Complexity Digest 2002.22

03-Jun-2002

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  1. Freeman Dyson Offers Up New Extraterrestrial Search Ideas, The Planetary Society
    1. Life Can Go On Forever, Nature Science Update
  2. Anybody Really Know What Time Is?, Wired News
    1. The Intelligent Noncosmologist's Guide to Spacetime, Science
    2. A Foamy Road to Ultimate Reality, Science
  3. Elephants and Fleas: Is Your Organization Prepared for Change?, Leader to Leader
    1. Why Leaders Should Reconsider Their Measurement Systems"
  4. Can Chimps Ape Ancient Hominid Toolmakers?, Science
    1. Excavation of a Chimpanzee Stone Tool Site in the African Rainforest, Science
  5. A Bot That Knows Where It's Going, Wired News
    1. Klez: Hi Mom, We're No. 1, Wired News
    2. Robots In Invertebrate Neuroscience, Nature
  6. Financial Multifractality And Its Subtleties, arXiv
  7. Silicon Is Slow, Popular Science
  8. Open Your Mind: The Ethics Of Brain Science, The Economist
    1. The Future Of Mind Control, The Economist
  9. Vision: How To Catch Fast Signals With Slow Detectors, News in Physiological Sciences
  10. Trichromatic Color Vision In Primates, News in Physiological Sciences
  11. Neuronal Dynamics Under Periodic Stimuli, Int. J. Neural Systems
  12. Neural Rhythms In Parkinson¡¦s Disease, Brain
  13. A Computational Role For Slow Conductances, Nature Neuroscience
  14. Motion Illusions As Optimal Percepts, Nature Neuroscience
  15. Aging, Double Helix And Small World Property In Genetic Algorithms, arXiv
  16. A Comparison of the Training Value of Two Types of Anesthesia Simulators, Anesth Analg
  17. Creating Health In A Capricious World: The Role Of Chaos And Complexity, Author's Response
  18. Gould's Last Book Is Fitting Epitaph, Boston Globe
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. No Trade Off Between Human Rights And Security, Amnesty International Press Release/Video
    2. Amnesty International USA Release of 2002 Human Rights Report, C-Span Video
    3. F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry, NYTimes
    4. The Rowley Memo, NYTimes
    5. F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable, NYTimes
    6. How the FBI Blew the Case, Time, 02/05/25
    7. Thanks for the Heads-Up, NYTimes
    8. ACLU Blasts Plan to Use Flawed Facial Recognition System at Statue of Liberty and Other NY Landmarks, ACLU Press Release
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements

  1. Freeman Dyson Offers Up New Extraterrestrial Search Ideas, The Planetary Society Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Dyson also offered up his thoughts on the "possible history and evolution of life" that might exist away from planets during his talk at JPL. In essence, he suggests that if life has emerged and thrived in the vacuum of space, it may be much hardier in many ways than air-breathing life and more adept at colonizing solar systems and galaxies.

    The two "outstanding qualities" that distinguish living from non-living objects on Earth, Dyson proffers, are adaptability and invasiveness.


    1. Life Can Go On Forever, Nature Science Update Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Contributing Editor's Note: The question of how long life can go arises because energy resources are limited and on the other hand population is increasing. One solution is organisms use up energy more slowly by slowing down their metabolism which will again cool them down even below the surrounding temperature. This violates the condition of existence. So the surrounding temperature also has to cool down. The following article reviews two works addressing problems related to this possibility.

      Excerpts: (...)  now suggest that this lower temperature limit need not be fixed, but might itself decrease over time. It all depends on why the universe is accelerating. One reason why a universe might expand is that empty space actually exerts a pressure that counteracts the force of gravity. This pressure is quantified by the so-called cosmological constant (....). A universe with a cosmological constant acquires a background radiation. But crucially, this energy, and thus the background temperature, decreases with time.

      This means that a life form could conceivably slow its metabolism down to avoid running out of energy (...).


  2. Anybody Really Know What Time Is?, Wired News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: He [Dick Bierman, Ed.] repeated and amplified earlier work that studies emotional responses to shocking or erotic imagery, seconds before the subject sees the randomly timed stimulus.

