Archive 2000

Complexity Digest Archive provide access to previous Complexity Digest issues.

Complexity Digest 2000.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Genome Sequencing Named Top Scientific Advance Of 2000, AAAS/Science Daily
  2. Transmission Of Information And Herd Behavior: An Application To Financial Markets, PRL
  3. The Price Dynamics Of Common Trading Strategies, arXiv
  4. Working Together In "War Rooms" Doubles Teams' Productivity, U. Michigan/Science Daily
  5. Chaos In Ecology, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
  6. Evolution Of Development In Mammalian Teeth, PNAS
  7. In Search Of Ant Ancestors, PNAS
  8. Polygyny, Mate-Guarding, And Posthumous Fertilization As Alternative Male Mating Strategies, PNAS
  9. Altruism And Social Cheating In The Social Amoeba Dictyostelium Discoideum, Nature
  10. A Mechanism For The Evolution Of Altruism Among Non-Kin, SFI Working Papers
  11. Colorado River Clams Provide Benchmark, Science
  12. Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture, National Academy Press
  13. Traffic and Related Self-Driven Many-Particle Systems, arXiv
  14. Neural Coding: Higher-Order Temporal Patterns in the Neurostatistics of Cell Assemblies, Neural Comp.
  15. Coffee Consumption and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Death, Arch Intern Med
  16. Stem Cells Reverse Damage In Adult Brain, UC Irvine/Science Daily
  17. A Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease?, U. Toronto/Science Daily
  18. Visions of Infinity, Science News

Complexity Digest 2000.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. Immune Molecules Prune Neural Links, Science
  2. Synaptic Efficacy and the Transmission of Complex Firing Patterns Between Neurons, J. Neurophysiol.
  3. Maze Navigation by Honeybees: Learning Path Regularity, Learn. Mem.
  4. Gene Mutation Extends Lifespan In "I'm Not Dead Yet" Fruitflies, Natl. Inst. Aging/Science Daily
  5. Europe's Meeting Of Unequals, Financial Times
  6. Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?, HBS Working Knowledge.
  7. Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business, HBS Working Knowledge.
  8. Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, HBS Working Knowledge
  9. The Causes of 20th Century Warming, Science
  10. Low Clouds and Cosmic Rays, Science/ Phys.Rev. Let.
  11. Models Of Division Of Labor In Social Insects, Annu. Rev. Entomol.
  12. Earth's Continental Land Masses Created In Short, Fast Bursts, Science Daily
  13. Diet And The Evolution Of = The Earliest Human Ancestors, PNAS
  14. Testing A Biosynthetic = Theory Of The Genetic Code: Fact Or Artifact?, PNAS
  15. RNA Editing Process Plays Essential Role In Embryo Development, Science Daily
  16. High-Resolution Inkjet Printing of All-Polymer Transistor Circuits, Science
  17. Synchronization of Randomly Multiplexed Chaotic Systems with Application to Communication, Phys.Rev.Lett.
  18. Network Robustness and Fragility: Percolation on Random Graphs, Phys.Rev.Lett.
  19. Theoretical Analysis of a Dripping Faucet, Phys.Rev.Lett.

Complexity Digest 2000.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Soul Of The Ultimate Machine, NYTimes
  2. Screen Savers of the World Unite!, Science
  3. "Science and Politics - Melding Facts and Values", Sir Robert May Lecture
  4. An Enlarged Concept of Sustainability, Murray Gell-Mann Lecture
  5. Mastering The e-Business Environment, Darwin Magazine
  6. Building Effective Customer Relationships, Darwin Magazine
  7. That Crazy Patchwork Called Electricity Deregulation, Business Week
  8. A Primitive Enantiornithine Bird and the Origin of Feathers
  9. Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth, Science/arXiv
  10. The Contribution of Noise to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex, Science
  11. "Smart" Flaps Could Improve Efficiency Of Supersonic Engines, Science Daily
  12. Mitochondrial Genome Variation And The Origin Of Modern Humans, Nature
  13. Direct Observation Of Molecular Cooperativity Near The Glass Transition, Nature
  14. Complex Systems 2000 - Applied Complexity, Conference Report
  15. Why Do Humpback Whales Sing?, Author's Response

Complexity Digest 2000.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. What Is A Moment? "Cortical" Sensory Integration Over A Brief Interval, PNAS
  2. AI and Simulation--Modeling the Emergence of Cooperation & Trust, Simulation
  3. Cultural Revolution In Whale Songs, Nature
  4. Beyond Game Theory, WorldLink
  5. Chaos Theory Tells Pilots When To Take A Break, New Scientist
  6. Gamma Oscillations and Object Processing in the Infant Brain, Science
  7. Novel Vaccine Protects Monkeys From Ebola Infection, NIAID/Science Daily
  8. Regulation Of Immune System Memory, U.Iowa/Science Daily
  9. Close Encounters: Good, Bad, and Ugly, Science
  10. Complexity and Fragility in Ecological Networks, SFI Working Papers
  11. Ancient South African Soils Point To Early Terrestrial Life, Science Daily
  12. Climate Science "In Play", UNFCCC
  13. An Electoral Butterfly Effect, Nature
  14. Problems of Individual Emergence, Conference Announcement
  15. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Changes In Deep-Water Formation During The Younger Dryas, Nature
    2. 2 Triggering Of Earthquake Aftershocks By Dynamic Stresses, Nature
    3. 3 Visualization of Cooperation in the Construction of a Monolithic Building, Simulation
    4. 4 This Campus Is Being Simulated, NYTimes
    5. 5 Stem Cells Hear Call of Injured Tissue, Science
    6. 6 Book Review, Letter to the Editor

Complexity Digest 2000.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Climate Change Talks Suspended, Negotiations To Resume During 2001, UNFCCC Press Release
  2. World's First Commercial Wave Plant Opens In Britain, CNN Online/Wavegen
  3. Water Vapor Feedback And Global Warming, Annu. Rev. Energy Environ
  4. Geoengineering The Climate: History And Prospect, Annu. Rev. Energy Environ
  5. Energy And Material Flow Through The Urban Ecosystem, Annu. Rev. Energy Environ
  6. God, Stephen Wolfram, And Everything Else, Forbes ASAP
  7. Moving Averages And Markets Inefficiency, arXiv
  8. Generation Of Anti-Predictable Time Series, A Neural Network, arXiv
  9. Microstructure Effects on Daily Return Volatility in Financial Markets, arXiv
  10. Form And Function Of Fetal And Neonatal Pulmonary Arterial Bifurcations, AJP
  11. Detection And Sources Of Nonlinearity In The Variability Of Cardiac R-R Intervals And Blood Pressure In Rats, AJP
  12. Chaotic Flow: The Physics Of Species Coexistence, PNAS
  13. Telomeres And Their Control, Annu. Rev. Genet.
  14. RAND Workshop on Complexity and Public Policy, Conference Video/Audio
  15. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Noise Effects On The Complex Patterns Of Abnormal Heartbeats, arXiv
    2. 2 Symbolic Dynamics Of Event-Related Brain Potentials, Phys Rev E
    3. 3 Why Hawks Have A Logarithmic Spiral, New Scientist
    4. 4 Monkey Brain Controls Robot Arm, Discovery Online
    5. 5 Suppressing Complexity Via The Slaving Principle, Phys Rev E
    6. 6 Algorithmic Complexity In The Minority Game, Phys Rev E
    7. 7 Coaxing Molecular Devices to Build Themselves, Science

