BEACON Congress 2021 Keynote

The video and transcript of the talk I gave at the BEACON Congress Many thanks to Charles Ofria for his invitation, and to the audience for their warm reception, comments and questions about the broader context, limits, and possible extensions of this work! Hi. I’m Lana Sinapayen, a researcher at Sony Computer Science Labs inContinue reading “BEACON Congress 2021 Keynote”

IEE Conference on Games 2021 Keynote

The video and transcript of the talk I gave at CoG 2021. Many thanks to Mike Cook for their invitation! Hi! My name is Lana, and in this talk I will present some of the links between my scientific field, Artificial Life (also called ALife), and games, whether it’s video games or other types ofContinue reading “IEE Conference on Games 2021 Keynote”

Welcoming another full time member

After sharing his time between CSL Tokyo and CSL Kyoto for a while, our staff member Kashiwa moved to Kyoto full time. Time to celebrate 🎉 The lab now counts 3 researchers (of which 2 are between Tokyo and Kyoto), 2 staff members, and 2 student researchers. Except for the students, we all live atContinue reading “Welcoming another full time member”