If the history of life were to play out again from the beginning, for example on an Earth-like planet millions of lightyears away, what would happen ?...
Preferential attachment of communities: the same principle, but a higher level Peter Pollner, Gergely Palla, Tamas Vicsek http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601579...
F.C. Santos, J.M. Pacheco and Tom Lenaerts. Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2006....
I've always thought the same myself. Which brings me to a diferent interpretation of the Strong Antropic Principal than the authors of the book. The universe...
Second Announcement To see the latest list of confirmed speakers, please visit: http://www.wolframscience.com/conference/2006/presentations.html We would like...
SF novels that may stretch your mind (besides the well-known Douglas Adams and Isaac Asimov books) The Truth Machine, James Halperin (http://tinyurl.com/foemt)...
The Feburary 25, 2006 New Scientist asked in an Interivew named "Who am I? Who are you?" by Liz Else how the personalities of identical twins raised in the...
Turing's paper claimed that suitably programmed digital computers would be generally accepted as thinking by around the year 2000, achieving that status by...
An abstract machine or programming language is called Turing-complete, Turing-equivalent, or computationally universal if it has a computational power...
With the latest update, McAfee's anti-virus software erroneously flagged hundreds of legitimate executables as a malicious virus. Among the legitimate files...
Harry Mobley, chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School, answers the question How do antibiotics kill...
Large conferences like the AAMAS conference about Multi-Agent Systems are proud of the low acceptance rates, typically around 25%. Some official numbers for...
Exploring the World of Agent-Based Simulations: Simple Models, Complex Analyses http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/015.pdf Peeking Into the Black Box: Some...
Quotes from the book "Structured Design" by Yourdon and Constantine: Coupling is defined as -"a measure of the strength of interconnection between one module...
In 1999, MIT professor Gerald Jay Sussman wrote the following: Computer Science is in deep trouble. Structured design is a failure. Systems, as currently...
What do you think of this comparison: A scientist seeks new truths and facts (true/false) An engineer seeks quality and workmanship (good/bad) A designer seeks...
Wikipedia can be frustrating, your contributions may be erased by other anonymous users at any time or they drown in the flood of other edits. Your uploaded ...
Well I don't agree: Of course it is the case that the information put in wikipedia is reviewed and might be edited by other users. But exactly that is the nice...
No, it is not always like this. Not everyone edits Wikipedia for this reason, but it is maybe a reason why Wikipedia works, and why selfish people act in a ...
Regarding frustrations with wikis (snippets of which are attached below from Jochen and Konrad): one example I have seen is a problem with the Big Wiki = ...
Some people have talked about Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control" (1994) is the Bible of the 21st century. It was the first book I read on complexity theory, and...
No, I don't think that this was his main point, but it is perhaps possible to see it that way. Perhaps a good book, article or report is one with many...
JADE <jade.tilab.com> and Cougaar <cougaar.org> are two open source systems for building distributed, multi-agent systems. Does anyone know the current state...
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