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My keynote at the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
27 Jul 2021
Last week I was really honoured to present a keynote talk at the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, entitled Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today. The talk explored the early history of thinking about machines, robots and AI that can reproduce and evolve.
Read full article »Schedule for the Fourth Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution
21 Jul 2021
I am pleased to announce that the finalised schedule for the Fourth Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE4) is now out! The online workshop will be held on 22 July 2021 as part of the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life.
Read full article »Call for Papers released for the Fourth Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution
27 Mar 2021
I am pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Fourth Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE4) is now out! The online workshop will be held as part of the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life over 19-23 July 2021.
Read full article »New review of our book
15 Feb 2021
Our book Rise of the Self-Replicators has received a nice review in the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.
Read full article »Botany One blog article about our research
01 Feb 2021
The Botany One website has a nice blog post about our recent paper in the Theoretical Ecology journal.
Read full article »New paper in Theoretical Ecology journal
19 Nov 2020
The first journal paper to come out of my ongoing collaboration with Alan Dorin and colleagues at Monash University on agent-based models of pollination dynamics is published today in Theoretical Ecology.
Read full article »Book published!
03 Aug 2020
I am pleased to announce that my new book Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve is now published!
Read full article »Book coming out soon!
22 May 2020
My new book Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve will be published this summer by Springer. The expected publication date is 18 September 2020.
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