The First Proteus Workshop
What?
Emphasis will be placed on recruiting a development team, scoping general requirements, identifying key enabling technologies and potential applications.
Topics to be discussed will include relevant software engineering methods and off-the-shelf tools, lessons learned from previous similar efforts (e.g. OpenWorm, the Blue Brain Project, TensorFlow, OpenAI Gym), biology-to-ALife best practices, physics engines, exporting designs to physical hardware (sim2real) and biological artifacts (sim2life), volunteer coding organization, timelining, and other related efforts.
Anyone is welcome to sit in and observe, or actively participate in the brainstorming and (eventually) software development activities.
Where?
The Virtual Artificial Life (ALife) Conference. Zoom link will be provided closer to the event.
When?
Saturday July 18, 2020, 4 - 7pm Eastern Time.
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4:00 - 4:30pm – Josh Bongard – Introduction and overview
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4:30 - 4:45pm – Melanie Moses – Robot swarms as Protean systems
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4:45 - 5:00pm – Nick Cheney – ML algorithms as Protean systems
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5:00 - 6:00pm – All – Thinking – Brainstorm a collaborative, continuously-running evolutionary algorithm to produce Protean systems.
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6:00 - 7:00pm – All – Planning – Voluneering for roles and responsibilities, tracking progress, recruiting new members,
Who?
Organizers:
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Josh Bongard, University of Vermont
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Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico
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Nick Cheney, University of Vermont
Participants:
All are welcome. No need to sign up. Just visit the ALife 2020 Slack channel #workshop-proteus at the appointed time.
What happened?
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