*Please distribute to others who may be interested...* You are hereby invited to the first weekly seminar 2012-2013 in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO) and theGlobal Brain Institute<http://www.globalbraininstitute.org/>(GBI).
*Time*:* Monday, September 10th, *14:00-16:00 p.m (notice: next seminar meetings will take place on Fridays unless specified otherwise) *Place*: *Room 3B217 * (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! * * ------------------------------ Application of living technology to urban problems *Carlos Gershenson* <http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/%7Ecgg/>* (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)* * Abstract:* I will present an overview of current and potential applications of living technology to urban problems. Living technology can be described as technology that exhibits the core features of living systems. These features can be useful to solve dynamic problems. In particular, urban problems concerning mobility, logistics, telecommunications, governance, safety, sustainability, and society and culture are presented, while solutions involving living technology are reviewed. A methodology for developing living technology is mentioned, while supraoptimal public transportation systems are used as a case study to illustrate the benefits of urban living technology. Finally, the usefulness of describing cities as living systems is discussed. *The Speaker:* Speaker's webpage <http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/#about> ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* The full program for the ECCO/GBI new seminar series 2012-2013 will be published soon. More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum
