Resources

There are a multitude of resources for Artificial Life research and analysis. Here are just a few:

Internet resources:

• Swarm Development Group wiki: http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Main_Page
• The International Society for Artificial Life: http://alife.org/
• The Open Directory A-Life site: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/
• CALResCo (Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept): http://www.calresco.org/
• ZooLand, the Artificial Life Resource: http://surf.de.uu.net/zooland/
• Computational Intelligence Society: http://www.ieee.org/portal/site
• In addition, this website contains many relevant print resources (last updated in 2000): http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqkd/Alife.htm

Journals and Books:

• Artificial Life, the official journal of the International Society for Artificial Life, published by MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=41
• Evolutionary Computation, also published by MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=25
• Artificial Life : A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology, by Steven Levy (Vintage, 1993)
• Artificial Life: An Overview(Complex Adaptive Systems), edited by Christopher Langton (MIT Press, 1997)
• Introduction to Artificial Life, by Christoph Adami (Springer, 1997)
• Virtual Organisms: The Startling World of Artificial Life, by Mark Ward(Thomas Dunne, 2000)
• On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee (Henry Holt, 2004)

Novels and Movies:

• Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
• Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Robot series by Isaac Asimov
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Prey by Michael Crichton

• Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott)
• The Terminator
• The Matrix