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- From: ledwards@leland.Stanford.EDU (Laurence James Edwards)
- Subject: Re: popularizations ofcomplexity.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.235054.21884@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:50:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.075937.19475@reed.edu>, rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour) writes:
- |> [...]
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- |> As an all around introduction to Artificial Life, Levy's book is very
- |> good. It's not a technical description, but gives a good history and
- |> interesting anecdotes on the major advances in alife from pre1987 - early 1992.
- |> [...]
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- Yes I agree. Levy's style bugged me in places and some of the stuff borders on
- hype and is somewhat misleading, but I think it's a good popular intro. -- if
- only for the bibliography.
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- Larry Edwards
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