Selected methods of artificial intelligence - artificial life and computer viruses

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to introduce a reader into the area of artificial intelligence, artificial life and computer viruses. The thesis is divided into chapters. First chapter deals with artificial intelligence, it tries to define natural intelligence and then also artificial intelligence. Next part of the thesis describes history of artificial intelligence from its beginings till current times, particular points are separated by years, in which they happenned. Second chapter deals with artificial life, it defines life and characterizes artificial life. Then it deals with cellular automata. It describes, what a cellular automaton is. It deals with von Neumann's kinematic model and celullar automaton and then characterizes particular cellular automata -- the Game of Life, Langton Qloops and Wolfram's one-dimensional cellular automaton. It describes the meaning of cellular automata, then Lindenmayer systems and other methods of artificial life -- artificial life and chaos and life simulators. Third chapter deals with computer viruses, their definition and beginnings. Then it describes classification of malware and techniques of computer viruses. Remaining part sorts viruses by target they infect, by their concealment strategy, by their location in memory and it mentions other types of viruses