A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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People :: Artificial Intelligence

Alex Vulliamy - Artificial life links and software.
Meta Description: [ Alife java applets and macintosh alife applications ]
Daniel Ashlock - Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University. Bioinformatics, biological textures.
Frederic Dreier - AL and AI resources for Java about classification, agents, ants, distributed intelligence: references to documents, sites, tutorials and software.
Meta Description: [ Web Page with a bunch of data and references as well as tutorials about artificial life and intelligence ]
Jeffrey Ventrella's Site - Gene Pool, Darwin Pond and papers on Artificial Life.
Meta Description: [ Jeffrey Ventrella, JJ Ventrella, artificial life, algorithm art, darwin pond, gene pool ]
Karl Sims Retrospective - Interviews with Karl Sims and a gallery of his works in evolutionary art and artificial evolution.
Kerstin Dautenhahn - Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire. Interests: Socially Intelligent Agents and Artificial Life.
Magy Seif El-Nasr - Northwestern University. Emotions and personality embodiment on computers.
Paul Layzell - University of Sussex, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group. Hardware evolution; swarm intelligence.
Richard Lenski - Michigan State University. Interests: self-replicating computer programs that mutate at random.
Meta Description: [ Richard Lenski's Web Page ]
Stan Franklin - University of Memphis. Conscious software, intelligent agents.
Tim Taylor - Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, University of Edinburgh. Self-repairing robots; artificial evolution systems.
Vasant Honavar - Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University.
Meta Description: [ ISU Computer Science Department ]
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Vitorino J. Castelo Ramos - Technical University of Lisbon (IST). Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, Ant Systems, Data and Image Analysis and Processing. English/Portuguese.
William M. Spears - Research into Complex Adaptive Systems: Genetic Algorithms (Evolutionary Algorithms), Neural Networks, and Simulated Annealing. University of Wyoming.
Meta Description: [ The home page of Professor William M.
Spears, who does research in Genetic Algorithms (Evolutionary Algorithms),
Recombination and Mutation, Neural Networks, Simulated Annealing,
Boolean Satisfiability, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Markov
Chains, Complex Adaptive Systems, Viral Epidemi... ]
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