Owen writes:
A similar measure, as far as I know, is not available for
description of Complex systems .. one that offers a solution
to the inclusion principal for Complex processes.
There are a couple of useful measures that come to mind:
A measure to characterize the onset of complexity
are these therefore not complex systems?
Robert
On 7/21/06, Stephen Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yet when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
I very much like Hubler's deceptively simple definition
of complexity:
A complex systems is a system
that, but lets see
what the comments are...
Carl
Stephen Guerin wrote:
Yet when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
I very much like Hubler's deceptively simple definition of
complexity:
A complex systems is a system with large throughput of Energy
I'll install MediaWiki on the Friam site unless someone has a better idea of
how to start collecting content.
-Steve
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Subject: Re:
** tomorrow**
TITLE: Attention Allocation in Organizational Decision-Making
SPEAKER: Douglas A. Samuelson
AFFILIATION: Homeland Security Institute
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Wed August 9, ** 2:00p ** (non-standard time)
ABSTRACT: Consider how to improve
** today / non-standard time of 2p **
TITLE: Attention Allocation in Organizational Decision-Making
SPEAKER: Douglas A. Samuelson
AFFILIATION: Homeland Security Institute
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Wed August 9, ** 2:00p ** (non-standard time)
ABSTRACT: Consider how
Santa Fe Future is an interesting local program that gives participants an
excuse to go out and interview a large cross section of the community leaders
and citizens and to gain some perspective on issues facing Santa Fe 10-20 years
out.
Belinda went through the program last year and I did the
.cs.columbia.edu/~traub/
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
Owen,
Looks quite interesting and I was surprised it hasn't been
discussed
before.
We just discussed this last week. It's on my bookshelf. Ask
Pamela
*** Reminder tomorrow ***
SPEAKER: Joshua Thorp
TITLE: Art-induced explorations: Through the looking glass with Processing.
TIME: Wed Sept 5, 2006 12:30p
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
Lunch will be available for purchase
ABSTRACT:
What happens when agents start watching you? It
Correction on the date...that's tomorrow Wed Sept *6*.
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that is an agent's next move.
-Steve
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David Breecker writes:
Phil, indulge a layman for a moment: isn't auto-catalysis
widely considered to be the origination of life, and thus evolution?
Harold Morowitz and Eric Smith have a very approachable working paper on Origin
of Life:
*** Reminder tomorrow ***
SPEAKER: Joshua Thorp
TITLE: Getting the Point: Homography and the Directed Self
TIME: Wed Sept 27, 2006 12:30p
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
15-minute micro talk then we're off to El Tesoro for lunch
ABSTRACT:
More art-induced madness as Josh messes with
This just in from Roger Jones:
Adult Spelling Bee this Weekend
The 4th annual Adult Spelling Bee, benefiting the Friends of
the Santa Fe Public Library, will be held this Sunday, 8
October in the Community Room of the Main Public Library.
Retiring three-time defending champion Sven
!
--Doug
On 10/3/06, Stephen Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, I just noticed on Amazon that Mike's new
book is out!
http://tinyurl.com/ogn79 http://tinyurl.com/ogn79
Book Description
From Laszlo Gulyas on the SimSoc list.
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Subject: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's
[ Apologies for cross-postings. ]
Dear Colleagues,
Hey Jochen,
Is someone interested in modifying an existing 3D engine for
agent based modeling ?
We're doing small tests with the Blender Game Engine and Ogre3D for
ABM/scientific visualization. In fact, there's now an announced migration path
to Ogre3D to replacing Blender's older game
Phil writes:
Not sure I understand. What's an 'exception'. Is it
related to what I
was asking about, the chain of conditions getting trapped in
increasing complexity, or does it mostly refer to just
non-existent address faults
and things like that?
Here's some wikipedia entries that
*** tomorrow immediately following Kim Sorvig's 10:30a talk ***
** NOTE location of James Little Theatre **
SPEAKER:
Rose Tocke, Director Community Dynamics/Biomimicry Guild
TITLE:
Designs of Nature: Introduction to Biomimicry Keynote
TIME: Thurs Oct 26, 11:30a-12:30p
LOCATION:
Model
1501 Cerrillos Road
P.O.Box 5340
Santa Fe, New Mexico
87502
Phone: 505-989-6300 x5732
Fax: 505-989-6316
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... :)
Cheers,
Laura
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To: ARTS Lab Listserv; Stephen Guerin
Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: UNM Complex Systems Group event on Friday]
Hi all...
