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'''Avida''' is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms). Avida is under active development by Charles Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University; the first version of Avida was designed in 1993 by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech, and has been fully reengineered by Ofria on multiple occasions since then. The software was originally inspired by the Tierra system. | '''Avida''' is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms). | ||
Avida is under active development by Charles Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University; the first version of Avida was designed in 1993 by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech, and has been fully reengineered by Ofria on multiple occasions since then. | |||
The software was originally inspired by the Tierra system. | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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* [https://github.com/devosoft/avida Avida] @ GitHub | * [https://github.com/devosoft/avida Avida] @ GitHub | ||
* [http://programerror.com/software/avida Avida developer's site] | * [http://programerror.com/software/avida Avida developer's site] | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Ikegami] - a professor for at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in artificial life and complexity, and has been known to engage on the border between art and science. | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Ikegami Takashi Ikegami] - a professor for at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in artificial life and complexity, and has been known to engage on the border between art and science. | ||
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Software (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Software (nonfiction)]] | ||
Revision as of 09:59, 13 August 2018
Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).
Avida is under active development by Charles Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University; the first version of Avida was designed in 1993 by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech, and has been fully reengineered by Ofria on multiple occasions since then.
The software was originally inspired by the Tierra system.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Avida @ Wikipedia
- Avida @ GitHub
- Avida developer's site
- Takashi Ikegami - a professor for at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in artificial life and complexity, and has been known to engage on the border between art and science.