Complexity Digest 2007.13

26-Mar-2007

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  1. Connections: Frontier At Your Fingertips, Nature
  2. Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans, NY Times
    1. Citizendium Aims To Be Better Wikipedia, Associated Press
    2. The Wiki Workplace, BusinessWeek.com
    3. Agencies Join Forces To Share Data, Nature
  3. Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic, NY Times
    1. Gone Parkin', NY Times
  4. Failing Schools See a Solution in Longer Day, NY Times
    1. Finding Math Hard? Blame Your Right Parietal Lobe, ScienceDaily
  5. Monkey See, Monkey Do? Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning, Innovations-report
    1. Sustainable Energy, Planning Wind Turbines [Using Wikiproces, Ed.], Wikinomics
  6. Would Industrial Ecology Exist Without Sustainability In The Background?, J. Industrial Ecol.
  7. Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior, NY Times
  8. Future Recall: Your Mind Can Slip Through Time, New Scientist
  9. The Mind-Bending New World Of Work, Business Week.com
  10. Climate Change: Carbon Trading Over Taxes, Science
  11. Geophysics: The Next Great Earthquake, Science
  12. The New Face of Emoticons, Technology Review
    1. Apple Cult Becoming a Religion, NY Times
  13. Looking For Hidden Signs Of Consciousness, Nature
    1. Pentagon Preps Mind Fields, Wired
  14. Behavioural Neuroscience: Hare-Brained Flies, Nature
  15. Engineering Bacteria to Harvest Light
    1. Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Pathway, Innovations-report
  16. UCF Researchers Work On Spy Drones, Orlando Sentinel
    1. Robots With Rhythm Could Rock Your World, New Scientist.com
    2. Raytheon Develops World's First Polymorphic Computer, Military Embedded Systems
    3. Working To Develop Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba, ScienceDaily
    4. How Blood Cells Change Shape, ScienceDaily
  17. Magnifying Superlens in the Visible Frequency Range, Science
    1. Bolt-On 'Superlens' Gives Microscope Nanoscale Vision, New Scientist.com
  18. Extrasolar Planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. C.I.A. Awaits Rules on Terrorism Interrogations, NY Times
    2. Communication in the Face of Terror, NY Times
    3. Deterring A Nuclear 9/11, Washington Quarterly
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Connections: Frontier At Your Fingertips, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Between the nano- and micrometre scales, the collective behaviour of matter can give rise to startling emergent properties that hint at the nexus between biology and physics. (...)

    For example, 'quantum critical metals' develop a strange, almost linear temperature dependence and a marked predisposition towards developing superconductivity. The space-time aspect of quantum phase transitions gives them a cosmological flavour (...). Another fascinating thread here is that like life, these inanimate transformations involve the growth of processes that are correlated and self-sustaining in time.

  2. Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, has created Mechanical Turk, a service in which humans are paid a small sum to do jobs that computers can't do.
    The problem has prompted a spooky, but elegant, business idea: why not use the Web to create marketplaces of willing human beings who will perform the tasks that computers cannot? Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, has created Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online service involving human workers, and he has also personally invested in a human-assisted search company called ChaCha. Mr. Bezos describes the phenomenon very prettily, calling it ¡§artificial artificial intelligence.¡¨

    1. Citizendium Aims To Be Better Wikipedia, Associated Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane. To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable ¡X and relatively small ¡X price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design.

    2. The Wiki Workplace, BusinessWeek.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Thanks in part to younger workers, more companies are using social computing tools to aid collaboration and to foster innovation and growth

      When Robert Stephens graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in computer science in 1994, he wanted to start a business consultancy. But hiring a staff of good consultants takes a lot of money, and Stephens had little, so he founded Geek Squad, a cheekily branded computer repair company that helps consumers navigate the increasing complexity of electronic gadgetry.

    3. Agencies Join Forces To Share Data, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: US to create a universal database of all its research results.

      The US government is considering a massive plan to store almost all scientific data generated by federal agencies in publicly accessible digital repositories. The aim is for the kind of data access and sharing currently enjoyed by genome researchers via GenBank, or astronomers via the National Virtual Observatory, but for the whole of US science.

  3. Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Study participants were given two tasks and were asked to respond to sounds and images. The first was to press the correct key on a computer keyboard after hearing one of eight sounds. The other task was to speak the correct vowel after seeing one of eight images.

    The researchers said that they did not see a delay if the participants were given the tasks one at a time. But the researchers found that response to the second task was delayed by up to a second when the study participants were given the two tasks at about the same time.

