Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligen

This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.

The first truly hands-on study of artificial life and its potential for synthesization by computer. Explores several definitions of life, and applies these wide

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. So

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics ra