Complexity Digest 2002.41

14-Oct-2002

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  1. The Nobel Prize Winners 2002, Nobel e-Museum
    1. A Nobel That Bridges Economics and Psychology, NYTimes
  2. Stock Market Shock Explained, Nature
  3. Modeling The Internet's Large-Scale Topology, PNAS
  4. Error Catastrophe And Antiviral Strategy, PNAS
  5. The Case for Studying Real-Life Bugs, Science
    1. What Mosquitoes Want: Secrets of Host Attraction, Science
  6. Immunology: Survival Of The Fitters, Nature
  7. Evolutionary Biology: Death In The Slow Lane, Nature
  8. Gene Therapy May Stop Cancer Spread, BBC News
    1. Neural Stem Cells Improve Motor Function In Brain Injuries, Science Daily
  9. Low Body Temperature, Time Dilation, & Conditioned Aversion In Rats, Neurobiol. of Learning & Mem.
  10. The Impressive Complexity in the Nautilus pompilius Shell, arXiv
    1. Picture Of The Low-Dimensional Structure In Chaotic Dripping Faucets, arXiv
  11. Instant Imaging Device Gives General Practitioners Safe Window Into Body, Sunday Telegraph
  12. Auditory Peripersonal Space in Humans, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
  13. Brain Processing Routes in Reading of Chinese Character and Pinyin, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
  14. Rethinking Behavior Genetics, Science
  15. Jealous? Maybe It's Genetic. Maybe Not, NYTimes
    1. Taking a Clinical Look at Human Emotions, NYTimes
  16. On The Similarity Of Identical Twin Fingerprints, Pattern Recognition
  17. Quantum Phase Transition In A Common Metal, Nature
  18. Is the Universe a Universal Computer?, Science Book Report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. C.I.A. Warns That a U.S. Attack May Ignite Terror, NYTimes
    2. Pakistan: Religious Shadow On Terror War, UPI 
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Art Exhibit

  1. The Nobel Prize Winners 2002, Nobel e-Museum Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Physics, Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"

    Riccardo Giacconi: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

    Chemistry, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka: "for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules", "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"

    Kurt Wuthrich: "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"

    Physiology or Medicine, Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston: "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"

    Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman: "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"

    Vernon L. Smith: "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"

    Literature, Imre Kertesz: "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"


    1. A Nobel That Bridges Economics and Psychology, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Two Americans have won this year's Nobel award in economics for trying to explain idiosyncrasies in people's ways of making decisions, research that has helped incorporate insights from psychology into the discipline of economics.(...)

      For example, Professor Kahneman made the economically puzzling discovery that most of his subjects would make a 20-minute trip to buy a calculator for $10 instead of $15, but would not make the same trip to buy a jacket for $120 instead of $125 - saving the same $5.


  2. Stock Market Shock Explained, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Two physicists have an explanation for the convulsion of the stock market just ten days ago that left traders reeling (...). The market was behaving like a muffled guitar string, they suggest, thanks to short-termism and technological limitations. (...)

    The model generates damped oscillations if there are three types of traders: random traders, who buy and sell at small random deviations from the current market price, market-maker traders who occasionally induce large price fluctuations, and inertial traders who base their orders on what they did in the previous transaction.


  3. Modeling The Internet's Large-Scale Topology, PNAS Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Network generators that capture the Internet's large-scale topology are crucial for the development of efficient routing protocols and modeling Internet traffic. Our ability to design realistic generators is limited by the incomplete understanding of the fundamental driving forces that affect the Internet's evolution. By combining several independent databases capturing the time evolution, topology, and physical layout of the Internet, we identify the universal mechanisms that shape the Internet's router and autonomous system level topology. We find that the physical layout of nodes form a fractal set, determined by population density patterns around the globe.

  4. Error Catastrophe And Antiviral Strategy, PNAS Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The term ''error catastrophe,'' [was] originally introduced in the theory of molecular Evolution (...).A (...) paper (...) which deals with the ''molecular indetermination in the transition to error catastrophe,'' shedding light on the complexity of the mechanisms involved in virus infection and stressing the need for a careful molecular analysis of the detail, which may differ greatly from one virus to another. Because of its practical relevance for developing potent antiviral drugs (...), this commentary will highlight the theoretical basis (...).

  5. The Case for Studying Real-Life Bugs, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Despite recent progress in engineering mosquitoes in the lab, many real-world questions remain unanswered. Will the designer mosquitoes be able to survive in the wild, for instance? Will they disperse, find mates, and have viable offspring--and if so, how long would it take for their parasite-resistance genes to spread? (...) The only way to find out is to study natural mosquito populations, say the ecologists, many of whom are visibly irked that molecular biologists didn't involve them in planning the transgenic project.