    1. Gone Parkin', NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Several studies have found that cruising for curb parking generates about 30 percent of the traffic in central business districts. (...)

      The balance between the varying demand for parking and the fixed supply of curb spaces is the Goldilocks Principle of parking prices: the price is too high if too many spaces are vacant, and too low if no spaces are vacant. But when only a few spaces are vacant, the price is just right, and everyone will see that curb parking is both well used and readily available.

  4. Failing Schools See a Solution in Longer Day, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The idea of a longer day was first promoted in charter schools ¡X public schools that are tax-supported but independently run. But the surge of interest has been spurred largely by the federal No Child Left Behind law, which requires annual testing of students, with increasingly dire consequences for schools that fall short each year, including possible closing.

    Pressed by the demands of the law, school officials who support longer days say that much of the regular day must concentrate on test preparation.

    1. Finding Math Hard? Blame Your Right Parietal Lobe, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Scientists have, for the first time, induced difficulties with mathematics (dyscalculia) in subjects who normally find math easy. The study, which finds that the right parietal lobe is responsible for dyscalculia, potentially has implications for diagnosis and management through remedial teaching. Dyscalculia is just as prevalent in the population as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- around 5% of the population is affected. However, dyscalculia has not been given the same attention as other disorders and the underlying brain dysfunction causing dyscalculia is still a mystery. (...)

  5. Monkey See, Monkey Do? Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical activity, such as skiing or ballet? A new study (...) unravels some of the mysteries surrounding how we learn to do things like tie our shoes, feed ourselves, or perform dazzling dance steps. "What makes one person clumsy and the next person a prima ballerina is a combination of talent and practice," explains study co-author Robert Sekuler a neuroscientist at Brandeis" Volen Center for Complex Systems. (...)

    1. Sustainable Energy, Planning Wind Turbines [Using Wikiproces, Ed.], Wikinomics Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A wiki is used in the Netherlands to plan windturbines, to realise a CO2 cut of 20 to 30%. On the wiki, extended with a googlemaps plugin, maps with proposed windturbine locations are designed. The goal of the wikiproces is to present locations for 6000 3MWatt turbines, enough to provide for all electricity in the Netherlands.

      Locals can support designs in their own area, by improving the design, and they can claim a part of a specific windturbine.

  6. Would Industrial Ecology Exist Without Sustainability In The Background?, J. Industrial Ecol. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Industrial ecology rests historically-even in a short lifetime of 15 years or so-on the metaphorical power of natural ecosystems. (...). This article examines the relationships between industrial ecology and sustainability and argues that, in its historical relationship to classical ecology models, the field lacks power to address the full range of goals of sustainability, however defined. (...) But by moving beyond this model to more recent ecosystem models based on complexity theory, the field can expand its purview to address sustainability more broadly and powerfully. Complexity models of living systems can also ground alternative normative models for sustainability (...).

  7. Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Illustration by Edel Rodriguez based on source material from Frans de Waal Social OrderChimpanzees have a sense of social structure and rules of behavior, most of which involve the hierarchy of a group, in which some animals rank higher than others. Social living demands a number of qualities that may be precursors of morality.
    Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.

    Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of human morality. They further believe that if morality grew out of behavioral rules shaped by evolution, it is for biologists, not philosophers or theologians, to say what these rules are.

  8. Future Recall: Your Mind Can Slip Through Time, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: If you thought memory was all about making a record of the past, think again IMAGINE your next vacation. You are relaxing on a beach, waves lapping at the shore, a cool breeze wafting through the trees and the sun caressing your skin. Fill in the details. What else do you see? Now, remember yesterday's commute. Again, a picture emerges. You are on the train or in your car, or maybe just wandering from your kitchen to your desk. Can you remember what you were wearing? Perhaps you have forgotten that part already.

  9. The Mind-Bending New World Of Work, Business Week.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Motion-capture technology has burst out of Hollywood and into businesses from aerospace to advertising (...)

    Motion tracking has all the marks of a disruptive technology, slinking on to the scene in unexpected ways. Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist and professor at MIT, talks about "the mirroring of body motion, and of course the subtle things like hand gestures, or the way someone characteristically cocks his head before speaking." Captured and incorporated into business and entertainment systems, "these motions will give us a much greater sense of connection with our online selves.

  10. Climate Change: Carbon Trading Over Taxes, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: As the United States moves inevitably toward climate legislation, discussion has shifted from the science to the policy options for slowing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. Some favor a tax on CO2 emissions--referred to as a C tax (1). Others favor government subsidies (2). If high enough to alter consumer behavior, a carbon tax would reduce emissions by raising the effective price of carbon-intensive energy relative to carbon-free sources. Subsidies may speed development of specific, targeted low-C technologies.

