Complexity Digest 2007.18

30-Apr-2007

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  1. Hearts & Minds, Boston Globe
    1. Dogs Copy Other Dogs' Actions Selectively, The Way Humans Do, ScienceDaily
    2. Exploring The Brain Basis Of Joint Action: Co-Ordination Of Actions, Goals And Intentions, Soc. Neurosc.
  2. Segway Inventor Dean Kamen on Risk-Taking and Innovation, CIO
    1. The Pipeline: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences, Science
    2. Robotic Flower? New Internet-controlled Robots Anyone Can Build, ScienceDaily
  3. Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains, Wired
    1. A Good Night's Sleep With The Flip Of A Switch?, PhysOrg.com
  4. Neuroscience: How to Fill a Synapse, Science
  5. To Treat the Dead, Newsweek
    1. Privacy Laws Slow Efforts on Gun-Buyer Data, NY Times
  6. Exo-planets: Habitable, But Not Much Like Home, Science
  7. Evolution: Oxygen and Evolution, Science
  8. The Next Human Genome Project: Our Microbes, Technology Review
  9. Living Fossil: DNA Puts Rodent In Family That's Not Extinct After All, Science News
  10. Sea Snails Break The Law, Innovations-report
  11. More Lizards Live On Islands Than On The Mainland., Imedi News
  12. Anti-Predator Defence And The Complexity-Stability Relationship Of Food Webs, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Geochemistry: Humongous Eruptions Linked to Dramatic Environmental Changes, Science
  14. Microorganisms Act As Tiny Machines In Future MEMS Devices, PhysOrg.com
  15. Physics: The End of an Entanglement, Science
    1. Entanglement Dies A Sudden Death, PhysicsWeb.org
    2. Environment-Induced Sudden Death of Entanglement, Science
    3. Dissipation Can Enhance Quantum Effects, Phys.
  16. Physics: Factoring Numbers with Waves, Science
  17. How Swifts Control Their Glide Performance With Morphing Wings, Nature
  18. Biogeochemistry: Iron Findings, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Sees Sharp Rise In Global Terrorism Deaths, Washington Post
    2. Cross-Cultural Research: Pentagon Asks Academics for Help in Understanding Its Enemies, Science
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Hearts & Minds, Boston Globe Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Now science suggests that our emotions are what make thought possible.

    This new scientific appreciation of emotion is profoundly altering the field. The top journals are now filled with research on the connections between emotion and cognition. New academic stars have emerged, such as Antonio Damasio of USC, Joseph LeDoux of NYU, and Joshua Greene, a rising scholar at Harvard. At the same time, the influx of neuroscientists into the field, armed with powerful brain-scanning technology, has underscored the thinking-feeling connection.

    1. Dogs Copy Other Dogs' Actions Selectively, The Way Humans Do, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A distinguishing feature of human intelligence is our ability to understand the goals and intentions of others. This ability develops gradually during infancy, and the extent to which it is present in other animals is an intriguing question. New research (...) reveals striking similarities between humans and dogs in the way they imitate the actions of others. The phenomenon under investigation is known as "selective imitation" and implies that dogs--like human infants--do not simply copy an action they observe, but adjust the extent to which they imitate to the circumstances of the action. (...)

    2. Exploring The Brain Basis Of Joint Action: Co-Ordination Of Actions, Goals And Intentions, Soc. Neurosc. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Humans are frequently confronted with goal-directed tasks that can not be accomplished alone, or that benefit from co-operation with other agents. The relatively new field of social cognitive neuroscience seeks to characterize functional neuroanatomical systems either specifically or preferentially engaged during such joint-action tasks. Based on neuroimaging experiments conducted on critical components of joint action, the current paper outlines the functional network upon which joint action is hypothesized to be dependant. This network includes brain areas likely to be involved in interpersonal co-ordination at the action, goal, and intentional levels. (...)

  2. Segway Inventor Dean Kamen on Risk-Taking and Innovation, CIO Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The future is the world of ideas. Innovation and creativity will be the only serious metrics to sustain us as a world-class country. I believe CIOs are in a huge position to drive this change. They are technically savvy and have a more open perspective on change than others in senior management. I think it's because they've seen firsthand what happens when you fall behind the state of the technology. That's one reason I created First, which holds competitions to foster science, technology and leadership skills in high school students. Companies need the next generation of scientists and engineers.

