GroupSubject: Re: [FRIAM] What have the Romans - sorry - complexity
done for us?
Laura:In the course of your research this summer, have you run
across any examples that would suggest some standard (old fashioned?) Project
Management efforts (ideally, files) that were created BEFORE the decision
I think this discussion is productive, because it seems it is bringing some light and agreement on "what is complexity and what it is not"...I didn't form the question well - what I meant was: what can we do now that we couldn't do 15 years before as a direct consequence of advances in complexity
I'll be honest, I cheated. I could have gone to the source and read the man's own words, but sometimes it's just easier to read the Cliff notes (or equivalent). In this case:
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/kuhnsyn.htmlRobertOn 7/25/06, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which if Kuhn's books
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Subject: RE: [FRIAM] What have the Romans - sorry - complexity done for us?
To follow on Mike's comments: what SFI, NECSI, UCLA
Laura:In the course of your research this summer, have you run across any examples that would suggest some standard (old fashioned?) Project Management efforts (ideally, files) that were created BEFORE the decision was made to invade Iraq? You know, a Gantt chart here, a PERT diagram there. Maybe
So here's the question: in the field of complexity science, exactly what can we do now that we could not do 15 years ago?just some things... I'm sure I'm missing some important ones... (can't see what's everywhere)1. complex networks2. systems biology3. synthetic life, i.e. protocells (well, not
I tend to identify myself more strongly with Artificial Life as a
discipline, with Complexity Science being more of an umbrella
category.
Whilst ALife had a long period during the 90s of not much happening, I
have seen a burst of results over tghe last 5 years, most
spectacularly in robotics
