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 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Gary Schiltz <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.orgdidn'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 >
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