    Bierman's work may have revealed a crude ability to sense the future,(...), even if this skill only spans a few heartbeats.

    On Tuesday he presented new magnetic resonance imagery from a similar experiment that confirms this result. More strikingly, he also found the same "pre-sentiment" effect when he re-examined two related studies performed by other independent research teams.


    1. The Intelligent Noncosmologist's Guide to Spacetime, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Since Einstein unleashed it on a bemused world, physicists have known that the stuff that shapes our universe is real, earnest, and increasingly useful. This pocket history explains how it came to be an indispensable part of their intellectual toolbox, and an asset to yours.

    2. A Foamy Road to Ultimate Reality, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: We know spacetime can ripple and curve and twist, but what does its fabric look like on very small scales? Nobody knows for sure, but when physicists find out, it may drastically alter our view of the universe--and of space and time.

  3. Elephants and Fleas: Is Your Organization Prepared for Change?, Leader to Leader Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The only way to prolong the life of the body in question, be it an organization or even a career, is to start a second [sigmoid, Ed.] curve. But to allow time and resources for the initial period of learning and investment, that second curve has to start before the first one peaks. You then encounter the paradox of success -- when things are going well, there seems to be no reason to change. (…) That very reluctance to change ultimately turns success into failure.

    1. Why Leaders Should Reconsider Their Measurement Systems" Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The chaotic state of contemporary measurement was impressed upon me when I attended a senior executive meeting of a major electronics company, at which the company's leaders were carefully reviewing their dozen or so key performance measures.

      The executives meticulously examined a list of measures that was notable for its breadth: customer satisfaction, sales closure ratio, market share, order fulfillment time, employee satisfaction, working capital, service cost per customer, customer retention, new product break-even time, revenue per employee, and return on equity.


  4. Can Chimps Ape Ancient Hominid Toolmakers?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Chimpanzees spend hours patiently using stone or wooden hammers to break open tough nutshells. Now, on page 1452, two primatologists and an archaeologist present one of the first research reports on chimpanzee archaeology--a description of stone pieces they dug up at a chimp nutcracking site in the Tai forest in CUte d'Ivoire. The researchers argue that the chimps' leavings bear some resemblance to some of the simplest artifacts left by hominids millions of years ago--although not all anthropologists agree.

    1. Excavation of a Chimpanzee Stone Tool Site in the African Rainforest, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Chimpanzees from the Taï forest of Côte d'Ivoire produce unintentional flaked stone assemblages at nut-cracking sites, leaving behind a record of tool use and plant consumption that is recoverable with archaeological methods. About 40 kilograms of nutshell and 4 kilograms of stone were excavated at the Panda 100 site. The data unearthed show that chimpanzees transported stones from outcrops and soils to focal points, where they used them as hammers to process foodstuff. The repeated use of activity areas led to refuse accumulation and site formation.


  5. A Bot That Knows Where It's Going, Wired News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: To teach the ER1 to find the kitchen in an apartment, the user simply places the robot in the kitchen (...), tells it to take a picture, then says what that picture is.

    After the training, (…), the ER1 uses the stored images to guide it to its destination. The robot processes 30 still-frame photos a minute looking for a picture that matches its memory. Initially, the robot would have difficulty finding its way around since it would only have one picture, but it would continue searching until it reached its destination.

     


    1. Klez: Hi Mom, We're No. 1, Wired News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: More interesting than Klez's ability to entice vast numbers of users to open its infected e-mailed attachments is how the virus -- which is neither particularly clever nor cutting edge -- managed to turn some antiviral applications into spam-generating machines.

      In many cases, network antiviral (AV) software filters are set to automatically respond to any incoming virus-infected messages (…).

      Klez's trick of spoofing senders' addresses resulted in floods of those warnings going out to the wrong people: people who did not send the virus and whose machines are not infected.

       


    2. Robots In Invertebrate Neuroscience, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Can we now build artificial animals? A combination of robot technology and neuroethological knowledge is enabling the development of realistic physical models of biological systems. And such systems are not only of interest to engineers. By exploring identified neural control circuits in the appropriate functional and environmental context, new insights are also provided to biologists.


