Right. That was his work on sorting
networks<http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/inmanh/easy/alife06/PhysicaD1990-42-1-3-Hillis.pdf>
.


-- Russ



On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Russell Standish
<r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:38:54PM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote:
> >
> > Back to the sorting questions, I'd be very interested in hearing more
> about
> > the sorting program that found a new way to sort.
> >
> >
>
> I recall Danny Hillis achieved this with a coevolutionary genetic
> algorithm back in the early '90s. I think it was published in one of
> the early ALife proceedings (probably volume 2 - the one I never
> managed to get a copy of :).
>
> Cheers
>
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