  11. Geophysics: The Next Great Earthquake, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: There are more than 40,000 km of subduction boundaries (see the figure). The rupture of any one contiguous segment ~800 km or more in length can produce an M9 earthquake. Seismologists have long tried to determine which segments are more likely than others to break. Yet, the M9 earthquake of 2004 ruptured a segment that was thought to be among the least likely to go. What governs the frequency of these massive quakes, and are all subduction segments capable of producing one?

  12. The New Face of Emoticons, Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Spot the difference: Warping software allows people to use their faces as emoticons. They manipulate the image to depict different emotions; the examples shown are "anger," "disgust," and "fear." Credit: X. Li, C. Chang, S. Chang and J. Huang
    Warping photos could help text-based communications become more expressive.

    Computer scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to make e-mails, instant messaging, and texts just a bit more personalized. Their software will allow people to use images of their own faces instead of the more traditional emoticons to communicate their mood. By automatically warping their facial features, people can use a photo to depict any one of a range of different animated emotional expressions, such as happy, sad, angry, or surprised.

    1. Apple Cult Becoming a Religion, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: After nearly three decades, Apple is finally being taken seriously not just by the true believers, but by just about everybody.

      (...) both the iPhone and, more recently, Apple TV, have quickly become "must have" products. "A lot of people thought Apple got lucky with the iPod," Mr. Kahney wrote. (...) But the iPhone is already thought of as an "industry-changing smash hit," and Apple TV, which at first drew shrugs, now may even eclipse the iPhone, according to the predictions of some (though by no means many) people (ipodnn.com).

  13. Looking For Hidden Signs Of Consciousness, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A 'brain-activity' test for patients in a vegetative state has divided neurologists.

    Can brain-injured patients who show no response to their surroundings ever be considered conscious? This question became a hot topic last year after researchers who scanned the brain of a woman diagnosed as being in a vegetative state found that she could perform certain mental tasks on request.

    1. Pentagon Preps Mind Fields, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The U.S. military is working on computers than can scan your mind and adapt to what you're thinking. Since 2000, Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, has spearheaded a far-flung, nearly $70 million effort to build prototype cockpits, missile control stations and infantry trainers that can sense what's occupying their operators' attention, and adjust how they present information, accordingly. Similar technologies are being employed to help intelligence analysts find targets easier by tapping their unconscious reactions.

  14. Behavioural Neuroscience: Hare-Brained Flies, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Using the fruitfly (...) as a model to investigate human traits such as attention span might seem odd. But the power of Drosophila genetics, together with previous studies pointing to sophisticated behavioural responses in this organism, in fact makes it an ideal choice for studying how our minds wander.

  15. Engineering Bacteria to Harvest Light Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A set of genes found in marine microorganisms can endow common bacteria with the ability to generate energy from light. (...)

    Some bacteria, such as cyanobacteria, use photosynthesis to make sugars, just as plants do. But others have a newly discovered ability to harvest light through a different mechanism: using light-activated proteins known as proteorhodopsins, which are similar to proteins found in our retinas. When the protein is bound to a light-sensitive molecule called retinal and hit with light, it pumps positively charged protons across the cell membrane.

    1. Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Pathway, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: USC researchers discover small molecule that may allow for growth of human stem cells without threat of contamination from mouse feeder cells. A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types, allowing them to instead continue growing and dividing indefinitely, according to research performed by a team of scientists (...). This discovery takes scientists another step closer to being able to grow embryonic stem cells without the "feeder layer" of mouse fibroblast cells that is essential for maintaining the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells, (...).

  16. UCF Researchers Work On Spy Drones, Orlando Sentinel Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A flock of migratory birds can find its way over wide areas of the world. An army of ants working together can devour a large animal.

    Borrowing from their behavior, two researchers at the University of Central Florida are working to enable droves of small, unmanned aerial vehicles to operate together in an intelligent, coordinated manner, scoping out enemy troops in combat zones.

    1. Robots With Rhythm Could Rock Your World, New Scientist.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Internal motors and wires make Keepon move in time to a tune (Image: Marek Michalowski/CMU)
      Michalowski, however, believes robots could usefully apply a sense of rhythm beyond the dance floor. In particular, during ordinary conversations and other interactions with humans. He hopes this will make robots move more like humans and make them more socially engaging.

