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Speaker:Arrow, Kenneth
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Speaker:Horizon: Signs of Life,
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Notes:Case: Illuminations for BBC-TV.
Speaker:Wheeler, John
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Speaker:Barnett, William
Title: A single-blind controlled competition among tests for nonlinearity and chaos
Date:1997-01-01
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Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available
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Speaker:Bak, Per
Title: A talk by Per Bak
Date:1997-01-24
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Large variations in stock prices happen with sufficient frequency to raise doubts about existing models, which fail to account for non-Gaussian statistics. A simple model is constructed, showing that variations may be due to a crowd effect. The interplay between "rational" traders and "noise" traders is investigated.
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Speaker:Langton, Christopher G.
Title: A talk with Chris Langton of the Santa Fe Institute about artificial life
Date:1992-01-27
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Before an audience of high school students, Langton describes what artificial life might be and how it differs from artificial intelligence.
Notes:Secondary School Program Series
Speaker:Adamatsky, Andrew
Title: Cellular automata computations in chemical media: Reaction-diffusion computing
Date:1996-08-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
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Speaker:Alker, Hayward
Title: The social sciences between the humanities and the natural sciences: Some thoughts on bridging research practices
Date:1996-02-20
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Social scientists often emulate the techniques and formalisms of the "exact sciences." The speaker finds that the methodologies of linguistics, analytical philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence rather than conventional physics or statistics are more appropriate for "humanistic science."
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Speaker:Kohler, Timothy
Title:"Delight Makers" and "Delight Takers" in the Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument
Date:Novembe 15, 2000
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Human organizations are extremely complex systems that have the disquieting ability to change rapidly in structure. Tim Kohler, archaeologist at Washington State University and external faculty member at SFI, proposes that between A.D. 1150 and the arrival of the Spanish, the puebloan societies in Bandelier underwent one minor and one major organizational transformation that archaeologists would be delighted to explain. Oral tradition, and recent survey and excavation in Bandelier discussed by Kohler, contribute greatly to this goal.
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Speaker:Perelson, Alan
Title:"How the Virus Does What It Does"
Date:2002-01-23
Length of Recording:app. 30 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Thirty-six million people are infected with HIV and the number grows by the day. We will try to shed some light on how we got here and what we can do about this and future epidemics.
Notes:Lecture #2 of four given by various speakers
Speaker:Gupta, Rajan
Title:"The Global Pandemic"
Date:2002-01-23
Length of Recording:app. 30 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Thirty-six million people are infected with HIV and the number grows by the day. We will try to shed some light on how we got here and what we can do about this and future epidemics.
Notes:Lecture #3 of four given by various speakers
Speaker:Hawkins, Trevor
Title:"Treatment and Prevention, Now and the Future"
Date:2002-01-23
Length of Recording:app. 30 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Thirty-six million people are infected with HIV and the number grows by the day. We will try to shed some light on how we got here and what we can do about this and future epidemics.
Notes:Lecture #4 of four given by various speakers
Speaker:Korber, Bette
Title:"Where the Virus Came From and Where It's Going"
Date:2002-01-23
Length of Recording:app. 30 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Thirty-six million people are infected with HIV and the number grows by the day. We will try to shed some light on how we got here and what we can do about this and future epidemics.
Notes:Lecture #1 of four topics presented by various speakers.
Speaker:Zhang, Y.C.
Title:1/f noise and complexity measurements
Date:19960214
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:not available
Notes:
Speaker:Padwa, David
Title:A biographical sketch of one of America's most brilliant and original scientific minds: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839--1914)
Date:1994-12-08
Length of Recording:90 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker outlines the wide-ranging scientific (and other) interests of this nineteenth-century philosopher and logician and his relevance to the interests of the SFI.
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Speaker:Griffeath, David
Title:A colorful survey of two-dimensional cellular automation shape theory
Date:1997-04-02
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Summary not available.
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Speaker:Haseltine, William A.
Title:A complete collection of human expressed genes: applications for medical and scientific research
Date:1995-11-10
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Summary not available.
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Speaker:Das, Raja
Title:A genetic algorithm discovers particle-based computation in cellular automata
Date:1994-04-28
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions? The speaker models such a process using a genetic algorithm to evolve cellular automata. His analysis is a step in understanding the general mechanisms by which sophisticated emergent computational capabilities can be automatically produced in decentralized multiprocessor systems.
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Speaker:Santa Fe Institute,
Title:A look at on-site SFI research
Date:1997-03-07
Length of Recording:ca. 90 min.
