[Edu-sig] Fwd: New Scientist => Radio emerges from the electronic soup

Jason Cunliffe Jason Cunliffe" <jasonic@nomadics.org
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:55:08 -0400


http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992732

"A self-organising electronic circuit has stunned engineers by turning itself
into a radio receiver.

This accidental reinvention of the radio followed an experiment to see if an
automated design process, that uses an evolutionary computer program, could be
used to "breed" an electronic circuit called an oscillator..."