Reading Assignment

• Packard, N. & Bedau, M. (2003). Artificial Life. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science vol. 1 (pp. 209-215). New York:Macmillan Reference Ltd.
  
  
• Langton, C. (1988). Artificial Life. In C. Langton (Ed.), Artificial Life (pp. 1-47). Redwood City: Addison-Wesley.

Homework Assignment

Due Date: 1/29/07


• Homework #1

Related Web Sites

John Conway's Game of Life: An applet that illustrates some of the interesting "creatures" that exist in Life.

Open Directory: Artificial Life - The Open Directory entry for Artificial Life. This page has tons of links to lots of interesting ALife sites.

Sample Code

• dlife.zip: The dlife package that we will be using for some of the programming assignments in this course.
• MyAgent.java: An example of how to create a sub-class of the dlife.examples.simpleworld.SimpleWorldAgent class.