Complexity Digest 2007.24

11-Jun-2007

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Content

  1. Concept: Determinism: Chaos Tamed, Nature
  2. Biophysics: Long Live Electronic Coherence!, Science
    1. Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence, Science
  3. Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers, NY Times
  4. 'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions, ScienceDaily
  5. DNA Reveals How The Chicken Crossed The Sea, Nature
  6. Simple Switch Turns Cells Embryonic, Nature
    1. Scientists Make Stem Cells From Skin Of Mice Instead Of Embryos, Medical News Today
  7. A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip, Scientific American
  8. J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form, ETC Group Press Release
  9. Climatology: Tempests In Time, Nature
  10. Plastic That Heals Itself, MIT Technology Review
  11. Self-Assembly Could Simplify Nanotech Construction, New Scientist
  12. A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb, MIT Technology Rview
  13. Boffins Build Boredom Buster: MIT Staff Create Computer To Help Autistic Users, vnunet.com
  14. University Of Portsmouth Scientists Reinvent The Wheel, Innovations-report
  15. Professor Proposes Theory Of Unparticle Physics, PhysOrg.com
  16. On the Fence: Are Illegal Immigrants Good or Bad for the U.S. Economy?, Knowledge@Wharton
  17. Violence Costs Nation $70 Billion Annually, Study Finds, ScienceDaily
  18. Bad Execution, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Groups List 39 "Disappeared" In U.S. War On Terror, Reuters
    2. A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life, NY Times
    3. Risk Sensitivity And Terrorism, Pol. Studies
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Concept: Determinism: Chaos Tamed, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Even though our view of the physical world has shifted from that of determinism to randomness, randomness itself can now be exploited to retrieve a system's deterministic response. (...)

    Astonishingly, in many applications the extraction of the system response from noise is fairly robust when noise sources are limited and irregularly distributed, probably because of the stability of wave propagation.

    Our view of the Universe may have shifted from the deterministic to the random, but since the turn of the last century physics itself has provided a less simplistic view.

  2. Biophysics: Long Live Electronic Coherence!, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Lee et al. have now used separate pulses of 750-and 800-nm light to generate coherence between excited states of the bacteriopheophytins and bacteriochlorophylls in bacterial reaction centers. Photon echoes after a third pulse showed that electronic coherence between the two excited states persisted for hundreds of femtoseconds.

    The authors suggest that electronic coherence is preserved in pigment-protein complexes because some of the protein's vibrational modes have correlated effects on the transition energies of multiple pigments.
    Editor's Note: This seems to provide further evidence that plants have evolved the capability to take advantage of quantum information processing for searching the optimal path for the energy transfer. (see e.g. Quantum Secrets of Photosynthesis Revealed, Complexity Digest 2007.16, 07/04/16 )

    1. Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The role of quantum coherence in promoting the efficiency of the initial stages of photosynthesis is an open and intriguing question. We performed a two-color photon echo experiment on a bacterial reaction center that enabled direct visualization of the coherence dynamics in the reaction center. The data revealed long-lasting coherence between two electronic states that are formed by mixing of the bacteriopheophytin and accessory bacteriochlorophyll excited states.

  3. Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The seven million or so inhabitants of Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, have spent millions of dollars on digital makeovers, clothing and other goods and services for their avatars.

    But will the game's players buy anything for themselves?

    Retailers and manufacturers like Reebok, Adidas, American Apparel and 1-800Flowers.com are setting up shop in Second Life, hoping that users will steer their avatars to these stores and buy goods to deliver to their real world addresses.

  4. 'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The local customs that define human cultures in important ways also exist in the ape world, suggests a study (...). Indeed, captive chimpanzees, like people, can readily acquire new traditions, and those newly instituted "cultural practices" can spread to other troops. "We have robust evidence that in chimpanzees there is a considerable capacity for cultural spread of innovations," said (...). Documented examples of behavioral differences among chimpanzees in nature include various types of tool use, including hammers and pestles; social behaviors like overhead hand-clasping during mutual grooming; courtship rituals like leaf-clipping, (...).

  5. DNA Reveals How The Chicken Crossed The Sea, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Ancient Polynesians may have brought birds to the Americas.

    The discovery of chicken bones with Polynesian DNA at an archaeological site in Chile has added hard, physical evidence to the controversial theory that ancient seafarers from the south Pacific visited the New World long before Columbus.

