Alife X conference took place on June 3-7, 2006. Thank you to all the participants, we had a great time! The Alife X proceedings have been published by MIT Press. Some of the events, including most of the keynote speaches, were recorded as a webcast by the Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network. You can also check out the Workshop proceedings (pdf), and see a few photos of the event. And yes, get the Alife X T-Shirts while they are still available!
Artificial life is the interdisciplinary enterprise investigating the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media.
The Artificial Life X conference marks two decades of the birth of this enterprise, a period marked by vast advances in the life sciences. The conference will showcase the best current work in all areas of research in Artificial Life, while highlighting its achievements and challenges, especially in an age of unparalleled computational power and access to data about various biological processes.
Each day of the conference will also spotlight a specific theme: Development and Embodied Cognition (in collaboration with ICDL5), Achievements and Open Problems, Computational Biology, and Complex Systems and Networks.
Both oral and poster presentations will be published in a volume by MIT Press.
The organizing Committee of Artificial Life X,
Luis M. Rocha (Chair), Mark Bedau, Dario Floreano, Robert Goldstone, Alessandro Vespignani, and Larry Yaeger