session #	date	paper in ALife book	supplementary reading and links	presenter(s)
1	Thu Sep 1	Learning About Life, by Mitchel Resnick, p.229-241	Karl Sims, Evolving Virtual Creatures, In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'94, p15-22, 1994. Hod Lipson and Jordan Pollack, Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms, Nature vol 406, 2000. NetLogo home page	handout from class my slides
2	Thu Sep 8	Artificial Life as a Tool for Biological Inquiry, by Charles Taylor and David Jefferson, p.1-13	Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo and Alberto Colorni, The Ant System: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B, Vol 26, No 1, p1-13, 1996. Barry Brian Werger and Maja Mataric, Broadcast of Local Eligibility for Multi-Target Observation, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), p347-356, 2000. Tucker Balch, Zia Khan and Manuela Veloso, Automatically Tracking and Analyzing the Behavior of Live Insect Colonies, In the Proceedings of AGENTS'01, 2001.	Sadat's slides my slides
3	Thu Sep 15	The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence, by Luc Steels, p.75-110	Marvin Minsky, Why People Think Computers Can't, The AI Magazine, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1982. Reprinted in Technology Review, Nov./Dec., 1983 and in The Computer Culture, Denis P. Donnelly, (Ed.), Associated University Presses, Cranbury NJ, 1985. Also intriguing is the draft of a book that Minksy is writing now (draft dated July 2005) called The Emotion Machine. Here's a link to chapter 1. You can find the rest of the chapters on Minksy's home page.	Barbra's slides Tiziana's slides
4	Thu Sep 22	Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents, by Pattie Maes, p.135-162	Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings., Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice. Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2), 1995. Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael Wooldridge. Software Agents. IEE Review 42(1), pages 17-21. January 1996.	David's slides Jinzhong's slides
5	Thu Sep 29	Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life, by Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest, p.268-289	John Koza, Evolution and co-evolution of computer programs to control independently-acting agents. In Meyer, J. and Wilson, S., editors, From Animals to Animats. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1991. Melanie Mitchell, Stephanie Forrest, and John Holland The royal road for genetic algorithms: Fitness landscapes and GA performance. In Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books (1992).	Ersin's slides Minhua's slides
6	Thu Oct 6	Toward Synthesizing Artificial Neural Networks that Exhibit Cooperative Intelligent Behavior, by Michael G. Dyer, p.111-134. (this paper is optional)	D. B. Fogel, L. J. Fogel and V. W. Porto, Evolving Neural Networks, Biological Cybernetics 63, pages 487-493, 1990. D. Cliff and G. F. Miller, Tracking the red queen: Measurements of adaptive progress in coevolutionary simulations. In Morán, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J. J., and Chac'on, P., editors, Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, pages 200-218, 1995.	Cantor Arif's slides
	Thu Oct 13	NO CLASS (Yom Kippur)
7	Thu Oct 20	Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems, by Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl, p.15-37 (moved to nov 3)	Robert Axelrod, Evolution of Cooperation (handout given in class, preface and chapter 2)	Sumon's slides Tron game Elizabeth Sklar, Alan D. Blair, and Jordan B. Pollack, Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Data Collected on the Internet, in Liu, J., Zhong, N., Tang, Y.Y., and Wang, P.S.P. (eds), Agent Engineering, Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 201-226 (ch 8).
8	Thu Oct 27	Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution, by Kunihiko Kaneko, p.163-177 (this paper is optional)	Peter J. Angeline and Jordan B. Pollack, Competitive environments evolve better solutions to complex problems, Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, 1993. Christopher D. Rosin and Richard K. Belew, New Methods for Competitive Co-evolution, Evolutionary Computation 5:1, 1996. Sevan G. Ficici and Jordan B. Pollack, Challenges in Coevolutionary Learning: Arms-Race Dynamics, Open-Endedness, and Mediocre Stable States, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life. Adami, Belew, Kitano, Talor, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.	Ali's slides Ersin's slides
9	Thu Nov 3	Visual Models of Morphogenesis, by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, p.61-74	Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems, by Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl, p.15-37 (rescheduled from oct 20)	Minhua's slides Minhua's movies Tang
10	Thu Nov 10	An Evolutionary Aroach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life, Thomas S. Ray, p.179-209	Steve Grand and Dave Cliff, Creatures: Entertainment software agents with artificial life, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 1(2), 1998. Thomas S. Ray, An Evolutionary Approach to Synthe	Ali's slides Sadat's slides
11	Thu Nov 17	Beyond Digital Naturalism, by Walter Fontana, Gunter Wagner and Leo W. Buss, p.211-227	Valentino Braitenberg, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (handout given in class containing excerpts from first 5 vehicles)	Ehlers, Ligorio
	Thu Nov 24	NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
12	Thu Dec 1	Artificial Life as Philosophy, by Daniel Dennett, p.291-301 and Why Do We Need Artificial Life?, by Eric W. Bonabeau and G. Theraulaz, p.303-325	John Rennie, 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense, Scientific American, July 2002.	Azhar, Cantor
13	Thu Dec 8	catch up day
14	Thu Dec 15	PROJECT DEMOS DAY