First dialogue in ages! Great! Along these lines, what are anyone's thoughts around other ways to contribute to advancements in the field? In my case, I'm a 46...
It is not my fault that there are only a few discussions. It is a common phenomena in every newsgroup. The majority of users are "lurkers" and listeners. In...
The emergence of collective foraging in ant colonies is possible through pheromones, chemical scents used to communicate with each other or with other insects...
According to a joint UK-Chinese team, the greatest mass extinction recorded in Earth history (the PT extinction at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic...
Very good question, Norman! I hope that interested individuals can contribute. I am similar to yourself: very interested in the work but lacking in formal...
How about: Find "rules of thumb" or heuristics, for example the heuristics in Eberhardt Rechtin's book Systems Architecting (and following books) and see if...
Interesting links. It is known that galaxies form stars, and black holes form galaxies, but how galaxies are formed in detail is not exactly clear. The stuff...
Biology-Inspired techniques for Self-Organization in Dynamic Networks http://www.cs.unibo.it/bison/index.shtml The project has produced a lot of publications ...
The Matrix movies raised the question, "How do we know we're not in the Matrix right now?" The Matrix Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game...
* Go to http://maps.google.com/ * Type "Boston" or "New York" and click "Search" * Then click on the link "Satellite" in the upper right corner Now you can see...
For Some Insects, It's Smart To Run With The Crowd http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325185106.htm To the casual observer, the millions of...
A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity...
Seneca the younger, quoting Aristotle (among others) wrote in his letter to Serenus, "On the Tranquility of the Spirit" (L. Annaei Senecae ad Serenum de...
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An increasing number of people and organizations are employing the massively multiplayer online game "Second Life" in applications that are useful for more...
The Big Bang occurred about 13.7 billion years ago. The first stars lit up when the universe was between 200 and 500 million years old, far earlier than ...
Scientists have seen giant black holes growing rapidly in the cores of massive star-forming galaxies. Yet there is huge difference between the artist's (or the...
Does the "Butterfly Effect" from Chaos Theory has a real effect in history ? Is history based on contingencies and random events ? The "Butterfly Effect" is a...
Distributed systems are an interesting area. Because they become easily very complex, they are a potential application area of agents and multi-agent systems. ...
The Software Agents Group at MIT http://agents.media.mit.edu/ has some interesting projects and publications http://agents.media.mit.edu/publications.html ...
RSS feeds belong to the latest trends in the WWW http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4421707.stm This NewScientist article named "Software agents give out PR...
Is a crossover of Google and Kazaa possible ? Imagine a free, anonymous P2P application like Kazaa which is able to share links and favorite URLs instead of...