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Excerpts: Our annual survey of emerging ideas considers how nanotechnology will affect commerce, what role hope plays in leadership, and why, in an age that practically enshrines accountability, we need to beware of ¡§accountabalism.
1. The Accidental Influentials, Duncan J. Watts
In his best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that ¡§social epidemics¡¨ are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals. The idea seems intuitively right¡Xwe think we see it happening all the time.
"UpTick" Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students, HBS Working Knowledge 
Excerpts: The pair has used upTick over the past two years in their Dynamic Markets classes. Other schools including Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia have adopted the program. It is not currently available for purchase, although that may change. "This is a work in progress. There are always challenges because we continue to innovate and try new ideas," Coval says. Over the course of a simulation, students input their decisions on networked computers; once trading is halted, the program automatically generates a slideshow summary of individual and overall performance.
Connections: A Clash Of Two Cultures, Nature
Excerpts: Physicists come from a tradition of looking for all-encompassing laws, but is this the best approach to use when probing complex biological systems? Biologists often pay little attention to debates in the philosophy of science. But one question that has concerned philosophers is rapidly coming to have direct relevance to researchers in the life sciences: are there laws of biology? That is, does biology have laws of its own that are universally applicable? Or are the physical sciences the exclusive domain of such laws?
In a Search Refinement, a Chance to Rival Google, NY Times
Excerpts: Early in the decade, a struggling Xerox Corporation was trying to sell off a stake in its Palo Alto Research Center, which it could no longer afford to support. But with the technology bubble bursting, the price that investors were willing to pay for a piece of PARC, as the center is known, kept going down. So in 2002, Xerox switched to Plan B: it spun off the center into an independent subsidiary and sought to prove that it could sustain itself by licensing technology and forming partnerships with outside companies.
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Excerpts: Computers have started to outperform humans in games they used to lose
Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have long been intrigued by games, and not just as a way of avoiding work. Games provide an ideal setting to explore important elements of the design of cleverer machines, such as pattern recognition, learning and planning. They also hold out the tantalising possibility of fame and fortune should the program ever clobber a human champion.
Cooperation, Collectives Formation And Specialization, Adv. Complex Sys.
Excerpts: Cooperation in spatial evolutionary game theory has revealed various interesting insights into the problem of the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior. In social dilemmas, cooperators create and maintain a common resource at some cost to themselves while defectors attempt to exploit the resource without contributing. (...) Here we review recent advances in the dynamics of cooperation in structured populations as well as in situations where cooperative investments vary continuously. In such continuous games, the evolutionary (...) can lead to spontaneous diversification and specialization into high and low investing individuals which provides a natural explanation for the origin of cooperators and defectors.
Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy, SFI Working Papers
Excerpt: Our everyday descriptions of the universe are highly coarse-grained, following only a tiny fraction of the variables necessary for a perfectly fine-grained description. Coarse graining in classical physics is made natural by our limited powers of observation and computation. But in the modern quantum mechanics of closed systems, some measure of coarse graining is inescapable because there are no non-trivial, probabilistic, fine-grained descriptions. This essay explores the consequences of that fact. (...)
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 Silicon chips built to resemble the brain could shed light on its computational power. Credit: Joseph Lin |
Models of the brain built from specially designed computer chips could reveal the secrets of our cerebrum. An ambitious project to model the cerebral cortex in silicon is under way at Stanford. The man-made brain could help scientists understand how the most recently evolved part of our brain performs its complex computational feats, allowing us to understand language, recognize faces, and schedule the day. It could also lead to new neural prosthetics.
Prototype Commercial Quantum Computer Demo'ed, IEEE Spectrum
Excerpts: At it's heart the D-Wave computer, called Orion, is a chip of niobium that's been cooled to near absolute zero. It relies on a dark-horse technology known as adiabatic quantum computing. It and D-Wave have many critics. The computer solves only one type of problem, which mathematicians call a two-dimensional Isling model in a magnetic field, but through some software trickery, other problems can be recast as this problem. At the demonstration, they planned to show off its flexibility with two programs.
