Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list
Hi Ted, and welcome to the list. Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know what CAS is. Computer Aided Simulation perhaps? I assumed that it was just me, but a trip to the disambiguation page for en.wikipedia.org didn't turn up anything promising, nor did a generic Google search (I assume it isn't Chemical Abstracts Service, nor Children's Aid Society, nor Casualty Actuarial Society...). Reminds me of an old joke from the AI heyday of the 1980s, about two guys sitting in adjacent seats on the airplane, and through casual conversation they learn that they are each going to a different AI conference in the same city. They talked in such broad generalities about their work that it was nearly an hour before they realized that one was a computer scientist going to an Artificial Intelligence conference, while the other was a rancher going to an Artificial Insemination conference. ;; Gary On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: Hi, all. The FRIAM list welcome email said I should introduce myself, so here it is. My name's Ted Carmichael; I'm a PhD candidate in the College of Computing and Informatics, at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. I've been interested in CAS for the last 3 or 4 years; ever since I took an introductory course in it, I've been hooked. I think what I enjoy most is how applicable CAS is to many different fields. I'm computer science, but I enjoy learning a little bit about a lot of subjects. So this field is perfect for me. The professor who taught the intro course is now my thesis advisor. Last year we formed a research group here, with faculty from economics, biology, sociology, political science, theater, and philosophy. So that's a lot of fun. Some of us are also trying to create a symposium for next fall, through AAAI. I'll send a seperate email out about that, so you all can look at it, see if you might be interested. Thanks a lot! Cheers, Ted FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list
Maybe we could form a new group ... the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Insemination. -Ted On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote: Well, I remembered it about ten minutes after posting, and boy did I feel dumb then :-) I mainly just used it as an excuse for telling a silly joke that it reminded me of. - Gary On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: Oops. Sorry about that, Gary ... I shouldn't have assumed. I'm using CAS to mean Complex Adaptive Systems. Thanks for the heads up. -Ted FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list
Hi Ted, Welcome! BTW, SwarmFest will be in Santa Fe this year. It may be a good excuse for you and some research associates to come out and meet the local community. -Steve --- -. . ..-. .. ... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... stephen.gue...@redfish.com www.redfish.com 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 mobile: (505)577-5828 office: (505)995-0206 london: +44 (0) 20 7993 4769 On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: Hi, all. The FRIAM list welcome email said I should introduce myself, so here it is. My name's Ted Carmichael; I'm a PhD candidate in the College of Computing and Informatics, at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. I've been interested in CAS for the last 3 or 4 years; ever since I took an introductory course in it, I've been hooked. I think what I enjoy most is how applicable CAS is to many different fields. I'm computer science, but I enjoy learning a little bit about a lot of subjects. So this field is perfect for me. The professor who taught the intro course is now my thesis advisor. Last year we formed a research group here, with faculty from economics, biology, sociology, political science, theater, and philosophy. So that's a lot of fun. Some of us are also trying to create a symposium for next fall, through AAAI. I'll send a seperate email out about that, so you all can look at it, see if you might be interested. Thanks a lot! Cheers, Ted FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list
CAS is Complex Adaptive Systems in this context, but I doubt over half of the list would have known that off hand... I hope one of us will update the disambiguation page on WikiPedia. Reminds me of an old joke from the AI heyday of the 1980s, about two guys sitting in adjacent seats on the airplane, and through casual conversation they learn that they are each going to a different AI conference in the same city. They talked in such broad generalities about their work that it was nearly an hour before they realized that one was a computer scientist going to an Artificial Intelligence conference, while the other was a rancher going to an Artificial Insemination conference. In my early technical career (1980-1985), I had conversations like this at cocktail parties on two projects I worked on (Advanced Interactive Display System - AIDS) and (Easy Structured Programming - ESP). I literally would talk to someone from outside my technical sphere for several minutes in vague generalities until one of us realized we were not talking about the same thing. The key to AIDS was that it was not part of the public vernacular at that time (yet) and the key to ESP was that I could never imagine anyone actually believed in Extra Sensory Perception in any literal way. But I was young and hadn't come to understand Santa Fe in the New Age yet. - Steve FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
