Eugene H. Spafford, "Computer Viruses --- A Form of Artificial Life?", in Artificial Life II, ed. Langton, Taylor, Farmer and Rasmussen, Addison-Wesley 1992.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....of artificial life has already become quite obvious to many people the damage that an artificial organism may inflict if it manages to get loose in the wild . It may be argued that computer viruses possess many of the qualities that we require of something in order to consider it alive [10]. But whether or not computer viruses are in fact considered alive, the widespread damage they have caused cannot be denied. Such viruses, when released out into the open, may bring entire companies, or wide area networks spanning the world, to a standstill. In some cases, these viruses are ....

Eugene H. Spafford, "Computer Viruses --- A Form of Artificial Life?", in Artificial Life II, ed. Langton, Taylor, Farmer and Rasmussen, Addison-Wesley 1992.

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