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Applets, demonstrations and fun sites

General websites with demos/movies and links

James Matthews' Generation 5 Website.

Self Organisation and Collective Behaviour

Slime Mould movies on Herbert Levine's home page

Pauline Hogeweg and Athanasius Maree's Cellular Automata Slime Mould Model.

Starlogo (programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems -- lots of sample projects to experiment with already written).

Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit (Repast): http://repast.sourceforge.net/

Ascape (software framework for developing and analyzing agent-based models): http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/models/ascape/default.htm

Cellular Automata

Peter Worth's Cellular Automata tutorial and applet
IBM's Cellular Automata music composition tutorial, including sample codes, links to resources and CA music sound file.

Rule 150

Modified rule 150

John Elliot's Cellular Automata Music and Game of Life sound files.
WolframScience Summer school teaching materials. (Note, all codes are written in Mathematica.)

Biological and artificial Neural Networks

Vision using lateral inhibition
Hopfield Net applet on Pádraig Cunningham's home page

Artificial Life and Robot Control

Karl Sims' Evolved Block Creatures.
Rodney Brook's Living Machines page. Follow the links to antware and their social behaviour.
Hiroshi Kimura's Robot lab.
Barry Trimmer's Soft bodied locomotion page.
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/alife.html
http://www.insead.fr/CALT/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/AI/aLife.htm

Swarms and Flocks

Natural Trail Making by penguins in Antarctica
Craig Reynolds' Boids
University of West of England robot demo movies (colour sorting: look at the "U-bot" movies)

More Evolution/Co-evolution and Neural Net demos/movies

Jordan Pollack's Demo Lab Page at Brandeis University.
Brandeis University's DEMO Lab's Coevolutionary Backgammon.
And Their Coevolutionary Tron.

Bio-electronics

Radio program on Ira Flato's Talk of the Nation Science Friday (National Public Radio, USA) .
See also Angela Belcher's MIT page
News feature on DNA transistors and Related news story in Science World
and Erik Winfree's Caltech page

Latest DNA nano-computing

29 April News item: Could nanomachines be tomorrow's doctors?
and corresponding article in the journal Nature: An autonomous molecular computer for logical control of gene expression

Artificial Immune Systems

Peter Worth's Artificial Immune System Applets

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