    When the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro first visited Peru in 1532, he noted the importance of chickens in the daily lives and religious rituals of the Incas. But how the birds got there was a mystery.

  6. Simple Switch Turns Cells Embryonic, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    S. OGDEN
    The birth of this chimaeric mouse suggests that the cells used to generate it behave like embryonic stem cells.
    Technique removes need for eggs or embryos.

    Research reported this week by three different groups shows that normal skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state in mice. The race is now on to apply the surprisingly straightforward procedure to human cells.

    If researchers succeed, it will make it relatively easy to produce cells that seem indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, and that are genetically matched to individual patients. There are limits to how useful and safe these would be for therapeutic use in the near term, but they should quickly prove a boon in the lab.

    1. Scientists Make Stem Cells From Skin Of Mice Instead Of Embryos, Medical News Today Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Yamanaka and colleagues used retroviruses to insert four transcriptor genes into fibroblast cells harvested from the skin of adult mice. The genes code for a range of transcription factor proteins that control the expression of other genes. Giving the fibroblast cells this power essentially makes them into "master" cells, like embryonic stem cells; they acquire the potential to become any cell. "It's easy. There's no trick, no magic," said Yamanaka.

  7. A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip, Scientific American Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Image: COURTESY OF ESHEL BEN-JACOB, PABLO BLINDER & DANNY BARANNES
    First Generation Neuro-Memory Chip?: Israeli scientists have taken a crucial first step in showing that a network of neurons outside the body can be stimulated to create multiple memories that they sustain for days.
    Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days without interfering with or wiping out others. "The main achievement was the fact that we used the inhibition of the inhibitory neurons" to stimulate the memory patterns, says physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, senior author of a paper on the findings published in the May issue of Physical Review E. "We probably made [the cell culture] trigger the collective mode of activity that (...) [is] (...) possible."

  8. J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form, ETC Group Press Release Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...) US Patent application (number 20070122826) claims exclusive ownership of a set of essential genes and a synthetic "free-living organism that can grow and replicate" that is made using those genes. The Venter Institute has also filed an international patent application at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO number WO2007047148, published April 27, 2007) which names more than 100 countries where it may seek monopoly patents.

  9. Climatology: Tempests In Time, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The frequency of severe hurricanes in the North Atlantic has increased during the past decade. Scrutiny of the prehistoric record left by such storms helps to assess the factors contributing to hurricane activity.

    A hurricane is a product of its environment: a warm ocean provides sustenance; calm atmospheric conditions nurture an infant storm; and a high-pressure cell in the subtropical atmosphere drives it in a given direction. Increases in oceanic heat from global warming will raise a hurricane's potential intensity, all else being equal.

  10. Plastic That Heals Itself, MIT Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Self-healer: Modeled on human skin, a new material that heals itself multiple times is made of two layers. The polymer coating on top contains tiny catalyst pieces scattered throughout. The substrate contains a network of microchannels carrying a liquid healing agent. When the coating cracks, the cracks spread downward and reach the underlying channels, which ooze out healing agent. The agent mixes with the catalyst and forms a polymer, filling in the cracks. Credit: J. Hanlon, Univ. of Illinois Beckman Institute
    Researchers have developed a new material that can fill in its own surface cracks. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have made a polymer material that can heal itself repeatedly when it cracks. It's a significant advance toward self-healing medical implants and self-repairing materials for use in airplanes and spacecraft. It could also be used for cooling microprocessors and electronic circuits, and it could pave the way toward plastic coatings that regenerate themselves.

  11. Self-Assembly Could Simplify Nanotech Construction, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    New simulations could help determine whether a randomly shaken sheet folds correctly (top) or into a less desirable shape (middle, bottom) (Image: APS/Silas Alben )
    "Molecular origami" could become the latest nanotech construction technique, thanks to the first detailed study of how sheets fold. The shapes were fitted with oppositely charged magnets, which became stuck together, pulling the surfaces into shape. The hope is that a similar process may be possible on the molecular level, using surfaces such as graphene (carbon "chicken wire") with dangling bonds at the edges to hold the 3D shape together.

  12. A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb, MIT Technology Rview Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Cutting the cord: MIT researchers have shown that it's possible to wirelessly power a 60-watt lightbulb from two meters away. Above, a coil (background) creates a magnetic field that is able to pass through an obstruction. The foreground coil resonates at the frequency of the magnetic field, picking up its energy to power the bulb. Credit: Science
    This type of energy transfer is similar to a well-known phenomenon called magnetic inductive coupling, used in power transformers. However, the MIT scheme is somewhat different because it's based on something called resonant coupling. Transformer coils can only transfer power when they are centimeters apart--any farther, and the magnetic fields don't affect each other in the same way. In order for the MIT researchers to achieve the range of two meters, explains Solja?i?, they used coils that resonate at a frequency of 10 megahertz.

