Tom Ray
Tom Ray was a participant in the workshop Health and Inefficiency at Doors
3.
Tom Ray, Tierra Working Group, USA, works and lives in Japan, where he is
doing research in Digital Evolution, which means exploring what happens
when evolution by natural selection is embedded in the medium of digital
computation. Most people know this project as `Tierra' and this kind of
work as `Artificial Life'. He is also working at the Santa Fe Institute,
where he is a member of the External Faculty, and is an Associate Professor
of Biology, with a joint appointment in Computer and Information Sciences,
at the University of Delaware. He is in the Bionomic Science Network of
the Bionomics Institute, and worked with Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
on their A-Volve interactive media project, which won Arc Awards at the
Interactive Media Festival in June 1995.
His publications include:
- 1994: Evolution of Parallel Processes in Organic and Digital Media.
Natural and Artificial Parallel Computation
- 1995: A Proposal to Create a Network-wide Biodiversity Reserve for
Digital Organisms, , (available by ftp at tierra.slhs.udel.edu, as /tierra/doc/reserves.tex)
- 1995: Digital Evolution as a Complex System
For more information, contact:
e-mail:ray@hip.atr.co.jp
updated 29-09-96