Mimicking How The Brain Recognizes Street Scenes, Innovations-report
Excerpts: At last, neuroscience is having an impact on computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). (...) applied a computational model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task: recognizing the objects in a busy street scene. The researchers were pleasantly surprised at the power of this new approach. "People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time," said Poggio, (...). "That was Alan Turing's original motivation in the 1940s. But in the last 50 years, computer science and AI have developed independently of neuroscience. Our work is biologically inspired computer science." (...)
Decision-making: Demonstration Of Link Between Cognition And Execution, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: For the first time, a team of researchers (...) has revealed the existence of an interaction at the cellular level between cognitive information and motor information. This discovery provides the missing link between studies on decision-making processes and those relative to the execution of motor acts. (...) There are two phases in the genesis of a movement directed towards a target when several choices are possible: firstly decision-making (cognitive information) and then the direction of this movement towards to the target (motor information). The brain is endowed with one or several structures which can integrate both (...).
The Brain Scan That Can Read People's Intentions, The Guardian
Excerpts:  Using the technology is 'like shining a torch, looking for writing on a wall'. CT image: Charles O'Rear/Corbis |
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.
The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future.
Imaging Deception In The Brain - Can Brain Imaging Truly Detect Lies?, Technology Review
Excerpts:  Scientists say that fMRI-based technology designed to detect deception is not yet ready for commercialization. |
Polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable, yet thousands of employers, attorneys, and law-enforcement officials use them routinely. Could an alternative system using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technology that indirectly measures brain activity, better detect deceit? The U.S. government is certainly interested--it's funding research in the area--and two companies have already sprung up to commercialize this use of fMRI. But a recent scientific symposium concluded that little evidence exists to suggest that fMRI can accurately detect lies under real-life circumstances.
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Excerpt: It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to be rooted in a language-specific biological endowment, which encodes universal, but arbitrary, principles of language structure (a universal grammar or UG). How might such a UG have evolved? We argue that UG could not have arisen either by biological adaptation or non- adaptationist genetic processes. The resulting puzzle concerning the origin of UG we call the logical problem of language evolution. (...)
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 Tiny bubbles. In a sequence of images of a bubble logic device (starting at top left), a bubble travels around a ring and joins a caravan of other bubbles. Credit: Felice Frankel and Manu Prakash/MIT |
For years, scientists have been working to develop "labs on a chip," portable devices that would perform complex analyses usually only possible in a chemistry laboratory. Such tools would also allow testing of extremely small amounts of expensive or hazardous materials. Now, researchers say a new technology that relies on microscopic bubbles may bring these nifty devices a step closer to reality.
Chemistry: Can Droplets And Bubbles Think?, Science
Excerpts: How many of us, at the close of a well-spent evening, have stared into that last glass of beer or champagne and wondered what eternal truths lie in the rising bubbles before us? In this issue, Fuerstman et al. on page 828 (1) and Prakash and Gershenfeld on page 832 (2) report their use of microfluidic technology to construct streams of droplets (liquid-in-liquid) and bubbles (gasin-liquid) that can encode and decode information or perform logical operations.
Microfluidic Bubble Logic, Science
Excerpts: We demonstrate universal computation in an all-fluidic two-phase microfluidic system. Nonlinearity is introduced into an otherwise linear, reversible, low-Reynolds number flow via bubble-to-bubble hydrodynamic interactions. A bubble traveling in a channel represents a bit, providing us with the capability to simultaneously transport materials and perform logical control operations. We demonstrate bubble logic AND/OR/NOT gates, a toggle flip-flop, a ripple counter, timing restoration, a ring oscillator, and an electro-bubble modulator.
Quantum Physics: Indistinguishable From Afar, Nature
Excerpts: Imprinting a coherent light pulse on the spins of atoms is standard quantum sorcery. Retrieving the same light pulse from a second, distant set of atoms looks rather like black magic. But it, too, is just quantum mechanics. In the quantum world, particles of the same kind are indistinguishable: the wavefunction that describes them is a superposition of every single particle of that kind occupying every allowed state.
