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Web sites offering additional information about evolvable and evolutionary hardware include John Koza’s Genetic Programming Web site at http://www.genetic-programming.org/, Tetsuya Higuchi’s Evolvable Systems Laboratory at the Electrotechnical Laboratory at http://www.etl.go.jp/~ehw/, and the Evolutionary Electronics Web page at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, at http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/.

Moustafa Chahine
California Institute of Technology
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91109

William A. Crossley
Purdue University
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
1282 Grissom Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1282

Hugo de Garis
ATR Lab, Kyoto
Evolutionary Systems Department
2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho
Soraku-gun, Kyoto-gu 619-02
Japan

Daniel S. Goldin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546-0001

Tetsuya Higuchi
Evolvable Systems Laboratory
Electrotechnical Laboratory
1-1-4 Umezono
Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki 305-8568
Japan

Michael Korkin
Genobyte
1503 Spruce Street, Suite 3
Boulder, CO 80302

John R. Koza
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Medical School Office Building
251 Campus Drive, MSC 5479
Stanford, CA 94305-5479

Delon Levi
Xilinx
2100 Logic Drive
San Jose, CA 95124-3450

Derek Linden
Linden Innovation Research LLC
P.O. Box 1601
Herndon, VA 20171

Jason D. Lohn
NASA Ames Research Center
Mailstop Code 269-1
Mountain View, CA 94035-1000

Jules Miller
Napier University
219 Colington Road
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
United Kingdom

Eric Mjolsness
California Institute of Technology
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Mailstop Code 126-347
Pasadena, CA 91109

José L. Muñoz
DARPA/ITO
3701 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203-1714

Jordan Pollack
Brandeis University
Computer Science Department
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Waltham, MA 02254-9110

Adrian Thompson
University of Sussex
School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences
Brighton BN1 9QH
United Kingdom

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 10, September 4, 1999, p. 156. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.