Tag Archives: Digital Evolution

BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving digital organisms in physically realistic environments

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU undergraduate student Jacob Walker. In the fall of my freshman year of college I joined a laboratory that would define my undergraduate career. I became an assistant for the Evolving … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Developing artificial intelligence

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. When I am asked what I do, I normally smile apologetically and say something like “Theoretical Biology” or “Computational Biology,” and with a wink of my … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Autonomous foraging, speciation and open-ended evolutionary experiments in 3D physically realistic worlds

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Keck Graduate Institute graduate student Nicolas Chaumont, who is currently a visiting scholar at MSU. Everybody I’ve talked to who is aware of Karl Sims’ work on the evolution of … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Speciation in Digital Organisms

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Carlos Anderson. That the structure and laws of our universe enabled the origin of life is an incredible coincidence. Without the gravity that aggregates matter into galaxies, stars, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The Role of Environment in the Evolution of Cooperation

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Brian Connelly. Cooperation is something that most people take for granted.  It’s woven into just about every part of our lives.  Our societies have even developed a wide … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Using digital evolution to understand host-parasite co-evolution

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman. Enjoy! We’ve all been stuck in stand-still traffic on the highway. Slowly people start exiting to use a newly found alternate route. Unfortunately, this detour … Continue reading →

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