Complexity Digest 2000.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. Applied Complexity - From Neural Nets To Agricultural Soils, And All That Lies In-Between, Conference Video
  2. Let's Pretend, Darwin Magazine
  3. Predicting Predator-Prey Populations, North Carolina State U./Science Daily
  4. Coherence And Conservation, Science
  5. Brain Wiring Largely Inborn?, Duke University/Science Daily
  6. Keeping Aging Minds Sharp, BioMedNet
  7. From Cell Signalling To Cell Death, J. Physiol.
  8. What Have We Learned About Cardiac Arrhythmias?, Circulation
  9. The Cognitive Imperative: Thinking About How We Think, Acad Emerg Med
  10. Thinking Like A Chimp, BioMedNet
  11. When It Comes To Song, Birds Spot The Similarity And Difference, Ohio State University/Science Daily
  12. Potential Mechanism For Building Long-Term Memory, Princeton University/Science Daily
  13. Latticework-The New Investing, Book Review
  14. On The 49-49-2 Split In The US Presidential Election, Letter to the Editor
  15. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 FDA Panel Urges Approval Of New Eczema Drug, CNN
    2. 2 Bose-Einstein Condensation In Complex Networks, arXiv
    3. 3 Soon You'll Be Making And Selling Your Own Electricity, New Scientist
    4. 4 Hilbert Curves in New York Digital Salon Exhibi, t, Wolfram Research News

Complexity Digest 2000.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Perfectly Balanced Country, Financial Times, Science Daily
  2. The Transition From Quantity To Quality: A Neglected Causal Mechanism In Accounting For Social Evolution, PNAS
  3. The Economics Of Immunity, Science
  4. Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex Spp.): Their Community And Ecosystem Influences, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.
  5. Ecological Resilience - In Theory And Application, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.
  6. Diversification Of Rainforest Faunas: An Integrated Molecular Approach, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.
  7. Most European Men 'Descended From 10 Ancestors', Financial Times, Science
  8. The Evolution Of Predator-Prey Interactions: Theory And Evidence, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.
  9. Who Is The Best Connected Scientist?, arXiv
  10. Flash-Lag Interface Issues Still Disputed: Differential Latency or Postdiction, Science
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Do Androids Dream? M.I.T. Is Working On It, NYtimes
    2. 2 Emerging Viral Diseases, PNAS
    3. 3 Aging Mechanisms, PNAS
    4. 4 Acceleration Of Global Warming Due To Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks In A Coupled Climate Model, Nature

Complexity Digest 2000.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. UCSD Scientists Awarded $3-Million 'Biocomplexity' Grant, UCSD News Release
  2. U.S. Proposes Changes In Electricity Marketing In California, NYTimes
  3. Measures Of Temporal Pattern Complexity, J. New Music Research
  4. Taking A Look Into The Black Box Of Complex Physiological Systems, Ieee Trans. Biomed. Eng
  5. How To Measure Oxidative DNA Damage In Nutritional Studies, Am.J. Clin. Nutrition
  6. Complexity Of Activities And Personality, Social Psychology Quarterly
  7. Insect Immune Systems Targets Heat Shock Protein, Wistar Institute/Science Daily
  8. Worldwide Transfer Of Microorganism Facilitated By Ballast Water, National Sea Grant College/Science Daily
  9. Abnormal Pain Memory Helps To Explain Fibromyalgia, Am. Coll. Rheumatology/Science Daily
  10. Study Shows Way To Grow New Blood Vessels In The Heart, Ohio State Univ/Science Daily
  11. Transplanted Human Stem Cells Develop Into Broad Range Of Tissues, Children's Hosp.Phil./Science Daily
  12. Fundamental Decision-Making Unit Of Cells, UCSF/Science Daily
  13. From Minority Games To Real Markets, arXiv
  14. Further Steps Through The Marriage Problem, Author Response
  15. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Presidential Politics: Constrained By Complexity?, Science
    2. Of Rice And Men, Science
    3. 3 New Site Suggests Anasazi Exodus, Science
    4. 4 Telomere States And Cell Fates, Nature
    5. 5 Self-Organizing Biochemical Cycles, PNAS
    6. 6 Neurobiologyhydrodynamic Stimuli And The Fish Lateral Line, Nature
    7. 7 Bertelsmann, Napster Make Peace, Agree On Music-Sharing Service, WSJ
    8. 8 As Publishers Perish, Libraries Feel The Pain, NYTimes

Complexity Digest 2000.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. An Artificial Immune System May Help Identify Internet Fraud, New Scientist
  2. What's Love Got To Do With It?, New Scientist
  3. Regenerating The Damaged Central Nervous System, Nature
  4. Integrating Complexity Theory, Knowledge Management And Organizational Learning, J. Knowledge Management
  5. Birds Sing In Their Sleep, Study Finds, CNN
  6. Dynamics Of Temporal Learning Rules, Physical Review E
  7. Auditory Neuroscience: Development, Transduction, And Integration, PNAS
  8. "What" And "Where" In Auditory Cortex, PNAS
  9. Measuring The Complexity Of Neurophysiological Signals, Human Brain Mapping
  10. Small World Patterns In Food Webs, SFI Working Papers
  11. Symmetry Breaking And Coarsening In Spatially Distributed Evolutionary Processes, Physical Review E
  12. Does A Climate Clock Get A Noisy Boost?, Science
  13. Beautiful, Complex, And Diverse Specialists, Science
  14. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Extinction Turns Out To Be A Slow, Slow Process, NYtimes
    2. 2 Influence Of Mean Climate Change On Climate Variability, Nature
    3. 3 Scientists Now Acknowledge Role of Humans in Climate Change, NYTimes
    4. 4 Unlocking Secrets Of Magnetic Fields' Power, NYtimes
    5. 5 Suppressing Complexity Via The Slaving Principle, Phys Rev E
    6. 6 The Mysterious World Of Pain, Nature
    7. 7 Fractality In The Human Posture Control Systems, Physical Review E

Complexity Digest 2000.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. Culture In Whales And Dolphins, Behavioral And Brain Sciences
  2. Study Finds Widespread Lying, Cheating Among U.S. Teens, CNN
  3. Researchers Sing A New Tune For The Mozart Effect, Harvard University Gazette
  4. Genetic Data Analysis And Unsupervised Learning, Weizmann Institute/Science Daily
  5. Effects Of Task Complexity And Experience On Learning And Forgetting, Human Factors
  6. EEG Approximate Entropy Correctly Classifies The Occurrence Of Burst Suppression Pattern, Anesthesiology
  7. New Wave Of Exorcisms Seen, U. Washington/Science Daily
  8. The Theory And Practice Of Complexity Science, Systemexico
  9. Interplanetary Network Detects Gigantic Gamma-Ray Burst, UC Berkeley/Science Daily
  10. Emulation As A Digital Preservation Strategy, D-Lib Magazine
  11. Prosthetic Limb To Be Controlled By Microchip, Sandia Natl. Labs./Science Daily
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Modeling At The Political Science Dept. Of The U. Of Mich, Announcement
    2. 2 Social Games In A Social Network, arXiv
    3. 3 Experimental Verification Of Decoherence-Free Subspaces, Science
    4. 4 Learning-Induced LTP In Neocortex, Science
    5. 5 Building A Disease-Fighting Mosquito, Science
    6. 6 Glacial/Interglacial Variations In Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Nature
    7. 7 Molecular Emission From Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Nature
    8. 8 Cooler Winters As A Possible Cause Of Mass Extinctions At The Eocene/Oligocene Boundary, Nature
    9. 9 Isolation Of A 250 Million-Year-Old Halotolerant Bacterium From A Primary Salt Crystal, Nature
    10. 10 Involuntary Orienting To Sound Improves Visual Perception, Nature
    11. 11 Denoising Human Speech Signals Using Chaoslike Features, Phys Rev Lett.
    12. 12 'Strange Attractors': Controlled Chaos Theory, NYtimes

