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Darwinbots as a Graduate Study

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Numsgil:
Well, the time has come for me to look around at graduate schools, and figure out what the hell I want to study.  The idea occurs that I could study Darwinbots!  Wouldn't that be neat.  All this time wouldn't be wasted after all.

Here's what I now know:

1.  Aparently AL is in the larger field called Informatics.

2.  There is apparently a very good school that actually has an Artifical Life MSc you can earn (AL is still such a virgin science it hardly has any schools) in Sussex.

That's all.  Just sharing what I've been thinking recently.

shvarz:
AL is a field apart.  They don't intersect that much with other sciences, which is a real shame.  If you ever get there - make sure you hook up with some real biologists :)

Numsgil:
AL is a fascinating field in that it directly pulls from probably the most diverse sciences imaginable.  It's almost the study of everything.

shvarz:
In theory - yes.  On practice - no.  I talked to a guy who did his graduate work in some big AL lab.  They publish in their own journals (which no one else reads), they know very little of real biology and they interact very little with scientists who do real work.

Endy:
That's kind of sad :sad2:

Not sure, since my own experience is [you]very[/you] limited here, but perhaps something in Bioinformatics/Systems Biology would be about what your looking for.

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