ALifeX June 2, 2006

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.

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