Self-organizing systems with emergent properties are a bit like lost ancient cities or sunken ships with lots of gold. They are interesting, fascinating and...
from "Coping with complexity" Nature Vol. 441 No. 7092 (25 May 2006) 383-384 A more detailed understanding of scientific concepts does not lead to simplicity....
After the world's largest cruise ship, the "Freedom of the Seas", here one of the biggest container ships of the world: the Hapag-Lloyd ship "Colombo Express" ...
Hi, Can someone suggest a book or two that could be used as the main text book for the courses on 'Bio-inspired Computational Techniques' and 'Agent-based...
But it's enough fun to note. In my museum of unintended consequences<http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Courses/CS_461/Museum_of_unintended_consequences>I...
Interesting one, download the "Mosquitotone", ring tone at >> http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3 Sudhira ... Interesting...
Did you know that "Idiot" or "Idiotis" in Greek means a "private individual" who is not actively interested in politics and not involved in the public affairs...
Hello all. Can anyone tell me about the released and the current applications of complex adaptive systems in the field of computer science (CAS as a design...
I propose to look at Los alamos data base (computer section) ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail...
In "review wars", friends and family members are "regularly corralled to write glowing reviews and each negative one is scrutinized for the digital ...
Q: Did Conway tell you how he came up with the specific transition rules in the Game of Life? A: All Conway would say is that he experimented with a wide...
New report about the RAD lab from the ROC people at Berkeley (RAD Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems Laboratory ROC Recovery Oriented Computing) ...
Bugs dominate life - is life based on software ? ;-) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/06.15/03-biodiversity.html Taking a look at how ant (and human)...
Nature.com article from Philip Ball http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/full/060703-17.html Kolmogorov scaling in impassioned van Gogh paintings ...
"At the beginning of a life the newly fertilized egg divides and becomes two cells, then four, eight, and so on. At first, all the cells are alike. Later,...
Stephen Hawking has posted a question on Yahoo Answers, a new feature in which anyone can pose a question for fellow internet users to try to answer. By Friday...
The law of indispensable or requisite variety from William Ross Ashby states simply that only variety in a system itself can successfully counter a variety of...
Wesley Salmon said about explanation: "..explanation involves revealing the mechanism at work in the world. Mere subsumption of phenomena under generalizations...
There is an interesting flash presentation constructed to sell a book at http://www.tenthdimension.com We know the normal three or four dimensions well: 1-dim...
Ooops, there was an error. A point is certainly not a 1-dim space since it has no extension or size. The correct sequence is: 0-dim space: a point 1-dim space:...
George Berkeley (1685-1753) (in "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge") "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." ...
The better Windows looks and works, the worse is the situation under the hood. Will Microsoft come to grips with the ever-growing complexity of the Windows OS...
The Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (http://www.dei.uc.pt) has created a new Ph.D. Program in Information Science...
Intentional programming is meant to capture the intentions and goals of the programmer. In intentional programming, ideally you write something like <<print...
From the Google research blog: "We programmers need all the help we can get, and we should never assume otherwise. Careful design is great. Testing is great....
MMORPGs are getting better and better. Games I would like to play if I had more time (the problem is that they are very addictive) Cabal Online - A new, fast...
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