Complexity Digest 2000.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. Geo-Engineering: Sequestering CO2 By Iron Fertilization Of Oceans, Nature/G3-Online
  2. The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test Of Our Knowledge Of Earth As A System, Science
  3. Assessing Climate Impacts, PNAS/Science
  4. River Dolphins Are Different Animals, PNAS
  5. Nyt Dyr Fundet I Kilde På Grønland (New Animal Found In Greenland), DPC/Reuters/Discovery.com
  6. Marijuana Use Rises And Falls With Price And Perceived Harm, UI Chicago/ Science Daily
  7. Catalytic Tempering: A Method For Sampling Rough Energy Landscapes by Monte Carlo, PNAS
  8. Dynamic Organization Of Network Structures In Brain And Companies, Z. Betriebswirtschaft
  9. Computational Neuroscience: Building Blocks Of Movement, Nature
  10. Intermittency In The Control Of Continuous Force Production, J. Neurophysiol
  11. Learning To Forget: Continual Prediction With LSTM, Neural Comp
  12. Video Game Images Persist Despite Amnesia, Science
  13. Learning Chaotic Attractors By Neural Networks, Neural Comp.
  14. Econophysics And Financial Complexity, Conference Report
  15. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Raving About RAVE (On Complexity), Video Conference Report
    2. 2 Spatial Distribution Of Contextual Interactions In Primary Visual Cortex And In Visual Perception, J. Neurophysiol
    3. 3 Kinematic And Dynamic Control Of Multijoint Movement, J. Neurophysiol.
    4. 4 Neural Systems As Nonlinear Filters, Neural Comp
    5. 5 Clustering Irregular Shapes Using High-Order Neurons, Neural Comp.
    6. 6 Induction Of Photosensitivity In Neonatal Rat Pineal Gland, PNAS
    7. 7 Self-Assembled Ceramics Produced ,Complex-Fluid Templation, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem
    8. 8 A Bacterial Toxin That Controls Cell Cycle Progression As A Deoxyribonuclease I-Like Protein, Science
    9. 9 Second Thoughts On Skill Of El Nino Predictions, Science
    10. 10 Birth Control Policies In Wasp Societies, Nature

Complexity Digest 2000.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. End Of Milosevic's Chapter Of The Balkan Story?, Editorial
  2. Clouds And The Uncertainty To Forecast Anthropogenic Climate Change, Nature/NASA/Science Daily
  3. Markets On The Internet, Editorial
  4. Early Childhood Development, Natl. Acad. News Release
  5. Hominoid Systematics: The Soft Evidence, PNAS/Annu. Rev. Anthropol.
  6. Conservation And Subsistence In Small-Scale Societies, Annu. Rev. Anthropol.
  7. Classes Of Small-World Networks, PNAS
  8. The Large-Scale Organization Of Metabolic Networks, U.Notre Dame/Nature
  9. Immune Cell Networks, Science
  10. Complex Systems and Policy Analysis, Conference Report
  11. Simulating Dynamical Features Of, Escape Panic, Author's Response
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Regulation Of C. Elegans Life-Span By Insulin-Like Signaling In The Nervous System, Science
    2. 2 Cancer: Proximity Matters, Science
    3. 3 Ecology An Epidemic Of Equations, La Recherche
    4. 4 Cognitive Complexity And Cognitive-Affective Integration, Psychol Aging
    5. 5 Memorizing While Walking, Psychol Aging
    6. 6 Minimization Of Boolean Complexity In Human Concept Learning, Nature
    7. 7 The Sandman's Secrets, Nature
    8. 8 Germline Dna: Wheat Mutation Rate After Chernobyl, Nature
    9. 9 Econophysics And Financial Complexity, Conference Program

Complexity Digest 2000.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. Simulating Dynamical Features Of Escape Panic, Nature
  2. Labeling Genetically Altered Food Is A Thorny Issue, NYTimes
  3. Maze-Solving By An Amoeboid Organism, Nature
  4. Organizational Complexity in National Laboratories, Nature
  5. "Zip Codes" That Direct Cells In The Bloodstream, Science Daily
  6. First Evidence That Maximum Age At Death In Humans Is Rising, Science Daily
  7. Green Power Is Gaining Ground, Businessweek Online
  8. Prions May Play Crucial Role In Evolution, Science Daily
  9. Neuronal Stem Cells Are Transplanted Into Diseased Eye, Schepens Eye Res. Inst./Science Daily
  10. Nonlinear Dynamics Of Heart Rate Variability, AJP-Heart
  11. System Tracks Gun Deaths, Harvard University Gazette
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Disruption, Subversion, Disorder, Yes!, Esquire
    2. 2 What Do You Get When You Cross An Ant With A Frog?, Financial Times
    3. 3 Creative Web Taxes In Europe, NYTimes
    4. 4 Econophysics And Financial Complexity, Conference Announcement
    5. Special Announcement: Artists Explore Complex Systems, Federal Reserve Board

Complexity Digest 2000.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Toward A Unified Theory Of Narcosis, Consciousness And Cognition
  2. The Wireless Web, Scientific American
  3. Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, And Impacts, Science
  4. Reduced Calcification Of Marine Plankton In Response To Increased Atmospheric CO2, Nature
  5. Delivering Fungicides on Bee Feet, Sci.Am./Bio Control
  6. Amygdala Modulates Memory Consolidation, J. Neurosci.
  7. Pyramidal Cells Of The Frontal Lobe are More Spinous, J. Neurosci.
  8. Physiology Of Apoptosis, AJP - Renal Online
  9. Virtual Electrode Polarization In The Far Field: Implications For External Defibrillation, AJP - Heart Online
  10. Self-Organization And Cooling Of Nanocrystalline Silicon, Nature/ U.Penn/Science Daily
  11. New Oceanic Bacterial Photopigment Discovered, Science Daily
  12. Complex Systems And Policy Analysis, Rand Workshop
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. Oil's Precarious Future, The Vancouver Sun
    2. Graphical Evolution Of The Arnold Web: From Order To Chaos, Science
    3. Agmatine Reverses Pain Induced By Inflammation, Neuropathy, And Spinal Cord Injury, PNAS

Complexity Digest 2000.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. Oil Price Dynamics, Economist/NYTimes/CNN
  2. System Lets Traffic Lights Wave Buses Through, NY Times
  3. Human Population And The Future Of Biodiversity, UCS
  4. Year 2000 Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency Intl./CNN
  5. Fairness Versus Reason In The Ultimatum Game, Science
  6. Individual Interactions, Group Conflicts, and the Evolution of Preferences, SFI Working Papers
  7. Ants Algorithms, Bios Group
  8. A Model For Individual And Collective Cell Movement In Dictyosteliumdiscoideum, Pnas
  9. The Fossil Record of Insect Diversity and Disparity, SFI Working Papers
  10. Cortical Processing Of Change Detection, Pnas
  11. The Importance Of Being Discrete, Pnas
  12. Adaptive Learning By Extremal Dynamics And Negative Feedback, arXiv
  13. Diffusion Of Nitric Oxide Can Facilitate Cerebellar Learning, Pnas
  14. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Economists Give Far Higher Cost Of Gun Violence, NY Times
    2. 2 Global Ecosystem Assessment, Science

