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Recently Boing Boing decided to deep-link through to audio of the Douglas Adams Speech at Biota II. Whilst this was an important speech, it is disappointing that bandwidth was taken from the site without passing on the contemporary development of Biota.org. I have changed the related deep links to highlight;

https://digitalspace.com/biota.org/podcast/

May 2006

Biota.org's interviews are now in audio format with the Biota.org PodCast

Long-time Biota.org contributor, Gerald de Jong, releases the new version of Fluidiom, Darwin At Home

March 2006

biota.org interviews physicist Mathijs Romans

biota.org interviews the new Alife development ALES' Team

February 2006

biota.org interviews Alife researcher Todd Furmanski

A new mailing list has been set up to discuss the future directions of biota.org. To join;

http://mail.nobleape.com/mailman/listinfo/biota-future_nobleape.com

biota.org interviews Alife academic Andrew Phelps

January 2006

biota.org interviews Alife artist Joseph Nechvatal

biota.org interviews Alife author and philosopher Franco Malingri

December 2005

biota.org interviews Biots creator Joe Rheaume

biota.org interviews AIPlanet creator Dave Kerr

September 2005

Karl Sims' Evolved Virtual Creatures Now on Archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1994

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_primordial_dance_1991

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_panspermia_1990

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_liquid_selves_1992

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_particle_dreams_1988

May 2005

Carrying on from last month's news, there is an Important News page relating to the ...AtHome projects.

April 2005

Following extensive debate through the Darwin@Home mailing list, the Darwin@Home project with solidified objectives was renamed Biota@Home. This sub-project of Biota.org has a draft white paper online to explain more. The final white paper will also be posted at the same link.

January 2005

This month saw the launch of Darwin@Home by Bruce Damer at USC. Darwin@Home is the first major Biota.org project in recent years.

Due to the overwhelming interest in the new project, Bruce has passed the editorial and maintainance duties of Biota.org to Noble Ape's Tom Barbalet.

Top on Tom's list of priorities, having updated all the links on the site, is to encourage ALife developers to submit new projects, papers and interviews to Biota.org.

Previous News

Biota mourns the passing of Stephen Jay Gould who we remember for his contributions to the public understanding of evolution and for his personal encouragement of our first conference in 1997, the Digital Burgess.

It was a wonderful life, Dr. Gould!

Stanford University pages on Gould's life and work

In memory of Douglas Adams

Is there an Artificial God? - Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge UK

Queen awards Millennium Honour to Cyberlife's creator, January 2000

Steve Grand was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List.

For those of you unfortunate enough not to be British, OBE stands for Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and is a medal of achievement awarded by the Queen, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Admittedly there's not much British empire to be an officer of, these days, but it's quite an honour and comes at a really appropriate time for Steve and his technology vision - marking the transition between the old and the new in more ways than one. Steve is delighted to be able to add OBE to the letters after his name, supplementing his GCSE in Woodwork and a Bronze Swimming Certificate. The investiture ceremony will be some time during the year, and we'll let you know how it goes. Steve in a morning suit is a sight to behold!