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Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

Steven Levy

Even as molecular biologists attempt to reproduce life in vitro, another group of scientists is creating life--or something very close to it--in silico, using computers to produce "organisms" that can move, see, feed, reproduce, and die. Photos.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Jul 27th, 1993
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.48in - 1.02in - 1.12lb
  • EAN: 9780679743897
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralBiotechnologyFree Will & Determinism

About the Author

Steven Levy is the author of Hackers, which has been in print for more than 15 years, as well as Insanely Great: The Life & Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. He is also Newsweek's chief technology writer and has been a contributing writer to Wired since its inception. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

Praise for this book

"We used to think we knew what life is [but] not any more. 'Artificial life' has become a strange and exciting frontier of modern science...and Steven Levy makes an ideal tour guide." -- James Gleick.

author of Chaos and Genius