Complexity Digest 2000.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. When Did Photosynthesis Emerge on Earth?, Science
  2. What Factors Drive Climate Change?, PNAS/Nature/Science
  3. Climate Change And Health, Science
  4. Global Environmental Collaborations, Science/WorldLink
  5. Origin Of Complexity In Multicellular Organisms, arXiv
  6. How Well Can An Amoeba Climb?, PNAS
  7. Darwin Goes Digital, WorldLink
  8. Possible Cause For Debilitating Sleep Disorder Narcolepsy, Science Daily
  9. Genetically Modified Crops and Farmland Biodiversity, Science
  10. Hypnosis Found To Alter The Brain, Harvard U. Gazette
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Good Memories Of Bad Events In Infancy, Nature
    2. 2 Bouncing C60 Buckyball Transistors, Nature
    3. 5 Applications of Swarm Models, Swarm.org
    4. 6 Us Grant Glues 'Virtual Cell' Together, Nature
    5. 3 Invariants, Scaling Laws, and Ecological Complexity, Science
    6. 4 Switching From Simple To Complex Oscillations In Calcium Signaling, Biophys. J

Complexity Digest 2000.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. Modeling Brain Waves, BBS/arXiv
  2. Monsters At The Heart Of Galaxy Formation, Science
  3. Ultimate Physical Limits To Computation, Nature
  4. Evolution And Cooperation of Robots, Nature
  5. Harmony In The Small-World, arXiv
  6. Computation In Cellular Automata, arXiv
  7. New Drug Extends Lifespan Of Worms, Science Daily
  8. New Genetic Pathway In Sudden Cardiac Death, Science Daily/UCSD
  9. Cutting The Noise Out Of Heartbeats, Science Daily
  10. President Decides to Put Off Work on Missile Shield, NYTimes/White House
  11. Postmodern Turbulence and Ego-Value Spectrum, Editor's Note
  12. Evolution of Airplane Industry, ComDig Factoid
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 The Lorenz Attractor Exists, Nature
    2. 2 Building A Dictionary For Genomes, PNAS
    3. 3 Immunization Promotes Recovery From Spinal Cord Contusion, J. Neurosci
    4. 4 Cheat Grass And Forest Fires, The Wall Street J.

Complexity Digest 2000.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. Turbulence Onset Despite Stable Laminarity Of Hagen-Poiseuille Pipe Flow, Rev. Mod. Phys.
  2. One Choice Too Many In Electricity's New Free Market, NYTimes
  3. The Simple Economics of Open Source, HBS Working Knowledge
  4. Intel: The Future Is Peer, ZDNet News
  5. How Web Finance Might Untangle the Napster Mess, Businessweek
  6. Squeezing Out Pyruvate, Science
  7. Europa's Ocean Still Afloat, Science
  8. Whistling in the Sea, Science
  9. Brief Exposure To Nicotine Makes Lasting Mark On The Brain, University of Chicago Hospitals & Health System/Science Daily
  10. Selfish Cells Threaten Multicellular Life, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
  11. Mastering Gravity: Making Liquids Dance, CWRU/Science Daily
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Collapse And Recovery Of Marine Fishes, Nature
    2. 2 Mutant Of Motor Protein Kinesin Moves In Both Directions, Nature
    3. 3 A Deeply Knotted Protein Structure And How It Might Fold, Nature
    4. 4 Navigation In A Small World, Nature
    5. 5 Mites And Birds: Diversity, Parasitism And Coevolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
    6. 6 Pretty Good Bug Found in PGP, Wired News

Complexity Digest 2000.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. Niche Construction, Biological Evolution and Cultural Change, BBS
  2. Heritability At The Ecosystem Level, PNAS
  3. Genetic Diversity And Disease Control In Rice, Nature
  4. Learning Motor Synergies Makes Use Of Information On Muscular Load, Learn. Mem.
  5. Information Shortcuts In Neurons, PNAS
  6. Synthesis Of Organs: In Vitro Or In Vivo?, PNAS
  7. Minimizing Binding Errors Using Learned Conjunctive Features, Neural Comp
  8. How To Cut Off Blood Supply To Cancer Tissue, Science
  9. UCSF Researchers Identify Regulator Of Critical Brain Messenger, Hinting At Therapy, UCSF Press Release/Science Daily
  10. Cell "Crisis" As Key Event In Development Of Cancer In Older Adults, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Daily Science/Nature
  11. Self-Adjusting Chips To Extend Limits Of Computing Power, U. Rochester/ Daily Science
  12. Hummingbird Studies Raise Questions About Birdsong Evolution, Duke University Medical Center/Science Daily
  13. Links & Snippets, North Pole Ice 'Turned To Water', BBC News, NYTimes
    1. Proteins In The Amygdala Reconsolidate Memory After Retrieval, Nature
    2. Attention Is Fast But Volition Is, Slow, Nature
    3. Scientists Watch Cities Make Their Own Weather, NYTimes
    4. Self-Assembled 3D Circuits, Science
    5. Modulation of Human Visual Cortex by Crossmodal Spatial Attention, Science
    6. A Highly Sensitive Neuronal Trigger, Science
    7. The Position of Moving Objects, Science
    8. Soros Concedes His Forecast on Global Economy Was Off, NYTimes
    9. SFI Workshop: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Interactive Networks, Comment
    10. Call for Nonlinear Geophysics Abstracts, Announcement
    11. NECSI.edu -> ISCE.edu, Announcement

Complexity Digest 2000.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. Structure and Dynamics of Complex Interactive Networks, SFI Workshop Video Notes
  2. Transition From Coherence To Bistability In A Model Of Financial Markets
  3. Prior Information in Motor and Premotor Cortex: Activity During the Delay Period and Effect on Pre-Movement, J. Neurophysiol.
  4. Learning Motor Synergies Makes Use of Information on Muscular Load, Learn. Mem.

Complexity Digest 2000.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. California Electrical System Is On The Verge Of Failure, NYTimes
  2. Music Revolution On The Internet, Wired News
  3. Ecstasy Use Depletes Brain's Serotonin Levels, Am.Acad. Neurol./Science Daily
  4. Rosetta Stone For Tumor Suppressor Protein In Worms, Jefferson Med. Col./Science Daily
  5. Artificial Ecosystem Selection, PNAS
  6. Species Diversity Driven By Milankovitch Climate Oscillations, PNAS
  7. Giant Honeybees Return To Their Nest Sites, Nature
  8. Nitric Oxide And Salicylic Acid Signaling In Plant Defense, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  9. A Dynamic Model Of Social Network Formation, PNAS
  10. U.S. Proposes New Strategy to Fight Global Warming, NYTimes
  11. Movement In Super-Cooled Water, Boston Univ/Science Daily
  12. Does The Corpus Callosum Enable The Human Condition?, Response
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. The Web And The Internet, AIMR Webcast
    2. Organic Lasers Promise New Lease On Light, Science
    3. In Europe, Hooligans Are Prime Subjects For Research, Science
    4. Searching For The Mark Of Cain, Science
    5. The Snarls And Sneers That Keep Violence At Bay, Science
    6. The Violence Of The Lambs, Science
    7. Has America's Tide Of Violence Receded For Good?, Science
    8. Early Insult Rewires Pain Circuits, Science
    9. Parasites Make Scaredy-Rats Foolhardy, Science
    10. Still More Greenhouse Forcing, Science

