Shawn Lani

"This study generates predictions about the evolutionary conditions conducive to the emergence of communication and provides guidelines for designing artificial evolutionary systems displaying spontaneous communication."

Floreano et al., Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots,Current Biology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058

"Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea."

Kevin Kelly. We are the Web. Wired. Issue 13.08 - August 2005