CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination

NASA Ames Research Center, CA

CONTACT is a unique interdisciplinary conference which brings together some of the foremost international social and space scientists, science fiction writers and artists to exchange ideas, stimulate new perspectives and encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity's future.

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Computational Intelligence and Games 2010

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Bruce Damer will present a keynote The Day the Game Came Alive: Virtual Worlds and an Origin of Artificial Life at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Alife XII (12th International Conference on Artificial Life)

University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

The conference will be organized around the theme of identifying and synthesizing the critical properties of living and life-like systems (e.g., self-replication, self-assembly, self-organization, metabolism, adaptation, evolution). The meeting will reflect all of the main areas of artificial life research, including “wet” systems based on carbon chemistry, “soft” systems realized just in software, and “hard” systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents, as well as a variety of social and technical systems that embody the critical properties of living systems.

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