Number of Tapes:4
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Tape 1---Steven Durlauf on "Can statistical mechanics help with the study of inequality?" and Jim Crutchfield on "Pattern and meaning: steps to a mathematical theory of complex systems." Tape 2---Murray Gell-Mann on "Plectics: simplicity and complexity." Tape 3---Stuart Kauffman on "Biased gene control rules suggest eukaryotic cells are in the ordered regime" and Chris Langton on "Modeling complex systems." Tape 4---Melanie Mitchell on "Emergent computation and representation in cellular automata."
Notes:SFI Workshop Series
Speaker:Stewart, Ian
Title:A modular network for legged locomotion
Date:19961122
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:not available
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Speaker:Shapire, Rob
Title:A new boosting algorithm
Date:1995-11-01
Length of Recording:75 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Boosting is a method of producing a very accurate classification rule by combining moderately inaccurate rules of thumb. Speaker describes a new boosting algorithm called AdaBoost that has certain advantages over previous boosting methods.
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Speaker:Dardik, Irving
Title:A new concept linking behavior to physiology in health and disease
Date:1994-06-28
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:All organism behaviors can be represented as waves of relative stress and relaxation, suggesting a common denominator wave language of relative energy expenditure and energy conservation. A new model is presented which connects these behavioral waves with the oscillatory biochemical "clocks" of energy metabolism.
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Speaker:Chaitin, Gregory
Title:A new version of algorithmic information
Date:1995-04-07
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker constructs a new definition for a self-delimiting universal Turing machine that is easy to program and runs very quickly. This provides a new foundation for algorithmic information theory, allowing it to deal with practical programs.
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Speaker:Binder, Philippe
Title:A sensitivity parameter for cellular automata
Date:1993-10-14
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:A new parameter which estimates the average sensitivity of cellular automata to small configurational changes is used in conjunction with Langton's lambda parameter to construct phase diagrams of the dynamical behavior of cellular automata.
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Speaker:Stassinopoulos, Dimitris
Title:A simple brain model
Date:19940504
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Simulations on a simple model of the brain, consisting of a set of randomly connected neurons, are presented. Inputs to and outputs from the environment are randomly connected to a subset of neurons. The system learns, through a self-organization process, to select the correct output for each input.
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Speaker:Schrag, Dan
Title:A Snowball Earth
Date:6/13/2001
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Geological evidence suggests that, between 750 and 600 million years ago, the Earth experienced a series of global glaciations when the entire planet froze over to the equator. Such conditions persisted for millions of years before escape from the ice age was accomplished through the slow accumulation of carbon dioxide from volcanoes. The appearance of multicellular animal fossils immediately after the last glaciation suggests that these extreme events may have changed the environment, and stimulated the diversification of animals and other groups of organisms.
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Speaker:,
Title:A Tale of Two Theorists
Date:1991
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Interview
Summary:Abstract not available
Notes:A PBS broadcast, produced and directed by Linda Feferman. Written by Linda Feferman and Don Goldsmith
Speaker:Leijonhufvud, Axel
Title:A tale of two traditions
Date:1997-01-28
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Classical models of economic theory were adaptive/evolutionary. Modern ones are optimizing/equilibrium models. Because modern theory has almost completely replaced classical, the speaker discusses certain classes of problems which are neglected in macroeconomics.
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Speaker:Soleri, Paolo
Title:A talk by Paolo Soleri
Date:19961030
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker talks about his ideas for sheltering people and institutions: production, merchandising, learning, culture, health, and leisure.
Notes:
Speaker:Perelson, Alan S.
Title:A talk with Alan Perlson of the Santa Fe Institute about AIDS and the human immune systems
Date:1992-02-25
Length of Recording:ca.60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Conference
Summary:Before an audience of high school students Perelson describes the human immune system and the complexity of AIDS.
Notes:Secondary School Program Series
Speaker:Jen, Erica
Title:A talk with Erica Jen of the Santa Fe Institute about cellular automata
Date:1992-03-30
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Before an audience of high school students, Jen uses a computer and a demonstration of the "firing squad" problem to explain how cellular automata work.
Notes:Secondary School Program Series
Speaker:Hersh, Reuben
Title:A visit to Hungarian mathematics
Date:1993-08-17
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:In mathematics, the "Hungarian miracle" is well known. The speakers present a beginning explanation.
Notes:
Speaker:John-Steiner, Vera
Title:A visit to Hungarian mathematics
Date:1993-08-17
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:In mathematics, the "Hungarian miracle" is well known. The speakers present a beginning explanation.
Notes:
Speaker:Gell-Mann, Murray
Title:A world of ideas with Bill Moyers
Date:0000-00-00
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Shepard, Roger
Title:Abstract character of the principles; geometrical/group-theoretic bases of representation for: Objects, kinds, shapes, positions, motions, pitches, colors
Date:1993-12-09
Length of Recording:67 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:Fifth volume of a series.
