| 2024 | Onward | Dialogues on Natural Code. | Lu Wilson, David H. Ackley |
| 2018 | SSBSE | Damage Reduction via White-Box Failure Shaping. | Thomas B. Jones, David H. Ackley |
| 2016 | AAAI | Indefinite Scalability for Living Computation. | David H. Ackley |
| 2016 | ALIFE | The Carried Network Demarc. | David H. Ackley |
| 2016 | DSN | Scalable Robustness. | Thomas B. Jones, David H. Ackley |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Indefinitely Scalable Computing = Artificial Life Engineering. | David H. Ackley, Trent Small |
| 2014 | DSN | Comparison Criticality in Sorting Algorithms. | Thomas B. Jones, David H. Ackley |
| 2011 | GECCO | The effects of selection on noisy fitness optimization. | Sergiu Goschin, Michael L. Littman, David H. Ackley |
| 2011 | HotOS | Pursue Robust Indefinite Scalability. | David H. Ackley, Daniel C. Cannon |
| 2003 | CCS | Randomized instruction set emulation to disrupt binary code injection attacks. | Elena Gabriela Barrantes, David H. Ackley, Trek S. Palmer, Darko Stefanovic, Dino Dai Zovi |
| 2003 | GECCO | Adaptation and Ruggedness in an Evolvability Landscape. | Terry Van Belle, David H. Ackley |
| 2002 | EUROGP | Uniform Subtree Mutation. | Terry Van Belle, David H. Ackley |
| 2002 | GECCO | Code Factoring And The Evolution Of Evolvability. | Terry Van Belle, David H. Ackley |
| 1997 | HotOS | Building Diverse Computer Systems. | Stephanie Forrest, Anil Somayaji, David H. Ackley |
| 1982 | AAAI | The QBKG System: Generating Explanations From a Non-Discrete Knowledge Representation. | Hans J. Berliner, David H. Ackley |