[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 ...
The complex systems reading group (CSRG) from the University of Michigan is actually reading this week: The evolutionary origin of complex features Lenski,...
Tommaso Toffoli is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University. He is the author, with Norman Margolus, of "Cellular...
Conference =============================================================== Post-Cognitivist Psychology 2005 Call for papers 4th, 5th, and 6th July 2005 ...
"Complexity" is a word much heard in scientific circles these days, but there is little consensus on the significance or even the exact meaning of the term....
The complex systems reading group (CSRG) from the University of Michigan is actually reading this week: Foundations of Swarm Intelligence: From Principles to...
Beyond quantum theory Brian D. Josephson http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105027 Of course quantum physics is not the ultimate theory of nature. But is the nobel...
... "Refutations of the Simulation Argument" (Fabien Besnard): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/fabien.besnard/pdfrefut.pdf Abstract: By examining the logical...
Amazon search adds virtual yellow pages http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6873042/ http://a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp Microsoft launches its own search...
Information Wants to be Liquid (Wikipedia meets hypertext ?) http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66382,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Tool for Thought ...
Great article about simulated digital organisms, diversity, natural selection and a few other topics. "The aliens of East Lansing are not made of carbon and...
Roger Penrose publishes a new book on the grand unifying 'theory of everything': "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" ...
RobotWisdom writes "Internetnews offers a moderately detailed peek at Google's technology. For example, they use stripped-down Red Hat on a massively redundant...
This week in Science, a group of researchers around Deborah Kelley, University of Washington, publish for the first time findings about the gases produced at a...
"The Computational Hypothesis says that physics as we know it is not the fundamental level of reality. Just as chemical processes underlie biological...