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ALIFE 14 AWARD CEREMONY

1st ALIFE SCIENCE VISUALIZATION COMPETITION

COMPETITION CHAIR

• Sebastian Risi (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Jon McCormack (Monash University, Australia)

• René Doursat (Drexel University, USA)

• Laura Beloff (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Alan Dorin (Animaland, Australia)

• Daniel Cellucci (Cornell University, USA)

• Alaa Abi Haidar (ISC-PIF, France)

PANEL

FINALISTS

Visual Media Name Title Vote Dave Ackley Artificial Life: An introduction Dan Lessin Visualizing Complex Brain

Function in Evolved Virtual Creatures

Luis Zaman Artificial Life, Natural Selection! Randy Olson, Bjørn Østman

Fitness landscapes

Scott Draves Electric Sheep Jared Moore WebGL Visualizer

for Artificial Life

Sylvain Cussat-‐Blanc et al.

Digital world

Stuart Bartlett Fluid flow Ruslan Kamolov et al. Visualizing Music with Swarms Sebastian von Mammen Swarm Grammers Nick Cheney et al. Evolving soft robots

Visual Print Name Title Vote Andrew Lincoln Nelson Living Machine Series Peter Sheesley The Life Cycle Josh Auerbach Environmental Influence on

the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Machines

Insil Choi Evolution of Artificial life Namu Patel Simulation of

neuromechanically driven Prey-capture Behavior

11 Visual Media 5 Visual Print

PRIZES

• $100 Gift Certificates from Nervous System

WINNERS

• Visualizing Music with Swarms

• Ruslan Kamolov, Cátia Costa, António Cruz, Penousal Machado

• Evolution of Artificial Life

• Insil Choi

Insil Choi and Sebastian Risi

BEST POSTER AWARD

• First Place:

• 112: L. B. Soros and Kenneth O. Stanley. Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria (13 votes)

• Runners Up:

• 19: Paul Grouchy and Gabriele M.T. D'Eleuterio. Evolving Autonomous Agent Controllers as Analytical Mathematical Models (12 votes)

• 109: Yuki Takeichi, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Reiji Suzuki and Takaya Arita. Twitter as Social Sensor: Dynamics and Structure in Major Sporting Events (11 votes)

• 113: Tarek Ababsa, Noureddine Djedi, Yves Duthen and Sylvain Cussat-Blanc. Splittable Metamorphic Carrier Robots (10 votes)

Front row: Hod Lipson, S. Risi, Mark Bedau

Hiroki Sayama

Ken Stanley, Lisa Soros and Hiroki Sayama

BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE

Chair: Luis Rocha Co-Chair: Takashi Ikegami Members: Joshua Auerbach Lola Cañamero Dominique Chu Sylvain Cussat-Blanc Stephane Doncieux Dusan Misevic Susan Stepney Sebastian von Mammen

Luis Rocha and Takashi Ikegami

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

• 185: Andres Burgos and Daniel Polani. An informational study of the evolution of codes in different population structures

Andres Burgos, Luis Rocha and Takashi Ikegami

BEST PAPER AWARD

• 60: Nathaniel Virgo, Simon McGregor and Takashi Ikegami. Self-Organising Autocatalysis

Luis Rocha, Nathaniel Virgo and Takashi Ikegami

ISAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Mark Bedau, President

• Inman Harvey, Vice President

• René Doursat, Secretary

• Josh Bongard, Treasurer

• Wolfgang Banzhaf, Tom Barbalet, Seth Bullock, Jeff Clune, Steen Rasmussen, John Rieffel, Hiroki Sayama, Susan Stepney, Tim Taylor

Mark Bedau

ISAL AWARDS

• Award for Exceptional Service

• Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Artificial Life

ISAL AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE

presented to

Dr. Timothy J. Taylor

for developing and maintaining ISAL’s website

http://alife.org/

Tim Taylor and Mark Bedau

ISAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION

presented to

Dr. Christopher G. Langton

Steen Rasmussen and Mark Bedau

ISAL WORKING GROUPS

• Website (Tim Taylor)

• Finances (Mark Bedau, Josh Bongard)

• Education (John Rieffel)

• Career (Sebastian Risi)

• Email sebastian.risi@gmail.com!

Mark Bedau, John Rieffel and Sebastian Risi

NEXT ALIFE IN 2016?

Mark Bedau and Carlos Gershenson

ALife XV Summer, 2016

Mayan Riviera, Mexico

First ALife conference in Latin America

ALife and Society

• How can the synthetic study of living systems contribute to societies: scientifically, technically, and culturally?

• Social ALife models.

• ALife contributions to society.

• To better understand societies for improving management and development of social systems.

Co-located events

• Workshops and tutorials

• Summer school

• ALife art competition/exhibition

• Children's program

• Public lecture(s)

Keynotes

• Randall Beer

• Ezequiel Di Paolo

• Francisco Santos

• More TBA

Location

• 100+km white sand beaches

• Second largest coral reef

• Major archaeological sites

• Airport with best connections

• Developed tourism industry

Organizing committee • Carlos Gershenson

• Tom Froese

• Jesús Siqueiros

• Genaro Juárez-Martínez

• Wendy Aguilar

• Carlos Coello

@ALifeXV

AFTER-NEXT ECAL IN 2017?

Mark Bedau and René Doursat

. . .

Alife X: Bloomington ECAL’07: Lisbon Alife XI: Winchester ECAL’09: Budapest

Alife XII: Odense ECAL’11: Paris Alife XIII: East Lansing ECAL’13: Taormina

Alife XIV: New York ECAL’15: York Alife XV: Cancún ECAL’17: ???

Open Bid!

email to: secretary@alife.org