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 | | From: | Ken Kubos | | Subject: | Biota has located several groups around the world which are building biologically-inspired evolving software systems | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:10:32 -0600 |
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 | Dear Biota list subscribers,
After an extended outage (a crashed machine) the Biota list is restored!
This is an exciting time as Biota is spearheading a major new global
initiative:
Darwin@Home
For details see:
http://www.darwinathome.org
(thanks Gerald de Jong for the name and logo)
Darwin@Home is modeled on SETI@Home in that we hope to help several
independent teams bring distributed evolutionary simulation to thousands (or
millions) of computers and users worldwide. Picture screen savers that run
while you are asleep (or awake) spending millions of computing cycles to
serve the higher goal of testing the hypothesis: can lifelike evolutionary
processes emerge within human technology (virtual space or even robot
space)? And Darwin@Home platforms will be fun, allowing ordinary users to
interact with the screen savers, creating creatures and environments, and
pushing the development of the simulated ecosystems.
Biota has located several groups around the world which are building
biologically-inspired evolving software systems. We will be helping those
efforts by promoting them to a larger user base, offering them expert advice
from a stellar board of advisors we are recruiting, and providing funding
and other resources to team efforts. Darwin@Home partner DigitalSpace,
working with NASA, is funding graduate student interns this Spring to create
another "D@H" platform.
The Darwin@Home initiative is even planning to finance a prize in a few
years, similar to the Ansari X-Prize or the DARPA Grand Challenge. This
prize will further spur development of evolutionary software and robotics
systems.
Darwin@Home will be announced: Wednesday January 12, 2005, 6pm
University of Southern California, Robert Zemeckis Center
Darwin@Home will be announced during a talk given by Bruce Damer, of
Biota.org and DigitalSpace, to be held at 6pm at the Robert Zemeckis Center
for Digital Arts, Room 201. The Center is located at 3131 South Figueroa
Street just north of the University of Southern California campus and next
to the Shrine Auditorium. The Zemeckis center is described at:
http://www-cntv.usc.edu/facilities/facilities-rzemeckis.php
The event is open to the public and you are invited to attend. The
announcement will be made as part of a larger talk and demonstrations:
"Virtual worlds beyond games: From your street corner to the dunes of Mars".
We hope you will visit http://www.darwinathome.org and let us know what you
think. The project is seeking all manner of volunteers for the project so
don't hesitate to contact us by replying to this email.
Thank you all for hanging in with Biota during the leaner years following
2001. We are back and very excited about the new developments in the domain
of digital biota!
All the best of the new year 2005!
Bruce Damer
Biota.org & The Contact Consortium
DigitalSpace
343 Soquel Avenue, # 70
Santa Cruz CA 95062-2305 USA
damer@digitalspace.com
http://www.digitalspace.com
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Ken
"Buddhism elucidates why we are sentient."
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| | From: | Kent Paul Dolan | | Subject: | Re: Biota has located several groups around the world which are building biologically-inspired evolving software systems | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:49:09 +0000 (UTC) |
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| "Ken Kubos" wrote:
> After an extended outage (a crashed machine)
> the Biota list is restored!
Your biotia.org site may be back, but many of the
sites to which it links are now long gone. You need
to do a thorough vetting of your site contents.
FYI
xanthian.
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