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During spring 2006, we will meet every Wednesday
morning at 8 a.m. in Park 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory.
Coffee and muffins start the meeting off, followed by a presentation
and discussion. Open to all.
People in a variety of disciplines
and walks of life are in the business of trying to make sense
of the world. In so doing, all make use of conceptual frameworks,
habitual ways of thinking that influence both how one tries
to make sense of new observations and the new questions one
asks (and doesn't ask). These conceptual frameworks are themselves
reflections of the kinds of observations that have and can
be made.
Computers, like telescopes and microscopes,
have opened a whole new world of possible observations. Because
of the rapidity with which they can do well-defined calculations,
computers have made it possible to explore the consequences
of relatively simple interactions of relatively simple things
in ways never before possible (try, for example, the
Game of Life or Simple
Networks, Simple Rules).
From this new capability are emerging
in different arenas significant insights into phenomena long
believed too complex for serious analysis ... and perhaps
a new quite general conceptual framework applicable in a variety
of disciplines and practical contexts. People who are interested
the emergence of "emergent systems" as a way of thinking are
invited to join this discussion by contacting Doug Blank or Paul Grobstein.
emergent.brynmawr.edu/eprg/ - a collaborative, interactive
hypertext discussion of emergent systems
Complex Systems
on Serendip - additional resources
| "If
you knew the algorithm and fed it back say ten thousand times,
each time there's be a dot somewhere on the screen. You'd
never know where to expect the next dot. But gradually you'd
start to see this shape, because every dot will be inside
the shape of this leaf. ... The unpredictable and the predetermined
unfold together to make everything the way it is. It's how
nature creates itself, on every scale, the snowflake and the
snowstorm." Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993.
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Complete information for all sessions, including discussion notes and participant lists,
can be found on the Resources page.
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January 18 |
"Misinformation Networks: Why a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on"
Discussion leader: Mark Kuperberg (SWAT Economics) |
January 25 |
"Blogging, Social Software, and Emergence"
Discussion leader: Laura Blankenship |
February 1 |
"Globalization: discourse, circular causality and the self-fulfilling prophecy of welfare state retrenchment"
Discussion leader: Sandy Schram
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February 8 |
"Growth Points (?) in Emerging Emergence: Evolution, Architecture, Story Telling, and Generativity" Discussion leader: Paul Grobstein |
February 15 |
"Growth Points (?) in Emerging Emergence: Evolution, Architecture, Story Telling, and Generativity" (continued) Discussion leader: Paul Grobstein |
February 22 |
"Feminism, Emerging"
Discussion leader: Anne Dalke |
March 1 |
"The Virtue of Stubborn Conviction:
Ethics Through the Lens of Emergence"
Discussion leader: Ronni Sadovsky |
March 8 |
SPRING BREAK |
March 15 |
Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphology
Discussion leader: Rich Wicentowski |
March 22 |
Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphology (continued)
Discussion leader: Rich Wicentowski |
March 29 |
"Stories physicists tell, or what do they mean when they talk of 'ultimate reality'?"
Discussion leader: Al Albano
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
April 5 |
"Socially Extended Cognition"
Discussion leader: Alan Baker
Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
April 12 |
"Ants"
Discussion leader:
George Wilson, Villanova U.
Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
April 19 |
"Neural populations, Dimension reduction, & Models"
Discussion leader: Ken Whang
Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center
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April 26 |
"Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules"
Discussion leader: Doug Blank
Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
May 3 |
"Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules" Part 2
Discussion leader: Doug Blank
Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
BEGINNING OF SUMMER SCHEDULE -- Tuesdays, 8:30am, Park Sciences Bldg., Rm. 230 (unless otherwise noted) |
May 9
Tuesday 8:30am |
"Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules" Part 3
Discussion leader: Doug Blank
Park 230 |
May 16 |
"Futurism, prediction, and emergence" Discussion leader: Tim Burke
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May 23 |
Discussion leader: Alan Baker
LOCATION: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
May 30
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Discussion leader: Karen Greif
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June 6
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"Emergently Defining Emergence"
Discussion leader: Alan Baker
LOCATION: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center |
June 13
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"From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond: The Nature of Inquiry, and of What is Being Inquired Into"
Discussion leader: Paul Grobstein |
June 20
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Discussion leader: Mikio Akagi |
June 27
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Discussion leader: George Wilson
LOCATION: BMC Campus Center, Rm. 200 |
July 4
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Discussion leader: Open |
July 11
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Discussion leader: Lisa Benson |
July 18
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"The Two Faces of Emergence in Economics"
Discussion leader: Mark Kuperberg
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Emergent Systems Schedule and Discussion Links Fall 2005
Emergent Systems Schedule and Discussion Links 2004-2005
Forum 2004-2005
Information Working Group, summer 2004
Emergent Systems Schedule and Discussion Links 2003-2004
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