Complexity studies will be, I think, key to achieving
Science Café: Predicting Natural Disasters
When: Thursday, November 16 6-8p
Where: Warehouse 21, Santa Fe
Bob Eisenstein, former president of Santa Fe Institute, is organizing the first
KNME Science Café For Young Thinkers.
Predicting Natural Disasters, a discussion led by Professor John Rundle
Call for Papers
SASO 2007
International Conference on
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
If you find John Rundle talk interesting tonight, remember he will be following
up with a community discussion tomorrow (Thurs) night sponsored by the Santa Fe
Alliance for Science. More details at:
http://www.sfafs.org/calendar.asp
Lecture tonight:
SFI Public Lecture
Wednesday, November 15,
Man! Check out current ebay action on the new PS3's.
http://tinyurl.com/yldmym
According to one blog:
As of 9:23 AM Friday, 174 PS3 consoles have sold for an average selling price
of $2,618.47, and since its availability on eBay in pre-sale (October 17 until
midnight last night), 3,533 PS3s have
Tomorrow Fri, December 8
note time 1:00p
For those that couldn't make Iain SFI talk, he's agreed to give us an encore at
our office. I *highly* recommend attending.
Iain D. Couzin
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary
Today Fri, December 8
note time 1:00p
For those that couldn't make Iain's SFI talk yesterday, he has agreed to give us
an encore at our office. I *highly* recommend attending.
Iain D. Couzin
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of Ecology
and
Tomorrow, 12/22, FRIAM will be at St. John's as usual.
Next Friday, 12/28, we'll be meeting at Le Zodiac at Garrett's Desert Inn at Old
Santa Fe Trail and Alameda.
-S
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at
St. John's Cafe is closed tomorrow for the break.
Due to Tom Johnson's fine scouting, we'll be meeting at Le Zodiac Café at
Garrett's Desert Inn at Alameda and Old Santa Fe Trail.
http://www.santafe.com/sfrestaurants/121/
-Steve
As a reminder, we'll meet back at St. John's tomorrow, Jan 4.
-S
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624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
mobile: (505)577-5828
office: Santa Fe, NM (505)995-0206 / London, UK +44 (0) 20 7993
SPEAKER: Jan Hauser, Integrated Innovation
TITLE: Internet Augmented Society
TIME: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 @ 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street
Lunch will be avialable for $5
ABSTRACT:
Modern life-patterns have produced many benefits for humanity but some
Interesting that it uses multitouch. Anyone know if its the a variant of Jeff
Han's approach (http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/) that we've discussed? Or is
it something else?
-S
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hmm..does it come with software to solve the snowblower problem :-)
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603026
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From: Owen Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:46 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] [OT]
The Thanh Nien Daily is reporting that Papert was released from his Boston
hospital and is speaking again.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3newsid=24534
-S
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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and will be yet for an extended
period.. We are still hopeful that he will recover
eventually, but if he does, it'll take many months.
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:13:21 -0700 Stephen Guerin
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Steve,
The talk looks good. I'd like to attend and will give you a call.
Also, as a reminder, Felice Frankel will be speaking on Scientific Visualiation
at SFI's public lecture next Wed. See:
http://www.santafe.edu/events/abstract/530
-Steve
James,
I would highly recommend the UChicago/Argonne Agent conference
(http://www.agent2005.anl.gov/) and UCLA's Arrowhead
(http://hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm). Agent leans slightly more toward modeling
and tools and Arrowhead more toward social theory. Agent has the Netlogo and
RePast workshops
** Note day and time **
** Tuesday, 1:30p **
SPEAKER: Dr. Fabio Carrera
Visiting Lecturer - MIT Urban Information Systems group
Director of City Lab - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
TITLE: Knowledge Farming and the Long Tail of Small Cities
TIME: Tuesday, February 20, @ 1:30p
In response to D-Wave's recent public unveiling of their
quantum computer http://www.dwavesys.com/ ,
Cool, D-Wave is where Bill MacReady landed a couple years ago as VP of Product
Development.
Bill was a VP at BiosGroup and SFI researcher in the mid 90s (No Free Lunch
Theorem).
-S
Chris,
Fabio Carrera will be giving a talk tomorrow at our office. Please forward to
anyone that may be interested.
And Fabio will be up at SFI at 3:30p on Tuesday for a tour. I'm not sure who is
hosting...
-Steve
-
** Note day and time **
** Tuesday, 1:30p
doh! misaddressed.
Nothing to see here. move along. :-)
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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** reminder today **
** Tuesday, 1:30p **
SPEAKER: Dr. Fabio Carrera
Visiting Lecturer - MIT Urban Information Systems group
Director of City Lab - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
TITLE: Knowledge Farming and the Long Tail of Small Cities
TIME: Tuesday, February 20, @ 1:30p
** tomorrow Wed Feb 28 **
SPEAKER: Jeff Cares
Alidade Incorporated http://alidade.net/
TITLE: On Networks and Games
TIME: Wednesday, 28 February @ 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street
Lunch will be available for $5 purchase
Jeff has an article in the
test mail from support team, please ignore the mail
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Congratulations, Doug. Looks very cool!
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From: Douglas Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:28 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] One of my projects
All,
Here is a press release on one of
** Reminder tomorrow **
** Note this FRIAM lecture will be on at Santa Fe Institute **
Friday, March 30, 2007 . 12:15 pm . Medium Conference Room
MESUR: Modeling and Analysis of the Scholarly Community
by
Johan Bollen (LANL) and Marko A. Rodriguez (LANL)
Abstract
MEtrics from
** reminder tomorrow **
Eric Klopfer
Director of the StarLogo Project and creator of StarLogo TNG
MIT Urban Studies and Planning / Teacher Education Program
Graphical Programming with StarLogo TNG and open-sourcing StarLogo
TIME: Wednesday, April 4 @ 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Redfish Conference
Phil,
1) for change situations referred to as, [ before | gap?|
after ] Causal mechanisms that take time can generally be
found in the 'gap' but predictive models are often missing
because they can jump over gaps.
I'm wondering where there may be some shared vocabulary between
Well, yea, you're onto a parallel design there. I'm
usually referring to the individual instances of physical
processes that correspond to the general models of 'basins of
attraction'.
When you say individual instances of physical processes, I translate that to a
specific trajectory
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:22 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Nigel Gilbert posted this summary of exercises for ABM students on the NetLogo
list. Some good ideas.
-Steve
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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [netlogo-users] Exercises for
I've tried it a little. Not a huge selection of channels yet but the quality
seems good and the latency seems low.
-Steve
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From: Owen Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:00 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
If folks are interested to play with Scratch in an ABM context, try out Starlogo
TNG which Eric Klopfer presented at FRIAM last month:
http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/
From the TNG FAQ:
What is the difference between Scratch and StarLogo TNG?
Both Scratch and StarLogo TNG share a
I'd be interested. Steve, are you up for a Friday afternoon debriefing at
Cowgirls sometime in July (I'm out of town for three weeks)?
-S
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From: David Breecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:39 PM
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Lawrence Kuznar
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Indiana University/Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN
Anthropology of Terrorism: Modeling How Envy, Humiliation and Greed Manifest
Violent Conflict in Cross-Cultural Perspective
TIME: Wednesday, August 1 @ 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Redfish Conference
Yeah, I also remember a very sfi-ish small piece in Blood Meridian. I'm
traveling now and don't have the book so won't try to butcher a quote from
memory. But my hazy memory is that it had a bit about propagating information
structuring the world...
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From: David
Hey check out this week's Science:
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Mike North from Argonne is silhouetted against three screens. According to
Mike's post on NAACSOS, the right screen is RePast.