      "Rhythm and synchrony are the foundations of social interactions," he told New Scientist. "So I think that for us to comfortably interact with a robot, it needs to be capable of that."

    2. Raytheon Develops World's First Polymorphic Computer, Military Embedded Systems Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The world's first computers whose architecture can adopt different forms depending on their application have been developed by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN).

      Dubbed MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) and developed to address the large data volume of sensor systems as well as their signal and data processing throughput requirements, it is the most adaptable processor ever built for the Department of Defense, reducing the number of processor types required.

    3. Working To Develop Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: (...) is designing a Whole Skin Locomotion (WSL) mechanism for robots to work on much the same principle as the pseudopod -- or cytoplasmic "foot" -- of the amoeba. With its elongated cylindrical shape and expanding and contracting actuating rings, the WSL can turn itself inside out in a single continuous motion, mimicking the motion of the cytoplasmic tube an amoeba generates for propulsion. "Our preliminary experiments show that a robot using the WSL mechanism can easily squeeze between obstacles or under a collapsed ceiling," Hong said. The mechanism, (...) can even squeeze through holes with diameters much smaller than its normal width. (...)

    4. How Blood Cells Change Shape, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt:
      Simulation of the cytoskeleton attached to the inside of the cell membrane of a human red blood cell. When the cell is subjected to shear stress, the bonds between actin molecules (large red beads) and spectrin molecules (small gray, green, yellow and blue beads) can break, allowing the cell to become more fluid-like. (Credit: MIT: Subra Suresh)
      Millions of times during their four-month lifespan, human red blood cells must squeeze through tiny capillaries to deliver their payload of oxygen and pick up waste carbon dioxide-functions essential to life. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers have developed a dynamic, molecular-level model that describes how the cells deform their normal disc shape to pass through vessels that are often much narrower than the cells themselves. Blood cells must rearrange components of their internal scaffolding (so-called cytoskeleton), allowing the cells to become almost liquid-like, in order to squeeze through the narrowest capillaries found in the body, the researchers report (...).
      • Source: How Blood Cells Change Shape, ScienceDaily & Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, 2007/03/23
      • Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinayahoo.co.in

  17. Magnifying Superlens in the Visible Frequency Range, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: We demonstrate a magnifying superlens that can be integrated into a conventional far-field optical microscope. Our design is based on a multilayer photonic metamaterial consisting of alternating layers of positive and negative refractive index, as originally proposed by Narimanov and Engheta. We achieved a resolution on the order of 70 nanometers. The use of such a magnifying superlens should find numerous applications in imaging.

    1. Bolt-On 'Superlens' Gives Microscope Nanoscale Vision, New Scientist.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Concentric rings of plastic on gold allow an optical microscope to resolve objects too small to otherwise be seen (Image: Science/Maryland University)
      A laser was shone onto the dots, exciting electrons from the gold surface into waves called plasmons. These waves ripple through electrons on the surface at the speed of light and, when they reach the concentric plastic rings, the waves are refracted. "But they don't experience it like a normal lens," Smolyaninov explains. "They are refracted the opposite way to usual."

  18. Extrasolar Planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    The COROT space telescope. (Copyright 2006 CNES)
    Space-based planet-hunting missions are now under development on both sides of the Atlantic, led by the French COROT (convection, totation & planetary transits) space telescope, which achieved first light in January. It is quite possible that within 10 years we will have a selection of local Earth-sized planets within the wonderfully named "Goldilocks zone" (not too cold and not too hot) and be able to study their atmospheres. Evidence of substantial oxygen in those atmospheres would be as strong a sign of life as finding fossils on Mars.

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

    1. C.I.A. Awaits Rules on Terrorism Interrogations, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A sharp debate within the Bush administration over the future of the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program has left the agency without the authority to use harsh interrogation techniques that the White House said last fall were necessary in questioning terrorism suspects, according to administration and Congressional officials.

      The agency for months has been awaiting approval for rules that would give intelligence operatives greater latitude than military interrogators in questioning terrorism suspects but would not include some of the most controversial interrogation procedures the spy agency has used in the

    2. Communication in the Face of Terror, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: One of the glaring shortfalls during the 9/11 attacks - the fumbling attempt by federal agencies to communicate with one another in a crisis - remains stuck at ground zero. Five years after the government's law enforcement and disaster agencies vowed to develop a unified wireless network to put the 81,000 federal agents in sync, a scathing inspector general's report finds the plan fractured, disjointed and facing "high risk of failure."

