I400/I590 Artificial Life as an
approach to Artificial Intelligence
Some previous
student projects
2005 –
Spring
|
Pu
Wen (Bruce) Chang |
"Emergence
and Artificial Life" paper. |
|
Chris
Hemmerich |
"Pusher",
Python code that attempts to evolve cooperative behavior among agents whose
fitness is determined by their ability to push blocks in the environment. |
|
Eric
Dimperio |
Experiments
in the use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve neural networks capable of
recognizing and encoding numerosity. |
|
Erik
Pukinskis |
"Increasing
Complexity in Artificial Life Systems", a paper discussing the nature of
complexity and the methods one might use to evoke it. |
|
Heather
Roinestadt |
"Collective
Intelligence and Artificial Swarms", a paper discussing swam
intelligence. |
|
Justin
Post & Teresa Pegors |
Measuring
neural complexity in Polyworld using Olaf Sporns's methods in MATLAB. |
|
Matt
Ira |
Added
light sensors to Goofy Giggles robots and implemented software to wire up
different Braitenberg vehicles and demonstrate their behavior, using the
robots. |
|
Matt
Kane |
Experiments
with NetLogo-based swarms. |
|
Matt
Liggett |
Experiment
using Breve to evolve 2D fighting/grabbing behaviors, akin to Karl Sims's 3D
fighting/grabbing behaviors. |
|
P.
Brian Dils |
PHP
and HTML code to evolve user interface elements based on users interactions
with web pages. |
|
Ryan
Varick |
Experiment
using analog computer to control artificial life agents in a virtual world. |
|
Will
Dyar |
"The
Role of Lower Animals in Understanding Human Intelligence" paper. |
2005 – Fall
|
Giancarlo
Schrementi |
Experiment,
written in C, to explore the evolution of communication and language amongst
artificial agents that must consume edible mushrooms and avoid poisonous
mushrooms. |
|
J.
Duncan |
Experiment,
written in Java, attempting to expand on Parisi, Nolfi, and CecconiÕs work on
the effects of non-inherited learning on fitness. |
|
John
Burgoon |
"Visualization
of Neural Network Data", paper summarizing series of efforts at
visualizing neural network data from Polyworld agents. |
|
Josh
Walgenbach |
"Infinite
Monkeys", experiment attempting to evolve optimized code using Avida. |
|
Matt
Whitehead |
Experiment,
using Python and the Unreal game engine, to evolve bots able to compete
favorably with human-scripted bots in Unreal Tournament. |
|
Mike
Beyer |
Experiment,
using NetLogo, looking at predator-prey Lotka-Volterra cycles. |
|
Nick
Gentile |
Experiment,
using OpenSteer (C++), evolving virtual soccer players. |
|
Paul
McDonald |
"Growing
Intelligence: A Look at Intelligence as an Emergent Phenomenon" paper. |
|
Virgil
Griffith |
Experiments
in collaboration with Doyne Farmer of SFI, examining the different parameter
regimes and the viability of complex self-replicating machines |
|
Weimao
Ke |
"Collective
Learning Agents: Studying the
Effectiveness of Learning in Distributed Information Retrieval" paper. |
2007
– Spring
|
David Rastall |
Parallel simulated and robotic
Braitenberg vehicles, evolving controllers virtually and applying them in
physical robots. |
|
Drew Hendrickson |
Attempted to modify Sims-like
"blocky creature" simulator from Miconi and Channon to support
coupled oscillators. |
|
Jeremy Teasdale |
Used Average Mutual
Information (a substitute for complexity) as a fitness function to evolve
Cellular Automata. |
|
Joshua Mann |
Started a project to evolve
foraging agents in Flash ActionScript. |
|
Matt Zurschmeide |
Developed a NetLogo simulation
to investigate the influence of predator characteristics and flocking/herding
of prey on predator-prey interactions. |
|
Mike Ryder |
Wrote a paper on complexity. |
|
Nate Skiba |
Developed a
"CSSBeagle" Python project to evolve Cascading Style Sheets for
HTML web pages, according to user aesthetics. |
|
Oliver McGraw |
Attempted to evolve neural network-controlled
foraging agents similar to Parisi et al. |
|
Paul Williams |
Worked with Beer's
"minimally cognitive agents" to evolve agents capable of modulating
their behavior based on external signals, concurrent size, and sequential
size. |
|
Rick Hullinger |
Developed an evolutionary
system to investigate Kruschke's model of learning and the form and function
of attention-shifting in rapidly changing environments. |
|
Stephen Denton |
Evolved optimal constants for a
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm on two functions (Gaussian and
Schaffer). |
|
Will Pierce |
Produced some inconclusive
estimates of complexity of multiple sound signals. |
|
Will York |
"Musical Vermin", a
NetLogo-based predator/prey/food model that incorporated sonification to
characterize dynamics of the simulation. |
2008
– Spring
|
James Amstutz |
The Evolution of Morals as it
Pertains to Artificial Intelligence (paper) |
|
Austin Bower |
Music Composition Using Genetic
Algorithms (paper, with Luke Warren) |
|
Robert Bowers |
Resistance to Speciation
(paper, also some simulation work) – Investigating sexual selection
pressures |
|
John Bowker |
Evocell – software
project to evolve motile cells |
|
Amanda Dennis |
Evolution of Communication and
Language (paper) |
|
James Doran |
Genetic Algorithms: Their Use
and Progression into Video Games (paper) |
|
Alex Gerlach |
Genetic Algorithms in the Real
World (paper) |
|
Shira Goodman |
Animal Cognition (paper) |
|
Charles Hart |
Implementation of IzhikevichÕs
spiking neuron model on an AVR microcontroller |
|
Barry Kaufmann |
Artificial Intelligence as a
Means for Music Composition (paper) |
|
Matt Kelley |
Artificial Life Simulators in
Environmental Studies (paper) |
|
Philip Koch |
Implemented flocking model in
Second Life (with Michael Overfield) |
|
Andrew Maitlen |
Das Furbi – A NetLogo
model of agents that trade off strength vs. speed (with Katie OÕDonnell) |
|
Nick Mendel |
Added Genetic Algorithm to Craig
ReynoldÕs OpenSteer to evolve soccer-playing teams |
|
Katie OÕDonnell |
Das Furbi – A NetLogo
model of agents that trade off strength vs. speed (with Andrew Maitlen) |
|
Michael Overfield |
Implemented flocking model in
Second Life (with Philip Koch) |
|
Katrina Panovich |
Software model of the
evolution of complexity, in the manner of McShea, adding complexity effects
on extinction rate due to YaegerÕs adaptation of Griffith & Farmer |
|
Joseph Renneisen |
Partially successful port of Polyworld
to Windows |
|
Chris Schneider |
Autonomic Systems: Self-Sustaining Computer
Architectures (paper) |
|
Joseph Voyles |
Developed a Genetic Algorithm
capable of evolving specific bodies of text |
|
Luke Warren |
Music Composition Using
Genetic Algorithms (paper, with Austin Bower) |