| Central_Valley_Digital_Network The digital network provides access, resources, and assists in building the technology infrastructure of selected organizations and agencies. |
| Computer_Security_News_-_Topix News on computer security continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. |
| Security_Incite__Rants Blog feed offering information and opinion on information security topics. [RSS] |
| Topix__Computer_Security News about computer security, collected from various sources on the web. [RSS] |
| Alex_Vulliamy Artificial life links and software. |
| Daniel_Ashlock Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University. Bioinformatics, biological textures. |
| Frederic_Dreier AL and AI resources for Java about classification, agents, ants, distributed intelligence: references to documents, sites, tutorials and software. |
| Jeffrey_Ventrella\'s_Site Gene Pool, Darwin Pond and papers on Artificial Life. |
| Kerstin_Dautenhahn Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire. Interests: Socially Intelligent Agents and Artificial Life. |
| Magy_Seif_El-Nasr Northwestern University. Emotions and personality embodiment on computers. |
| Paul_Layzell University of Sus, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group. Hardware evolution; swarm intelligence. |
| Richard_Lenski Michigan State University. Interests: self-replicating computer programs that mutate at random. |
| Stan_Franklin University of Memphis. Conscious software, intelligent agents. |
| Tim_Taylor Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, University of Edinburgh. Self-repairing robots; artificial evolution systems. |
| Vitorino_J__Castelo_Ramos Technical University of Lisbon (IST). Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, Ant Systems, Data and Image Analysis and Processing. English/Portuguese. |
| William_M__Spears Research into Complex Adaptive Systems: Genetic Algorithms (Evolutionary Algorithms), Neural Networks, and Simulated Annealing. University of Wyoming. |
| BRL-CAD An Open Source CSG solid modeling system with ray tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools. |
| J&L_Associates Developers of the ActiveSolid 3D solid modeling, CAD prototyping and mark-up sharware application and the underlying BspSolid modelling library. |
| MINOS A free 3D solid modelling software offering fast hidden line removal, topological functions, 3D geometric constructions, IGES support, shading, printing, hatches, and line constructions. |
| RogCAD Keyboard driven modelling software that supports complex curved surfaces. |
| solidThinking Modelling software that supports NURBS, polygonal modeling, and subdivision surfaces, available for Windows and Macintosh. |
| TouchCAD 3D modeling, unfolding and unwrapping program for Macintosh and Windows. |
| Applets_for_Neural_Network_and_Artificial_Life A list of programs using alife type techniques (English/Japanese). |
| Archis_Evolutionary_System_Simulator An artificial life simulator project that can also function as a genetic programming system. Written in Java with a graphical interface. |
| Artificial_Life_by_Jpr Introduction to artificial life. Each chapter is illustrated by a program or an applet. Chapters are available in PDF. |
| Artificial_Life_on_the_Web A web-oriented artificial-life site: Alife, genetic-algorithm and cellular-automata experiments written in cross-platform web languages (Java, tcl/tk), with free source code. |
| Avida An auto-adaptive genetic system designed primarily for use as a platform in Digital or Artificial Life research. Download source, binaries and documentation. Unix/Windows. |
| The_Breve_Simulation_Environment MacOSX software for simulation of artificial life and decentralized systems. |
| BugBots BugBots is a game, sort of. Really it's a project in Artificial Intelligence, and Object Oriented Design with heavy abstraction. |
| Chaco_the_Chaos_Collection A collection of small tools for Chaos Modelling, based on ideas of Life game, Tierra and others. |
| Darwinbots A free artificial life program running under Windows. Similar to C-Robots with a biological bent, where the robots mutate and evolve over time. |
| Electric_Sheep_Screen-saver Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Free; Linux, MacOS X. |
| Flocking_Experiment Two flocks of birds migrating to different locations flock together before splitting apart. |
| Java_Fish An aquarium simulation written in Java. The program uses neural networks for all of the fish being simulated, and the fish are artificially evolved from random starting information. |
| Kasprzyk\'s_ALife_Page Artificial Life for the Macintosh. |
| Life_Simulation_Game An artificial world of lifeforms which eat, move and reproduce. Each species is controlled by a program, and you can write your own lifeforms. |
| Manna_Mouse Exploration of fitness landscapes. |
| Physis Physis is a software platform for testing the evolvability of different assembly-like programming languages. |
| PS-I A sourceforge project for an environment for creating and running agent-based models. Tcl/Tk scriptable, cross-platform (Windows and Linux/Unix). |
| WorldViz_Vizard_VR_Toolkit A virtual reality development interface. Its Python based scripting language makes 3D programming efficient and easy. Virtual humans can be instantly inserted into existing environments. |
Roger Webster, Ph.D.1, Randy Haluck, M.D.2, Joseph Sassani, M.D.3, Matt Harris1, John McCaw 1, Chad Billman 1, Jesse Gerber1, 1Dept. of Computer Science 3D Graphics Laboratory School of Science and Mathematics Caputo Hall D&E Communications Wing Millersville University Millersville, PA. USA 17551 2Dept. of Minimally Invasive Surgery 3Dept. of Ophthalmology Penn State University College of Medicine Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA. USA 17033 The goal of this joint research is to develop software for use in simulating a suite of surgical procedures. Medical students and surgeons will be able to test their skills using a virtual reality surgical simulator that provides sensitive touch feedback along with realistic 3D imagery. Our simulators use devices such as: the EYESI™ eye simulator, Immersion Virtual Laparoscopic Interface, the Immersion Laparoscopic Surgical Workstation™ haptic device, and the Sensable Technologies' PHANToM™ haptic device. The graphics programming environment is MUopenGL toolkit - an object oriented API that calls OpenGL™. The haptics environment is Sensable Technologies' GHOST API calls. The control computer is a dual Pentium processor workstation with an Nvidia™ OpenGL graphics accelerator running Windows XP™. These research projects were funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers EIA0116616, DUE-9950742 and DUE-9651237, and a Penn State University College of Medicine Department of Surgery and Department of Ophthalmology Grants, the Neimeyer-Hodgson Grants Program, the Willard O. and Dr. Katherine Gibson-Havameier Endowment for Computer Science, and by the Faculty Grants Committee and the Noonan fund of Millersville University. Previous contributors to this research: Rodney Shenk, John Blumenstock, Jeremy Shopf, Matt Harris, Jack Hindes, Shanna Sampson, Nathan Good, Aaron Benson, Nathan Charles, Jon Reeser, Joshua Boyd, David DeSanto, Dan Sherman, Sean Darrenkamp, Steve Terlecki, Betty Mohler, Mike Melkonian, M.D., Alan Synder, Ph.D., W. Bosseau Murray, M.D., Jeremy Sheaffer, Tyson Frack, Eric Crouthamel, Tim Bailey, Mike Dise, Dr. Paul Gorman, Dr. Thomas Krummel, Monica Smith, Dr. Will Wang, Dean Zimmerman. 
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