The following is a conversation with Risto McAline and a computer scientist at the University

of Texas at Austin and Associate Vice President of Evolutionary Artificial Intelligence at

Cognizant. He specializes in evolutionary computation, but also many other topics in artificial

intelligence, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

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As a side note, let me say that nature-inspired algorithms from anctolaniaptomization to

generic algorithms to cellular automata and neural networks have always captivated my

imagination, not only for their surprising power in the face of long odds, but because

they always opened up doors to new ways of thinking about computation. It does seem that

in the long arc of computing history, running toward biology, not running away from it,

is what leads to long-term progress.

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