  6. Financial Multifractality And Its Subtleties, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Detailed study of multifractal characteristics of the financial time series of asset values and of its returns is performed using a collection of the high frequency Deutsche Aktienindex data. The tail index (alfa), the Renyi exponents based on the box counting algorithm for the graph (dq) and the generalized Hurst exponents (Hq) are computed in parallel for short and daily return times. The results indicate a more complicated nature of the stock market dynamics than just consistent multifractal.

  7. Silicon Is Slow, Popular Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: One tactic is to avoid the size limitation of silicon without abandoning the comfort of classical computer circuitry. Molecular electronics, or moletronics, which involves building circuits from carbon and other elements, mimics traditional computing architecture while potentially speeding it up immeasurably. (…)

    If molecules can do double duty as both transistors and amplifiers, then logic gates-and, by extension, an entire chip-could be made not only smaller but also more cheaply, says Stan Williams, director of quantum science research for Hewlett-Packard.

     


  8. Open Your Mind: The Ethics Of Brain Science, The Economist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Concerns about genetic technology fall into three main categories: first, how much screening should be allowed for certain genetic traits; second, who should have access to such information; and third, what will happen when those traits can be modified at will, possibly in ways that challenge the very idea of what it is to be human.

    Concerns about neurotechnology fall into the same three groups. Neuroscientists may soon be able to screen people's brains to assess their mental health; to distribute that information, (…).


    1. The Future Of Mind Control, The Economist Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: If you want to predict and control a person's behavior, the brain is the place to start. Over the course of the next decade, scientists may be able to predict, by examining a scan of a person's brain, not only whether he will tend to mental sickness or health, but also whether he will tend to depression or violence. Neural implants may within a few years be able to increase intelligence or to speed up reflexes. Drug companies are hunting for molecules to assuage brain-related ills, from paralysis to shyness.


  9. Vision: How To Catch Fast Signals With Slow Detectors, News in Physiological Sciences Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The visual system is equipped with highly sensitive but slow detectors, yet it can resolve light changes up to 60 Hz. Processes taking place in retinal circuits go beyond the intrinsic limits of the transduction machinery by an unconventional exploitation of voltage-dependent conductances, cleverly lined up to generate a cascade of band-pass amplification stages.

  10. Trichromatic Color Vision In Primates, News in Physiological Sciences Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Trichromatic color vision is rare among mammals, occurring only in some primates. Recent work has elucidated the adaptive behavioral significance of trichromacy as well as its underlying genetic and neurophysiological mechanisms. These studies reveal a complex neural system whose design and operation apparently does not conform to rigid deterministic principles.

  11. Neuronal Dynamics Under Periodic Stimuli, Int. J. Neural Systems Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The convergence characteristics of a single dissipative Hopfield-type neuron with self-interaction under periodic external stimuli are considered. Sufficient conditions are established for associative encoding and recall of the periodic patterns associated with the external stimuli. Both continuous-time-continuous-state and discrete-time-continuous-state models are discussed. It is shown that when the neuronal gain is dominated by the neuronal dissipation on average, associative recall of the encoded temporal pattern is guaranteed and this is achieved by the global asymptotic stability of the encoded pattern.

  12. Neural Rhythms In Parkinson¡¦s Disease, Brain Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Contributing Editor's Note: Although neural rhythms are studied with reference to Parkinson's disease in the following article, it also summarizes some recent findings of the rhythms in the brain in general. When networks of neurons (brain cells) interact the result is often rhythmic activity within defined frequency ranges. Normal functioning of the brain as well as associated diseases can be explained by analyzing these frequency ranges. Please note that STN stands for sub-thalamic nucleus.

    Excerpts: Many of our concepts of diseases such as epilepsy are bound up with ideas of widespread rhythmic synchronization of neural elements resulting in loss of consciousness and violent involuntary movement.
    > Using Fourier analysis they have identified the dominant frequencies of oscillatory activity in action potential spike trains and local field potentials. Application of coherence analysis to such data enables the determination of correlation and phase relationships between frequency components of different signals. Calculation of the coherence allows researchers to focus on the interaction between salient frequencies within the signals; furthermore, interactions between frequencies of different types of signal (...)


