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From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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> Also, Thomas Ray (the programmer of TIERRA) must be given his due
> props. It was TIERRA that convinced the seminal evolutionary theorist
> John Maynard Smith to declare that artificial evolution in computers was
> possible.
I found a concise list of people influential in alife at
http://www.webslave.dircon.co.uk/alife/people.html . At ALife III in Santa
Fe I went to dinner with Tom Ray, Stephen Levy and Larry Yeager. Also in
attendance was my supervisor, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Lindenmayer's
intellectual heir). Definitely one of the highlights of my graduate studies.
Conspicuously absent from this list is John Holland, inventor of genetic
algorithms.
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