Complexity Digest 2007.23

04-Jun-2007

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  1. Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?, NY Times
  2. Scores Up Since 'No Child' Was Signed, Washington Post
    1. Preparing Teachers: California Heads Down Many Roads in Search of Best Training Model, Science
    2. Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play, NY Times
  3. Forgetfulness Is A Tool Of The Brain, New Scientist
    1. Food Chemical 'May Boost Memory', BBC News
    2. City Bee To The Rescue Of Those At Risk In Busy Cities, Innovations-report
  4. Packaging Peril: Chemicals In Food Wrapping Turn Toxic, Science News
  5. Cells Re-energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death, ScienceDaily
  6. Specially Bred Mice May Hold Keys to Personalized Medicine, Wired
  7. Science High On French Political Agenda, Nature
    1. Investing In Sustainability: An Interview With Al Gore And David Blood, The McKinsey Quarterly
    2. 5 Things Esther Dyson Has Learned About Emerging Technologies, CIO
  8. Competing as Software Goes to Web, NY Times
  9. High-Temperature Superconductivity: Local Pairs And Small Surfaces, Nature
    1. Discovery Raises Hopes For Levitating Trains, The Star.com
  10. Single Spinning Nuclei In Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block, Harvard University Gazette
    1. Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond, Science
  11. Functional Quantum Nodes for Entanglement Distribution over Scalable Quantum Networks, Science
  12. Drastic Events Make Evolving Networks, Eur. Phys.
  13. Slime Dwellers - A Blanket Seeded With Microbes Appears Critical To Coral Health, Science News
  14. Anthropology: Walking on Trees, Science
  15. Rhesus Monkeys Correctly Read The Goal-Relevant Gestures Of A Human Agent, Proc.Biol. Sc.
  16. Embedded Nanowires Could Control Tissue Growth, New Scientist
  17. 6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!, NY Times
  18. A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity, Science Daily
    1. Building Better Biofuels, MIT Technology Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Groups List 39 "Disappeared" In U.S. War On Terror, Reuters
    2. A Terrorist Hub?, Economist.com
    3. Terrorist Due Process, Wall Street Journal
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    James Yang
    The story of the college dropout who became the world's richest man still has the power to inspire us. It affirms our deeply engrained view that rejecting the received wisdom (do my own thing!) is a path to creativity and wealth.

    As Walt Whitman famously wrote 150 years ago, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." In our individualistic country, the strong, lone voice is often viewed as the animating force behind every kind of success.

  2. Scores Up Since 'No Child' Was Signed, Washington Post Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The nation's students have performed significantly better on state reading and math tests since President Bush signed his landmark education initiative into law five years ago, according to a major independent study released yesterday.

    The study's authors warned that it is difficult to say whether or how much the No Child Left Behind law is driving the achievement gains.

    1. Preparing Teachers: California Heads Down Many Roads in Search of Best Training Model, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The state's research powerhouses are feeling their way while the CSU system goes full speed ahead in producing more high-quality teachers. Staring at a projected need for 33,000 new math and science teachers over the next decade, which dwarfs the state's current output, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger won pledges in 2005 from the state's two public university systems to tackle the problem in return for increased state aid.

    2. Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Brian Harkin for The New York Times
      Presleigh Montemayor, 9, likes the Cartoon Doll Emporium.
      Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies the social aspects of technology, said that the participants on these sites are slipping into virtual worlds more easily than their parents or older siblings.

      "For young people, there is rather a kind of fluid boundary between the real and virtual world, and they can easily pass through it"¨ she said.

      For some children, the allure of these sites is the chance to participate and guide the action on screen, something that is not possible with movies and television.

  3. Forgetfulness Is A Tool Of The Brain, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: "Whenever you're engaging in remembering, the brain adapts. It's constantly re-weighting memories," says Kuhl. "In this simple test, we see it reverse memory to weaken competing memories. This is something that probably happens a lot in the real world."

    A good example is the confusion that arises when we change passwords on our computers or email accounts. We often mix up old and new passwords at first, but through repetition we develop a strong memory of the new password and forget the old one.

    1. Food Chemical 'May Boost Memory', BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Epicatechin is found in grapes
      A chemical found in chocolate, tea, grapes and blueberries can improve the memory of mice, research suggests. The Salk Institute study could lead to further tests to see if epicatechin also works on humans. (...)