    1. The Pipeline: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Undergraduate students'participation in hands-on research is widely believed to encourage students to pursue advanced degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. SRI International conducted a nationwide evaluation of undergraduate research opportunities (UROs) to understand who participates, what effects the experience has on them, and what factors favor positive outcomes. Our study included four Web-based surveys, conducted between 2003 and 2005 and involving almost 15,000 respondents. The survey instruments, detailed data tables, and analytical reports are available online (1).

    2. Robotic Flower? New Internet-controlled Robots Anyone Can Build, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect to the Internet. The robots can take many forms, from a three-wheeled model with a mounted camera to a flower loaded with infrared sensors. They can be easily customized and their ability to wirelessly link to the Internet allows users to control and monitor their robots' actions from any Internet-connected computer in the world. The new tools that make this possible are a single piece of hardware and a set of "recipes" (...).

  3. Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Darpa says a soldier's brain can be monitored in real time, with an EEG picking up "neural signatures" that indicate target detection.
    Image: Darpa
    "It turns out that humans in particular have evolved over these many millions of years with a prominent prefrontal cortex." That prefrontal cortex, he explains, allows the brain to pick up patterns quickly, but it also exercises a powerful impulse control, inhibiting false alarms. EEG would essentially allow the binoculars to bypass this inhibitory reaction and signal the wearer to a potential threat. In other words, like Spiderman's "spider sense," a soldier could be alerted to danger that his or her brain had sensed, but not yet had time to process.

    1. A Good Night's Sleep With The Flip Of A Switch?, PhysOrg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The flip of a switch could become all it takes to get a good night's sleep, according to a study released Monday. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a way to stimulate the slow waves typical of deep sleep by sending a harmless magnetic signal through the skulls of sleeping volunteers.

      A TMS instrument sends a harmless magnetic signal through the scalp and skull and into the brain, where it activates electrical impulses. In response to each burst of magnetism, the subjects' brains immediately produced slow waves typical of deep sleep, Tononi says. "With a single pulse, we were able to induce a wave that looks identical to the waves the brain makes normally during sleep."

  4. Neuroscience: How to Fill a Synapse, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The basis of almost all communication between neurons relies on vesicles containing chemical neurotransmitters. At the junction, or synapse, between two neurons, synaptic vesicles laden with neurotransmitter release their contents (exocytosis) from terminals of one neuron. The chemicals act on the opposing neuron, propagating a specific signal. Replenishing the presynaptic neuron with synaptic vesicles is critical to the signaling that underlies processes such as learning, and failure to control this cycle of vesicle formation and deployment can lead to conditions such as epilepsy.

  5. To Treat the Dead, Newsweek Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Ed Kashi / Corbis
    Emergency: The goal is to give victims more time
    The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks¡Xand death itself.

    "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.

    But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed.

    1. Privacy Laws Slow Efforts on Gun-Buyer Data, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Momentum is building in Congress behind a measure that would push states to report their mental health records to the federal database used to conduct background checks on gun buyers.

      But a thicket of obstacles, most notably state privacy laws, have thwarted repeated efforts to improve the reporting of such records in the past and are likely to complicate this latest effort, even after the worst mass shooting in United States history at Virginia Tech last month.

  6. Exo-planets: Habitable, But Not Much Like Home, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: For the first time, astronomers have found an Earth-like planet that could be habitable. Like an oasis in space, the rocky world, possibly covered with oceans, orbits a puny red dwarf star just over 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," says team member Xavier Delfosse of Grenoble University in France.

  7. Evolution: Oxygen and Evolution, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The rise of atmospheric oxygen (O2) concentration during the Precambrian eon (~4500 to ~550 million years ago) was closely tied to biological evolution. Additional changes in atmospheric O2 concentrations over the past ~550 million years (the Phanerozoic eon) have probably also been intertwined with biological evolution. Here we examine the evidence for changes in O2 concentrations and their biological causes and effects during the Phanerozoic.