    1. What Mosquitoes Want: Secrets of Host Attraction, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Why do mosquitoes feast on some people and leave others alone? Researchers are trying to find out, hoping it will help them design the perfect mosquito trap

      (...) Whereas some people never seem to get bitten by mosquitoes--and often don't even seem to notice the critters-- others spend their evenings frantically swatting them, usually to no avail. (...) Sumptuous blood vessels begging to be punctured? Or is it all between the ears, as some people say, and you simply fuss and fret more about mosquito bites?


  6. Immunology: Survival Of The Fitters, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Our immune system's ability to fight viruses inside our cells relies on viral protein fragments being displayed on the cell surface. The enzyme needed for the last step in this presentation process has now been discovered.

    Each cell in our body is covered with around 10,000 tiny protein fragments, representing almost every single protein being made in the cell. These fragments are peptides made up of exactly nine amino acids; they are glued to peptide receptors and convey information to the immune system about the interior of the cell.


  7. Evolutionary Biology: Death In The Slow Lane, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: What caused the Late Pleistocene 'megafaunal' extinctions - the episode between about 50,000 and 10,000 years ago when mammoths, giant ground sloths, giant kangaroos and dozens of other large vertebrate species became extinct? The 'overkill' theory holds that human hunters drove the megafauna to extinction. (...)

    Usually, these theories are assessed by using the fossil record to compare the timing of megafaunal extinctions with human arrival on continents and climate change. (...)

    He finds that it was not large size that predisposed species to extinction, but low reproductive rate.


  8. Gene Therapy May Stop Cancer Spread, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: A new type of gene therapy has the potential to stop breast cancer cells spreading around the body, scientists claim. It is hoped that a technique developed by scientists from the charity Cancer Research UK and King's College London will enable women with breast cancer to be treated before surgery.(...) The technique works by using a specially modified virus to insert a fragment of genetic material called a minigene into the cancer cells.

    1. Neural Stem Cells Improve Motor Function In Brain Injuries, Science Daily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Neural stem cells, transplanted into injured brains, survive, proliferate, and improve brain function in laboratory models according to research based at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The findings (...) suggest that stem cells could provide the first clinical therapy to treat traumatic brain injuries. "Transplantation of neural stem cells in mice three days after brain injury promotes the improvement of specific components of motor function, More importantly, these stem cells respond to signals and create replacement cells: both neurons, which transmit nerve signals, and glial cells, which serve many essential supportive roles in the nervous system."


  9. Low Body Temperature, Time Dilation, & Conditioned Aversion In Rats, Neurobiol. of Learning & Mem. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Conditioned flavor aversion was examined (...). Cold water immersion for 2.5, 5, and 10 min led to body temperature decreases of approximately 4.5, 7, and 10°C, respectively. Rats whose body temperatures were reduced 4.5, 7, and 10°C displayed conditioned aversions (...). These results were interpreted in terms of a cold-induced slowing of a biochemical clock that may uniquely govern specific timing processes involved in associative learning over long delays, such as long-trace conditioned flavor aversion, learned safety, and certain types of learning that involve an extensive time lapse (e.g., extinction of fear).

  10. The Impressive Complexity in the Nautilus pompilius Shell, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The complexity of the Nautilus pompilius shell is analyzed in terms of its fractal dimension and its equiangular spiral form. Our findings assert that the shell is fractal from its birth and that its growth is dictated by a self-similar criterion (we obtain the fractal dimension of the shell as a function of time). The variables that have been used for the analysis show an exponential dependence on the number of chambers/age of the cephalopod, a property inherited from its form.

    1. Picture Of The Low-Dimensional Structure In Chaotic Dripping Faucets, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Chaotic dynamics of the dripping faucet was investigated both experimentally and theoretically. We measured continuous change in drop position and velocity using a high-speed camera. Continuous trajectories of a low-dimensional chaotic attractor were reconstructed from these data, which was not previously obtained but predicted in our fluid dynamic simulation. From the simulation, we further obtained an approximate potential function with only two variables, the drop mass and its position of the center of mass. The potential landscape helps one to understand intuitively how the dripping dynamics can exhibit low-dimensional chaos.

      Contributing Editor's Note: Dripping faucets are intriguing systems because although they seem rather simple at first glance, the behavior they can experience is extremely complicated. This system, which is among the best at containing the (philosophical) spirit of nonlinear dynamics, has been very important in the study of many important phenomena (such as scaling behavior).