      Half the mice in each group were allowed to run on a wheel for two hours each day and then, a month later, were trained to find a platform hidden in a pool of water.

    2. City Bee To The Rescue Of Those At Risk In Busy Cities, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: A recently launched project could make it easier to rescue vulnerable people lost in the urban jungle. The CityBee project, (...) is working on developing a low-cost wireless metropolitan network based on Location Based Services (LBS) wireless technology, which could be used for locating and providing useful services to lost citizens. Each network will be specifically designed and tailored to meet the needs of vulnerable groups within society, such as children, the elderly and the disabled (both physically and mentally). (...) The IEEE 802.15.4 offers the possibility to create complex networks with relatively low power consumption for the mobile nodes, (...).

  4. Packaging Peril: Chemicals In Food Wrapping Turn Toxic, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Chemicals that prevent grease from seeping through food packaging transform in rats into a suspected carcinogenic compound. This conversion could help explain why that compound - perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) - shows up so widely in people's blood, say researchers.

    PFOA, used to manufacture nonstick cookware and rain gear, turns up in blood samples worldwide, reaching concentrations of 30 nanograms per milliliter or more. The chemical doesn't degrade, and people excrete it slowly. An advisory group to the Environmental Protection Agency has recommended classifying PFOA as a rodent carcinogen that may harm people.

  5. Cells Re-energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The discovery of how some abnormal cells can avoid a biochemical program of self-destruction by increasing their energy level and repairing the damage, is giving investigators (...) insights into a key strategy cancer cells use to survive and thrive. The finding offers an explanation of how abnormal cells that have cheated death once by disabling the main suicide pathway called apoptosis can also foil a backup self-destruct program, which allows them to survive and become cancerous. (...) suggests that a drug that disrupts a cancer cell's ability to block this backup program would allow that program to kill the cell. (...)

  6. Specially Bred Mice May Hold Keys to Personalized Medicine, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Scientists at the Jackson Laboratory have developed a genetically diverse panel of mice that can help predict how people with specific genotypes will respond to experimental drugs. Photo: Jackson Laboratory
    A panel of 36 mice could finally deliver the long-unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine. The mice were specially bred to contain just about any genetic predisposition in humans. They should help scientists determine which drugs are dangerous -- or more effective -- for individuals before they reach the market. "Imagine someone discovers a compound that prevents cancer," said Jackson Laboratory geneticist Ken Paigen. "But suppose that in addition to preventing cancer, it has serious adverse effects in some percentage of the population. You'd sure like to know who could and who couldn't use it."

  7. Science High On French Political Agenda, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Incoming president launches superministry for ecology and sustainable development.

    Science has made an unexpectedly strong showing in the government of Francois Fillon, prime minister of France's newly elected president, Nicolas Sarkozy. The environment and energy, in both the French media and government, have become ? la mode.

    Ecology and sustainable development, long relegated to puny ministries, have been propelled to a top-rank superministry.

    1. Investing In Sustainability: An Interview With Al Gore And David Blood, The McKinsey Quarterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Three years ago, former US Vice President Al Gore joined with David Blood, the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, to form an investment-management firm dedicated to investing for sustainability - that is, assessing the way social, economic, environmental, and ethical factors affect the strategy and valuation of businesses. In this interview, the two men explore the underpinnings of their investment philosophy and discuss traditional approaches to socially responsible investing, as well as society's widening expectations of corporate responsibility.

    2. 5 Things Esther Dyson Has Learned About Emerging Technologies, CIO Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The Futurist's Thoughts On Blogs, Privacy And ICANN.

      I Don't Try to Predict the Future. I just try to understand the present. But since you asked, one place I was really wrong was about privacy, or more specifically, people's reaction to the issue. I thought the public would be much more concerned and careful. They are concerned about it but are still careless. They're both willfully ignorant and paranoid! But I am having my own problems trying to figure out how to install an upgrade from Symantec. You could argue that the vendors still don't make it easy enough.