  13. Boffins Build Boredom Buster: MIT Staff Create Computer To Help Autistic Users, vnunet.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Boffins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have developed a device that can tell whether a person being spoken to is becoming bored. The Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthesis uses a tiny camera connected to a handheld computer with image recognition and emotion sensing software. The handheld computer vibrates if it detects that the listener is starting to lose interest in the conversation. Researchers developed the technology to allow autism sufferers, who often have trouble deciphering social signals, to know whether the person they are talking to is becoming confused or bored with the conversation. (...)

  14. University Of Portsmouth Scientists Reinvent The Wheel, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Scientists at the University of Portsmouth are using the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to develop the world's first thinking car wheel. (...) University scientists are providing the artificial intelligence systems for the wheels on the company's prototype eco-friendly electric super-car. The wheels use microcomputers to perform 4000 calculations per second and 'talk' to each other. The wheels use AI to think and learn as the car is being driven, making calculations and adjustments according to travelling speed and road conditions. It is the first time artificial intelligence has replaced fundamental mechanics within a motor vehicle (...).

  15. Professor Proposes Theory Of Unparticle Physics, PhysOrg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Unparticles, but not particles, can fit in a theory that has the property of continuous scale-invariance, which is difficult to visualize. A fractal, like this Koch Curve, is an example of discrete scale-invariance because it looks the same if multiplied by a fixed number. Credit: Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals.
    If all of the stuff that is scale-invariant couples to all the stuff that isn't in a way that gets weaker and weaker as the energy gets lower, then it could be that, at the energies we can probe today, we just don't see the unparticle stuff at all,¡¨ Georgi explained. ¡§There could be a scale-invariant world separate from our own that is hidden from us at low energies because its interactions with us are so weak.¡¨

  16. On the Fence: Are Illegal Immigrants Good or Bad for the U.S. Economy?, Knowledge@Wharton Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    On one side were the pragmatists, backed by the Bush administration, who say the country needs to accept that its estimated 12 million illegal residents are likely here to stay, and it should offer them a path to citizenship. On the other side were the idealists, who say lawbreakers shouldn't be rewarded, and that doing so would only encourage more illegal immigration. (...)

    Buried in the ongoing debate is the potential economic impact of a measure that could change the composition of America's workforce in significant ways.

  17. Violence Costs Nation $70 Billion Annually, Study Finds, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The most comprehensive study of its kind has found that violence costs the United States $70 billion annually, a figure that rivals federal education spending and the damage caused by hurricane Katrina. (...) said the study illustrates how much money can be saved by investing in programs that decrease interpersonal violence and self-inflicted violence such as suicide. For comparison, the federal Department of Education has an annual budget of $67.2 billion and hurricane Katrina caused an estimated $80 billion in damage. (...)

  18. Bad Execution, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: China won't achieve a tenable drug regulation policy by hanging public officials. (...)

    Articles appearing in China Daily and elsewhere in condemnation of the official and his family have the smell of old-fashioned, stalinist scapegoating, more likely to sweep the problem under the carpet than resolve it. Genuinely fair regulation of drugs is a complex matter that depends on transparency and on sophisticated checks and balances - such as scientific staff who are paid by the government but can be seen to be independent - not on fear and arbitrary justice.

    • Source: Bad Execution, DOI: 10.1038/447613b, Nature 447, 613-614, 07/06/07

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

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

      Excerpts: The United States has acknowledged detaining three of the 39. The groups said, however, there was strong evidence, including witness testimony, of secret detention in 18 more cases and some evidence of secret detention in the remaining 18 cases.

      Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch said it was unknown if the suspects were now in U.S. or foreign custody, or even alive or dead. (...)


    2. A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The conflict in Egypt served as a difficult reminder of a central challenge facing Islamic communities as they debate the true nature of the faith and how to accommodate modernity. The fatwa is the front line in the theological battle between often opposing worldviews. It is where interpretation meets daily life. (...)

      "You are explaining God's message in ways that really affect people's lives." (...)

      "There is chaos now," Mr. Megawer said. "The problem created is confusion in thought, confusion about what is right and what is wrong, religiously."

