Submissions for #ALife2026 workshop, tutorial, and spec.session proposals are now closed. Thanks for the great response! Decision letters will be sent soon, and accepted sessions will appear on the website.
👉 2026.alife.org
Reminder: the deadline for full papers and extended summaries is March 30.
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
Nominate people you admire for the ISAL awards!
There are 7 categories you can nominate people for; you can also nominate yourself if you've done something awesome relevant to the categories.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Picture 1: doctor looking at chart tells patient, "Your body has run out of magnesium." Picture 2: patient replies with a smile, "0mg"
The #ALife Newsletter is out!
We are starting to integrate your feedback and as a result, this edition has an interview, paper summaries, and project introductions.
Go have a look:
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
New preprint with Léo Pio-Lopez:
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
"Multi-Scale Longevity: Defeating Aging from Cells to Embodied Human Minds, and the Future of the Species"
a broader view of longevity research.
Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk at the event MOSAICO talks 2026. The topic was "invisible challenges", I decided to discuss professional deskilling due to AI. A very nice event, organised in the wonderful Aula Baratto within the main building of Ca' Foscari University
Un ingegnere informatico voleva solo controllare il suo robot aspirapolvere con un joypad, ma si è ritrovato ad avere accesso a circa settemila altri robot sparpagliati in giro per il mondo
ilpost.link/npWyujrcVi
Schools across the U.S. are hustling to introduce a new subject: A.I. literacy. These lessons are becoming more common as a debate has exploded over whether chatbots are likely to improve — or doom — education.
Can AI be programmed to make others play nice? Evolutionary Game Theory says you can! But not how you might think. Paper out at npj Complexity www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Blog post about the paper: adamilab.blogspot.com/2024/12/can-...
What a great week at the @aliceworkshop.org (Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution) in Copenhagen.
Our multidisciplinary group worked intensely for the whole week and we got the 2nd prize!!
Thanks to the amazing organizers from the REAL lab and the jury.
I really love the format of the workshop! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 to the organizers and the participants!
Buon #Natale!
Our paper "ARC-NCA: Towards Developmental Solutions to the Abstraction & Reasoning Corpus" has been awarded a Runner-Up #ARCprize
Congrats team: E. Guichard, F. Reimers, M. Kvalsund, M. Lepperød, & me
Thanks F. Chollet, G. Kamradt, M. Knoop!
Paper: etimush.github.io/ARC_NCA/
Da #SIP a #Telecom…adesso è tutto #TIM…ma se li avete usati tutti e quattro…allora siete tutti ex giovincelli come il sottoscritto?!
ALICE workshop guest speakers
This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑🔬
- Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social
- Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social
- Alexander Mordvintsev
- Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social
- Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social
- Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social
- Susan Stepney
Come learn about UCLA research projects that have been suspended under the Trump administration, and why they matter for all of us.
🧪 Wednesday, Sept 10 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
📍 Northwest corner of Westwood & Le Conte
Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures:
Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)!
Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life.
Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
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🏹 Job alert: PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding at the University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Oct 31
🔗 https://bit.ly/4g5sZ0Q
And here are the accepted contributions to the Special Session #TheDistributedCiphers at @alife2025.bsky.social:
Details: www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...
See you in Kyoto 🇯🇵
Presentation of our work on "NCAs for memory transfer + application to ARC-AGI", given at the computational series of the #Levin Lab at Tufts & Harvard Universities.
Thanks M. Levin for the kind invitation & special thanks to Etienne for presenting our work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc0...
New book review, freely available in GPEM:
“Reversible world of cellular automata” by Kenichi Morita, reviewed by Tomas Rokicki
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
E poi "scovaze" ovunque a bordo strada. Non un paio di cartacce, ma un continuo di bottiglie (direi una al metro, almeno), soprattutto di birra, e altri residui. Una cosa sistematica, e vergognosa. Per chilometri.
Alla fine di una discesa di campagna, c'erano tre dossi perpendicolari alla marcia, con dislivello di 30cm almeno. Sono riuscito a stare in piedi, ma si è rotto il portapacchi. Tutte le strade che non fossero almeno una provinciale erano terribili.
81 km in poco meno di 7h, 670m di guadagno altitudine (serve contare tutti i buchi...).
Sesta e ultima tappa del #Venezia-#Puglia, da Marina di Montenero (di Bisaccia) a San Severo. Fino a Termoli tutto bene, anche se sulla provinciale (molto larga); mare ancora visibile. Poi ci si addentra nell'interno. Nel Foggiano le strade sono terribili, più buche che asfalto. Nessun ciclista.
130km in 9h e mezza, miracolo delle non forature. Da grande velocità la ciclabile dei Trabocchi, se non fosse che avevo il vento contro. Qualche saliscendi.
Quinta tappa #Venezia-#Puglia, da Martinsicuro a Marina di Montenero, in Molise per 100m. Gran parte su ciclabile. Bellissimo il tratto "dei Trabocchi" su ex percorso ferroviario. Interessante ma bigoloso il passaggio vicino a Punta Aderci. Il paesaggio cambia completamente.
Ecco il cambio gomme di ora di pranzo...
128km in quasi 11h, ma con tante pause. Ascesa al Conero impegnativa su sentiero stretto e sterratissimo.