Speaker:Nilsson, Nils
Title:Acting, planning, and learning in an autonomous agent
Date:1996-01-19
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker presents an autonomous agent architecture and its component subsystems in a simulated robot domain that integrate important abilities needed for robust, flexible performance in dynamic environments. The teleo-reactive format allows actions to be coupled to continuous environmental feedback and is compatible with conventional AI planning and learning mechanisms.
Notes:
Speaker:Hubler, Alfred
Title:Adaptation in an evolving chaotic environment
Date:1992-07-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:2
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Hubler and Pines describe results of computer simulations and analytic calculations of adaptation in a physical system characterized by an evolving chaotic environment.
Notes:Common themes in complex adaptive systems series #13-#14
Speaker:Pines, David
Title:Adaptation in an evolving chaotic environment
Date:1992-07-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:2
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Hubler and Pines describe results of computer simulations and analytic calculations of adaptation in a physical system characterized by an evolving chaotic environment.
Notes:Common themes in complex adaptive systems series #13-#14
Speaker:Beer, Randall
Title:Adaptive behavior in natural and artificial agents
Date:1995-09-01
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The biologist seeking to understand the neural mechanisms of animals and the roboticist may have much to learn from one another. This talk surveys projects at the interface of biology and engineering, including models of the neural basis of insect behavior and a legged robot.
Notes:
Speaker:Sigmund, Karl
Title:Adaptive dynamics and the prisoner's dilemma
Date:1994-02-17
Length of Recording:59 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:To model the evolution of a complicated game like the iterated prisoner's dilemma, one has to consider the game dynamics of a multi-type population of players which are so complex that one must use computer simulations. A much simpler dynamics describing the myopic evolution of a homogeneous population under the effect of selection and mutation often allows the prediction and the understanding of long-term outcomes of computer simulations.
Notes:
Speaker:Santa Fe Institute Workshop,
Title:Adaptive Modeling of Complex Systems
Date:1995-03-11
Length of Recording:270 min.
Number of Tapes:3
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Talks by Melanie Mitchell on "The real science of artificial worlds"; Chris Langton, Nelson Minar, and Roger Burkhart on "Swarm: A general-purpose simulation platform for studying complex adaptive systems"; Stephanie Forrest and Terry Jones on "Echo in the desert"; and Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell on "Artificial social life."
Notes:SFI Annual Science Symposium
Speaker:Slotine, Jean-Jacques
Title:Adaptive robotics and neural networks
Date:1996-04-15
Length of Recording:65 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker surveys adaptive robot trajectory control using explicit physical models and presents an algorithm for stable, on-line adaptation of output weights simultaneously with node configuration in a class of multiresolution dynamic models with radial wavelet basis functions. He illustrates the discussion experimentally with robotic catching of unknown light objects thrown through air.
Notes:
Speaker:Floyd, Sally
Title:Aggregate-based Congestion Control: Addressing Congestion from Large-Scale Traffic Patterns
Date:2001-03-29
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:Included in tape five of The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System workshop
Speaker:Moore, Cris
Title:Algebraic cellular automata and efficient prediction algorithms
Date:1992-10-27
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Moore looks at cellular automata with various semi-group and group structures which can be predicted in time proportional to $t$ and discusses the extent to which simplifying properties can be extended to "nonlinear" CAs.
Notes:
Speaker:Sawhill, Bruce Kean
Title:Algorithmic genetics (a pun on genetic algorithms)
Date:1995-07-07
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker proposes new ways to describe genetic action based on interpreting genes as Boolean logic elements in a circuit network. The genetic circuitry will point the way to understanding the biochemical pathways behind the circuitry and rapidly accelerate the process of finding treatment for complex diseases.
Notes:
Speaker:Chaitin, Gregory
Title:Algorithmic information theory
Date:1993-10-26
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker gives a brief outline of algorithmic information theory, and discusses applications to Hilbert's tenth problem.
Notes:
Speaker:Papadimitriou, Christos
Title:Algorithmic Problems Related to the Internet
Date:2001-03-31
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:Included on tape twelve of the Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System workshop
Speaker:Bedau, Mark
Title:An empirical law of adaptive evolutionary activity
Date:1994-03-29
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker suggests how one might make meaningful quantitative comparisons across different artificial and natural systems so as to highlight the lifelike properties that distinguish complex adaptive systems from other kinds of complex systems (such as sand piles).