    3. Risk Sensitivity And Terrorism, Pol. Studies Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: One enduring question about terrorism is why individuals choose to join terrorist groups. Past studies have shown that terrorists are not always poor, and they can in fact come from more privileged groups in society. Risk sensitivity and prospect theory are approaches that can help explain some of the anomalies. They suggest that two types of group are likely to supply (...). One group consists of those who face a loss of status or position due to ongoing changes in society. A second group consists of those who have an opportunity to gain a major advance in status or position. (...)
      • Source: Risk Sensitivity And Terrorism, L. A. Kuznar, J. M. Lutz, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00666.x, Political Studies, Jun. 2007
      • Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01ayahoo.com

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A Wider Range Of Sounds For The Deaf, 2007/06/04, ScienceDaily & University of Michigan Health System
      2. Colour Preferences And Colour Vision In Poultry Chicks, A.D. Ham, D. Osorio, 2007/06/05, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0538
      3. The Age And Evolution Of An Antiviral Resistance Mutation In Drosophila Melanogaster, J. Bangham, D. J. Obbard, K.-W. Kim, P. R. Haddrill, F. M. Jiggins, 2007/06/05, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0611
      4. The Bee That Would Be Queen: Findings Explain Bee Caste Development, 2007/06/06, Innovations-report
      5. Swedish Boffins Print Speakers Onto Paper: No More Boring Billboards As Ads Talk Back, I. Williams, 2007/06/08, vnunet.com
      6. Organic Food Miles Take Toll On Environment, 2007/06/08, Innovations-report
      7. High Self-esteem May Be Culturally Universal, International Study Shows, 2007/06/08, ScienceDaily & University of Washington
      8. Modeling The Restless Brain: Neuroscientists Tie Network Structure To Brain's Spontaneous Activity, 2007/06/10, ScienceDaily & Indiana University
      9. Selectivity And Stability Via Dendritic Nonlinearity, K. Morita - moritaabrain.riken.jp, M. Okada - okadaak.u-tokyo.ac.jp, K. Aihara - aiharaasat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, Jul. 2007, Online 2007/05/23, Neural Computation, DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.7.1798
      10. State Sovereignty After 9/11: Disorganised Hypocrisy, A. Acharya, Jun. 2007, Political Studies, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00664.x
      11. Nuclear Enlightenment And Counter-Enlightenment, W. Walker, May 2007, International Affairs, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2007.00630.x

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      2. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      3. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      4. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      5. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      6. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      7. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      8. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      9. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      10. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      11. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      12. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      13. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      14. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      15. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      16. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      17. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      18. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      19. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      20. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      21. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      22. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      23. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      24. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      25. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      26. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      2. Beyond Genome 2007 , San Francisco, Ca, 07/06/20-22
      3. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      4. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      5. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      6. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      7. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      8. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      9. Enhancing Learning Through Technology-- Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies , Hong Kong SAR, 07/07/09-10
      10. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      11. STATPHYS 23, the 23rd Intl Conf on Statistical Physics of the Intl Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Genova, Italy, 07/07/09-13
      12. IEEE Intl Conf on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      13. 2007 Unconventional Computing, Bristol, United Kingdom, 07/07/12-14
      14. UK Social Network Conference, London, UK, 07/07/13-14
      15. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      16. SMBI-07 - Statistical Mechanics and Biological Information - Satellite Conference of STATPHYS 2007, Torino, Italy, 07/07/16-18
      17. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      18. 22nd Conf on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) and 19th Conf on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, 07/07/22-26
      19. FUZZ-IEEE 2007, London, UK, 07/07/23-26
      20. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      21. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      22. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      23. 2007 Intl Joint Conf on Neural Networks, Orlando, Fl, 07/08/12-17
      24. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      25. Stochastic Resonance 2008, Perugia, Italy, 07/08/17-21
      26. 2nd Intl Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 07/08/20-24
      27. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      28. Itl. Conf. on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics, Poipu Beach, Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii, 07/09/24-27
      29. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium, Ancona, 07/09/27-29
      30. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      31. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      32. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      33. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      34. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      35. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07
      36. Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007 "Systemic development: Local solutions in a global environment", Auckland, New Zealand, 07/12/02-05
      37. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19
      38. 19th European Meeting On Cybernetics And Systems Research, (EMCSR 2008), Vienna, Austria, 08/03/25-28

    4. Other Announcements Bookmark and Share

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

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