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DECEPTIVE CHAOS. "Viruses, like graffiti, are just as much signal as noise – that they are in fact an irreducible confusion of the two." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

OSCILLATOR ROLE. "In most organisms, effects of light on the clock are mediated by light-induced changes in the level of one of the oscillator components. Plants are unusual in this respect because light affects the oscillator at several levels." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

ANTI-VIRAL R&D. "Endlessly revising and debating the burgeoning taxonomy of virus species, nervously policing the boundary between the great unwashed and those trustworthy enough to handle "live" specimens, the world of antivirus research offered its initiates a thrill somewhere between the delightful romance of butterfly collecting and the grim camaraderie of working for the National Security Agency." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

CONSTANT VIRAL ATTACK. "At Arthur J. Gallagher we block over 800,000 email viruses, scams, malware and malicious web sites that pass through our IT systems each month. However these attacks are adapting faster than the systems being developed to prevent them and with over 20,000 employees, we naturally go to great lengths to protect our hardware, software and data." https://lnkd.in/edbTuJc View in LinkedIn

ONCE AN URBAN MYTH. "In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, computer viruses were considered an urban myth. A small number of computer viruses had been written and infection was fairly uncommon. Today, the situation is much different: over 56,000 distinct virus, worm and Trojan horse strains are known!" https://lnkd.in/eV_mmFn View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS CODE. "I’ve been really into code mutation and getting computers to write their own code, well at least that’s the goal anyway. What really interests me is if you can give a computer a really small amount of code but yet get it to construct something itself." https://lnkd.in/e2GhRte View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION. "He is not trying to model real-world natural selection. He is investigating the feasibility of evolving machine language software by random mutation and artificial selection. https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION. "It is not difficult to imagine the development of an advanced computer virus, more like a real biological virus, that is capable of evolving defenses against the latest virus detection software." https://lnkd.in/da2m8CW View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION AND CODE. "Can Computers Mimic Darwinian Evolution? Darwinism holds that new genes can evolve blindly out of old genes by gene duplication, mutation and recombination under the pressure of natural selection." https://lnkd.in/dH9XaVn View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER HOST-VIRUS ARMS RACE, identical to biological viruses and their hosts. "In order to stay far from the anti-virus scanners, computer viruses gradually improve their codes to make them invisible. On the other hand, anti-virus technologies continually follow the virus tricks and methodologies to overcome their threats." https://lnkd.in/e2ErnC6 View in LinkedIn