Notes:
Speaker:Gray, Randall
Title:An individual-based simulation model for marine systems
Date:1996-04-04
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:To estimate contamination of the food chain off the southeast coast of Tasmania from industrial dumping, a simulation model was developed to track contact between a contaminant and a simple food chain. The model was spatially specific and individual-based with varying time steps.
Notes:
Speaker:Gramss, Tino
Title:An introduction to the theory of quantum computation
Date:1993-09-31
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:It has been shown that on a few very artificial problems quantum computers can do better than Turing machines, i.e., that they can perform certain tasks faster or with less hardware involved. However, it is an open question whether or not this is true for more interesting problems.
Notes:
Speaker:Schrag, Daniel
Title:Ancient Perspectives on Future Climate
Date:20070911, 20070912,
Length of Recording:60 min. each
Number of Tapes:3
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:The increase in atmospheric CO2 due to burning coal, oil, and gas represents an unprecedented and uncontrolled experiment on the planet Earth. We know from air bubbles trapped in ice cores that CO2 has never been higher than 300 parts per million in the last 650,000 years, and from indirect measurements, we think it was not significantly higher than this for tens of millions of years. Exactly how the rise in CO2 will affect the Earth over the next few centuries remains uncertain. Geologic records of climate change over earth history, as well as observations of neighboring planets, provide a variety of important lessons that can guide us in evaluating the risks of future climate change.
Notes:
Speaker:Kohler, Timothy
Title:Anthropological perspectives on computational approaches to the evolution of cooperation
Date:1995-05-23
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker reviews recent computational work on the evolution of cooperation in human societies and defines the sorts of problems to which computation might be applicable.
Notes:
Speaker:Ehlers, Cindy
Title:Application of time series techniques to the study of the actions of alcohol
Date:1994-03-18
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker discusses techniques developed in the field of neuro-psychopharma- cologic studies capable of characterizing several aspects of the dynamical system generating the human EEG. These techniques suggests that measures of EEG "chaos" may represent a new assay of drug effects as well as of potential risk for drug abuse.
Notes:
Speaker:Hanagandi, Vigay
Title:Applications of genetic algorithms in chemical engineering
Date:1994-09-13
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Genetic algorithms are powerful alternatives to traditional optimizations methods. The field of chemical engineering offers challenging optimization and search problems. The speakers show four case studies to illustrate the effectiveness of GAs in solving complex optimization problems in engineering applications.
Notes:
Speaker:Jones, Roger
Title:Applications of genetic algorithms in chemical engineering
Date:1994-11-13
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Genetic algorithms are powerful alternatives to traditional optimizations methods. The field of chemical engineering offers challenging optimization and search problems. The speakers show four case studies to illustrate the effectiveness of GAs in solving complex optimization problems in engineering applications.
Notes:
Speaker:Kaplan, Scott
Title:Approximate dynamic load balancing with genetic programming
Date:1995-01-09
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Load balancing is a promising way of utilizing the wasted processing power available on a set of networked machines yet little is known about it. The speaker presents a model where a genetic programming engine alters the calculations used in a threshold-based load balancing scheme.
Notes:
Speaker:Kauffman, Stuart
Title:Are eukaryotic genetic regulatory networks at the edge of chaos?
Date:1996-04-24
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Analysis of data by Steven Harris, Andrew Wunesche, and Bruce Sawhill on 108 regulated eukaryotic genes reveals a bias in the class of Boolean functions in favor of "canalyzing Boolean fluctuations." Speaker discusses the implication of this bias to the effort to find general laws governing the organization and evolution of a particular class of non-equilibrium systems, namely co-evolutionarily constructable communities of autonomous agents.
Notes:
Speaker:Dacorogna, Michel
Title:Are financial markets heterogeneous? A fractal approach
Date:1994-11-21
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Economic theory of efficient markets postulates that predicting price movements is not possible. Yet dealers claim that they are able to make excess profits in financial markets. This contradiction can be resolved if dynamical notions like the preferred time horizon of investors are introduced. A review of the statistical results and methods used in a study of foreign exchange rates to develop a trading model that generates excess return of the order of 10% per year is presented.
Notes:
Speaker:Casti, John
Title:Are there limits to our scientific knowledge?
Date:1998-03-05
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available
Notes:
Speaker:McMullin, Barry
Title:Artificial Darwinism--the very idea!
Date:1995-12-06
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker explores von Neumann's ideas on cellular automata from the point of view of the evolutionary growth of complexity.
Notes:
Speaker:Adami, Chris
Title:Artificial life as a research tool
Date:1995-04-04
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The speaker reviews a number of applications of the artificial life system Tierra/avida, ranging from adaptive computation, to theories of evolution, to population biology and ecology. He concludes with a list of future applications in bioengineering and reverse phylogeny.