  13. A Computational Role For Slow Conductances, Nature Neuroscience Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Humans effortlessly interpret speech and music, whose patterns can contain sound durations up to thousands of milliseconds. How nervous systems measure such long durations is unclear. We show here that model neurons containing physiological slow conductances are 'naturally' sensitive to duration, replicate known duration-sensitive neurons and can be 'tuned' to respond to a wide range of specific durations. In addition, these models reproduce several other properties of duration-sensitive neurons not selected for in model construction. These data, and the widespread presence of slow conductances in nervous systems, suggest that slow conductances might play a major role in duration measurement.

  14. Motion Illusions As Optimal Percepts, Nature Neuroscience Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The pattern of local image velocities on the retina encodes important environmental information. Although humans are generally able to extract this information, they can easily be deceived into seeing incorrect velocities. (...) 'illusions' arise naturally in a system that attempts to estimate local image velocity. We formulated a model of visual motion perception (...) under the assumptions that (i) there is noise in the initial measurements and (ii) slower motions are more likely to occur than faster ones. We found that specific instantiation of such a velocity estimator can account for a wide variety of psychophysical phenomena.

  15. Aging, Double Helix And Small World Property In Genetic Algorithms, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Over a quarter of century after the invention of genetic algorithms and miriads of their modifications, as well as successful implementations, we are still lacking many essential details of thorough analysis of it's inner working. One of such fundamental questions is how many generations do we need to solve the optimization problem? This paper tries to answer this question, albeit in a fuzzy way, making use of the double helix concept. As a byproduct we gain better understanding of the ways, in which the genetic algorithm may be fine tuned.

  16. A Comparison of the Training Value of Two Types of Anesthesia Simulators, Anesth Analg Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In this study, we compared two different training simulators (the computer screen-based simulator versus the full-scale simulator) with respect to training effectiveness in anesthesia residents. Participants were evaluated in the management of a simulated preprogrammed scenario of anaphylactic shock using two variables: treatment score and diagnosis time. Our results showed that simulators can contribute significantly to the improvement of performance but that learning in treating simulated crisis situations such as anaphylactic shock did not significantly vary between full-scale and computer screen-based simulators. Consequently, the initial decision on whether to use a full-scale or computer screen-based training simulator should be made on the basis of cost and learning objectives rather than on the basis of technical or fidelity criteria. Our results support the contention that screen-based simulators are good devices to acquire technical skills of crisis management. Mannequin-based simulators would probably provide better training for behavioral aspects of crisis management, such as communication, leadership, and interpersonal conflicts, but this was not tested in the current study.

     


  17. Creating Health In A Capricious World: The Role Of Chaos And Complexity, Author's Response Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Contributing Editor's Note: We published the above article in which works of Dr. VS Rambihar and his books were introduced. Later in ComDig May19, 2002 issue we produced series of articles (9.1, 9.2 & 9.3) on related topics.

    Author's Response: It was a pleasure to see in the Complexity Digest a series of articles from J. of Consciousness on quantum, mind and electric field. I am essentially a cardiologist in a busy practice.

    Observations of my patients from 1985 -1995 in my practice of medicine and cardiology, led me to a disenchantment with scientific explanations of how and why things happened. Sensing in chaos and complexity a fundamental principle applicable at all scales and relevant to varied interactions, social, biological and otherwise, I proposed in 1996 a chaos theory of medicine, health. My writing emerged from my practice of medicine rather from physics (...). If you think they are useful or interesting enough, I have no problem making them available to Complexity Digest readers.: Dr. VS Rambihar

     


  18. Gould's Last Book Is Fitting Epitaph, Boston Globe Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:  Natural selection is not the whole story of evolution, he insists. Life is more quirky than biologists are ready to admit, more contingent on the unpredictable. Not every feature of organisms can be accounted for by adaptation to environment. Among biologists, Gould is best known for his theory of ''punctuated equilibrium,'' developed with his colleague, Niles Eldredge. The evolution of organisms does not move in smooth, incremental steps, they say, as neo-Darwinians are inclined to suppose, but in fits and starts (…).

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

    1. No Trade Off Between Human Rights And Security, Amnesty International Press Release/Video Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A number of governments rushed through legislation and other "anti-terrorism" measures in the name of security. These measures include indefinite detention without trial, special courts based on secret evidence, or cultural and religious restrictions -- sometimes creating shadow criminal justice systems. There was a greater reluctance by governments to criticize others' domestic policies.

