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...
Sir Isaac Newton wrote, "If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants". Clifford Pickover now wrote about the...
The technical wizardry behind Google's successful search engine may come down to a blindingly obvious insight: PCs crash. If you have thousands of PCs, you can...
The complex systems reading group (CSRG) from the University of Michigan is actually reading this week: Shaky Ladders, Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Genetic...
Please let your colleagues know about this event. ... FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Swarm Intelligence http://cs.fit.edu/icai05/ a special session...
Two new papers we submitted for workshops at the AAMAS 2005 are available at my new homepage http://www.uni-kassel.de/~jfromm/ One article about the principles...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the new touchstone film) http://www.hitchhikersmovie.com/ IMBB Entry http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/ First...
Quantum vacuum friction http://aca.mq.edu.au/PaulDavies/publications/papers/Quantum_vacuum.pdf Does quantum mechanics play a non- trivial role inlife? ...
How complex must a system be to exhibit true emergent behavior ? Paul Davies argues that the "Landauer-Wheeler-Lloyd limit" for the onset of true emergent...
Long-term evolution of an ecosystem with spontaneous periodicity of mass extinctions Adam Lipowski, Dorota Lipowska http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.PE/0503020 ...
NORDITA is the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics at http://www.nordita.dk/research/complex/ John Hertz works here, the author of the classic ...
Linguistics Research Moving in New Direction http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223150852.htm Are grammatical forms of languages emergent...
Is this the simplest form of emergence ? To build a single termite mound in an environment consisting of randomly-scattered wood chips, a group of termites...
... articles that you send. ... Thanks ;-) I only collect and quote the work of others - remember if a scientist looks great, then he probably stands on the...
Complexity in Chemistry is one of the subjects George M. Whitesides is interested in. Prof. Whitesides works at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...
Peter Evans from BBC radio 4 on Self-Organisation among Army ants. He talks to Professor Nigel Franks from Bristol University and Dr. Iain Couzin from...