It's taken way longer than I had originally anticipated (about 18 months), but I'm super excited to say that the project to translate Nils Aall Barricelli's groundbreaking 1954 paper on computational evolution and artificial life - "Esempi Numerici di Processi di Evoluzione" - is now complete! [1/2]
Tim Taylor
Wonderful to see @librarycongress.bsky.social's restoration of George Méliès' long-lost 1897 film "Gugusse et l'Automate" (Gugusse and the automaton). This is the first depiction on film of an automaton (or robot, to use a term that wouldn't be coined until 1920) blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
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Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
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... Along with the translation, we've also written an in-depth commentary about Barricelli's paper, its context, his other papers on symbiogenesis and evolution and the significance and legacy of the work today. Both have today been submitted to the Artificial Life journal 👍🎉 [2/2]