  8. Competing as Software Goes to Web, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Apple is expected to add a networking capability to its next-generation iPod music players. In addition, the software for its next big product, the iPhone, is based on the core of OS X, the operating system for the Macintosh. The approach further blurs the line between the computer and other devices - as well the distinction between the device and the Internet as the place where programs and data reside.

    That shift is likely to be the distinctive feature of both companies' operating- system efforts.

  9. High-Temperature Superconductivity: Local Pairs And Small Surfaces, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Mapping out the strange territory of high-temperature superconductors has proved a challenge. In the latest tour de force, two experiments take big steps forward, in complementary directions, to chart the lie of the land. (...)

    Doiron-Leyraud and colleagues' measurements1 have an echo of the old-fashioned physics of metals; however, the small size of the Fermi surface they observe strongly suggests that entirely new physics is in play.

    1. Discovery Raises Hopes For Levitating Trains, The Star.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The Canadian discovery of the so-called quantum oscillation signature gives physicists the key to figuring out what causes electrons in some special metals to switch to superconducting behaviour. With that insight, they expect to be able to tweak the structure at the microscopic level to trigger superconducting behaviour at room temperatures, instead of only in the ultracold range.

      "This is a key part to the puzzle of understanding how superconductivity works inside these materials," said Stephan Julian, a University of Toronto physics professor who is not a member of the research team.

  10. Single Spinning Nuclei In Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block, Harvard University Gazette Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: At room temperature, carbon-13 nuclei in diamond create stable, controllable quantum register (...)

    "The problem is, what makes single nuclear spin so stable - its weak interaction with its surroundings - also prevents us from directly manipulating it," Lukin says. "How do you control something that can't interact with anything?"

    You do it gingerly and indirectly, the Harvard physicists report in Science. They found that nuclear spins associated with single atoms of carbon-13 - which make up some 1.1 percent of natural diamond(...)

    1. Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The key challenge in experimental quantum information science is to identify isolated quantum mechanical systems with long coherence times that can be manipulated and coupled together in a scalable fashion. We describe the coherent manipulation of an individual electron spin and nearby individual nuclear spins to create a controllable quantum register. Using optical and microwave radiation to control an electron spin associated with the nitrogen vacancy (NV) color center in diamond, we demonstrated robust initialization of electron and nuclear spin quantum bits (qubits) and transfer of arbitrary quantum states between them at room temperature.

  11. Functional Quantum Nodes for Entanglement Distribution over Scalable Quantum Networks, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We demonstrated entanglement distribution between two remote quantum nodes located 3 meters apart. This distribution involves the asynchronous preparation of two pairs of atomic memories and the coherent mapping of stored atomic states into light fields in an effective state of near-maximum polarization entanglement. Entanglement is verified by way of the measured violation of a Bell inequality, and it can be used for communication protocols such as quantum cryptography. The demonstrated quantum nodes and channels can be used as segments of a quantum repeater, providing an essential tool for robust long-distance quantum communication.

  12. Drastic Events Make Evolving Networks, Eur. Phys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Co-authorship networks of neighbouring scientific disciplines, i.e. granular (G) media and networks (N) are studied in order to observe drastic structural changes in evolving networks. The data is taken from arXives. The system is described as coupled networks. By considering the 1995-2005 time interval and scanning the author-article network evolution with a mobile time window, we focus on the properties of the links, as well as on the time evolution of the nodes.

  13. Slime Dwellers - A Blanket Seeded With Microbes Appears Critical To Coral Health, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    BEAUCOUP GOO. This soft coral, Pseudopteragorgia americana or slimy sea plume, is renowned as a prodigious mucus producer.
    Wild
    For decades, biologists had suspected that the few-millimeter-thick coatings of slime served primarily as protective barriers. The material can prevent corals from drying out when exposed to air at low tide. In some species, coral newborns take sanctuary in the mucus until they graduate to life on their own. And as the slime continually sloughs off, it can carry away sand grains and other debris.

  14. Anthropology: Walking on Trees, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: For decades, researchers have viewed standing upright and walking on the ground on two legs as defining features of the hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives). However, we are beginning to learn that some apes in the Miocene (5 to 23 million years ago) not only had upright postures (1) but also incorporated bipedalism into their motion (2, 3). Such movement may well have occurred in the trees. This raises the possibility that preadaptations for hominin bipedalism arose in arboreal settings rather than in terrestrial environments.

