Avida (nonfiction)

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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• Avida @ Wikipedia
• Avida @ GitHub
• Avida developer's site
• How to Start Using Avida
• 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.