The day again started with some parallel sessions of contributed papers: this time I went to some interesting ones on cellular automata and related topics. Then was the day's keynote, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, who, with colleagues at Google, is working on in silico ALife ideas. He related some of their results to ideas of symbiogenesis from biology, with a strong dash of physical processes and lots of tasty equations.
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| one of Blaise's denser slides |
Then another efficient lunch box distribution was followed by two further contributed paper sessions. Here I chose one on Evolution, followed by one on Morphological computation. Lots of interesting ideas I need to assimilate.
These were followed by a Panel session, where I was the moderator. I got to interview Emily Dolson, Dominik Chen, and Hiro Iizuka about all things ALife. I enjoyed it; I hope the panellists and audience did too.
Then a bunch of us went to dinner.
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| Shop name spotted on the way back from the eatery |
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