Notes:
Speaker:Christopher, Langton
Title:Artificial Life II Conference
Date:0000-00-00
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Automatic mechanical self-replication, by L. S. Penrose; Self-reproducing loops and virtual ants, by Christopher Langton; The ants go Mar.ing: Behavioral dynamics at three levels, by Michael Travers and Mitchel Resnick; Boids demos, by Craig Reynolds; Learning from natural selection in an artificial environment, by David Ackley and Michael Littman; The genetic programming paradigm, John Koza and James Rice; Population dynamics of digital organisms, by Thomas Ray; Panspermia, by Karl Sims; Breaking the ice, by Craig Reynolds; Dr. Skitzenheimer, by Peter Oppenheimer; Replicate, by Peter Oppenheimer.
Notes:
Speaker:Epstein, Joshua
Title:Artificial social life
Date:1993-03-03
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:Project 2050
Speaker:Axtell, Robert
Title:Artificial social life
Date:1993-03-03
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:Project 2050
Speaker:Kauffman, Stuart
Title:At home in the universe; the search for laws of self-organization and complexity
Date:1995-08-16
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Kauffman proposes that the range of spontaneous order in nature is enormous. How does this spontaneous order arise? The speaker contends that complexity triggers self-organization and that all complex systems evolve in similar ways.
Notes:
Speaker:Tallal, Paula
Title:Attacking learning disabilities: integrating technology and neuroscience
Date:19971015
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary: Neural circuitry in non-human primates can be remapped after specific, intense training regimen. Tallal and her colleagues have effectively used adaptive multimedia software programs with children who have language learning disabilities.
Notes:
Speaker:Laaser, William T.
Title:Automatic programming of sorting networks: a comparison between genetic algorithms and traditional search techniques
Date:1992-12-01
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Laaser discusses when genetic algorithm techniques are most useful and when other problem-solving techniques may be more appropriate.
Notes:
Speaker:Dennett, Daniel
Title:AVOIDING DISASTERS IN DETERMINISTIC UNIVERSES
Date:2003-03-19
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:A ubiquitous bad habit of thought is supposing that whatever is determined is inevitable. This simple mistake lies at the heart of much of the anxiety about determinism (and the misbegotten fondness for quantum theoretical 'solutions' to the problems of free will). These errors can be exposed with the help of several thought experiments involving Conway's Game of Life world and chess-playing computers. Although the rules of the game are uncomplicated, highly complex "life forms" may arise from simple starting patterns (perhaps not unlike life itself). In fact, it has been shown that in Life there exists the possibility of self-moving phenomena with the ability to duplicate themselves, to reproduce. Further, it has been suggested that the universe itself is a space-time granular and that the future although completely deterministic is unpredictable, being its own fastest simulation.
Notes:
Speaker:Traub, Joseph
Title:Beating Monte Carlo for calculating financial derivatives
Date:19950623
Length of Recording:50 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker compares the efficacy of Monte Carlo and deterministic methods on calculating a type of derivative, collateralized mortgage obligations; and discusses research directions, applications, and the computational complexity of high-dimensional integration.
Notes:
Speaker:Huberman, Bernardo A.
Title:Better than the best: The power of cooperation
Date:1995-04-14
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker presents a quantitative assessment of the value of cooperation for solving constraint satisfaction problems through a series of experiments. These results suggest a new method for solving distributed search problems in computer science and distributed multiagent systems.
Notes:
Speaker:,
Title:Beyond Equilibrium & Efficiency
Date:5/18/2000 - 5/20/200
Length of Recording:11 tapes, approximately one ho
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:
Speaker:Allen, Peter
Title:Beyond nonlinear dynamics; modeling of evolution time
Date:1996-03-19
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Rice, Ken
Title:Beyond sequence analysis: Evolutionary pharmacology of unalignable receptor sequences
Date:1996-04-23
Length of Recording:65 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Sequence-based phylogenetic reconstruction methods accurately predict ligand and signaling pathways in several subgroups of the G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily by inferring the unique branching process of gene duplications which gave rise to modern receptors. Unfortunately, these methods fail when applied to the entire GCR superfamily. Speaker suggests another approach which yields surprising conclusions about early receptor evolution.
Notes:
Speaker:Kauffman, Stuart
Title:Biased gene control rules suggest eukaryotic cells are in the 'ordered regime'
Date:1997-03-07
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:not available
Notes:Santa Fe Institute Science Symposium, March 7, 1997 Tape includes Chris Langton on "Modeling complex systems."
