Results of ISAL Board of Directors 2023 Elections
Thank you to all society members who voted in the recent election for the ISAL board of directors. We are very pleased to confirm (a little belatedly) that the following candidates received the most votes and have therefore been elected (or re-elected) to the ISAL board, listed in alphabetical order: Note that seven candidates were […]
2024 ISAL Awards Nomination Form
The nominations for the 2024 ISAL awards are now open! What’s that you say, already?? Yes! The board has decided to have the nomination form open nearly continuously (with a small break to switch over years) to make it easy for you to send in nominations whenever you come across a cool project, publication, or […]
2023 ISAL Awards Winners
The International Society for Artificial Life is pleased to confirm the winners of the 2023 ISAL Awards. The awards were presented to recipients during the online 2023 Conference on Artificial Life organized in Sapporo, Japan. After a nomination process open to all members of the broader Artificial Life community, sub-committees reviewed the nominations and made recommendations that […]
ApeSDK
An artificial life software platform, originally called Noble Ape, that has been under continuous development since 1996. It is populated by agents with complex cognitive models and social interactions. These agents inhabit a complex environment which simulates both weather and environmental factors across multiple scales. It is highly configurable using an internal scripting language. For […]
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