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Digital Life and Evolution

Posted by Zonk on from the conway-eat-your-heart-out dept.

mrivorey writes "Discover Magazine has a story about The Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University. Scientists there have created virus-like computer programs that replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other... in other words, they evolve. Among such feats as learning to add and compare numbers, these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at "killing" them, by playing dead. You can download the project yourself from SourceForge." We first mentioned this in early 2003, but it appears to have developed a good deal since then.

5 of 541 comments (clear)

  1. *thunder* by OneOfAKind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's alive! It's alive!

  2. KOTOR 2 spoilers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mandalore is Canderous.
    Kreia is a Sith.
    Atton used to be a Sith assassin.
    You were exiled because the Jedi feared you could destroy the Force.
    Atris is a Sith.
    Kreia lures Darth Nihilous to Citadel Station for the penultimate fight.
    After the penultimate fight, you travel to Malachor 5 where you fight Darth Sion and Kreia.
    Revan disappeared because he realised there was a Sith Empire in the Outer Rim. At the end, you follow him.

  3. OT need ufs kernel module by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone know where I can get the kernel module for ufs? I got a dead bsd (heheh, motherboard problems) box and need to get the info of the disk and have no other bsd machines. I need to mount it under linux.

  4. Re:virus? by Fortun+L'Escrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you ever read Neuromancer?

  5. while true; by moving_comfort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    #> while true
    #> kill -9 666
    #> done &