Artificial life organizations
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This article describes organizations that promote Artificial life
Artificial life
Artificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986...

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International Society of Artificial Life

ISAL is a "democratic, international, professional society dedicated to promoting scientific research and education relating to artificial life, including sponsoring conferences, publishing scientific journals and newsletters, and maintaining web sites related to artificial life."

The ISAL organizes a biannual professional conference on artificial life called the International Conference on Artificial Life. Each conference is uniquely identified with a roman numeral. One such conference is Alife XI, that was held in August 2008 in Winchester, England.

The ISAL also publishes the preeminent artificial life scholarly journal Artificial Life through MIT Press
MIT Press
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Biota.org

Biota.org is run by Tom Barbalet
Tom Barbalet
Tom Barbalet is the creator of Noble Ape, editor of Biota.org and co-chair of the IGDA Intellectual Property Rights SIG.Born in 1976 in Adelaide, South Australia, Barbalet developed a series of interpreters, compilers, anti-viral programs and the Schmuck Quest series of graphics/text adventure...

, and "promotes and assists the engineering of complete, biologically-inspired, synthetic ecosystems and organisms". Biota.org ran an annual Digital Biota Conference Series from 1996 to 2001. More recently, Biota.org has hosted a "collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users" through a podcast.

Grey Thumb Society

The Grey Thumb Society was a group of "scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists... with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems, and other related topics". Grey Thumb societies appeared around the world but by 2011 most of the groups' activities had wound down.

FreshSim - The Artificial Life Forum

Established in 2011, by the people behind Biota.org, a new forum for the community to use.

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