Lee Spector: Demos, Projects, and Presentations

Demos and other multimedia

• Division Blocks and the Open-Ended Evolution of Development, Form, and Behavior (w/movie, presentation and code).
• Selection Songs: Evolutionary Music Computation (w/movies and sound).
• SuperDuperWalker, a software-based framework for experiments on the evolution of locomotion (w/movies).
• Capture the Flag! (w/movie).
• Artificial Intelligence in 3D Virtual Worlds (an approach to teaching introductory artificial intelligence): Course documentation, including software developed in/for the course.
• Virtual Quidditch: (Raphael's project page, additional movies, a recent paper describing the project).
• Emergence of Collective Behavior in Evolving Populations of Flying Agents (w/movies).
• Experiment with growth and physics in BREVE (movie, ~5MB). (Smaller and possibly more compatible version, movie, ~1.4MB).
• Evolutionary Dynamics Discovered via Visualization in the BREVE Simulation Environment (w/movies).
• Complex Adaptive Music Systems in the BREVE Simulation Environment (w/movies and sounds).
• An on-line demonstration of "Parrondo's Paradox," an interesting game theoretic phenomenon.
• GenBebop, production of jazz music-making programs by genetic programming (with sounds).

Projects

• Push, PushGP, and Pushpop: project documentation and code.
• An NSF-funded project: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Research in Genetic Programming, Quantum Computation, and Distributed Systems (NSF Major Research Instrumentation program and Research in Undergraduate Institutions program).
• A DARPA/AFRL-funded project: Multi-type, Self-adaptive Genetic Programming for Complex Applications (DARPA project on Agent-Based Computing, Taskable Agent Software Toolkit).
• An NSF-funded project: Inquiry-Based Learning: Cognitive Measures & Systems Support:
  • General project information.
  • More specific information on the CHAT environment for inquiry-based linguistics education.
• The Hampshire College Cluster Computing Facility.
• The MacArthur Chair Program on Inquiry-Based Learning in People and Machines (no longer active).
• The Creative Cognition Laboratory (no longer active although related projects are still supported).
• WWW development projects:
  • What About AIDS?
  • School/College Partnerships

Slides from selected presentations

• Unwitting Distributed Genetic Programming via Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (link to paper and presentation), a presentation delivered at the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007).
• The Push3 Execution Stack and the Evolution of Control, a presentation delivered at the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005) in connection with the paper available here.
• Quantum Computing, a tutorial delivered at the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003).
• Quantum Computation and Artificial Intelligence delivered at the 1999 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99).
• Virtual Quidditch: A Challenge Problem for Automatically Programmed Software Agents, presented at the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001).
• Autoconstructive Evolution: Push, PushGP, and Pushpop, presented at the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001).
• Multi-type, Self-Adaptive Genetic Programming as an Agent Creation Tool, presented at the 2002 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Multi-Agent Systems (ECOMAS-2002).
• Selected meeting/workshop presentations for the DARPA/AFRL-funded project on Multi-type, Self-adaptive Genetic Programming for Complex Applications:
  • August, 2001: PDF
  • October, 2002: PDF, PowerPoint
  • February, 2003: Keynote (Apple, Stuffed), PDF, PowerPoint

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