Thomas Ray

Thomas Ray is scientist and researcher working in the fields of Artificial Life, Evolution and the Human Mind. He serve as a collaborator in the media art group Knowbotics Research. He write a generative computer program called Tierra that emulate evolution in digital terms. He is a hard AI proponent and envision evolution as an artform mediated by digital computation. He is porfessor of Biology and Computer Sciences in the University of Oklahoma, USA. He had a Phd in Biology from Harvard University and he had recieve prizes from Japan Inter-Design Forum, Digital Vanguard Award, Arc Awards and IBM Supercomputing.

2000 Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma
1998 Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
1997 ATR Distinguished Research & Development Award
1995 Grand Prix of the Japan Inter-Design Forum
1993 - 1998 Associate Professor, University of Delaware, Computer and Information Sciences
1993 - 1998 Invited Researcher, ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International) / Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
1993 Member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute
1992 - 1992 Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute
1991 - 1991 Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute
1990 - 1998 Associate Professor, University of Delaware, Biology Department
1981 - 1990 Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, Biology Department
1976 - 1981 Graduate Study at Harvard University / Biology Department, A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1981, in Biology
1971 - 1976 Study at Florida State University (FSU) / BS Magna Cum Laude in Biology and Chemistry 1976