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Grey Thumb: The Afterlives of Artificial Life

Monday, March 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM (ET)

Cambridge, MA

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The Afterlives of Artificial Life

How should one tell the biography of the field of Artificial Life, first framed
by that name in 1987 by Chris Langton? Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich, whose
1998 book, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World,
examined the cultural meaning of research done in first decade of ALife, will
turn his analytic attention to the social meaning of ALife since 2000,
examining the simultaneous vanishing and proliferation of ALife ways of
thinking and doing.

 

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Stefan Helmreich is an associate professor of anthropology at MIT.

Helmreich's research examines the works and lives of contemporary biologists puzzling through the conceptual boundaries of “life” as a category of analysis. He has written extensively on Artificial Life, most notably in Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World.

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Microsoft NERD Center
1 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02142

Monday, March 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM (ET)


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Grey Thumb is a group of scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists in the Boston metro area with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems and other related topics. http://www.greythumb.org