There is mention of my communication with Bruce Damer in his interview for the biota.org podcast, way back when the name darwin@home came up for the first time. I looked up the original email: 

From bdamer@digitalspace.com Tue Dec 14 23:46:26 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:46:08 -0800
To: gerald@beautifulcode.nl
From: Bruce Damer
Subject: Hi Gerald!

Wow Gerald, truly beautiful project! I am going to include this in the next 
Biota newsletter and on the site if that is ok. Say Biota has been looking 
for a name for our public efforts to get folks to build evolving systems 
like yours and your mentioning of "Darwin @ Home" below is actually a good 
way to refer to all of these efforts. I keep explaining to folks that what 
this is all about is a kind of biological SET @ Home. Could I use your term 
(crediting you) as part of the efforts and the site when I get the pages up?

Biota is rebooting and coming up with some projects sponsored by NASA, we 
will be kicking off some of this in January at USC. I am going to show the 
guys Fluidiom.sourceforge.net and maybe there is a way for them to work 
with you.

Anyway, lots going on, esp with getting Biota restarted (a lot of interest 
and new projects out there).

Bruce

i've been building structures, and letting a simple genetic algorithm
loose to have these structures learn to run like the wind.  i'm
currently working to create a website and web start application which
facilitates many client machines evolving creatures in parallel (not
seti@home but darwin@home), so that we can _really_ see what it's
possible to brew with this survival-of-the-fittest stuff.  i want a
whole zoo of these things, and especially ones that other people have
dreamt up.

http://fluidiom.sourceforge.net

Gerald de Jong
Beautiful Code BV
Rotterdam, NL

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