Word: humanoid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today hundreds of people are exploring that question. At Bellcore, the research affiliate of the Bell telephone companies, David Ackley makes little creatures with humanoid faces that roam around a computer-simulated world consuming resources, evading predators and multiplying like rabbits. At UCLA David Jefferson and Robert Collins have created colonies of randomly generated "ants" that over many generations evolve the ability to navigate electronic mazes and search for symbols representing food...