[1] His research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems.
Application domains of interest include evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes.
Together with other Sussex faculty, mainly from the School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences (COGS), he developed the MSc programme on Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (EASy), which was active in the 1990s and 2000s, attracting dozens of students that have contributed to artificial life, evolutionary robotics, cognitive science and other disciplines.
72–79) overviews Harvey's and Adrian Thompson's work with evolving an FPGA program to recognize tones.
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