Complexity Digest 2000.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. Distribution Of Morphogens Determines Which Digits Develop Where, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online/Science
  2. Oscillatory Cluster Patterns In A Homogeneous Chemical System With Global Feedback, Nature
  3. The Internet's Achilles' Heel, U. of Notre Dame/Nature
  4. Robustness, Complexity, And Web/Internet Traffic, SFI Workshop Abstract
  5. Complex Interactive Networks/Systems Initiative, SFI Workshop Abstract
  6. Computers Learn By Themselves To Play Checkers, Natural Selection, Inc.
  7. Selection of Currently Relevant Memories by the Human Posterior Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex, The Journal of Neuroscience
  8. Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Conference Report (Video)
  9. G8 Communique, Okinawa, Government of Japan
  10. Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society, Government of Japan
  11. How To Prevent 4.3 Million Unintended Pregnancies Each Year, The Alan Guttmacher Institute
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. Visualization Tool For Business Networks, Link
    2. The Internet Architecture: Principles, Reality, and Trends, SFI Workshop Abstract
    3. Characterizing The Nonlinear Growth Of Large-Scale Structure In The Universe, Nature
    4. Complexity Digest's Information Dimension?, Letter to the Editor

Complexity Digest 2000.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Education More Than Digital Divide, G8 Online
  2. Structure and Dynamics of Complex Interactive Networks, SFI Workshop Website
  3. Synaptic Networks Of Neurons And Glia, PNAS
  4. A Neural Basis for General Intelligence, Science
  5. Consciousness, Annu. Rev. Neurosci.
  6. Patterns Underlying Gene Expression, PNAS
  7. Behavioral Responses to Drugs of Abuse After a Brief Experience, Science
  8. Is Music Part Of Our Genetic Past?, MSNBC News
  9. Scientists Invent Meat-Eating Robot, CBC News
  10. Inspiration For Optimization From Social Insect Behaviour, Nature
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. Self-Organization: The Next Big Thing?, Response
    2. Melting Polar Icecaps And Some Consequences, Response
    3. Polynesian Origins: Insights From The Y Chromosome, PNAS
    4. Interpreting The Universal Phylogenetic Tree, PNAS
    5. Mid Latitude Ozone Hole, sci.environment
    6. Neural Representation And The Cortical Code, Annu. Rev. Neurosci.
    7. Link Between Global Lightning Activity And Upper Tropospheric Water Vapour, Nature

Complexity Digest 2000.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. Self-Organization: The Next Big Thing?, Wall Street J.
  2. Melting Polar Icecaps And Some Consequences, NYTimes/ sci.environment
  3. Causes of Climate Change Over the Past 1000 Years, Science
  4. Global Water Resources after Climate Change and Population Growth, Science
  5. Afraid Of The Future?, Wired
  6. The Costs of Disease, Clin. Chem
  7. Food Chain Length Depends On Size Of Pond, Cornell University/Science Daily Magazine
  8. A Mechanism For Synaptic Coincidence Detection, PNAS
  9. Brain Synchronization During Conscious Perception, J. Neurosci.
  10. Calcium Ion in Skeletal Muscle, Physiol. Rev.
  11. Taming Superacids: Stabilization of the Fullerene Cations HC60+ and C60·+, Science
  12. Is Buying Enemy Missiles Cheaper Than Shooting Them Down?, CNN
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. The Quickening of Science Communication, Science
    2. Publish and Perish in the Internet World, Science
    3. How the Brain Made Language, Science
    4. Dirty Secrets of Bloodthirsty Ticks, NY Times
    5. Schrödinger's Cat Is Now Fat, NY Times/Nature

Complexity Digest 2000.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. Rocket Science and Complex Systems, Defense Link US DoD
  2. Digitising Globalisation, World Link
  3. The Business Of Environment, World Link
  4. Taming Combinatorial Explosion, PNAS
  5. Adaptation To The Edge Of Chaos, arxiv and Phys. Rev. Lett.
  6. Controlling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Excitable Systems, SFI Working-Papers
  7. Analogy-Making as a Complex Adaptive System, SFI Working Papers
  8. WebWorld A Conceptual and Software Framework for Internet Alife, Preprint
  9. How We Perceive Vibrations, J. Neurosci.
  10. The Emergence Of Visual Objects In Space-Time, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  11. Human Immunity To A Virus Using A Plant-Based, Edible Vaccine, Cornell Univ, Cornell Univ /Science Daily
  12. Microscopic Life At The South Pole?, NSF/Science Daily
    1. Structural Genomics, NY Times
    2. Editor's Note

Complexity Digest 2000.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Completion Of The First Survey Human Genome, Human Genome Project
  2. Truth And Distortion On The Internet, Science
  3. Response to Global Brain Article, GB Discussion List Archive
  4. Language Trees Support The Express-Train Sequence Of Austronesian Expansion, Nature
  5. Deciphering Chemical 'Cross Talk' That Determines Immune Cell Survival, UCSF/Science Daily
  6. Mosaic Evolution Of Brain Structure In Mammals, Nature
  7. When Did Whales And Dolphins Get Their Large Brains?, J. Mammalian Evolution
  8. Does The Corpus Callosum Enable The Human Condition?, Brain
  9. Prion Proteins and Hereditary Information, HMS Beagle
  10. Mars May Hold Twice As Much Water As Previously Thought, AGU/Science Daily
  11. Biology-Based Market Modeling at Nasdaq, Perspectives on Business Innovation
  12. A Case for Eco-Industrial Development, Perspectives on Business Innovation
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. Editorial Note

Complexity Digest 2000.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Terrestrial Web, Science
  2. Flaws in Ballistic Missile Defense Plan, Science
  3. Global Brain, New Scientist
  4. Neural Circuits In Silicon, CNN/Nature
  5. Gamma And Beta Brain Wave Response to Novel Sounds, PNAS
  6. Multiple Oscillators Provide Metastability in Rhythm Generation, J. Neurosci
  7. Do-It-Yourself Defibrillators Can Save Lives, Kardiologie-Aktuell
  8. Stochastic Focusing Of Intracellular Regulation, PNAS
  9. Enhanced Learning With Brain Growth Protein, PNAS
  10. Bacteria Are Different: Evolution In Prokaryotes, PNAS
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Al Gore's Journey, New York Times
    2. 2 Unity Of Knowledge, NYAS Conference
    3. 3 ComDig Ballot Results, Editor's Note

Complexity Digest 2000.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Economic Incentives for Rain Forest Conservation, Science
  2. Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On U.S., U.S. National Assessment
  3. Astronaut Photographs Show Changes On Earth, NASA/Johnson Space Center/SDM
  4. A Complex Systems Approach to Knowledge Management, L.M. Rocha
  5. Complex Systems and Education Meeting, J. Kaput
  6. Do Cockroaches 'Know' About Fluid Dynamics?, Science
  7. New Antibiotics Effective Against Many Bacteria, American Chemical Society/SDM
  8. Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, Circulation
  9. Neandertal Diet: Mostly Meat, Washington University In St. Louis/SDM
  10. Novelty Detection on a Mobile Robot Using Habituation, arXiv
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT), Synopsis
    2. 2 Electronic-Signature Bill Is Passed by U.S. House, New York Times
    3. 3 A Generalized Fast Algorithm for BDS-Type Statistics, SNDE
    4. 4 Time-Series Near-Neighbor Regression, SNDE
    5. 5 Tectonics And Water On Europa, Nature
    6. 6 Genetic Analysis Yields Intimations of a Primordial Commune, New York Times