-S
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www.Redfish.com
624 Agua
*Reminder Tomorrow*
Lawrence Kuznar
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Indiana University/Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN
Anthropology of Terrorism: Modeling How Envy, Humiliation and Greed Manifest
Violent Conflict in Cross-Cultural Perspective
TIME: Wednesday, August 1 @ 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
So I was watching some datamining Google Tech Talks and noticed a Geoff
West talk in the sidebar. Cool!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7108406426776765294
-Steve
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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** note special day and time **
Robert Axtell
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
TITLE: Informal Chat on Agent-Based Modeling and Generative Social Science
TIME: Monday, August 13
The story reads as funny as an Onion article. :-)
Surfing around a bit, it may be a hoax:
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/08/hoax-alert-ipho.html
-S
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:04 AM
To: The Friday
** reminder today **
** note special day and time **
Robert Axtell
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
TITLE: Informal Chat on Agent-Based Modeling and Generative Social Science
TIME:
Virgil was an undergrad research associate at SFI this summer:
http://www.santafe.edu/education/fellowships-undergraduate-roster-05-griffith.ph
p
-S
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:26 PM
To: FRIAM
Subject: [FRIAM] See
** reminder today **
Gil Densmore
TITLE: Welcome to the World of Warcraft
TIME: Wednesday, August 15 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM
Lunch will be available for $5 purchase
ABSTRACT: This aims to be a un-talk covering: What is the World of
** tomorrow Friday **
** Note special day and time **
Cory Strassburger
Helix Studios, Los Angeles
TITLE: Sample Hollywood Production Workflows: An informal chat on visualization
from the practicioners perspective
TIME: Friday, August 17 1p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria
** today Friday **
** Note special day and time **
Cory Strassburger
Helix Studios, Los Angeles
TITLE: Sample Hollywood Production Workflows: An informal chat on visualization
from the practicioners perspective
TIME: Friday, August 17 1p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street,
Dave West
College of Santa Fe
Dave Thomas
Founder of Object Technology International
Early developers of Visualage Smalltalk and Eclipse IDE
TITLE: College of Santa Fe program in new software development and innovation
management/tech transfer program
TIME: Friday, August 29, 12:30p
LOCATION:
** today **
Dennis Dollens
Tumble Truss
TITLE: Emergence Urban Planning and Structural Systems
TIME: Wednesday, August 22, 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM
Lunch will be available for $5 purchase
ABSTRACT: Dennis will make a brief introduction to
** reminder tomorrow **
Dave West
College of Santa Fe
Dave Thomas
Founder of Object Technology International
Early developers of Visualage Smalltalk and Eclipse IDE
TITLE: College of Santa Fe program in new software development and innovation
management/tech transfer program
TIME: Friday,
** reminder today **
Dave West
College of Santa Fe
Dave Thomas
Founder of Object Technology International
Early developers of Visualage Smalltalk and Eclipse IDE
TITLE: College of Santa Fe program in new software development and innovation
management/tech transfer program
TIME: Friday,
Jim Hayes
Albuquerque, NM
TITLE: Hedging Complex and Chaotic Private Health Insurance Markets and the
Uninsured
TIME: Wednesday, September 5, 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
Lunch will be available for $5 purchase
ABSTRACT: Jim was seduced by
** reminder today **
Jim Hayes
Albuquerque, NM
TITLE: Hedging Complex and Chaotic Private Health Insurance Markets and the
Uninsured
TIME: Wednesday, September 5, 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
Lunch will be available for $5 purchase
Grey Thumb looks to be having a cool talk on Monday convenenient to Friamistas
in the Boston area:
Grey Thumb Meeting Reminder
Featuring a talk by Jason Kelly
When: 7:00pm September 10, 2007
Where: The Asgard Irish Pub Restaurant (350 Mass. Ave, Central Square,
Cambridge)
Who: All are
** today, part 2 of 2 ***
** Held over by popular demand **
Jim Hayes
Albuquerque, NM
TITLE: Hedging Complex and Chaotic Private Health Insurance Markets and the
Uninsured
TIME: Wednesday, September 12, 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
Lunch will
Shawn Barr
Clark University / Redfish Group
TITLE: Building Simply with Google SketchUp
TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 12:30p
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street
Lunch will be available for $5
Abstract: Google SketchUp is open-source software that is useful for
Thanks for the feedback, so far.
Yes, we use ArcView to a limited degree on projects and find the python and COM
scripting potentials interesting. The point of my original post is that there's
an explosion now of free GIS authoring tools and free mechanisms of GIS / 3D
distribution that it's
I found Kauffman' lecture about Autonomous Agents here:
http://www.redfish.com/friam/ http://www.redfish.com/friam/
, but all references are empty.
Yes, I used to keep those talks on a separate server and inadvertently lost the
digital files when I shuffled some domains around. I still
** note special day and time **
** this Thurs 10:30a - 12:30p **
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
TIME: Thursday, October 11, 10:30a-12:30p
Light snack and coffee will be served
FIRST TALK
Learning Dynamics: Lessons from Attractor Reconstruction
This should be of interest to some folks...
-Steve
GFX Café Seminar Friday October 26, 2007 12noon, ECE 118
Food will be served
TITLE:
Scale Invariant Raster Image Representation Through
Topological Encoding by Warren Hunt, graduate researcher,
Advanced Graphics Lab
ABSTRACT:
I'm sending this email invitation out on behalf of Kim Sorvig who is off the net
today
-Stephen
Dear FRIAM Colleagues,
Do you live in Santa Fe (City or County)? Your home is a risk from proposed oil
drilling.
