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From: cgl@beta.UUCP (C G Langton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Non-carbon based life
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 17:13:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 17:13:57 1987
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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Summary: Artificial Life Workshop


 I am organizing a workshop on Artificial Life that will address this
question, as well as other related questions. The workshop will be held
at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
during the week of Sept. 21-25, 1987. Among the confirmed attendees are:
Richard Dawkins, A.G. Cairns-Smith (mentioned by Lucius previously), 
Valentino Braitenberg, Aristed Lindenmayer, Richard Laing, Hans Moravec,
James G. Miller, John Holland, ...There will also be many computer and
other demos of "living" artifacts, and an artificial "4H-Show" with a 
$100 prize for the most life-like software, hardware, or wetware system.

Social and ethical issues will be explored, as well as alternative media
for embedding the processes of life, applications of the mechanisms of 
adaptation and evolution, contributions toward a general theory of 
life - abstracted from the particular details of any particular physical
implementation, the role of modelling in theoretical biology, and so
forth.

For more information, see a previous posting in this news group, in 
news.announce.conferences, or call, write, or email a request to me:

    Chris Langton                      cgl@lanl.gov
    Center for Nonlinear Stuidies  
    Los Alamos National Laboratory     505-667-1444
    Los Alamos, New Mexico USA
    87545