  8. The Next Human Genome Project: Our Microbes, Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Mining microbes: The bacterium Helicobacter pylori (pictured above) lives in the human gut and has been linked to an increased risk of stomach ulcers and a decreased risk of esophageal disease. Scientists say that studying the many microorganisms that live in our bodies will shed light on human health. Credit: P. Hawtin / Photo Researchers, Inc.
    A proposed project to sequence the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies could have a huge impact on human health.

    Much as we might like to ignore them, microbes have colonized almost every inch of our bodies, living in our mouths, skin, lungs, and gut. Indeed, the human body has 10 times as many microbial cells as human cells. They're a vital part of our health, breaking down otherwise indigestible foods, making essential vitamins, and even shaping our immune system. Recent research suggests that microbes play a role in diseases, such as ulcers, heart disease, and obesity.

  9. Living Fossil: DNA Puts Rodent In Family That's Not Extinct After All, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    ALIVE AND SNIFFING. An image from the first photo session with a living Laotian rock rat, taken in 2006, comes from retired Florida State University professor David Redfield, who, with biologist Uthai Treesucon, set out on a personal quest to find the living animal. FSU Research in Review Magazine
    The Laotian rock rat, which is very much alive, belongs to a rodent family that scientists had assumed had vanished 11 million years ago, says an international research team that examined DNA evidence. The family resemblance was also suggested from fossil evidence last year.(...)

    Now, researchers in five countries have finished the biggest rock rat-DNA analysis yet. Their study dashes the idea of the new mammal family, (...). The team argues for an even more dramatic solution: The rock rat is a member of a supposedly extinct family, the Diatomyidae.

  10. Sea Snails Break The Law, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Lizards gave rise to legless snakes. Cave fishes don't have eyeballs. In evolution, complicated structures often get lost. Dollo's Law states that complicated structures can't be re-evolved because the genes that code for them were lost or have mutated. A group of sea snails breaks Dollo's law, (...). "This is important because it shows that animals may carry the potential for evolutionary change around with them. When the environment changes, new life forms may be able to regain abilities that were lost earlier in evolutionary history," Collin explains.

  11. More Lizards Live On Islands Than On The Mainland., Imedi News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The University of California-San Diego study also signals an alarm, suggesting climate change might have devastating consequences for lizards and other animals inhabiting islands since their ecosystems are more sensitive to change than those on the mainland.

    "We found island populations are less resistant to biological invasions, which will likely increase dramatically with changing climate, (...)

    . "Climate change will drive animals to move to new places, (...). Our research suggests those animals that move to islands can strongly affect the sensitive animal communities on islands."

  12. Anti-Predator Defence And The Complexity-Stability Relationship Of Food Webs, Proc. Biol. Sc. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The mechanism for maintaining complex food webs has been a central issue in ecology because theory often predicts that complexity (higher the species richness, more the interactions) destabilizes food webs. Although it has been proposed that prey anti-predator defence may affect the stability of prey-predator dynamics, such studies assumed a limited and relatively simpler variation in the food-web structure. Here, using mathematical models, I report that food-web flexibility arising from prey anti-predator defence enhances community-level stability (community persistence and robustness) in more complex systems and even changes the complexity-stability relationship. (...)

  13. Geochemistry: Humongous Eruptions Linked to Dramatic Environmental Changes, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Researchers looking for the cause of big, catastrophic changes on planet Earth have fingered a new one: so-called flood basalt eruptions, or large igneous provinces (LIPs) eruptions. These are no Mount St. Helenses or even Krakataus, which cooled the planet a degree or so and painted pretty sunsets for a couple of years. No, a single LIP eruption can spew 100 times the magma of anything seen in historical times.

  14. Microorganisms Act As Tiny Machines In Future MEMS Devices, PhysOrg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Electron microscope images of silica-based microshells of several diatom species. Credit: Xiong, et al. Originally from Hildebrand. ?1990 Cambridge University Press.
    The single-celled Spirostomum is a tiny brown worm that can contract its 500-micrometer-long body to 25% of its length in a millisecond, making this protozoan the fastest-contracting microorganism known. Scientists think of microorganisms like this as tiny functional machines. After all, many of them have capabilities far surpassing the current state-of-the-art in MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) technology.

