Artifical Life - It's life, just not as we know it!

This session is truly cutting edge science based on experimental evidence and discusses the possibility of synthetic life-like forms being generated in the laboratory and in silicon and what this means for the human race.

Speakers include:

Profesor George Attard School of Chemistry, Southampton, whose diverse research activities span the traditional disciplines of physical chemistry/chemical physics, materials science, biochemistry and immunology.

Peter Bentley Popular Science author whose field of interest includes Evolutionary Computation, Engineering Design, Computer Art, and Artificial Life.

Rachel Armstrong SF author and doctor, who has appeared extensively in the media and at international conferences speculating on the future of humankind, non Darwinian techniques of evolution and the challenges of the extra-terrestrial environment.