    3. Deterring A Nuclear 9/11, Washington Quarterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Can a nuclear terrorist attack be deterred? Nuclear forensic techniques to identify the origins of nuclear materials are improving, but significant associated strategic, political, diplomatic, and organizational challenges have yet to be sufficiently addressed.
      • Source: Deterring A Nuclear 9/11, C. Talmadge, DOI: 10.1162/wash.2007.30.2.21, Washington Quarterly, Spring 2007, Online 2007/02/20
      • Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01ayahoo.com

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Mechanochemistry: A reaction to stress p381, Brad M. Rosen, Virgil Percec, Chemists usually kick-start reactions with heat, light or electricity, but a far less common option is to use mechanical stress. It now seems that stress not only triggers reactions, but can also direct their course.
      2. Gene Co-Inheritance and Gene Transfer, Yaniv Brandvain, Michael S. Barker, Michael J. Wade, Science 23 March 2007: 1685. Unexpectedly, in plant taxa that reproduce by self-pollination or cloning, more mitochondrial genes have shifted to the nucleus than in taxa that reproduce sexually.
      3. Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects, Zhaowei Liu, Hyesog Lee, Yi Xiong, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang, 07/03/23, Science: 1686. A lens with a negative refractive index can magnify an object that is smaller than the diffraction limit of light and project it so it can be seen with a conventional microscope.
      4. Mysterious Migrations, 07/03/24, Science News, New studies report that modern humans from Africa launched cultural advances in Europe at least 36,000 years ago and reached what's now western Russia more than 40,000 years ago, although those conclusions generate much scientific controversy.
      5. Life History And The Evolution Of Family Living In Birds, R. Covas, M. Griesser, 2007/03/20, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0117
      6. Predicting Conditions For Migration: Effects Of Density Dependence And Habitat Quality, C. M. Taylor, D. R. Norris, 2007/03/20, Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0053
      7. About The "Right- And Left-Eyed" Persons, 2007/03/21, Innovations-report
      8. Biologists Learn Structure Of Enzyme Needed To Power 'Molecular Motor', 2007/03/23, ScienceDaily & Purdue University
      9. New Evidence Of 'Human' Culture Among Primates, 2007/03/24, ScienceDaily & University of Cambridge
      10. The Fractal Nature Of Web Services, C. Bussler, Mar. 2007, Computer Magazine, IEEE
      11. Dynamics Of Nonlinear Feedback Control, H. P. Snippe - h.p.snippearug.nl, J. H. van Hateren - j.h.van.haterenarug.nl, May 2007, Online 2007/03/23, Neural Computation, DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.5.1179
      12. When $10 Billion Is Not Enough: Rethinking U.S. Strategy Toward Pakistan, C. Cohen, D. Chollet, Spring 2007, Online 2007/02/20, Washington Quarterly, DOI: 10.1162/wash.2007.30.2.7
      13. The UN-Led Multilateral Institutional Response To Jihadist Terrorism: Is A Global Counterterrorism Body Needed?, E. Rosand - erosandaglobalct.com, Winter 2006, online 2007/01/25, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, DOI: 10.1093/jcsl/krl026

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

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

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2007 Conference, Urbana IL, 07/03/29-04/01
      2. Storytelling and Complexity in Human Systems, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 07/03/31-04/01
      3. 4th Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 07/04/25-29
      4. Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice Italy, 07/03/26-28
      5. Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques - A Course on Business Applications, Argonne Natl Lab, Woodridge, IL, 07/04/16-20
      6. New Trends in Mathematics for Complex Systems - Nouvelles approches en mathématiques pour les systèmes complexes, Paris, 07/04/23-25
      7. Complexity and Organizational Resilience , The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
      8. 9th GEF -The World Festival of Creativity in Schools, Sanremo ITALY, 07/05/02-06
      9. UCS 2007 - Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, 07/05/14-17
      10. Applied Neuroscience for Healthy Brains, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 07/05/17-20
      11. Visualizing Network Dynamics Competition @ NetSci07, New York, 07/05/20-25
      12. 2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
      13. ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
      14. 2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, 07/05/23-27
      15. Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
      16. The 7th Intl Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Beijing, 07/05/27-30
      17. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      18. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      19. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      20. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      21. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      22. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      23. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      24. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      25. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      26. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      27. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      28. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      29. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      30. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      31. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      32. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      33. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium, Ancona, 07/09/27-29
      34. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      35. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      36. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      37. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      38. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      39. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07

    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Chapter proposal due 07/02/04
      2. Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Artificial Life journal on the Evolution of Complexity,
      3. Chaos and Complexity Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01

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