Edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Peter R. Lewis, Stefano Nichele, Jitka Čejková, Christoph Salge, Imran Khan, Hanna Derets
IN MEMORIAM: Inman Harvey, 1948 – 2026. Dedicated to the memory of Inman Harvey, a towering figure with a brilliant mind and joyful, wicked wit, a mentor, and precious friend to our community.
This volume presents the proceedings of ALIFE 2026, the 27th Conference on Artificial Life, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, from 17–21 August 2026. The proceedings will be available at the conference through MIT Press open access.
The conference theme, “Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems”, places at the centre of the programme the principles through which biological, computational, chemical, robotic, social, and cultural systems generate coherent, adaptive, and evolving organization.
Read the full proceedings at: direct.mit.edu