Coherent Control Of Optical Information With Matter Wave Dynamics, Nature
Excerpts: Ultraslow light propagation in Bose-Einstein condensates represents an extreme example of resonant light manipulation using cold atoms. Here we demonstrate that a slow light pulse can be stopped and stored in one Bose-Einstein condensate and subsequently revived from a totally different condensate, 160 micrometer away; information is transferred through conversion of the optical pulse into a travelling matter wave.(...)
Microbiology: Bright Insight into Bacterial Gliding, Science
Excerpts: On page 853 of this issue, Mignot et al. provide evidence for a novel mode of bacterial locomotion (1). According to their model, a bacterium adheres to a solid surface at regular intervals along its cell body. Coordinated force is uniformly applied at focal adhesion complexes and the cell moves relative to these foci. Quantitative measurements and mathematical modeling predict that the zones of adhesion are organized on an internal helical track and that relative movement of the track could power a spiraling, corkscrew-like motion over a surface (see the figure).
Evidence That Focal Adhesion Complexes Power Bacterial Gliding Motility, Science
Excerpts: The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus has two motility systems: S motility, which is powered by type IV pilus retraction, and A motility, which is powered by unknown mechanism(s). We found that A motility involved transient adhesion complexes that remained at fixed positions relative to the substratum as cells moved forward. Complexes assembled at leading cell poles and dispersed at the rear of the cells. When cells reversed direction, the A-motility clusters relocalized to the new leading poles together with S-motility proteins. The Frz chemosensory system coordinated the two motility systems.
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Excerpts: Specialists (...) have for the first time described the formation that results from a stroke of lightning into a plant - phytofulgurite. So far, it has been assumed that specific geological bodies are formed at the strike of lightning only if the lightning hits sedimentary rock or a cliff. However, it has turned out that dry grass sometimes turns into a complicated alloy resembling bitumen under the influence of the lightning. Normally, formation of such substances takes millions of years. This unusual stone contains amino acids typical of living organisms (...).
Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels Production, Science
Excerpts: Lignocellulosic biomass has long been recognized as a potential sustainable source of mixed sugars for fermentation to biofuels and other biomaterials. Several technologies have been developed during the past 80 years that allow this conversion process to occur, and the clear objective now is to make this process cost-competitive in today's markets. Here, we consider the natural resistance of plant cell walls to microbial and enzymatic deconstruction, collectively known as "biomass recalcitrance." It is this property of plants that is largely responsible for the high cost of lignocellulose conversion.
Stem Cell Candidates Proliferate, Science
Excerpts: The stem cell landscape is getting crowded. Over the past few years, scientists have reported a variety of new types of stem cells, from both animal and human sources, including fetal liver, mouse testes, bone marrow, and umbilical-cord blood. One of the most recent--and widely publicized--studies, by Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, described the potential of cells isolated from the amniotic fluid to differentiate into all three germ layers in vitro and into bone and brain cells in live mice (Science, 12 January, p. 170).
Gene Expression and Ethnic Differences, Science
Excerpts: In her article "in asians and whites, gene expression varies by race" (News of the Week, 12 Jan., p. 173), J. Couzin explains that recent research has demonstrated that there is significant variation in gene expression in Asians and whites, although providing the disclaimer that "[g]enetic variation among races, long a political hot potato, has also been a scientific puzzle." Indeed, anthropologists and geneticists alike have been keenly interested in determining just what makes us different at the genetic level.
Scientists Discover Parallel Codes In Genes, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Researchers (...) report the discovery of two new properties of the genetic code. Their work, (...) shows that the genetic code -- used by organisms as diverse as reef coral, termites, and humans -- is nearly optimal for encoding signals of any length in parallel to sequences that code for proteins. In addition, they report that the genetic code is organized so efficiently that when the cellular machinery misses a beat during protein synthesis, the process is promptly halted before energy and resources are wasted. "Our findings open the possibility that genes can carry additional, currently unknown codes," explains (...).
Climate Change 2007: What Price A Cooler Future?, Nature
Excerpts: The Stern report, published in October 2006, concluded that doing nothing about climate change would mean a long-term loss in average world consumption of 5-20% per year, whereas stabilizing greenhouse-gas concentrations at roughly double pre-industrial levels would cost 1% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by the middle of this century, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. These calculations depend partly on the value we in the present assign to money received or spent in the future - determined by discounting.
