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n. 1 the simulation of any aspect of life. 2 the study of synthetic systems that behave like life organisms.
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Artificial Life is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the study of man-made systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems. Its articles cover system synthesis in software, hardware, and wetware. Artificial Life was established in 1993 and is the official journal of the International Society of Artificial Life. It is published online and in hard copy by the MIT Press.
Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986. There are three main kinds of alife, named for their approaches: soft, from software; hard, from hardware; and wet, from biochemistry. Artificial life researchers study traditional biology by trying to recreate aspects of biological phenomena.
Usage examples of "artificial life".
Everybody in the Valley figures that the breakthroughs in artificial life are going to come from distributed processing.
He found himself wondering what sort of real or artificial life might inhabit the artificial sea.
It was an artificial construct, full of artificial life, designed by Fox Jiang-Tibayan who thought he could improve upon the Goddess.
The first positive conclusions about the production of primitive forms of artificial life.
A phaser blast jarred the Cook, a small personnel shuttlecraft with one aboard, a unique artificial life- form modeled after a human.
Belin, Artificial Life: The Coming Evolution in Artificial Life II, edited by C.
In the last few years, artificial life had replaced artificial intelligence as a long-term computing goal.
And that was part of the problem that the roboticists faced, in those dawning days of the science of artificial life late in the Twentieth Century and early in the Twenty-First: the unwillingness of a great many human beings to surrender those burdens to mechanical substitutes.
The shrouds are now believed to be artificial life-forms, biological AIs, de-signed for a wide range of purposes.
The Keoghs are using algetic conditioning, making the artificial life support more and more uncomfortable so the children have an incentive to leave it.
Although the Festival is held to memorialize and mourn all artificial life wantonly erased over the centuries, there are always a few aficionados of terror who use this holiday to make human beings mourn their own lives.
Soon a 45-byte organism had evolved and all but eliminated the earlier artificial life-forms.
It is an artificial life-form which is not native to Talin, and which was seeded on that planet quite deliberately.
If he started spouting lies about his hopes of debating the skeptics of the artificial life mafia in some future issue of Cellular Automaton World, she'd probably start screaming.