Cross Labs

26/03/2026

The new ISAL Global Membership Program Pilot is now live!

A special discounted membership rate to the International Society of Artificial Life is now on offer for scholars from low-income countries.

Check out the list of eligible countries here: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups

Learn more about the program:
https://alife.org/2026/03/24/new-isal-global-membership-program-pilot/

Sign up and spread the word!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuqZOX3rrISaglbv9ppsl6lOYDN1SInxWSjm3m_nd9a0NmYw/viewform

Applications due May 8th for full consideration.
Decisions made by May 22nd

Announcement of new membership program pilot that provides discounted membership rates to scholars in lower income countries. Due May 8th 2026.

18/03/2026

First set of speakers and facilitators confirmed for the first ALife Education Workshop!

Register at no cost here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQ-ngpkBxr58mm8rGCKmU9Dna8DVHER3gXP8aZ6n0YpuO77A/viewform

12/03/2026

Olaf Witkowski's latest blog - A Secure Operating System for Collective Intelligence - is out now.

Have a read!
https://olafwitkowski.com/2026/03/12/a-secure-operating-system-for-collective-intelligence/

We stand today at an inflection point in the history of computing. Autonomous AI agents are being deployed at high speed, spawning powerful, increasingly multimodal systems, able to operate across …

10/03/2026

The Artificial Life Education Spring 2026 Workshop for Educators is happening in May 2026. Save the dates!

Register for our first virtual workshop, in collaboration with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, IIn Silence AI Carleton College and University of Warwick.

May 18-19, 10AM - 2PM Eastern US
May 25-26, 10AM - 2PM Japan

Register here or through the QR code below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQ-ngpkBxr58mm8rGCKmU9Dna8DVHER3gXP8aZ6n0YpuO77A/viewform

24/08/2025

Enrollment’s still open! Join us this Thursday, August 28 for a fun and fascinating discovery and exploration of life at our first ever, Cross Labs ALife Summer School!

Here’s our deputy director, Dr. Alyssa Adams, sharing with us why we developed this summer program.

See you at out lab in Kyoto!

OverviewFrom the Pleistocene to the present, “What is Life?” is one of the most powerful questions posed and pondered by a certain branch of primates. At Cro...

21/08/2025

Our first ever ALIfe Summer School started this week! Middle to high school students in Kyoto, Osaka and Kansai areas can still sign up and join the second Thursday next week, Aug. 28!

Here’s our research scientist, Dr. Q. Tyrell Davis, our instructor for the summer school, sharing an overview of the curriculum.

Sign up on the link below!

Research Scientist Dr. Q. Tyrell Davis shares an overview of Cross Labs’ ALife Summer School that runs from Aug. 21 - Sept. 11, 2025.The Cross Labs Artificia...

18/08/2025

It’s been a while! The lab went through huge growth and changes in the last 12 months, and we can’t wait to share more of that soon!

In the meantime, we’d like to share that we’ve just launched our first-ever Cross Labs’ ALife Summer School (CLASS) 2025! It’s a 4-week introductory program that aims to teach secondary students an overview of Artificial Life. Participants receive direct mentorship, hands-on training, real-life exposure and the opportunity to develop a poster to be presented at the prestigious, annual ALife Conference 2025 to be held in Kyoto this year!

Sign up here: https://www.crosslabs.org/cross-labs-alife-summer-school-class-2025

Starts this Thursday, Aug. 21 at 4pm! Certificates to be awarded at the closing ceremony on Sept. 11 at the lab.

Please feel free to share with friends, family and contacts who have secondary students in their families based or traveling in Osaka/Kyoto this month. Free to attend! We look forward to having them at the lab!