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- Artificial Life,
Culture and Evolutionary Design - Spring 2002
Nick Gessler - gessler@ucla.edu
CLICC Laboratory Hours - http://www.clicc.ucla.edu/LabInfo/hours.asp
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Calendar
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WEEK 1 Web critique of readings to be discussed
the following week: Additional reading online: |
9:30 Anthro: Culture, Multiagency, MS-NBC (Simpson from Cyberlife, Gessler, Taylor, Fogel, de Garis), artifacts (Jacquard, Hollerith, Jefferson Wheel, M-209, Silicon, Wafer, Pentium). |
9:30 Anthro: Polygons, Growth, Segregation, Foraging, artifacts (Mechanical - Analog, Nema). |
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April 2 - Artificial Life as a Philosophy Powerpoint: CSEOL talk:
Introduction to course... We build Conway's Game of Life (a Cellular Automaton) |
April 4 - Artificial Life as a Philosophy Powerpoint: CSEOL talk continued... Lego Mindstorms - Line Following. Video Clips: Dark City (explanation), Nightline (Danny Hillis, Andrea Loche & Paul Ashtown re Batman), VPRO Amsterdam (Karl Sims). FYI: Seeing Around Corners by Jonathan Rauch Challenge 1 - Conway's Game of Life (CSEOL Symposium on Extinction - Friday - Schoenberg Hall) |
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WEEK 2 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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April 9 - Alife of Ecological Systems Powerpoint: CSEOL talk continued... FYI: Artificial
Life VIII, Sydney, Australia Video Clips: Thirteenth Floor (explanation), MS-NBC (Simpson from Cyberlife, Gessler, Taylor, Fogel, de Garis) |
April 11 - Alife of Ecological Systems From Greg: Deep
Computing - Simulating Nuclear Explosions Volunteer Presenters?: Simulation
workshop for faculty April 26 from 1:00 to 3:00. Review of programming concepts: Functions,
the Color Ramp. Quit a little early to deal with programming questions. Video: Robofest - Osaka. Office Hour: Borland One-on-One. |
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WEEK 3 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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April 16 - Artificial Societies & Artificial Cultures John G. on Robots
Working for Japan's Future? Literary Anticipatory Science: Mirek's Cellebration and Scott Draves' Bomb. Artificial Culture simulation, calculating wrap-arounds, multiple runs, Temple of Alife's Wator and Dawkins Biomorphs. FYI: Strange Stars Suggest New Kinds of Matter Are there any graphical simulations of the origins of matter? Kyle? Vishnu? |
April 18 - Artificial Societies & Artificial Cultures Instructor will be in Stanford. You will be in Dave's good hands: The Thirteenth Floor - Viewing and critique... |
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WEEK 4 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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April 23 - Computational Methods Joseph on the neuron-silicon
interface, coral growth, and www.rennard.org/alife/english. Demos of Game of Life programs... |
April 25 - Computational Methods Which files to turn in (revisited). Discussions of readings...
Variations on the Growth algorithm - quick review... |
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WEEK 5 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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April 30 - Advanced Topics Bring 2 sets of RCX. Michael on Stanislaw Lem. Dan's Planet Wator Videos: MIT Leg Lab and Braitenberg Creatures. |
May 2 - Advanced Topics Dave: Gene Plays Key Evolutionary Role in Food-Gathering Behavior Review of challenges... Videos: MIT Robopong and Mark Tilden from Los Alamos. |
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WEEK 6 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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May 7 - Evolution & Design as Creative Agents Dan on floating aggregations (Challenge
2) Participant Proposal Presentations:
From: Creative Evolutionary Systems by Bentley et al.
Videos (35m): Karl Sims (10) Compilation and (5) Electronic Canvas; Craig Reynolds (7) Collected Boids; Demetri Terzopoulos (12) Go Fish. Third Hour: Open for discussion and consultation. |
May 9 - Evolution & Design as Creative Agents Participant Proposal Presentations:
ATSAC Tours: Tuesdays 9-11 and Thursdays 1-3 Biological and Cultural Evolution:
Challenge 6 - Schelling's Segregation Model (HUMAN COMPLEX SYSTEMS Conference, Lake Arrowhead, May 9-12) |
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WEEK 7 Web critique of readings to be discussed
the following week: Additional readings handed out:
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May 14 - Evolutionary Computation Please prepare to discuss Evolutionary Computation:
Dave on a small
GA. Participant Proposal Presentations:
Code for SNAKE |
May 16 - Evolutionary Computation Ideas carried over:
Michael
on prologue to Minsky's SOCIETY OF MIND. Video / DVD:
New approaches on the Web:
Challenge 7 - A GPS Field Exercise around the ATSAC Tour Daniel Fessler on Universal
Mental Mechanisms, Disgust and Cultural Prohibitions Noon-1:30pm in
Bunche Hall 4357 |
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WEEK 8 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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May 21 - Evolutionary Art & Design pick up UCLA-opoly... ATSAC Tour Confirmed from 10:00 until 11:00. This is at the New City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. We will have to share rides. MAP to ATSAC. (BORCON,
Anaheim, May 18-22) Monday, May 20: Tuesday, May 21: |
May 23 - Evolutionary Art & Design Dave on Predicting
Exchange Rate Volatility with GP... Beth and Jenn on Interactive Art. FYI - Background readings to be handed out:
Challenge
8 - A Critique or Simulation of Your Choice (E3 - Electronics Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles, May 21-24) |
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WEEK 9 Web critique of readings to be discussed
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May 28 - Evolution of Life & Culture as it Could Be Siavash
on A Human Touch for Machines - Emotion - Thoughtful Machines (LA
Times - May 7, 2002) Monopoly and Snake are on the Web... 11:00 Guest Lecture by Steven Bankes, Rand Institute and Evolving Logic: on Exploratory Modeling. |
May 30 - Evolution of Life and Culture as it Could Be For those reviewing movies, look for intelligent reviews:
The Arrowhead Conference...
Videos on the Institute for Creative Technologies:
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WEEK 10 |
June 4 - Creative Computational Processes Steven Spielberg finally graduates... Project Presentations
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June 6 - Creative Computational Processes
Project Presentations
Course Evaluations |
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| FINALS WEEK |
Elonka
Dunin - UCLA Gaming Goddess June 11 - No Final, but: All class papers and projects due by 2:00 p.m. |
Have
a great summer...
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