I am a First year phd student. I like to work with algorithms and theoretical stuff, as well as Machine Learning and all its experimental applications. I consider Artificial Life as one of those things you will have to be familiar with in the future, so it is best to start early on.

You can see both videos I took of my element, the first one only shows the simplest behavior I was trying to achieve, the second one, shows how a line of elements disperses itself to form a very interesting structure. I will continue to play with it and keep posting interesting videos or show demonstrations in class.

Here are the two videos

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• From atoms to pacman: The provable security idea was extremely interesting and valuable regarding the challenges it provided, however, I realized for it (and for many other project ideas) to be carried out, there had to be something else, something that allows some sort of cooperation or communication among individuals, so that evolution is possible. That's why I decided to stick with this project of taking the interaction between elements to another whole new level. intro
• Provable Security: This idea first started as something regarding privacy of the users when doing some sort of computation, but after some thought, I realized making it about security is much more valuable, and possibly much more understandable.

• 02-Oct-2014 05:59:37PM-0600: Finally made a very first stage of my element, called ASDF_Element. At this point it only groups himself together with other of its kind.
• 08-Sep-2014 01:20:33PM-0600: Finished my presentation for today.
• 08-Sep-2014 12:13:03PM-0600: I have changed my project idea yet again, but this time I have decided to stay. Check the project section to know more about it.
• 25-Aug-2014: Created this page.
• 20-Aug-2014: I decided I wanted to start seeing some action, so I installed MFMv2 on an Ubuntu system, just pulling out from the repo.
• 19-Aug-2014: Tried to install MFMv2 on a mac system. Realized my knowledge of makefiles was not nearly enough, started reading more in depth material about makefiles.