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Nicholas Gessler

Nicholas Gessler received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2003 with a dissertation on "Artificial Culture," assessing the prospects of creating simulations of the maintenance and evolution of society from the bottom up. With on the ground experience in archaeology in Europe and North America, in establishing and curating two local museums and in organizing organizing the "Art and Aesthetics of Artificial Life" exhibition at Alife VI, he mixes practical experience with the theoretical challenges of applying the epistemologies of evolution and complex systems to the multifactorial nature of human culture. He currently teaches "Artificial Life, Artificial Culture and Evolutionary Computation" and "Espionage, Cryptology and Psychological Operations" at Duke University (ISIS 072 and 135 respectively). He spends his summers away from the computer in the deserts of California looking for, and finding, meteorites.

gessler@duke.edu

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