PC Users Can Simulate Artificial Life Forms

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Few computer books examine a subject as
controversial as that in Windcrest's Creating Artificial Life:
Self-Organization, the first fully hands-on study of artificial life and
its potential for synthesization by computer.

Based on actual, ongoing research into artificial life, the projects in
this intriguing book include working programs in BASIC, C, and Pascal that
professional programmers and hobbyists can use to duplicate artificial
life forms on the personal computer.

After exploring several definitions of life, Edward Rietman explains the
mathematical techniques scientists use to simulate a variety of complex,
dynamic systems. Readers learn how to create computer models for
everything from genetic codes and computer viruses to cellular automata,
self-organizing systems, and mathematical bioforms.

In addition to a wealth of helpful b tables, figures, and photographs,
Creating Artificial Life comes with a disk containing source code for all
of the programs listed.

About the Author:

A professional industrial physicist and computer scientist, Edward Rietman
holds a Ph.D. in cybernetics. He is the author of Windcrest's Exploring
the Geometry of Nature and Experiments in Artificial Neural Networks.

Creating Artificial Life: Self-Organization 
Order No. 3719
Available: January 1993 
Paper $29.95 ISBN 0-8306-4150-5 
256 pp., 143 illus., 7" x 10" * 3.5" disk included

Windcrest/McGraw-Hill
TAB BOOKS, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
1-800-233-1128,  FAX 717-794-2103

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