Artificial life organizations
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[edit] 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." [1]
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 Alife XI, to be held in August 2008 in Winchester, England [2]
The ISAL also publishes the preeminent artificial life scholarly journal Artificial Life through MIT Press.[3]
[edit] Biota.org
Biota.org is run by Tom Barbalet, and "promotes and assists the engineering of complete, biologically-inspired, synthetic ecosystems and organisms" [4]. Biota.org ran an annual Digital Biota Conference Series from 1996 to 2001. [5] More recently, Biota.org has hosted a "collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users" through a podcast. [6]
[edit] 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"[7] based in Boston. Members also run a blog of artificial life related topics.
