What is Nils Aall Barricelli?
{{Orphan|date=March 2012}} '''Nils Aall Barricelli''' (24 January 1912 &ndash; 27 January 1993) was a Norwegian-Italian [[mathematician]]. Barricelli's early computer-assisted experiments in [[symbiogenesis]] and evolution are considered pioneering in [[artificial life]] research. Barricelli, who was independently [[rich]], held an unpaid residency at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] in 1953, 1954. and 1956.<ref>Dyson, George. 1997. Darwin Among the Machines. Reading, MA: Helix Books, p. 111</ref> He later worked at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], at [[Vanderbilt University]] (until 1964), in the Department of Genetics of the [[University of Washington]], Seattle (until 1968) and then at the Mathematics Institute of the [[University of Oslo]]. Barricelli [[published]] in a variety of fields including [[virus]] genetics, [[DNA]], [[theoretical biology]], [[space flight]], [[theoretical physics]] and [[mathematical language]].<ref>Gulliksen, Tor. 1997. Email to George Dyson. The Reality Club on Darwin Among the Machines. Edge.org. http://www.edge.org/discourse/dysong_darwin.html</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol08/?pg=198&u1=texterity Barricelli's Universe (make-digital.com)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714023000/http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol08/?pg=198&u1=texterity |date=2011-07-14 }} * [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/278 George Dyson TED talk discusses Barricelli] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barricelli, Nils Aall}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:1993 deaths]] [[Category:Norwegian mathematicians]] [[Category:Italian mathematicians]]