  15. Physics: The End of an Entanglement, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: In quantum physics, decoherence is a catch-all term that usually implies degradation of the purity of a quantum state. Over the past few decades it has been used as a guide to understand the loss of the two-body coherence called entanglement, which is an intrinsically quantum effect. In this context, it is relevant to fundamental questions such as: Why is the world mostly classical when we believe quantum theory provides all of the governing principles? The answer lies in the critical role of "largeness"; simply put, larger bodies lose coherence more quickly.

    1. Entanglement Dies A Sudden Death, PhysicsWeb.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      One of two indentical decay channels used by Luiz Davidovich and colleagues in their search for entanglement sudden death. (Courtesy: Luiz Davidovich).
      The researchers studied pairs of photons that were entangled in two different ways: one type had a certain combination of horizontal and vertical polarizations, while the other type had a different combination of these polarizations. Both initial states were created with the same degree of entanglement and both were subjected to the same gradual decay of vertical polarization. It turned out that the entangled pairs that were more vertically than horizontally polarized underwent ESD, whereas the pairs that where the opposite was true decayed relatively slowly as expected. Davidovich reckons that the vertically-rich entanglement suffered ESD because in this experiment, vertical polarization is a higher energy state and is therefore more sensitive to decay via interactions with the environment than is the lower-energy state of horizontal polarization.

    2. Environment-Induced Sudden Death of Entanglement, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: We demonstrate the difference between local, single-particle dynamics and global dynamics of entangled quantum systems coupled to independent environments. Using an all-optical experimental setup, we showed that, even when the environment-induced decay of each system is asymptotic, quantum entanglement may suddenly disappear. This "sudden death" constitutes yet another distinct and counterintuitive trait of entanglement.

    3. Dissipation Can Enhance Quantum Effects, Phys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Usually one finds that dissipation tends to make a quantum system more classical in nature. We study the effect of momentum dissipation on a quantum system. (...)

      For a parabolic barrier, momentum coupling causes an increase in the unstable normal mode barrier frequency, as compared to the lowering of the barrier frequency in the presence of purely spatial coupling. This increase in the frequency leads to an enhancement of the thermal tunneling flux, which below the crossover temperature becomes exponentially large.

  16. Physics: Factoring Numbers with Waves, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: An interesting but very different approach to factorization based on wave interference is reported in two recent papers (3, 4). When two waves are combined, they can create destructive or constructive interference, depending on their relative phase (that is, "in phase" the waves add up, "out of phase" they cancel out). When the number of waves becomes large and the relative phases between the waves have a wide range of values, the result is a combination of destructive and constructive interferences.

  17. How Swifts Control Their Glide Performance With Morphing Wings, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Gliding birds continually change the shape and size of their wings, presumably to exploit the profound effect of wing morphology on aerodynamic performance. (….) Here we describe the aerodynamic and structural performance of actual swift wings, as measured in a wind tunnel, and on this basis build a semi-empirical glide model. By measuring inside and outside swifts' behavioural envelope, we show that choosing the most suitable sweep can halve sink speed or triple turning rate.

  18. Biogeochemistry: Iron Findings, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A huge phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean yields estimates of how a continuous supply of iron affects oceanic carbon sequestration. But iron is not the only factor - nutrient supply is crucial too. (...)

    Such large blooms photosynthetically convert so much carbon into an organic form that they have a marked effect on the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, and hence the global climate: (...). Iron is now recognized to be of equal importance to nutrients such as nitrate4 in stimulating the development of these blooms.

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

    1. U.S. Sees Sharp Rise In Global Terrorism Deaths, Washington Post Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The number of people killed by terrorism around the world surged by 40 percent to more than 20,000 last year largely because of greater violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, a U.S. report said on Monday.

      Global terrorism fatalities rose to 20,498 in 2006 from 14,618 in 2005 with the vast majority in Iraq, according to the U.S. State Department's annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" publication.

