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Issue #18
March 2004

By Dennis Merritt

AI - The art and science of making computers do interesting things that are not in their nature.

Emergent Behavior
Fuzzy Logic and Health Risk
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Notes

The diagrams that were supposed to appear in the last two month's newsletters didn't display on most people's systems. The newsletters are archived at an alternate site, www.ainewsletter.com, that has copies of the issues with the pictures.

This month's newsletter has some further applications of the fuzzy logic system developed in the February newsletter. Contact me to get the the latest version of the fuzzy logic system and the full source for this month's examples.

Dennis

Emergent Behavior

Emergent behavior refers to evolution-inspired computing algorithms that can be used to search for desired results. Here's some interesting work in the field.

Evolutionary Design and Lego Blocks

Pablo Funes of Brandeis University has done a lot of work in the area of evolutionary design. As part of his research he has built experimental systems that evolve structures of Lego blocks that meet various design goals.<>

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