alife 14 award ceremony - wpmu dev
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ALIFE 14 AWARD CEREMONY
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1st ALIFE SCIENCE VISUALIZATION COMPETITION
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COMPETITION CHAIR
• Sebastian Risi (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Jon McCormack (Monash University, Australia)
• René Doursat (Drexel University, USA)
• Laura Beloff (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Alan Dorin (Animaland, Australia)
• Daniel Cellucci (Cornell University, USA)
• Alaa Abi Haidar (ISC-PIF, France)
PANEL
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FINALISTS
Visual Media Name Title Vote Dave Ackley Artificial Life: An introduction Dan Lessin Visualizing Complex Brain
Function in Evolved Virtual Creatures
Luis Zaman Artificial Life, Natural Selection! Randy Olson, Bjørn Østman
Fitness landscapes
Scott Draves Electric Sheep Jared Moore WebGL Visualizer
for Artificial Life
Sylvain Cussat-‐Blanc et al.
Digital world
Stuart Bartlett Fluid flow Ruslan Kamolov et al. Visualizing Music with Swarms Sebastian von Mammen Swarm Grammers Nick Cheney et al. Evolving soft robots
Visual Print Name Title Vote Andrew Lincoln Nelson Living Machine Series Peter Sheesley The Life Cycle Josh Auerbach Environmental Influence on
the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Machines
Insil Choi Evolution of Artificial life Namu Patel Simulation of
neuromechanically driven Prey-capture Behavior
11 Visual Media 5 Visual Print
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PRIZES
• $100 Gift Certificates from Nervous System
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WINNERS
• Visualizing Music with Swarms
• Ruslan Kamolov, Cátia Costa, António Cruz, Penousal Machado
• Evolution of Artificial Life
• Insil Choi
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Insil Choi and Sebastian Risi
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BEST POSTER AWARD
• First Place:
• 112: L. B. Soros and Kenneth O. Stanley. Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria (13 votes)
• Runners Up:
• 19: Paul Grouchy and Gabriele M.T. D'Eleuterio. Evolving Autonomous Agent Controllers as Analytical Mathematical Models (12 votes)
• 109: Yuki Takeichi, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Reiji Suzuki and Takaya Arita. Twitter as Social Sensor: Dynamics and Structure in Major Sporting Events (11 votes)
• 113: Tarek Ababsa, Noureddine Djedi, Yves Duthen and Sylvain Cussat-Blanc. Splittable Metamorphic Carrier Robots (10 votes)
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Front row: Hod Lipson, S. Risi, Mark Bedau
Hiroki Sayama
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Ken Stanley, Lisa Soros and Hiroki Sayama
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BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE
Chair: Luis Rocha Co-Chair: Takashi Ikegami Members: Joshua Auerbach Lola Cañamero Dominique Chu Sylvain Cussat-Blanc Stephane Doncieux Dusan Misevic Susan Stepney Sebastian von Mammen
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Luis Rocha and Takashi Ikegami
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BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
• 185: Andres Burgos and Daniel Polani. An informational study of the evolution of codes in different population structures
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Andres Burgos, Luis Rocha and Takashi Ikegami
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BEST PAPER AWARD
• 60: Nathaniel Virgo, Simon McGregor and Takashi Ikegami. Self-Organising Autocatalysis
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Luis Rocha, Nathaniel Virgo and Takashi Ikegami
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ISAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
• Mark Bedau, President
• Inman Harvey, Vice President
• René Doursat, Secretary
• Josh Bongard, Treasurer
• Wolfgang Banzhaf, Tom Barbalet, Seth Bullock, Jeff Clune, Steen Rasmussen, John Rieffel, Hiroki Sayama, Susan Stepney, Tim Taylor
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Mark Bedau
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ISAL AWARDS
• Award for Exceptional Service
• Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Artificial Life
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ISAL AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE
presented to
Dr. Timothy J. Taylor
for developing and maintaining ISAL’s website
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http://alife.org/
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Tim Taylor and Mark Bedau
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ISAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION
presented to
Dr. Christopher G. Langton
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Steen Rasmussen and Mark Bedau
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ISAL WORKING GROUPS
• Website (Tim Taylor)
• Finances (Mark Bedau, Josh Bongard)
• Education (John Rieffel)
• Career (Sebastian Risi)
• Email [email protected]!
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Mark Bedau, John Rieffel and Sebastian Risi
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NEXT ALIFE IN 2016?
Mark Bedau and Carlos Gershenson
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ALife XV Summer, 2016
Mayan Riviera, Mexico
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First ALife conference in Latin America
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ALife and Society
• How can the synthetic study of living systems contribute to societies: scientifically, technically, and culturally?
• Social ALife models.
• ALife contributions to society.
• To better understand societies for improving management and development of social systems.
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Co-located events
• Workshops and tutorials
• Summer school
• ALife art competition/exhibition
• Children's program
• Public lecture(s)
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Keynotes
• Randall Beer
• Ezequiel Di Paolo
• Francisco Santos
• More TBA
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Location
• 100+km white sand beaches
• Second largest coral reef
• Major archaeological sites
• Airport with best connections
• Developed tourism industry
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Organizing committee • Carlos Gershenson
• Tom Froese
• Jesús Siqueiros
• Genaro Juárez-Martínez
• Wendy Aguilar
• Carlos Coello
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@ALifeXV
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AFTER-NEXT ECAL IN 2017?
Mark Bedau and René Doursat
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. . .
Alife X: Bloomington ECAL’07: Lisbon Alife XI: Winchester ECAL’09: Budapest
Alife XII: Odense ECAL’11: Paris Alife XIII: East Lansing ECAL’13: Taormina
Alife XIV: New York ECAL’15: York Alife XV: Cancún ECAL’17: ???
Open Bid!
email to: [email protected]