Scientist, Historian, Author & Coder of Artificial Life. Board Member @alifeofficial / Senior Research Contractor @MonashUni / Independent Researcher 🌈
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Jun 9
I'm so very sad to hear of the passing of Inman Harvey. He was my PhD examiner in 1999 (he passed it!), and a mentor, inspiration and friend not just to me but to a whole generation (and more) of Artificial Life researchers. He will be very sorely missed, but his legacy lives on.
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May 22
... Along with the translation, we've also written an in-depth commentary on Barricelli's paper, its context, his other papers on symbiogenesis & evolution and the significance and legacy of the work today. Both have today been submitted to @ARTL_journal 👍🎉 [2/2]
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May 22
It's taken way longer than originally anticipated (18 months), but I'm super excited to say that the project to translate Nils Aall Barricelli's groundbreaking 1954 paper on computational evolution/artificial life (Esempi Numerici di Processi di Evoluzione) is now complete! [1/2]
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Apr 22
Wonderful to see @librarycongress's restoration of George Méliès' long-lost 1897 film "Gugusse et l'Automate" ("Gugusse and the automaton"). This is the first depiction on film of an automaton (or robot, to use a term that wouldn't be coined until 1920) blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lo…
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Feb 23
Two amazing opportunities to work in Helsinki in Christian Guckelsberger's wonderful group, and collaborate with equally amazing researchers in Japan and Australia! bsky.app/profile/creativeend…
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Tim Taylor retweeted
📢 Submit your paper to #ALIFE2026 (Waterloo 🇨🇦 & online, 17–21 Aug 2026)!
📝 Full Papers & Summaries deadline: 30 March 2026
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Theme: Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems
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30 Jul 2025
On @BBCr4today yesterday @j_amesmarriott used a brilliant junk food metaphor to describe search results produced by AI chatbots, calling them "ultra-processed information, superficially nutritious but actually pretty empty." Listen at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gf… (starts at 2:47:42).
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15 Jul 2025
In 1951, in between working on his application to visit John von Neumann's Electronic Computer Project group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Nils Aall Barricelli also found time to file a patent for "An Improved Chest of Drawers"! 😁 worldwide.espacenet.com/publ…
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18 Mar 2025
I'm looking forward to reading this novel, written by microbiologist Richard Goodman under the pen name Bonham Richards. Goodman was a friend of ALife pioneer Nils Aall Barricelli, and George Dyson tells me that the character Angelo Kraakmo in the book is based upon Barricelli!
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Tim Taylor retweeted
6 Feb 2025
The 40th anniversary of the @ALifeConf conference series is approaching. Please contribute your memories and archival materials to help me prepare a book for this anniversary in the field of #ArtificialLife. #ALIFE40 @alifeofficial #alife
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Tim Taylor retweeted
11 Jan 2025
#ALIFE2025 will take place in Kyoto, Japan (6-10 October).
4 Jan 2025
Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!
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19 Dec 2024
The npj Complexity journal has an open call for a new collection topic "Unnatural Histories: Investigating the Improbable with Experimental Evolution and Artificial Life". Accepting submissions from now up to 12 Sept 2025 nature.com/collections/hahjd…
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9 Dec 2024
I'm happy to announce that the free online version of "Rise of the Self-Replicators" has now been updated to the 2nd edition of the author-formatted version of the book, which includes the 2024 afterword as an additional chapter. Find the online version at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/w…
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4 Dec 2024
I've finally got a copy of Nils Barricelli's first paper on Artificial Life, in Italian (1954). Would be great to get it translated into English. My preference would be to have this done by a skilled human translator rather than AI. Any bilingual Italian-English folk interested?
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4 Dec 2024
To be clear, I don't have any money to pay for a translation, but I anticipate we would get this published in a journal with an introduction authored by me (and the translator if they wished) and with the translator listed as a co-author.
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4 Dec 2024
My plan would be to have the English translation published in a journal
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18 Oct 2024
I'm enjoying reading @MitchWaldrop's venerable account of the origin and early years of @sfiscience, published in 1992. Wonderful to learn that John Holland developed his first classifier system in machine code (not even assembly language) on his Commodore computer at home 👏
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10 Oct 2024
I'm pleased to announce a new second edition of the author-formatted version of our book Rise of the Self-Replicators, which includes my 2024 afterword (originally published in the Artificial Life journal) as an extra chapter. More details & free download: tim-taylor.com/news/posts/20…
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