Speaker:Corliss, Jack
Title:Biosphere 2 as a laboratory for global ecology
Date:1994-04-20
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Speaker describes Biosphere 2 and the scientific perspectives which underlie its activities.
Notes:
Speaker:Forrest, Stephanie
Title:Borders and Gateways: Computer Networking in Everyday Life
Date:20071017
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Computer networking has changed communication in unprecedented ways leading to a continually connected society. This transformation creates new forms of human interaction with implications for locality and boundaries, privacy and identity, and the speed of social exchange. Forrest talks about the technology driving these changes and the accompanying risks and challenges; society may have to rethink notions of freedom, anonymity, privacy and security.
Notes:
Speaker:Sulloway, Frank
Title:Born to rebel: Talk covers the basic ideas of covariance analysis and its application to RNA structure, utilization of phylogenetic tree information, and finding seque
Date:19970114
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary: Sulloway posits that birth order plays a major role in determining personality and social outlook. By recasting Darwin's theory of natural selection in terms of family dynamics, Sulloway highlights the adaptive tactics that siblings deploy to differentiate themselves from one another.
Notes:
Speaker:Jackson, Jeremy
Title:Brave New Ocean
Date:2005-03-02
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Conservation biology emphasizes what we are trying to protect but we also need to ask what will replace the biota we are losing and their ecosystem consequences. Six major changes harbinger the future of the oceans: 1) loss of big animals, 2) flattening and denuding of the ocean floor, 3) introduced species, 4) global warming, 5) accumulation of toxins, and 6) microbial dominance of entire ecosystems I call “the rise of slime.” We address these problems piecemeal and avoid the central question of synergies between them and the potential change of state of the global ocean and biogeochemical cycles that are the life support system of the planet. Comparisons between land and oceans demonstrate that economic benefits of dominance of terrestrial ecosystems measured by agricultural production do not translate to the oceans. Marine equivalents to wheat, rice, and corn are toxic microbial blooms and jellyfish that comprise a virtual reality trip back to Precambrian seas half a billion years ago. Ecosystem services of big animals and suspension feeders may not recover fast enough on their own to reverse the rise of slime – even if we succeed in slowing the flow of excess nutrients into the ocean sewer. Restoration will require new attitudes toward waste, exploitation, and marine equivalents to the “gardenification of nature” proposed by Daniel Janzen for terrestrial ecosystems. The future of marine biodiversity depends upon it.
Notes:
Speaker:Coppock, Robert
Title:Briefing to Project 2050 workshop
Date:1994-02-23
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available
Notes:
Speaker:Brooks, Rodney
Title:Building a humanoid robot to be human
Date:1997-01-17
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Speaker discusses the MIT AI Lab's progress on the humanoid robot Cog, focusing on the importance of physics and its physical embodiment, the ways in which development might proceed as with human infants, and the importance of social interactions and social embodiment.
Notes:
Speaker:Brooks, Rodney
Title:Building a humanoid robot to be human
Date:1998-12-11
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Brooks discusses his computational theory of intelligence and its practical applications in the areas of robotics, human-computer interface, information transportation and enhanced reality.
Notes:Produced by the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Santa Fe Institute, and SITE Santa Fe (Arts of the Artificial Series).
Speaker:Axelrod, Robert
Title:Building tools for agent-based modeling
Date:1996-05-13
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Description of a project by Michael Cohen, Robert Axelrod, and Rick Riolo to make agent-based modeling easier by developing a set of tools, including statistics on populations of pupulations, "laboratory notebook" techniques, and dynamic staining, widely applicable by researchers and students.
Notes:
Speaker:Cooper, Mark
Title:Ca-waves and contractility in glial cell networks: creative tension in the nervous system
Date:1993-09-17
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The speaker describes activities which represent mechanisms by which Ca-induced changes in glial cell physiology could potentially alter the excitability of neuronal networks.
Notes:
Speaker:Detours, Vincent
Title:Can affinity-based selection of T cells produce a self-MHC-restricted and alloreactive repertoire? A quantitative study
Date:1996-11-05
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Using a computer model, the speaker shows that affinity-based selection can account for the main properties of the peripheral T cell repertoire provided that self-restriction is, on average, weak.
Notes:
Speaker:Stanley, Eugene
Title:Can statistical physics contribute to the science of economics?
Date:19970109
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:not available
Notes:
Speaker:Yemini, Yechiam
Title:Can the Virtual be Harnassed Physically?
Date:2001-03-30
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:Included in tape eight of The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System workshop
Speaker:Jack, Julian
Title:Catching slippery quanta: Following changes in quantal size with changes in synaptic efficacy
Date:1993-04-30
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Rickert, Marcus
Title:Cellular automata simulation of two-lane traffic
Date:1994-08-26
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:A simple two-lane cellular automata model is presented with cars and trucks which exhibits self-organized critical behavior of the outflow from a closely packed traffic jam.
