Has anyone here come across the work of Douglas Rohde modelling human populations? It was featured in Slashdot today, but they're a bit behind the times, as the work was actually published as a letter to Nature back in 2004:
Douglas L. T. Rohde1, Steve Olson2 and Joseph T. Chang3 "Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans" Nature 431, 562-566 (30 September 2004) Douglas's homepage has a draft MS outlining the work - see it here: http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/ Anyway, the point I want to raise is this looks like an agent-based model with up to 55 million agents! That's an order of magnitude bigger than anything I've attempted, so I'm impressed! Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ 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