PLEASE ATTEND A MEETING TO SHOW YOUR COMMUNITY
Here's a nice story on how Lake Arrowhead Conference Center fared during the
latest California fires.
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/lake-arrowhead-40150.aspx
Looking forward to a 5th Arrowhead
Conference...http://hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm
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Evolutionary Computation meets animation and image generation. What's not to
love?
GFX Cafe at UNM ECE118 tomorrow at 12 noon.
-S
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From: Pradeep Sen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:24 AM
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Great summary, Dave!
This may be the first time 632 Agua Fria has been mentioned on FRIAM. As a
belated introduction, we're planning on opening what Dave is describing in his
attached Word document in March http://www.santafecomplex.org
We are working on the financial details...Hopefully much of
A couple years ago, we did a vis with Nathan Eagle at MIT Media Lab that tracked
100 media lab and sloan school faculty and students' locations based on
interpolated tower info. Click on the first visualization:
http://reality.media.mit.edu/viz.php
The location of the users was augmented by
TITLE: Working with Visualization and Systems Thinking Tools in Spreadsheet for
Better Results
SPEAKERS:
Mohammad Mojtahedzadeh, Rod MacDonald
Attune Group, Inc
Albany, NY
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
TIME: Friday, December 14, 12:30p
Lunch will be
** reminder today **
TITLE: Working with Visualization and Systems Thinking Tools in Spreadsheet for
Better Results
SPEAKERS:
Mohammad Mojtahedzadeh, Rod MacDonald
Attune Group, Inc
Albany, NY
LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM
TIME: Friday, December 14,
A very interesting paper about accelerating agent-based models with graphics
cards (GPU). I placed the paper at
http://www.friam.org/DSouza_GPUacceleratedABM.pdf
-Stephen
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** Note special time 1:30p **
SPEAKER: John Whitfield
Science Writer, author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of
Nature
TITLE: D'Arcy Thompson - Science's Most Successful Failure
LOCATION: Wednesday, December 19, 1:30p
Lunch will be available for purchase for $5
Along this line, check out My Maps on the left side of google maps. There's a
bunch of nifty layers to turn on. I currently use:
getUSAddress
getLatLongPlus
Distance Measurement Tool
Elevation Contours
Altitude Resolving Tool
Meteorolical Maps Overlay
API reference
US Census
-Original
Nice story of Claiborne with OLPC at FRIAM in the NewMexican.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Connecting_the_world
-Stephen
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Free energy is the amount of energy in a system that is available to do work. A
room with all its air molecules equally distributed will have energy but no free
energy. If you put a heater in one corner of the room and a cooler in an
opposite corner, this second system would have free energy and a
** Talks will be held in 8 minute intervals on Tesuque Chair **
TITLE: Oscillatory motion on frozen gradients
TIME: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 12:30p - 4
LOCATION: Santa Fe Ski Basin www.skisantafe.com
ABSTRACT: Empirical investigation of the emergence of transverse waves as
gravitational
** Note special day, this Thursday **
SPEAKER: Ken Kahn
Oxford University and the London Knowledge Lab
TITLE: Modelling4All: The intersection of computer modelling, Web 2.0, and
Second Life
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Thursday, Jan 17, 12:30p
Lunch will be available for
Hi Alejandro,
The best language for ABM is the one you know. :-)
BTW, a few years back we did an ABM-like php script that laid out labels in a
scatterplot to minimize label overlaps. You can see examples of the script
running with optimized and non-optimized versions here:
These will both start at 1:30p. Not sure when they'll actually come up though.
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From: Stephen Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:19 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: testifying for NMCAC
SIGGRAPH has a call for complexity and visual analtyics this year:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/juried/complexity/
Do you have a full demographic interface or a particularly smart way of
dealing with massive amounts of data? For SIGGRAPH 2008, we seek work that
addresses three
Nice, Eric!
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/evolution-as-bi.html
Abstract:Most evolutionary biologists cherish Darwin's theory of natural
selection (NS) as the process of adaptive evolution more than 140 years after
publication of his first book on the subject. However, in the past few
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Subject: [Gfx-cafe] GFX Cafe Seminar Friday Feb 15, 2008
From:Pradeep Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Thu, February 14, 2008 2:27 pm
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Bilconference looks like a great idea and inspirpation for events at The
Complex. Check out their Bilders toolkit to bring and the fact they're using
pbwiki:
http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/BILDERS+TOOLKIT
I'm surprised LCD projector is not on the list
Also reminds me of barcamp:
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