On 28 Jun 2002 at 21:43, David McFadzean wrote:
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> From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:38 AM
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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.
>
true enough; in my opinion, John H. Holland and Stuart Kauffman are
the two most seminally important alumni of the Santa Fe Institute.
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