    2. Cross-Cultural Research: Pentagon Asks Academics for Help in Understanding Its Enemies, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A new program at the U.S. Department of Defense would support research on how local populations behave in a war zone

      The Iraq War was going badly in Diyala, a northern province bordering Iran, in late 2005. A rash of kidnappings and roadside explosions was threatening to give insurgents the upper hand. Looking for insights on how to quell the violence, the U.S. Department of Defense invited a handful of researchers funded by the agency to build computer models of the situation combining recent activity with cultural, political, and economic data about the region collected by DOD-funded anthropologists.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Stochastic Synchronization Via Noise Recycling, Marcello Borromeo, Fabio Marchesoni, ,, 07/04/12, Phys. Rev. E 75, 041106
      2. Dynamics Of Light Propagation In Spatiotemporal Dielectric Structures, Fabio Biancalana, Andreas Amann, Alexander V. Uskov, Eoin P. O'Reilly, 07/04/20, Phys. Rev. E 75, 046607
      3. Chemistry: A Promising Mimic of Hydrogenase Activity, Thomas B. Rauchfuss, 07/04/27, Science : 553-554.
      4. Sleep On It: Time Delay Plus Slumber Equals Memory Boost, 07/04/28, Science News, Sleep revs up a person's ability to discern connections among pieces of information encountered in novel situations.
      5. A Hexagon On The Ringed Planet, 07/04/28, Science News, NASA scientists are puzzled by a giant, hexagon-shaped feature that covers Saturn's entire north pole.
      6. Dry Winters Heat European Summers, 07/04/28, Science News, When southern Europe receives scant rainfall in the winter, the whole continent tends to bake the following summer.
      7. Review. The West Indies As A Laboratory Of Biogeography And Evolution, R. Ricklefs, E. Bermingham, 2007/04/18, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2068
      8. Daytime Noise Predicts Nocturnal Singing In Urban Robins, R. A. Fuller, P. H. Warren, K. J. Gaston, 2007/04/24, Biological Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0134
      9. Mosquito Genes Explain Response To Climate Change: UO Team Forges First Chromosomal Map Of Genes Linked To Seasonal Response To Day Length, 2007/04/25, Innovations-report
      10. You Don't Have To Be Smart To Be Rich: It Doesn't Take A Rocket Scientist To Make A Lot Of Money, According To New Research, 2007/04/25, Innovations-report
      11. Tokyo Boffins Crack Internet Speed Record 30,000km at 7.67Gbps, I. Williams, 2007/04/27, vnunet.com
      12. Wanting Ahead -- Birds Plan For Future Desires, 2007/04/27, Innovations-report
      13. Cell Biology: Asymmetry Due To Perfect Balance, 2007/04/27, ScienceDaily & Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
      14. Advances In Genetics Should Make Learning Easier, According To Professor, 2007/04/27, ScienceDaily & Harvard University
      15. Spatial Statistics Of Gaze Fixations During Dynamic Face Processing, J. N. Buchan, M. Paré, K. G. Munhall, Mar. 2007, Social Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/17470910601043644
      16. Structural Scaling In Bach's Cello Suite No. 3, H. J. Brothers - hbrothersathecountryschool.org, Mar. 2007, Fractals, DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X0700337X
      17. Minority And Majority Games In Financial Markets, K. Kim - kskimapknu.ac.kr, S.-M. Yoon, S. Y. Kim, H. Takayasu, Mar. 2007, Fractals, DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X07003393

    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. Complexity and Organizational Resilience , The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
      2. 9th GEF -The World Festival of Creativity in Schools, Sanremo ITALY, 07/05/02-06
      3. UCS 2007 - Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, 07/05/14-17
      4. Applied Neuroscience for Healthy Brains, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 07/05/17-20
      5. Visualizing Network Dynamics Competition @ NetSci07, New York, 07/05/20-25
      6. 2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
      7. ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
      8. 2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, 07/05/23-27
      9. Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
      10. The 7th Intl Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Beijing, 07/05/27-30
      11. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      12. Beyond Genome 2007 , San Francisco, Ca, 07/06/20-22
      13. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      14. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      15. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      16. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      17. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      18. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      19. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      20. 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
      21. SMBI-07 - Statistical Mechanics and Biological Information - Satellite Conference of STATPHYS 2007, Torino, Italy, 07/07/16-18
      22. Enhancing Learning Through Technology-- Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies , Hong Kong SAR, 07/07/09-10
      23. IEEE Intl Conf on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      24. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      25. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      26. 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
      27. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      28. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      29. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      30. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      31. 2nd Intl Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 07/08/20-24
      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
      40. Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007 "Systemic development: Local solutions in a global environment", Auckland, New Zealand, 07/12/02-05
      41. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19

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      1. 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.
      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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