Notes:
Speaker:Jen, Erica
Title:Cellular automata: Complex nonadaptive systems
Date:1992-07-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:With: Lloyd, Seth. Measures of Complexity. -- Abstract available. Jen discusses progress in, examples of, and implications of research in nonlinear automata.
Notes:
Speaker:Fischbach, Gerald
Title:Change in the brain: The plasticity of the brain's synaptic connections
Date:1996-10-21
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Speaker explains his research into the malleability of the human brain's neural connections, how this characteristic adds to the complexity of the brain, and its implications.
Notes:
Speaker:Gleick, James
Title:Chaos
Date:1989-10-25
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Gleick, author of Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Penguin, 1987), describes the birth of a new field.
Notes:
Speaker:Kaplan, Daniel
Title:Chaos in short noisy time series
Date:1994-05-04
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:In many fields, such as ecology and physiology, chaos theory offers an alternative to linear dynamics. Times series studied in these fields are often quite short. The speaker describes two new methods of time series analysis and discusses their applicability to short time series.
Notes:
Speaker:Hanson, James E.
Title:Chaotic pattern bases for cellular automata
Date:1992-11-18
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:2
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Hanson describes why it is essential to understand the patterns that arise in a spatially extended dynamical system as it evolves; he outlines techniques for discovering, verifying, filtering and quantifying chaotic domains in one-dimensional cellular automata.
Notes:Computation, Dynamical Systems, and Learning workshop, Nov. 16-20, 1992
Speaker:Fanelli, Stefano
Title:Classification of patterns using MLP-networks trained by a "direct" iterative procedure
Date:1993-04-08
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The speaker describes an alternative (to BP) algorithm for the effective training of MLP-networks with binary outputs.
Notes:
Speaker:Yates, Terry
Title:Climate change: emergent viruses in rats
Date:19970221
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Hantaviruses are closely association with wild rodents. Outbreaks appear to be positively associated with rodent population densities. The ramifications of these findings are discussed.
Notes:
Speaker:Chappey, Colombe
Title:Clustering analysis of the third variable envelope region
Date:1994-04-29
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The principal neutralising determinant of HIV-1 is contained within a peptide loop, the V3 loop, of the virus envelope protein. The extent of variability of antibodies within the V3 region is examined using a novel algorithm and the results suggest structure-function conservation among the viable variants.
Notes:
Speaker:Arthur, W. Brian
Title:Co-evolution and ever-emergent behavior
Date:1992-07-09
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Arthur discusses what causes interactive systems to become nonrepeating and describes a computer experiment that he, John Holland, and Richard Palmer have carried out on the difference between equilibrium and nonrepeating behavior in the the economy.
Notes:Common themes in complex adaptive systems #4
Speaker:Rumelhart, David
Title:Cognition and human learning
Date:1992-07-11
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:Common themes in complex adaptive systems series #10 With : Chuck Stevens, Evolution and function of the mammalian brain.
Speaker:Pollack, Jordan
Title:Cognition as a complex system
Date:1999-11-19
Length of Recording:ca.120 min.
Number of Tapes:2
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Pollack relates emergent properties of recurrent neural networks to generative cognitive faculties, such as language and the imagination.
Notes:Computation, Dynamical Systems, and Learning workshop, Nov. 16--20, 1992
Speaker:Choucri, Nazli
Title:Coherence and complexity: An integrated approach to global sustainability
Date:1996-10-19
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Speaker describes an interactive computer system for "thinking about" and "framing" policy between the social and natural sciences.
Notes:Workshop: Complexity and the Political Process
Speaker:Hanson, James E.
Title:Coherent structures in celular automata
Date:0000-00-00
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The speaker presents a definition of "coherent structure" appropriate to one-dimensional CA and describes a number of analytical and numerical tools for them.
Notes:
Speaker:Gacs, Peter
Title:Combinatorial renormalization
Date:2001-03-29
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:Included in tape four of The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System workshop
Speaker:,
Title:Common themes in complex adaptive systems workshop Abstract not available.
Date:1992-07-14
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:4
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:General discussions, group discussion, roundtables; theory, applications, non-adaptive systems
Notes:
Speaker:,
Title:Common Themes in Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop Santa Fe
Date:1992-07-15
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:2
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Abstract not available
Notes:
Speaker:,
Title:Common Themes in Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop
Date:1992-07-08
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:4
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Integrated themes meeting, unedited.
