List of Topics
(subject to change)

• Fractals
  • Self-similarity
  • The Mandelbrot set and Julia sets
  • Complex numbers
  • L-systems
  
  
• Chaos
  • Feedback loops
  • The logistic map
  • Sensitive dependence on initial conditions
  • Strange attractors
  
  
• Computation
  • Numbers systems and infinity
  • Turing machines
  • The limits of computation
  
  
• Adaptation and Learning
  • Genetic algorithms and simulated evolution
  • Artificial life
  • Evolving virtual creatures
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Evolutionary robotics
  
  
• Emergent Systems
  • Cellular automata
  • The "edge of chaos"
  • Conway's Game of Life
  • Virtual ants, boids
  • Copycat and Metacat