  11. Instant Imaging Device Gives General Practitioners Safe Window Into Body, Sunday Telegraph Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: A camera that can see through clothes, skin and even walls without X-rays has been developed in what is being called one of the first great technological breakthroughs of the 21st century.(...)Terahertz imaging, he said, opened the way to rapid and safe screening for signs of disease or tissue damage. "It could be very useful with suspected joint damage, which often isn't detected until it is too late for effective drug treatment. It's the lack of invasiveness that makes it so exciting. It's got great potential." Another application is likely to be in airport security. Unlike X-ray machines, there is no need for passengers to pass through a scanner: the camera can simply be pointed at passengers to show hidden items.

  12. Auditory Peripersonal Space in Humans, J. Cognitive Neuroscience Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: In a group of right brain-damaged patients with tactile extinction, we found that a sound delivered near the ipsilesional side of the head (20 cm) strongly extinguished a tactile stimulus delivered to the contralesional side of the head (cross-modal auditory-tactile extinction). (...) This spatially specific cross-modal extinction was most consistently found (i.e., both in the front and back spaces) when a complex sound was presented, like a white noise burst. (...) In addition, the most severe cross-modal extinction emerged when sounds came from behind the head, (...)

  13. Brain Processing Routes in Reading of Chinese Character and Pinyin, J. Cognitive Neuroscience Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Chinese offers a unique tool for testing the effects of word form on language processing during reading. The processes of letter-mediated grapheme-to-phoneme translation and phonemic assembly (assembled phonology) critical for reading and spelling in any alphabetic orthography are largely absent when reading nonalphabetic Chinese characters. In contrast, script-to-sound translation based on the script as a whole (addressed phonology) is absent when reading the Chinese alphabetic sound symbols known as pinyin, for which the script-to-sound translation is based exclusively on assembled phonology. The present study aims to contrast patterns of brain activity associated with the different cognitive mechanisms needed for reading the two scripts.

  14. Rethinking Behavior Genetics, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The second century of behavior genetics has gotten off to a less satisfying start. The current aim is to identify the specific genes that contribute to individual differences and determine what they do in the brain. The approach is to search for DNA sequence variations that correlate with behavioral and personality traits, either by tracking anonymous markers close to the genes of interest in family members (linkage analysis) or by directly comparing the coding and regulatory sequences of candidate genes (association analysis).

  15. Jealous? Maybe It's Genetic. Maybe Not, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (...)asking, among other things, whether they would be more upset if a romantic partner "had passionate sex with someone else" or "formed a deep emotional bond to someone else." The researchers found that among the subjects who completed the questionnaire free from distraction, the usual sex difference appeared, with more women choosing emotional infidelity. But among the subjects who had to remember the numbers, there was no sex difference; women, as well as men, identified sexual infidelity as the most upsetting.

    1. Taking a Clinical Look at Human Emotions, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      (…) synapses underlie personality since synapses underlie everything the brain does. More important yet: synapses are the sites of storage of information, including information that is encoded by our genes and also by our experiences - our memories.

      When it comes to personality, genes and experience are just two ways of doing the same thing - wiring synapses. (…)

      This doesn't mean that the essence of who you are is encoded at a particular synapse. It means that your self is a very complex pattern of synaptic connectivity in your brain.


  16. On The Similarity Of Identical Twin Fingerprints, Pattern Recognition Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Reliable and accurate verification of people is extremely important (...). Automatic verification methods based on physical biometric characteristics such as fingerprint or iris can provide positive verification with a very high accuracy. However, the biometrics-based methods assume that the physical characteristics of an individual (as captured by a sensor) used for verification are sufficiently unique to distinguish one person from another. Identical twins have the closest genetics-based relationship and, therefore, the maximum similarity between fingerprints is expected to be found among identical twins. We show that a state-of-the-art automatic fingerprint verification system can successfully distinguish identical (...).

  17. Quantum Phase Transition In A Common Metal, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Among these are (...) high-temperature superconductors. A common feature of these materials is complexity, in the sense that they have relatively large unit cells containing heterogeneous mixtures of atoms. (...). This implies that complexity is not a prerequisite for unconventional behaviour. (...)

    Apart from complexity, a feature shared by almost all metals whose properties are at odds with conventional theory is proximity to magnetic instabilities, that is, the materials are nearly magnetic, and when placed under pressure or their chemical formulae are slightly changed, they acquire magnetic order.