      "Security can not and must not take precedence over human rights. The biggest danger to human rights is when political and economic interests are allowed to drive the human rights agenda," stated Ms Khan.


    2. Amnesty International USA Release of 2002 Human Rights Report, C-Span Video Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: In late November, the Attorney General released partial data on the arrests, revealing that 104 people had been charged with various criminal offences, many of them minor and none directly related to 11 September, of whom half remained in custody. Another 548 unidentified individuals were held on immigration charges. The authorities failed to give information on where the detainees were held or whether those facing deportation on immigration charges, who included asylum-seekers, had adequate access to legal representation.


    3. F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A senior F.B.I. agent in Minneapolis has accused a supervisor at the agency's Washington headquarters of altering a report in a way that made it impossible for investigators to obtain crucial evidence in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, before the Sept. 11 attacks (…).

      In her letter, Ms. Rowley was especially critical of the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, whom she wrote had made "misleading" public statements on how the F.B.I. handled the Moussaoui case both before and after Sept. 11, (…).


    4. The Rowley Memo, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Why did F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller desperately stamp "classified" on last week's memo to him from the Minneapolis agent and counsel Coleen Rowley?

      Answer: Because he is protecting the bureau's crats who ignored warnings from the field before Sept. 11, and because he is trying to cover his own posterior for misleading the public and failing to inform the president in the eight months since.

      She [Rowley , Ed.] asserts (…) "your statements demonstrate a rush to judgment to protect the F.B.I. at all costs."


    5. F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Mr. Mueller's statements about how the F.B.I. dealt with intelligence reports before Sept. 11 were a sharp turnabout from both the substance and tone of remarks he and other other administration officials made in the weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As recently as May 8, Mr. Mueller told a Senate hearing that there was nothing the agency could have done to prevent the attacks.

      But that stance became increasingly untenable in recent weeks (…).


    6. How the FBI Blew the Case, Time, 02/05/25 Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: While saying she does not believe the FBI director engaged in a post-9/11 cover-up, Rowley accuses Mueller and senior aides of having "omitted, downplayed, glossed over and or/mischaracterized" her office's investigation of Moussaoui. After Sept. 11, top FBI officials decided to "circle the wagons," as she puts it, and deny - as Mueller did immediately after the attacks - that the FBI had any knowledge that Islamic terrorists might be planning an attack involving hijacked airplanes.


    7. Thanks for the Heads-Up, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ridge, Mueller. Is there anyone who has not warned us of Armageddon over the past week? As far as I can tell, the only slacker in this White House game of Wag the Dog is Spot.

      You don't have to be a cynic to believe that the point of the warnings is not to save lives so much as political hides. After all, we can't go about our daily business much differently just because of these dire pronouncements.


    8. ACLU Blasts Plan to Use Flawed Facial Recognition System at Statue of Liberty and Other NY Landmarks, ACLU Press Release Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The American Civil Liberties Union today sharply criticized a plan to use ineffective facial recognition technology during the Memorial Day weekend to augment security at popular New York tourist destinations including Ellis Island and the Statute of Liberty.

      "To have such a system in place near the Statue of Liberty -- our nation's beacon of liberty -- is both ironic and disheartening, (…) it is an insult to the American people and to those in law enforcement who truly know how to keep us safe."


  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Linked: The New Science of Networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Perseus Press, 2002, The first book to explore the hot new science of networks and their impact on nature, business, medicine, and everyday life.

        Fractals In An Electronic Circuit By Switching Inputs, J. Nishikawa & K. Gohara,  Int. J. Bifur. and Chaos, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 827-834, April 2002

