Table of Contents

Artificial Life/Christopher G. Langton -- Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions/Richard Laing -- Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life/H. H. Pattee -- Towards a Quantitative Theory of the Origin of Life/Steen Rasmussen -- Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life/Pablo Tamayo and Hyman Hartman -- Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology/Milan Zeleny, George J. Klir and Kevin D. Hufford -- Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem /Norman Packard -- The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution/Stewart W. Wilson -- Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway/Hans Moravec -- The Evolution of Evolvability/Richard Dawkins -- Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms: A Computer Graphics Perspective/Aristid Lindenmayer and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz -- The Artificial Menagerie/Peter Oppenheimer -- RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems/Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson, Scott R. Turner and Seth R. Godman -- Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life/P. H ogeweg -- Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems./Narendra S. Goel and Richard L. Thompson -- Computational Metabolism: Towards Biological Geometries for Computing/Marek W. Lugowski -- Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life/Harold C. Morris -- Lego, Logo, and Life/Mitchel Resnick -- Modeling Behavior in Petworld/Bill Coderre -- Animal Construction Kits/Michael Travers -- Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines: Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life/Conrad Schneiker -- Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity/K. Eric Drexler -- Molecular Automata in Microtubules: Basic Computational Logic of the Living State? Stuart HamerojJ, Steen Rasmussen and Bengt Mansson Some Types of Movements./Valentino Braitenberg -- Annotated Bibliography Section 1: Annotated Bibliography of Literature in the Field of Artificial Life/Chris Langton and workshop participants -- Section 2: An Annotat d Bibliography of Plant Modeling and Growth Simulation/Aristid Lindenmayer and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.