These are my hastily taken and edited notes on the first ALIFE 2020 conference keynote, presented by Mike Levin.

Robot Cancer - why don’t (today’s) robots get cancer?

By Michael Levin, director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.

Below are some rough notes from a tutorial session called Soft alife with SPLAT and Ulam by David Ackley. These notes are very hastily taken and I am editing them between sessions mostly for my own benefit, so expect to see typos and maybe even mis-wordings.

I am sitting in my apartment in Täby, which is an area north of Stockholm in Sweden. There are two large playgrounds outside and as usual they are busy with kids, parents, and some grandparents milling about socializing.

What follows are my hasty notes from a lecture and workshop-type session I went to at Stockholms University, delivered by IBM. Unfortunatly I failed to write down the name of the lecturer from IBM himself, but will add it here when I can dig up the information.

In 2019 I did more travelling than I ever had in one year. I visited Vancouver, Rhodes, Thessaloniki, Prague, and Geneva. I meant to write a separate post after each trip, but never found the time or motivation so I figured I’d capture them all in one go here.