Artificial life organizations

This article describes organizations that promote Artificial life.

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."^[1]

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.^[2]

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

Biota.org

Biota.org is run by Tom Barbalet, and "promotes and assists the engineering of complete, biologically-inspired, synthetic ecosystems and organisms".^[3] Biota.org ran an annual Digital Biota Conference Series from 1996 to 2001.^[4] More recently, Biota.org has hosted a "collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users" through a podcast.^[5]

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. There's a recent attempt to revive Grey Thumb Society in NYC: http://www.meetup.com/Grey-Thumb-NYC/

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