Complexity Digest 2000.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Evolution and Time Horizons in an Agent Based Stock Market, Working Paper
  2. Scalar Turbulence, Nature
  3. How Soft Is a Protein?, Science
  4. Quantum Chaos for the Radially Vibrating Spherical Billiard, Chaos
  5. Neural Synchrony And Perception of Surfaces, Nature
  6. Black Holes Shed Light On Galaxy Formation, Science Daily News
  7. New Theory On The Mystery Of The Origin Of Life, Weizmann Institute/Science Daily
  8. Searching For Genes In Complex Diseases, Clin Invest
  9. Heart Rate Analysis With Approximate Entropy And Sample Entropy, AJP Heart Online
  10. Entropies Of Binary Sequences In Heart Rhythms, AJP Heart Online
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 Editor's Notes, #11.1
    2. 2 Three Billion Year Old Microbe Fossils, Nature
    3. 3 A Chemical Bio-Compass
    4. 4 Music On The Brain, New York Academy of Sciences/Time

Complexity Digest 2000.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Novel Chaotic Secure Communication System, Int. J. Bifurcation & Chaos
  2. Communication Among Free Ranging Whales and Dolphins, Synopsis
  3. Macromolecular Ballet, Science
  4. Certain Genetic Mutations Affect Human Response To Environmental Contaminant, Science Daily News
  5. Market Ecology etc. in Microscopic Simulation of the LLS Stock Market Model, ArXiv
  6. Arctic Ozone Depletion And Polar Stratospheric Clouds, Science Daily News
  7. Why 2001 will be the Year of Streaming Media, ZDNet
  8. Internet and Society Conference 2000, Harvard University
  9. Four Choice Metaphors for Economic Systems Analysis, ICCS3 Conference
  10. The Scientist in the Crib, Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn, BioMedNet
  11. NIST Conference on Measuring Intelligence, Announcement
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 How Ants Invade, Science
    2. 2 Brain Cells Reveal Surprising Versatility, Science
    3. 3 The Patterns Hidden in Market Swings, New York Times

Complexity Digest 2000.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. Special Video Issue: Conference On Complex Systems, Editor's Notes
  2. Economics, Kenneth Arrow
  3. Emergence, Stuart Kauffman
  4. Correlations And Dynamics, Eugene Stanley
  5. Fundamentals Of Mathematics, Greg J. Chaitin
  6. Self-Organization, Per Bak
  7. Small World Networks, Duncan Watts
  8. Emergent Dynamics Of The Internet, Dave Clark
  9. The Ecology And Evolution Of Commmunties, Simon Levin
  10. Use of an Object-Based Model to Represent Complex Features of Ecosystems, Lael Parrott & Robert Kok
  11. Multiscale Modeling of Complex Ecological Economic Systems, Thomas Maxwell, Robert Costanza, Alexey Voinov, Roel Boumans, & Ferdinando Villa
  12. Artificial Life, Chris Adami
  13. Complex Biological Systems, Leroy Hood
  14. The Bacterial Nanobrain, Jeff Stock
  15. Theory Of The Immune System, Alan Perelson
  16. Complexity In The Climate System, J. Palmer
  17. Dynamics In Multiscale Biology, Jim Collins
  18. Fractal Mechanisms And Complex Dynamics In Health, Aging And Disease, Ary Goldberger
  19. Biodiversity And The Construction Of Ecosystems, Stuart Pimm
  20. Complex Chemical Systems, George Whitesides
  21. Complex Behavior Of Simple Systems, J. C. Sprott
  22. From Nonlinear Chemistry To Biology, Irv Epstein
  23. Agents In Societies, Kathleen Carley
  24. The Organic Dynamic Model of Second Language Writing (L2W), Maria A Serrano-Lopez
  25. Complexity And Design Engineering, Nam Suh
  26. Product Development Complexity, Steven Eppinger
  27. Scale Decomposition Of Production, Michael Caramanis
  28. The Virtual Human, Clay Easterly
  29. Evolution Is Complex, Jack Cohen

Complexity Digest 2000.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cosmic g-Rays From Intergalactic Structure Formation, Nature
  2. Reduction of Tropical Cloudiness by Soot, Science
  3. Lie Detection And Language Comprehension, Nature
  4. Interacting Molecular Loops in the Mammalian Circadian Clock, Science
  5. Senator Proposes Tax Credit for Telecommuters, NYTimes
  6. The Web Is A Bow Tie, Nature
  7. Digital Mechanics (DM), Sciences of the Interface
  8. Scale Relativity, Fractal Space-Time and Morphogenesis, Sciences of the Interface
  9. Editor's Note

Complexity Digest 2000.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. Forest Fire Out of Control in Los Alamos, NYTimes
  2. Encoding Of Movement Time By Populations Of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells, Nature
  3. A New Picture Of The Brain May Reveal The Key To Alzheimer's, Science Daily/Boston University
  4. Estimating The Probability For A Protein To Have A New Fold, PNAS
  5. Estimating The Probability For A Protein To Have A New Fold, PNAS
  6. Chromosome 21, Nature
  7. Encoding of Tactile Stimulus Location by Somatosensory Thalamocortical Ensembles, The Journal of Neuroscience
  8. Noise In Neurons Is Message Dependent, PNAS
  9. A Universal Scaling Law Between Gray Matter And White Matter Of Cerebral Cortex, PNAS
  10. Whither the Future of Controlling Quantum Phenomena?, Science
  11. Spatial competition and price formation, arXiv
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. John Holland on Emergence, Video Talk
    2. Doyne Farmer on Academic Research and Playing The Stock Market, Video Talk
    3. Penetrating Cloud Cover, Science

Complexity Digest 2000.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Beetles Use Sex To Infiltrate Bee Nests, San Francisco State Univ./Science Daily
  2. Clinton Unscrambles GPS Signals, Reuters/Wired
  3. A Rogue Software Program Attacks Computers Worldwide, NYTimes
  4. Missed Diagnoses of Heart Attacks in the Emergency Room, The New England J. of Medicine
  5. Evolution Meets Conservation at the Brink of the Homogocene, HMS Beagle
  6. Three-Dimensional Proof For Ising Model Impossible, Sandia National Laboratories Press Release
  7. Comb Vibrations During The Honeybee Waggle Dance, Journal of Experimental Biology
  8. Often Missed Facial Displays Give Clues To True Emotion, Science Daily
  9. Globalizing Capital, A History of the International Monetary System, Book Review
  10. Animal Social Complexity & Intelligence Conference, Announcement
  11. Co-Evolutionary Robot Soccer Game, Announcement
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. 1 To Be On The Right Side Of The Phase-Transition, Stu Kaufman, Video Talk
    2. 2 'The Art of Fugue': The Weight and Drama in Bach's Complexity, NYTimes
    3. 3 Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These, Nature Science Update
    4. 4 Brain: See Hear, Nature Science Update

