Artificial life
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Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry.
Description
There are three main kinds of alife, named for their approaches:
- Soft, from software
- Hard, from hardware
- Wet, from biochemistry
Artificial life researchers study traditional biology by trying to recreate aspects of biological phenomena.
Christopher Langton
The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986.
Langton made numerous contributions to the field of artificial life, both in terms of simulation and computational models of given problems and to philosophical issues.
See also
External links
- Artificial life @ Wikipedia