  18. Is the Universe a Universal Computer?, Science Book Report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: History has seen the development of many new sciences but very few new kinds of science. New kinds of science involve radical changes in thinking, such as the shift from Aristotelian traditions to experimental methods and the description of natural phenomena in mathematical terms--revolutions associated with names like Galileo and Newton. Thus it is with no small risk of hubris that Stephen Wolfram titles his account of his approach to explaining the natural world A New Kind of Science.

     


  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The letter said "Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks" with conventional or chemical or biological weapons against the United States.

    "Should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack could no longer be deterred, he probably would become much less constrained in adopting terrorist action," it continued. It noted that Mr. Hussein could use either conventional terrorism or a weapon of mass destruction as "his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him."


    1. C.I.A. Warns That a U.S. Attack May Ignite Terror, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: A religious alliance opposed to the U.S. presence in the region further consolidated its position Friday by winning 30 seats in Pakistan's parliamentary elections, creating serious doubts about the country's future role in the war against terror.(...)

      Formed after the fall of the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan, MMA is opposed to Pakistan's participation in the war on terror and wants the United States to withdraw its troops from Pakistan.

      It also sympathizes with Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers and criticizes the military government for catching Taliban and al Qaida leaders (...).


    2. Pakistan: Religious Shadow On Terror War, UPI  Next Article Bookmark and Share

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Predicting The Effects Of Climate Change On Avian Life-History Traits, David W. Winkler, Peter O. Dunn, and Charles E. McCulloch, PNAS published 7 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.212251999
    2. Linkage Limits The Power Of Natural Selection In Drosophila, Andrea J. Betancourt and Daven C. Presgraves, PNAS published 7 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.212277199
    3. Molecular Evidence For Ecological Speciation In Tropical Habitats, Rob Ogden and Roger S. Thorpe, PNAS published 7 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.212248499
    4. Climate, Changing Phenology, And Other Life History Traits: Nonlinearity And Match-Mismatch To The Environment, Nils Chr. Stenseth and Atle Mysterud, PNAS published 7 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.212519399
    5. An Unexpected Conductor, M. Thackeray, Nature Materials 1, 81; October 2002
    6. Quantum Cryptography: A Step Towards Global Key Distribution, C. Kurtsiefer, P. Zarda, M. Halder, H. Weinfurter, P. M. Gorman, P. R. Tapster, J. G. Rarity
    7. The Parasite Genome: Biological Revelations, Dyann F. Wirth
    8. More Power To Pedal Pushers?, Revolutionary crank could speed cycling.
    9. Genes Caught Skipping From Bacteria To Beetle, Tokyo team claims first direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer.
    10. The Mosquito Genome: The Post-Genomic Era Opens, Ennio De Gregorio And Bruno Lemaitre
    11. Lateralization Of Magnetic Compass Orientation In A Migratory Bird, Wolfgang Wiltschko, Joachim Traudt, Onur Gunturkun, Helmut Prior, Roswitha Wiltschko
    12. Natural Radioactivity And Human Mitochondrial DNA Mutations, Lucy Forster, Peter Forster, Sabine Lutz-Bonengel, Horst Willkomm, Bernd Brinkmann, PNAS published 7 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.202400499
    13. Electrophysiological Measures of Language Processing in Bilinguals, Alice Mado Proverbio, Barbara Cok, and Alberto Zani, J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2002 October 1; 14(7): p. 994-1017
    14. Interactions Of Climate Change With Biological Invasions And Land Use In The Hawaiian Islands: Modeling The Fate Of Endemic Birds Using Age Ographic Information System, Tracy L. Benning, Dennis LaPointe, Carter T. Atkinson, Peter M. Vitousek, PNAS published 8 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.162372399
    15. Electrical Cues Regulate The Orientation And Frequency Of Cell Division And The Rate Of Wound Healing Invivo, Bing Song, Min Zhao, John V. Forrester, Colin D. McCaig, PNAS published 4 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.202235299
    16. MIT Picower Center Neuroscientists Find Method In The Mad Rush Of Eye Movements And Brain Response, MIT News, 02/09/27
    17. Untangling The Wires: A Strategy To Trace Functional Interactions In Signaling And Gene Networks, Boris N. Kholodenko, Anatoly Kiyatkin, Frank J. Bruggeman, Eduardo Sontag, Hans V. Westerhoff, Jan B. Hoek, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2002 October 1; 99(20): p. 12841-12846
    18. Synapse Formation Is Associated With Memory Storage In The Cerebellum, Jeffrey A. Kleim, John H. Freeman, Jr., Rochelle Bruneau, Brian C. Nolan, Natalie R. Cooper, Alison Zook, Drew Walters, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2002 October 1; 99(20): p. 13228-13231
    19.  Self-organized and Driven Phase Synchronization in Coupled Maps. Sarika Jalan and R. E. Amritkar. arXiv.
    20. Quantum Chaos in Optical Systems: The Annular Billiard. Martina Hentschel, Klaus Richter. arXiv.
    21. Transport Properties of a Modified Lorentz Gas. H. Larralde, F. Leyvraz, C. Mejia-Monasterio. arXiv.
    22. Quantum Certificate Complexity. Scott Aaronson. arXiv.