Complexity Digest 2000.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Lightning Studies May Provide Earlier Tornado Alerts, Science Daily
  2. Nature's Cycles In A Fractal State Of Mind, Rochester Univ/Science Daily
  3. The Six Webs, worldlink
  4. Wired For Sadness, Discover Magazine
  5. Brain Size Does Not Predict General Cognitive Ability Within Families, PNAS
  6. Brainwaves Induce Order in Spatio-Temporal Chaos, PRL
  7. Illusions in Reasoning About Consistency, Science
  8. Polarons In DNA, PNAS
  9. Authors Sought For UNESCO Encyclopaedia Project, Announcement
  10. Links & Snippets
    1. Editor's Note
    2. On the Origin of Internal Structure of Word Forms, Science
    3. Geoelectric Potential Changes Precursors To Earthquakes?, PNAS
    4. The Evolution Of Evo-Devo Biology, PNAS
    5. Vertebrate Innovation, PNAS
    6. The Origin Of Plants, PNAS
    7. Inversion Of The Chordate Body Axis: Are There Alternatives?, PNAS
    8. The End of Interval Research Corp. and Lessons From Complexity, zdnet

Complexity Digest 2000.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Predicting School Violence, Wired
  2. Mechanisms Of Extensive Spatiotemporal Chaos, Nature
  3. Where Have All The Frogs Gone?, Nature
  4. The Theory Of Money, SFI Working Papers
  5. The Nasdaq Crash Of April 2000, arXiv
  6. Eye Condition And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, UCSD/Science Daily
  7. Communication Of Cancer Cells, PSU/Science Daily
  8. Lasers + Photosensitizer Drug Prevent Blindness, Source
  9. Warmest First Three Months Of The Year On Record, NOAA/Science Daily
  10. Freezing By Heating, Nature
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. Creativity and development, Book Report
    2. Medicine and Our Genes, New York Times
    3. Who's Got Rhythm?, Science
    4. The Microbial World Wide Web, Science

Complexity Digest 2000.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Way Things Move, Science
  2. Intermittent Movement in Animals, Science
  3. Learning How Our Body Interacts With The World, BBS
  4. Intentionality Detection And "Mindreading", PNAS
  5. Spatial Memory of Taxi Drivers, PNAS
  6. Zebra Fish With Two Clocks, PNAS
  7. Intimations of Immortality, Science
  8. Remote Control: Telecommuting, Business Week
  9. 1,800-Year Tidal Cycle And Rapid Climate Change, PNAS
  10. Cheating Bacteria, Nature
  11. 'The Climate Symphony' Performance, Announcement
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. Robots That Imitate Life, Science
    2. Iridium Global Satellite System Terminated, Responses

Complexity Digest 2000.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Mitotic Misregulation and Human Aging, Science
  2. Microsoft Monopoly Decision, ZDNet
  3. Social Norms and Individual Computation, SFI Working Papers
  4. DNA Testing of Neanderthal Infant, U. Glasgow/Science Daily
  5. Life's Origins In Volcanic Gases?, Washington U./Science Daily
  6. Neuronal Circuitry of Movement, Physiological Reviews
  7. More and Less Predictable Hurricanes?, U. Missouri-Columbia/Science Daily
  8. Is Starting Simple The Path To Complexity?, Nature
  9. Will Robots Replace Humans by 2100?, Conference Notes
  10. RNA Interference, Science
  11. Links & Snippets
    1. Schroedinger's Squid
    2. Speaking In Syntactical Tongues

Complexity Digest 2000.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Hum Of The Earth, Science
  2. Building a Brainier Mouse, Scientific American
  3. The Heartbeat of a Cell, Nature/Physical Review Letters
  4. Synergism of Muscle Activity, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
  5. New Images Of Movement In Nerves, Science Daily, Ohio University
  6. Yeast, Flies, Worms, and Us, Science
  7. A Drosophila Model Of Parkinson's Disease, Nature
  8. Right Brain Essential For Japanese Mirror Reading, Brain
  9. A Video Tracking Interface for Dolphins, Sciences of the Interface
  10. Power-Law Distribution of the World Wide Web, Science
  11. MIT Prof Who Could Level The Cyber Playing Field, Businessweek
  12. Why Cisco Is The Atlas Of The Internet, Businessweek
  13. Links & Snippets
    1. Do We Have A Knuckle-Walking Ancestor?, Nature
    2. Sciences of the Interface, Announcement
    3. 3rd International Conf. on Complex Systems, Announcement
    4. Managing the Complex, Announcement

Complexity Digest 2000.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. When is "Now"?, Science
  2. Rare Meteorite Promises Glimpse Into Dawn Of Creation, CNN
  3. Scaling In Athletic World Records, Nature
  4. Reforming the Patent System, Science
  5. Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks, SFI Working Papers
  6. Evolution and Ecology, NECSI publication
  7. Phase Transitions in a Model of Internet Traffic, SFI Working papers
  8. Pushing The Frontiers Of Interdisciplinary Research, Nature
  9. Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, NECSI book
  10. Common Ancestry Of Monkeys, Apes And Humans, Science Daily/NIU
  11. Genomic Medicine And The Future Of Health Care, Science
  12. Links & Snippets
    1. The Rural Life At the Edge of Order, New York Times
    2. Tangible Complexity, Letter
    3. From Neural Nets to Agricultural Soils, Announcement

Complexity Digest 2000.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Attention Strengthens Neuronal Synchronization, Nature
  2. How Do Brains of Children Grow?, Nature
  3. Bio-Chemistry Of Learning and Unlearning, PNAS
  4. Salmons And Human Brain Aging, Science Daily
  5. Do Flies Have To Go To Sleep, Too?, Science
  6. Extreme Acid Loving Microbes, Science
  7. Pollution Stops Rain and Snow In Clouds, Science
  8. Ahead Of The Game, World Link
  9. Iridium Global Satellite System Terminated, Wall Street Journal
    1. Letters To The Editor:
    2. The Sims And Agent Based Modeling, ComDig 2000.9.6
    3. A Computer To Outsmart A Raging Fire, ComDig 2000.9.7

Complexity Digest 2000.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Light Acts Directly On Cells To Set Circadian Clock, Nature
  2. Music And The Brain, Nature
  3. Cannabis As Medicine?, Nature
  4. Gene Chips Instead of Animal Experiments?, Science Daily
  5. Linearization Plots, Time for Progress in Regression, BioMedNet
  6. The Sims And Agent Based Modeling, ZDNet
  7. A Computer To Outsmart A Raging Fire, Mark Derr, NY Times
  8. Water In The Air, Science Daily
  9. Drivers Of The Ice-Ages, Nature
  10. Sleep And Memory, New York Times

Complexity Digest 2000.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Protein Folding And Unfolding On A Complex Energy Landscape, PNAS
  2. Controlling Cell Functions With Noise, PNAS
  3. Biodiversity Hotspots For Conservation Priorities, Nature
  4. Swarm Smarts, Scientific American
  5. Stem Cell Magic, Science
  6. Thermal Stimulation Of Taste, Nature
  7. The Sound Of Many Hands Clapping, Nature
  8. Random Reality, New Scientist
  9. Winter Chaos 2000, Conference Report
    1. The Novelty of Emergent Phenomena in Complex Systems, Jeffrey Goldstein, (Video)
    2. Features of Self-Organization in the Dreaming State, Wilfred Pigeon, (Video)
    3. Double Bind Theory And Schizophrenia, Matthijs Koopmans, (Video)
    4. Hearts & Minds, Carlos Antonio Torre, (Video)
    5. Subluxation As A Social/Cultural Imitation, Mark R. Filippi, (Video)
    6. Mapping the Dynamics of Change in Educational Systems, David Gibson, (Video)
    7. Nature and Dynamics of Organisms in Environment, Val K. Bykoski, (Video)
    8. Re-Forming Schools: Perceptions and Patterns of Change, Debra Kosemetzky, (Video)
    9. Complexity in the Fusion Between Taste and Smell to Obtain Flavor, Virginia Utermohlen, (Video)
    10. The Universe Is Ö, Rick Paar, (Video)

