Call for papers ESSA 2007 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association September 10-14, 2007 Manufacture des Tabacs Toulouse University of...
Software is hard to make well. It is difficult to plan software development and to deliver it right on time. Why ? One reason maybe that all the good and smart...
This is the rule without traffic lights: instead of traffic which organizes itself magically, we got simply constant accidents, here in a video from an...
Dynamite Surfing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFWAE2ED2w Would you like to work in this office ? http://www.metacafe.com/watch/164952/crazy_boss/ Gung Ho...
Many things that look interesting for some can be very frustrating for others. Really huge software projects (like Windows Vista) and giant-scale internet ...
Most books and novels have biographic elements, and many biographies of leaders and notable people have impressive titles from the classic "My Life" or "A...
After you die, will the world remember anything you did? Maybe your children will, but already the second generation - the children of your children - will...
George W. Bush Speechwriter http://www.actofme.co.uk/bush_speech/bushspeechwriter.html The Master Plan http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/index.html ...
Carl Sagan said once "I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship". This seems to be increasingly true for computer science, which...
I wonder if one of the major government agencies CIA, NSA or FBI plans (or has) a secret deal with Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. It looks like a perfect match,...
If you watch drug addictives, you wonder how they could be so stupid to ruin their health in this way. One reason is perhaps that you have never tried it...
Bruce Nussbaum says that creating a new identity becomes more important than creating a new experience in our business culture: "people interract with their...
Jochen Hotmail seems to be using very strict parameters to filter mails. They say reason to reject are the use of "obscene language, graphics, or spam-like...
E.W. Dijkstra writes in EWD611 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD611.html "My first visit to the USA, in 1963, was the result of an...
The retired computer scientist and science fiction author Verner Vinge has coined the idea of a technological singularity - the idea that technology is...
Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky "Actors that Unify Threads and Events" http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07actorsunify.pdf Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic ...
"What will come next in large-scale computer simulations? [...] the authors usefully raise the alarm about the misuse of poorly understood models and the...
Twenty years after "The Society of Mind", Marvin Minsky recently published his book "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and...
Did you notice that economic growth today is booming in countries where American popular culture does not dominate, namely India and China, although they...
If we are the product of our thoughts, what happens if we don't think ? "I can't think, therefore I'm not" ? Or did Descartes really mean to say: I sink,...
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. If you strap buttered toast...
What are your favorite books about the subject at hand (re: CAS) or any other related subjects for that matter? The book that got me interested, which I'm sure...
Well, the india example shows a very efficient self-organizing way in organizing traffic. I think that the main differences between the india and the...
Indeed! Stephan you have guessed it right. In one of the surveys here in India, more than 70% people felt that others were not following traffic rules! So, now...
Sony unveils a virtual world universe for the new PlayStation 3. "PlayStation Home" will offer photo-realistic avatars, private apartments and mini-games....
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