      2. Applying Genomics Technologies To Neural Development, S. Blackshaw, R. Livesey, Current opinion in Neurobiology,Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp: 110-114, February 2002
      3. The Neuronal Channelopathies, D. M. Kullmann, Brain, Vol. 125, No. 6, 1177-1195, June 2002
      4. A New Multiword Naming Deficit: Evidence And Interpretation, M. F. Schwartz; C. Hodgson , Cognitive Neuropsychology,  Vol. 19 Number: 3, pp: 263 - 288, March 2002
      5. New Transplant Organ Sensor Technology, D. Young,  Alphagalileo, 22 May 2002
      6. Virtual Robot Outlines Damaged Heart Muscle, M. Philippens, Alphagalileo, 23 May 2002
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      8. Atlanta's Growing Thirst Creates Water War, Douglas Jehl, NYTimes, 02/05/24
      9. Hypothesis Testing As A Laboratory Exercise: A Simple Analysis Of Human, Walking, With A Physiological Surprise, John E. A. Bertram, AJP: Advan 2002 June 1; 26(2): p. 110-119
      10. Cardiovascular Interactions: An Interactive Tutorial And Mathematical Model, Carl F. Rothe and John M. Gersting, AJP: Advan 2002 June 1; 26(2): p. 98-109

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 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
      2. 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.
      3. The Body is a Machine, the World is a System: The Convergence of Engineering and the Life Sciences, Cornell Society of Engineers Conference, 02/04/11-13
      4. Powell Voices Support for Scientific Contributions to U.S. Foreign Policy, 139th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 02/04/30
      5. Invisible Advantage Webcast, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02/05/15, Jon Low, Center for Business Innovation Senior Research Fellow, will preview his new book, Invisible Advantage
      6. Introducing Complexity, The University of Liverpool ,02/04/24, (mp3 web-cast and audio download, contributed by Carlos Gershenson)
      7. The Adaptive Enterprise in Action, The Center for Business Innovation, online until June 2002
      8. Symmetry in Science and Art - Symmetry in Chaos, (In German), O.E. Roessler, 01/12/17
      9. Whisper the Songs of Silence, Leander Kahney, Wired News, 02/05/29 (mp3 audio)
      10. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998

       


    3. Conference Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. International Conference SocioPhysics, ZIF - Bielefeld, Germany, 02/06/06-09
      2. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2002), Nashua, NH, 02/06/9-14
      3. Sitges Conference "Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks", Sitges, Spain, 02/06/10-14
      4. 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02), Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, 02/06/12-15
      5. AES 22nd International Conference on Virtual, Synthetic And Entertainment Audio, Espoo, Finland, 02/06/15-17
      6. Complex Systems: Control and Modeling Problems, Samara, Russia, 02/06/17
      7. 3rd European Interdisciplinary School on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis EUROATTRACTOR2002, Warsaw, 02/06/18-27
      8. International Conference: Emergence in Chemical Systems, University of Alaska Anchorage, 02/06/20-23
      9. Plexus Conference - Diffusing Innovations: Learning With Everett Rogers & Each Other, Borgess Navigation Center Kalamazoo, Michigan USA , 02/06/21-22
      10. Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics, Maribor, Slovenia, 02/06/30 - 07/14
      11. 7th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition - ICMPC7, Sydney, 02/07/17-21
      12. 20th System Dynamics Conference: Organizational Change Dynamics - Understanding Systems, Managing Transformation, Palermo, Italy, 02/07/28-08/01
      13. Complexity and Philosophy, Norwood, Massachusetts, USA, 02/07/29-30
      14. Workshop On Fluctuations Chaos And Complexity In Multistable Systems, Lancaster University, 02/08/01-07
      15. 12th Ann Intl Conf Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences: Chaos and Complexity in a Changing World, Portland, OR, USA, 02/08/01-04
      16. International Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Shanghai, China, 02/08/07-08
      17. Econophysics Conference, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 02/08/29-31
      18. Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 02/09/08-13
      19. Complex Systems (CS02) Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, 02/09/10-12
      20. 3rd Intl NAISO Symposium on Engineering Of Intelligent Systems (EIS 20020), Malaga, Spain, 02/09/24-27
      21. Seminar on Non-equilibrium Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Complex Systems, Avila, Spain, 02/09/24-28.
      22. ACRI 2002, 5th Intl Conf on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Geneva, Switzerland, 02/10/09-11 
      23. 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
      24. 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
      25. Managing the Complex IV, Naples , FL, Early December 2002
      26. Artificial Life VIII, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 02/12/09-13
      27. Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-36), Big Island, Hawaii, 03/01/06-09
      28. 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Hong Kong, 03/06/01-05

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