[Apologies for multi-posting.] ... CALL FOR DEMOS/POSTERS/LATE BREAKING RESULT PAPERS ... The Third International Conference on Active Media Technology May...
People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not... If it turns out there is a simple ultimate law which explains everything,...
Autonomic Computing Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That's life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can...
I followed the links to Maeda at MIT but there wasn't much there. Jochen, by the way, instead of a Yahoo group, why don't you just start a blog. -- -- Russ...
... Yes, you are right. The MIT simplicity website at http://simplicity.media.mit.edu/ contains not very much useful information. The blog from John Maeda at...
The universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide. In other words the radius of the visible universe is about 78 billion light years. But the universe is...
Where will science take us in the future? What remains to be discovered ? The BBC says it will involve cosmology, the human mind and the brain, the nature of...
'Artificial life' comes step closer http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4104483.stm A modern version of "Frankenstein" ? A new biological weapon ? Or a real ...
I've been noticing this too. Here are a couple of other pointers. http://russabbott.blogspot.com/. On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:19:54 -0000, Jochen Fromm ... -- --...
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Philip Ball, "Farrar, Straus & Giroux", 2004 In a synthesis of social science and natural science, Ball examines...
[Apologies if you receive this more than once] 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) ** September 19-22,...
The English sociologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was the founder of social darwinism: the theory that persons, groups, and "races" are...
The complex systems reading group (CSRG) from the University of Michigan is actually reading this week: Types and Causes of Path Dependence Scott E. Page ...
The centre of our galaxy has been known for years to host a black hole, a 'super-massive' yet very quiet one. New observations with Integral, ESA's gamma-ray...
Anthony Karageorgos organizes a one-day meeting about Self-Organisation in Multi Agent Systems, to be held at Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 28/02/2005 and...
Today in the university library I stumbled across an interesting book of Erich Jantsch. It seems to be one of the first books which tries to apply consequently...
Save the Hubble http://www.savethehubble.com/ What future for Hubble telescope? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4195763.stm Why Hubble is being dropped ...
SELF-STAR: International Workshop on Self-* Properties in Complex Information Systems http://www.cs.unibo.it/self-star/ Workshop Program and PDF Files ...