Complexity Digest 2000.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Austronesian Language Formation And Innovation, Nature
  2. Efficient Image Coding At Early Stages In The Brain, Science
  3. Left And Right Brain Hemispheres Listen To Different Aspects Of Music, Brain
  4. Roof Plate In Embryos Triggers Brain Formation, Nature
  5. Virtual Cures, HMS Beagle
  6. Evolution of Food Web Structures, arXiv
  7. Pattern Discovery and Computational Mechanics, SFI Working Papers
  8. Alarm Calls as Costly Signals of Anti-Predator Vigilance, SFI Working Papers
  9. Internet Offers Parents Daily Access To Students' Grades, CNN
  10. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, Book Review by Ralph H. Abraham

Complexity Digest 2000.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Tax Of The Worst Kind, Worldlink
  2. Market Force, Ecology, And Evolution, arXiv
  3. Why Onions Have More DNA Than You Do, The Harvard University Gazette
  4. Computation With Biomolecules, PNAS
  5. Revealing Uncertainties In Computer Models, Science
  6. Verbal Learning Following Sleep Deprivation, Nature
  7. Synchronization Properties of Brain Wa, ves, PNAS
  8. Contest: Detecting Sleep Breathing Problems From Heart Signals?, Ary Goldberger
  9. Rapid Climate Change, PNAS Special Feature
    1. The Heat-Salt Conveyor Belt Of Ocean Circulations, J. Marotzke
    2. The Tropical Pacific: The Sleeping Dragon Wakes, R.T. Pierrehumbert
    3. Ozone Depletion And Global Warming Synergy, D.L. Hartmann et al.

Complexity Digest 2000.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Radar Tracked Bees Reveal Their Flight Secrets, Nature
  2. "Pathfinder" Bees Use Optical Odometers, Science
  3. Trading Water, Wall Street Journal
  4. The End of the Growth Era?, arXiv
  5. 5 Billion Web Pages Linked By 19 Clicks Of Separation, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  6. How Growing Neurons Find Their Way, The Journal of Neuroscience
  7. Smells Are Most Effective In Invoking Memories, Chemical Senses
  8. A Neuronal Analogue Of State-Dependent Learning, Nature
  9. Emerging "R&D" Pattern In Genes May Reduce Evolution's Risks, Johns Hopkins University
  10. Ball Lightning Mystery Solved?, Nature
  11. New Results Show Which Way The Wind Blows Over The Oceans, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  12. Book Report: The Predictors, Ralph Abraham

Complexity Digest 2000.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. The World Economic System
    1. Clinton's Speech at the World Economic Forum, White House Briefing Room
    2. International Corruption, Peter Eigen, Business Week Online
    3. Western Investors Interested Primarily In Predictability, Interfax, Moscow
    4. History of the World Economic Forum Meetings in Davos, Dean LeBaron
    5. Virtual Davos, Dean LeBaron
    6. What Really Sabotaged the Seattle Trade Talks, Business Week
  2. Swarms of Robots Solve Complex Problems, Business Week Online
  3. Computer analysis dates HIV virus to 1930, Nando Media, Associated Press
  4. Scientists Create RNA Computer, Princeton University, ScienceDaily Magazine
  5. Life and Evolution in Computers, Santa Fe Institute Working Papers
  6. The Geometry of Shape Space: Application to Influenza, Santa Fe Institute Working Papers
  7. Epidemics and Percolation in Small-World Networks, Santa Fe Institute Working Papers

Complexity Digest 2000.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Tutorial on Complexity and Agent Based Modeling, Santa Fe Institute, Business Network for Complex Systems Research
    1. Santa Fe Institute: Entering the New Millennium, Ellen Goldberg, President, Santa Fe Institute
    2. WOULD-BE WORLDS, The Science and the Surprise of Artificial Worlds, John Casti, SFI External Faculty
    3. Understanding Size and Scale in Biology from Molecules and Cells to Whales, Geoffrey B. West, LANL
    4. Agent based Simulations: An Overview of BT's Research and Applications, Iqbal Adjali, BT Labs
    5. Economic and Business Applications of Agent-Based Modeling: The Swarm Tool Kit, Benedikt Stefansson, CASA
    6. Diversity in Complex and Difficult Environments, Scott E. Page, SFI External Faculty
    7. A presentation of "Agent Base, d Simulator", Shota Hattori, Kozo Keikaku Engineering
  2. Overview of Complex Economic Dynamics, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
  3. Do Quantum Computations Require Infinite Precision?, David Meyer
  4. Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex, Nature
  5. Editor's Note

Complexity Digest 2000.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Art of Language, Complexity
  2. Life as Complex System, Kaneko Laboratory
  3. Complex Systems Approach To Life And Cognitive Science, Takashi Ikegami
  4. A Model of Effects of Alternating Plowing Depth on Weed Speed Population, JSAM
  5. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Mast-Fruiting, Japan Soc. for Fuzzy Theory & Systems
  6. Complexity Of The Japanese Garden, John B. Rundle
  7. Theoretical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Bouncing Tractors, JSAM
  8. Bifurcations In Vibrating Tractors, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
  9. Evolution in the Digital Medium, Thomas Ray
  10. Forecasting Hits in the J-pop Market, SFI Business Network
  11. Seven Pillars of Wisdom for the Complexity Market, Center for the Strategy of Emergence
  12. Editor's Note

Complexity Digest 2000.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. Galileo Findings Boost Idea Of Other-Worldly Ocean, NASA
  2. Extrapolating Movement Without Retinal Motion, Nature
  3. Dolphins Get The Point, Journal of Comparative Psychology
  4. Numerical Memory Span In A Chimpanzee, Nature
  5. Death Signals For Cells, Nature
  6. Cell Biology: Telomeric Tethers, Nature
  7. Portrait of a Galaxy, Science
  8. How To Untwinkle A Star, Nature
  9. Chaotic Maps And Languages, Nonlinearity
  10. The Artist's Friend Turned Enemy: A Backlash Against the Copyright, New York Times
  11. `Butterfly Economics': When Theory Fails, Consult an Insect, New York Times, Book Report
  12. In retrospect: chosen by David Jones, Nature, Book Report

Complexity Digest 2000.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Theory of Everything, PNAS
  2. The Middle Way, PNAS
  3. Self-Organization and Leadership Emergence, Nonlin. Dyn., Psych. & Life Sciences
  4. Hacker group: The future of war is information, CNN
  5. VA Linux Unveils New Service, Wired News, Reuters
  6. Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet, Nature
  7. Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites, Science
  8. Making the Right Connections in the Brain, Science
  9. Long-Term Weight Control, Science
  10. Equilibrium Regained: From Chaos to Mechanics, Science
  11. Controlling Monostability, Physical Review Letters
  12. Information Rules, Perspectives on Business Innovation
  13. The Predictors, Book Review