Energy Efficiency: Super Savers: Meters To Manage The Future, Nature
Excerpts: "Switch off the washing machine or dryer for the next 3 minutes, and let me buy, at 10 cents per kilowatt hour, 20% of your solar energy output." Such instant electronic transactions between electricity distributors and smart electric meters in millions of homes and businesses are set to add some badly needed intelligence to the electricity grid, bringing greater efficiency and reliability.
New Universes Will Be Born From Ours, New Scientist
Excerpts: What gruesome fate awaits our universe? Some physicists have argued that it is doomed to be ripped apart by runaway dark energy, while others think it is bouncing through an endless series of big bangs and big crunches. Now these two ideas are being combined to create another option, in which our universe ultimately shatters into billions of pieces, with each shard growing into a whole new universe. The model could solve the mystery of why our early universe was surprisingly well ordered.
If Leonardo Had Made Toys, NY Times
Excerpts:  Tony Cenicola/The New York Times, The FlyTech Dragonfly, from WowWee. |
LEONARDO DA VINCI'S 15th-century vision of mechanical flight apparently never included fixed wings assisted by propellers or jet engines. His chief inspiration was birds, reflected in drawings of a flying machine fashioned to stay aloft by flapping its wings. More than 500 years later, WowWee, a robotics and entertainment products company, shares that vision. Next month, it plans to release a mass-produced, functional ornithopter, a device that flies in birdlike fashion ¡X in this case, a radio-controlled toy that mechanically
Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
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Excerpts: For any government and security force confronting the shadowy terrorist organisations, which possess such brainwashed suicide attackers in their ranks, is perhaps one of the most testing administrative and political challenge -- especially when it is emitting from within.
The difficulty of the authorities can be seen from the simple fact that in the majority of cases, a suicide attacker has no past criminal or terrorist record. He usually is an ordinary looking, pious and religious-minded person. His first and the last criminal or terrorist act remains when he blows himself up with explosives.
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Other Publications
- Power, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 07-01-004
- Social Preferences and Public Economics: Are Good Laws a Substitute for Good Citizens?, Samuel Bowles, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 07-01-003
- Procedural Rationality and Equilibrium Trust, Robert Rowthorn, Rajiv Sethi, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 07-01-002
- Brain, Music, And Sound Research Center: Study of Music and the Mind Hits a High Note in Montreal, Michael Balter, 07/02/09, Science: 758-759.
- Atmospheric Science: Pumping Up Surface Air, Lyatt Jaegle, 07/02/09, Science : 772-773.
- A Framework for Web Science, Berners-Lee, T., Hall, W., Hendler, J. A., O'Hara, K., Shadbolt, N., Weitzner, D. J., 2006, Foundations and Trends in Web Science 1(1):1-130.
- Human Proteins Evolving Slowly Thanks To Multi-Tasking Genes, 2007/02/06, Innovations-report
- Stem Cell Myths, T. Magnus, Y. Liu, G. C. Parker, M. S. Rao, 2007/02/06, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.2009
- Social Recognition In Wild Fish Populations, A. J. W. Ward, M. M. Webster, P. J. B. Hart, 2007/02/06, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0231
- New York Plans iPod Ban: No Listening To Music While Crossing The Road Please, I. Thomson, 2007/02/08, vnunet.com
- Social Intelligence In The Spotted Hyena (Crocuta Crocuta), K. E. Holekamp, S. T. Sakai, B. L. Lundrigan, 2007/02/08, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 110.1098/rstb.2006.1993
- Culture In Great Apes: Using Intricate Complexity In Feeding Skills To Trace The Evolutionary Origin Of Human Technical Prowess, R. W. Byrne, 2007/02/08, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1996
- Why Do Women Tend To Live Longer Than Men? Biologist's Model Offers New Ways To Study Gender Differences In Aging, 2007/02/09, ScienceDaily & University of Southern California
- Smell May Outlast Other Senses, 2007/02/09, ScienceDaily & Griffith University
- A Dynamic Equilibrium Of Electricity Consumption And GDP In Hong Kong: An Empirical Investigation, C.-Y. Ho - chunyu
bu.edu, K. W. Siu - eckwsiubu.edu, Apr. 2007, online 2006/11/07, Energy Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.09.018 - A Dynamic Equilibrium Of Electricity Consumption And GDP In Hong Kong: An Empirical Investigation, C.-Y. Ho - chunyubu.edu, K. W. Siu - eckwsiubu.edu, Apr. 2007, online 2006/11/07, Energy Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.09.018
- A Dynamic Equilibrium Of Electricity Consumption And GDP In Hong Kong: An Empirical Investigation, C.-Y. Ho - chunyubu.edu, K. W. Siu - eckwsiubu.edu, Apr. 2007, online 2006/11/07, Energy Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.09.018
- On Modeling Complex Collective Behavior In Myxobacteria, Y. Jiang - jianglanl.gov, O. Sozinova - osozinovnd.edu, M. Alber - malbernd.edu, Dec. 2006, Advances in Complex Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000860