  15. Rhesus Monkeys Correctly Read The Goal-Relevant Gestures Of A Human Agent, Proc.Biol. Sc. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: When humans point, they reveal to others their underlying intent to communicate about some distant goal. A controversy has recently emerged based on a broad set of comparative and phylogenetically relevant data. In particular, whereas chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have difficulty in using human-generated communicative gestures and actions such as pointing and placing symbolic markers to find hidden rewards, domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris) and silver foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) readily use such gestures and markers. These comparative data have led to the hypothesis that the capacity to infer communicative intent in dogs and foxes has evolved as a result of human domestication. (...)

  16. Embedded Nanowires Could Control Tissue Growth, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Stem cells are especially intolerant of being disturbed, but the researchers managed to grow the mouse cells for over a month with the wires inside. They even watched as the mass of cells beat like a heart. "Stem cells are very sensitive to external stimulation," says Dong Cai of Boston College, who was not involved in the study. "By not using force, the researchers' method is more compatible with biological systems, so the cells stay happy."

  17. 6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Yarek Waszul
    Moreover, because the way genes influence health and behavior depends heavily on their interaction with the environment, what our genome can tell us may change depending on lifestyle choices.

    People who learn they carry a higher genetic risk of Type II diabetes, for instance, may see that risk increase if they start to gain weight. A gene that makes it difficult for some people to sweat in extreme heat might not matter to you if you live in Seattle. But if you are thinking of moving to Miami, knowing it exists in your genome could prove useful.

  18. A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity, Science Daily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: University of Utah physicist Orest Symko demonstrates how heat can be converted into sound by using a blowtorch to heat a metallic screen inside a plastic tube, which then produces a loud tone, similar to when air is blown into a flute. Symko and his students are developing much smaller devices that not only convert heat to sound, but then use the sound to generate electricity. The devices may be used to cool electronics, harness solar energy in a new way, and conserve energy by changing waste heat into electric power. Credit: (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Utah)

    1. Building Better Biofuels, MIT Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: While much of the focus is on ethanol, LS9, of San Carlos, CA, is using the relatively new field of synthetic biology to engineer bacteria that can make hydrocarbons for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Hydrocarbon fuels are better suited than ethanol to existing delivery infrastructure and engines, and their manufacture would require less energy. To make biological production of hydrocarbons a reality, the company is bringing together leaders in synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology.

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

    1. Groups List 39 "Disappeared" In U.S. War On Terror, Reuters Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."

      The groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they filed a U.S. federal lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the 39 people it terms "ghost prisoners" in the U.S. "war on terror." (...)

      CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano dismissed the report, saying the CIA acts in "strict accord with American law" and its counter-terrorist initiatives are "subject to careful review and oversight."

    2. A Terrorist Hub?, Economist.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The Caribbean region comes under scrutiny

      In the wake of the arrests on June 2nd of several Caribbean nationals in an alleged plot to attack John F Kennedy airport in New York, questions are swirling over the threat of terrorist cells sprouting up across the region and its potential use as a base to launch attacks against the US. Until now there has been no evidence that this is the case, but attention to the Caribbean, the movement of its nationals and its countries' security arrangements will now surely be ratcheted up.