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Genomics and the Future of Health and Society, Institute of Medicine, 02/10/14
      2. Organizational Change and Leadership, Institute of Medicine, 02/10/1
      3. 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, Ca, 02/08/26-29, Video/Audio Report
      4. Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 02/08/04-11, Video/Audio Reports
      5. The Technology Frontier, Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, 02/09/18
      6. Brookings Report Urges Congress to Revise President Bush's Homeland Security Proposal, A Brookings Press Briefing, 02/07/15, Event Video
      7. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2002), Nashua, NH, 02/06/09-14 (video + mp3 downloadable audio)
      8. Understanding Complex Systems: Symposium Complexity in Physical and Biological Structures, Medicine & Ecology, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 02/05/13-15
      9. ROBOT: The Future of Flesh and Machine, Rodney A. Brooks, MIT AI Lab, Talk given at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex, May 14th, 2002.
      10. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998

       


    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Leading with Emotional Intelligence, Brookings, Washington, DC, 02/10/15-16
      2. Dynamical Systems Methods for Advanced Diagnosis and Prognosis, 39th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, University Park, Pennsylvania, 02/10/13-16
      3. Achieve Breakthrough Results by Re-Thinking and Updating Your Organization's "Reason for Being", Santa Fe Associates, NM
      4. Artificial Worlds, Camden, ME, 02/10/18-20
      5. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Chance Discovery: The Discovery and Management of Chance Events, North Falmouth, MA, USA, 02/11/15-17
      6. 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02), 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02), International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02), Singapore, 02/11/18-22
      7. Dynamical Neuroscience X: From Experiments and Models to Brain Theory, Orlando, Florida, 02/11/01-02
      8. Managing Complex Organizations In A Complex World, NECSI, Boston, MA, 02/11/14-15
      9. Workshop on Modeling Complex Systems, University of Nevada, Reno, 02/11/20-21
        1. One-Day Course: Introduction to Complex Systems, Univ Nevada, Reno, 02/11/19
      10. International Conference on Systems, Development and Self-Organization (ICSDS'2002 ),Beijing, 02/11/30-12/01
      11. 23rd Army Science Conference (ASC): "Transformational Science & Technology for the Army....a race for speed and precision.", Orlando Fl, 02/12/02-05
      12. Managing the Complex IV, ISCE and FGCU, Fort Myers, FL, 02/12/07-10
      13. Artificial Life VIII, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 02/12/09-13
        1. 1st Workshop on the Modelling of Dynamical Hierarchies in Alife (WDH 2002)
      14. UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS-02), Liverpool, UK, 02/12/18-19
      15. One-Week Intensive Course: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems, NECSI, Cambridge, MA, 03/01
      16. Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-36), Big Island, Hawaii, 03/01/06-09
      17. INSC 2003, International Nonlinear Sciences Conference Research and Applications in the Life Sciences,Vienna, Austria, 03/02/07-09
      18. 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Hong Kong, 03/06/01-05
      19. 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), Chicago, IL,03/07/12-16
      20. 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks To High Level Functionality, Stanford, 03/03/24-27
      21. Uncertainty and Surprise: Questions on Working with the Unexpected, U. of Texas at Austin, Texas USA
      22. Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), 14-18 July 2003, Melbourne, Australia:

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, SUNY, New Paltz, 02/09/14-11/24, COMPLEXITY is the second major museum exhibition about complex systems. It creates bridges across many branches of science and also offers a revolutionary intellectual vector that has ramifications for other disciplines such as art and philosophy.

       


    4. Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Art Exhibit Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Dynamic modeling is a process of scientific thinking and extending our knowledge, aided by a machine. It allows one to FORMULATE AND REVISE SCIENTIFIC hypotheses and theories USING LOGIC AND EVIDENCE. (...) Professor Bruce Hannon--has taught dynamic modeling on the UIUC campus each year since 1985 and has authored three books on the subject.

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