Twelfth
Annual CSEOL Symposium
EVOLUTION IN THE COMPUTER AGE
Friday, April 13, 2001
Schoenberg Auditorium UCLA
9:00am:
J. William Schopf (CSEOL, UCLA)
Welcome
9:10am: Walter Gilbert (Harvard
University)
ÝBIOINFORMATICS, GENOMICS, AND COMPUTERS
9:50am: DISCUSSION
10:00am: Walter Fitch (University
of California, Irvine)
COMPUTING
THE EVOLUTION OF VIRUSES
10:40am: DISCUSSION
10:50 am: COFFEE BREAK
11:10am: Michael Foote (University
of Chicago)
MATHEMATICAL
AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN PALEOBIOLOGY
11:50am: DISCUSSION
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12:00 noon: LUNCHEON BREAK
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1:30pm: Nicholas Gessler (University
of California, Los Angeles)
COMPUTER MODELS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION
2:10pm:
DISCUSSION
2:20pm:
Lawrence J. Fogel (Natural Selection,
Inc.)
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE THROUGH SIMULATED EVOLUTION
3:00pm: DISCUSSION
3:10pm: COFFEE BREAK
3:30pm: Hans Moravec (Carngie
Mellon University)
THE
EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENT ROBOTS
4:10pm: DISCUSSION
4:20pm: David B. Fogel &
Gary B. Fogel
(Moderators; Natural Selection,
Inc.)
Panel discussion (all speakers), with audience interaction.
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5:00pm: CONCLUSION OF SYMPOSIUM
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5:30pm:
RECEPTION (for speakers, invitees, CSEOL
members; UCLA Faculty Center)
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7:00pm: BANQUET (for speakers,
invitees, CSEOL members; UCLA Faculty Center)
Presentation of CSEOL Distinguished
Scientist Awards