    3. Terrorist Due Process, Wall Street Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: By international law and custom, an unlawful enemy combatant fights out of uniform or targets civilians. The military order that created CSRT [Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Ed.] defines "enemy combatant" in a way that is inherently "unlawful" -- that is, a member of "al Qaeda, the Taliban, any international terrorist organization, or associated forces" that are "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents in violation of the law of war." The problem is that CSRT did not use the word "unlawful" itself.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A Universal Power Law And Proportionate Change Process Characterize The Evolution, S. Singh, A. Samal, V. Giri, S. Krishna, N. Raghuram, S. Jain, 07/05/23, Eur. Phys. J. B 57,
      2. Density Waves In Traffic Flow Model With Relative Velocity, L. Yu, Z.-K. Shi, 07/06/01, Eur. Phys. J. B 57,
      3. Pothole Pals: Ants Pave Roads For Fellow Raiders, 07/06/02, Science News, By throwing their bodies into tiny potholes on rough trails, army ants enable their comrade to race over them, improving the colony's overall foraging success.
      4. Take A Number: Kids Show Math Insights Without Instruction, 07/06/02, Science News, Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities rather than being required to calculate exact solutions.
      5. Mind The Gap: Did Darwin Avoid Publishing His Theory For Many Years?, J. v. Wyhe, 2007/05/22, Notes & Records: Royal Society, DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2006.0171
      6. World's Highest Phone Call Made From Everest: I'm On The Mountain ..., I. Thomson, 2007/05/25, vnunet.com
      7. New Research Shows Sharks Use Their Noses And Bodies To Locate Smells, 2007/05/31, Innovations-report
      8. WFU Study Finds That Moths Mimic Sounds To Survive, 2007/06/01, Innovations-report
      9. Anger Can Make You More Rational, Not Less, According To Recent Studies, 2007/06/01, ScienceDaily& SAGE Publications
      10. Bringing Order To 'What If?', 2007/06/01, ScienceDaily & University of Southern California
      11. Cellular Message Movement Captured On Video, 2007/06/03, ScienceDaily & University of California - San Diego
      12. Expertise Improves Shoot-No Shoot Decisions In Police Officers And Lessens Potential For Racial Bias, 2007/06/04, ScienceDaily & American Psychological Association
      13. Complex Systems, LXXXV: Lecture Notes Of The Les Houches Summer School 2006, J.-P. Bouchaud, M. Mézard, Jean Dalibard, Aug. 2007, Elsevier Book Announcement
      14. China's Nuclear Command, Control And Operations, T.-c. Cheng, Mar. 2007, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, DOI: 10.1093/irap/lcl009
      15. US Presidential Popularity And Opportunities To Coerce North Korea: A Quantitative Test 1990-2000, G. A.M. Davies - gadaaber.ac.uk, Mar. 2007, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, DOI: 10.1093/irap/lcl146
      16. I Have A Voice But I Just Can't Sing: A Narrative Investigation Of Singing And Social Anxiety, C. R. Abril, Mar. 2007, Music Education Research, DOI: 10.1080/14613800601127494
      17. Understanding The Building Blocks Of Dynamic Systems, M. A. Cronin - mcroninagmu.edu, C. Gonzalez, Spring 2007, Online 2007/04/27, System Dynamics Review, DOI: 10.1002/sdr.356

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      2. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      3. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      4. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      5. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      6. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      7. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      8. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      9. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      10. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      11. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      12. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      13. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      14. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      15. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      16. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      17. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      18. 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
      19. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      20. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      21. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      22. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      23. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      24. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      25. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      26. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      2. Beyond Genome 2007 , San Francisco, Ca, 07/06/20-22
      3. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      4. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      5. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      6. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      7. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      8. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      9. Enhancing Learning Through Technology-- Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies , Hong Kong SAR, 07/07/09-10
      10. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      11. STATPHYS 23, the 23rd Intl Conf on Statistical Physics of the Intl Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Genova, Italy, 07/07/09-13
      12. IEEE Intl Conf on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      13. 2007 Unconventional Computing, Bristol, United Kingdom, 07/07/12-14
      14. UK Social Network Conference, London, UK, 07/07/13-14
      15. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      16. SMBI-07 - Statistical Mechanics and Biological Information - Satellite Conference of STATPHYS 2007, Torino, Italy, 07/07/16-18
      17. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      18. 22nd Conf on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) and 19th Conf on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, 07/07/22-26
      19. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      20. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      21. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      22. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      23. Stochastic Resonance 2008, Perugia, Italy, 07/08/17-21
      24. 2nd Intl Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 07/08/20-24
      25. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      26. Itl. Conf. on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics, Poipu Beach, Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii, 07/09/24-27
      27. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium, Ancona, 07/09/27-29
      28. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      29. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      30. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      31. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      32. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      33. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07
      34. Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007 "Systemic development: Local solutions in a global environment", Auckland, New Zealand, 07/12/02-05
      35. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19

    4. Other Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. Postdoc position in computational vision available immediately in London UK, 07/05/18
      2. National Humanities Center Launches Humanities/Sciences Website, 07/04, As part of its ongoing "Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities" project (ASC), the National Humanities Center makes public a new website for the initiative which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being.

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