- Cooperation, Collectives Formation And Specialization, C. Hauert - christoph_hauertharvard.edu, Dec. 2006, Advances in Complex Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000847
- On Modeling Complex Collective Behavior In Myxobacteria, Y. Jiang - jianglanl.gov, O. Sozinova - osozinovnd.edu, M. Alber - malbernd.edu, Dec. 2006, Advances in Complex Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000860
- Cooperation, Collectives Formation And Specialization, C. Hauert - christoph_hauertharvard.edu, Dec. 2006, Advances in Complex Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000847
- On Modeling Complex Collective Behavior In Myxobacteria, Y. Jiang - jianglanl.gov, O. Sozinova - osozinovnd.edu, M. Alber - malbernd.edu, Dec. 2006, Advances in Complex Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000860
- Must Interesting Things Be Pleasant? A Test Of Competing Appraisal Structures, S. A. Turner, Jr., P. J. Silvia - p_silviauncg.edu, Nov. 2006, online 2006/12/31, Emotion, DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.4.670
- Must Interesting Things Be Pleasant? A Test Of Competing Appraisal Structures, S. A. Turner, Jr., P. J. Silvia - p_silviauncg.edu, Nov. 2006, online 2006/12/31, Emotion, DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.4.670
- Must Interesting Things Be Pleasant? A Test Of Competing Appraisal Structures, S. A. Turner, Jr., P. J. Silvia - p_silviauncg.edu, Nov. 2006, online 2006/12/31, Emotion, DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.4.670
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Artificial Life X,
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Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
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Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
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Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
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T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
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- Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
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1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
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From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
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Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
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Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis?, Santa Fe, NM, 07/03/20-23
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Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
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Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
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Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
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- The international journal
Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO) is now available. The issue contains:
Volume 8 Number 4, 2006
Special Issue: Complexity & Leadership
Editors: Jeffrey A. Goldstein & James K. Hazy
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EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE
Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag,
Chapter proposal due 07/02/04
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The Journal of Developmental Processes will publish its first issue in fall 2006. , The JDP recognizes that complex developmental processes characterize the growth of living organisms. In humans, this complexity is highly elaborated, so that developmental change is affected by many interrelated factors of the body, the mind, family, society and the environment. New discoveries continually add to our understanding of these processes and demonstrate the inadequacy of reductionist approaches.
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Special Issue of the Artificial Life journal on the Evolution of Complexity,
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Digital Graphics for Quantitative Finance,
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Why create movies of financial models? Because key stakeholders often don't understand them. The mathematical, data-intensive sphere of quantitative financial analysis can be a black box even for many in the industry. It is vital for users of this analysis to appreciate, understand and buy into, often literally, these difficult and important concepts.
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Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology, Kunihiko Kaneko, Springer Series: Understanding Complex Systems, 2006
What is life? Has molecular biology given us a satisfactory answer to this question? And if not, why, and how to carry on from there? This book examines life not from the reductionist point of view, but rather asks the question: what are the universal properties of living systems and how can one construct from there a phenomenological theory of life that leads naturally to complex processes such as reproductive cellular systems, evolution and differentiation? The presentation has been deliberately kept fairly non-technical so as to address a broad spectrum of students and researchers from the natural sciences and informatics.
- Chaos and Complexity
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