Notes:July 18-15, 1992
Speaker:,
Title:Common Themes in Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop
Date:1992-07-10
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:(Common themes in complex adaptive systems #9) Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Jackson, John
Title:Competition with endogenous voter preferences
Date:1994-07-05
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The model of two-party electoral competition is a central feature of formal theory. Applications of this, and similar, models make the assumption that voters' ideal points are fixed or change only in response to shocks between elections. The speaker presents a model that takes the simplest of the two-party competition models and adds an equation that allows voters' preferences to evolve.
Notes:
Speaker:Ikegami, Takashi
Title:Complete replicators and individuality
Date:1996-11-26
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker studies the origin and evolution of genetics using the metaphor of machines and tapes, where mutation is a rewriting process which machines act on tapes (consisting of a bit string). He reports on evolutions of replicating networks via intercellular communication.
Notes:
Speaker:Miller, John
Title:Complex adaptive political systems
Date:1996-10-19
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Speaker explores two applications of complex adaptive systems theory to the political process: competition between political parties, and how to design mechanisms for the decentralized sorting of political agents.
Notes:SFI Workshop: Complexity and the political process
Speaker:Moscato, Pablo
Title:Complex systems for complex problems
Date:1994-04-26
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker presents a review of work on the use of complex systems applied to the approximate solution of some complex problems which arise in science and technology. For instance, using "memetic" algorithms, the optimal solution of a 100-cities traveling salesman problem was found in ten seconds on a workstation (forty seconds on a 386 laptop) which could not be done on an overnight run on hypercubes using a simulated annealing approach.
Notes:
Speaker:Adams, David
Title:Complexities in cancer development and treatment
Date:1996-03-25
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Steels, Luc
Title:Complexity and chaos in robotic agents
Date:19940316
Length of Recording:94 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker describes a distributed dynamic architecture for designing and building intelligent autonomous robotic agents based on a set of time-varying quantities linked to sensors and actuators.
Notes:
Speaker:Jaeger, Carlo
Title:Complexity and complementary models: Implications for the integrated assessment of climate change
Date:1995-09-18
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The question of how to deal with climate change is often framed as an optimization problem. It assumes the existence of a unique global optimum of climate, ecological, and socioeconomic systems. Progress in our understanding of the dynamic behavior of complex systems casts serious doubts on such an approach. Adopting an evolutionary approach, called integrated assessment of climate change, may improve understanding of the dynamics and oroganization of these complex systems.
Notes:
Speaker:Pahl-Wostl, Caludia
Title:Complexity and complementary models: Implications for the integrated assessment of climate change
Date:1995-09-18
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The question of how to deal with climate change is often framed as an optimization problem. It assumes the existence of a unique global optimum of climate, ecological, and socioeconomic systems. Progress in our understanding of the dynamic behavior of complex systems casts serious doubts on such an approach. Adopting an evolutionary approach, called integrated assessment of climate change, may improve understanding of the dynamics and oroganization of these complex systems.
Notes:
Speaker:Carlson, Jean
Title:Complexity and robustness
Date:2001-03-29
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:
Notes:
Speaker:Wuensche, Andrew
Title:Complexity in 1-D cellular automata gliders; basins of attraction and the Z parameter
Date:19940422
Length of Recording:65 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:What do we mean by complexity in the changing patterns of a discrete dynamical system? Complex 1-D CA rules support the emergence of interacting periodic configurations---gliders, glider-guns, and compound gliders. The speaker examines gliders and their interactions in 1-D CA on the basis of many examples.
Notes:
Speaker:Keiffer, Susan
Title:Complexity in earth and planetary processes
Date:1995-02-02
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The speaker brings methods from studies of complex phenomena to focus on the complicated, and complex, problem of defining the properties of a data set of approximately 42,000 eruption intervals and durations of Old Faithful. This data analysis will be coupled with theory of the fluid and chemical dynamics in the geyser.
Notes:
Speaker:McShea, Daniel
Title:Complexity increases in evolution: Not!
Date:1993-02-23
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:not available
Notes:
Speaker:Holland, John H.
Title:Complexity made simple
Date:1994-06-06
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:The speaker, founder of the approach to computing known as the genetic algorithm, offers his views on the foundations of the sciences of complexity.
Notes:Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture
Speaker:Hickey, Dave
Title:Complexity of desire
Date:1999-01-08
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:Summary : The speaker, Professor of Art Criticism and Theory and contributing editor to Art Issues Magazine, explores what constitutes art in the new age of technology and scientific discovery.
Notes:Arts of the Artificial Series
Speaker:Baker, Fred
Title:Complexity resulting from legal issues in interdomain routing
Date:2001-03-30
Length of Recording:1 hr.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:
Notes:Included in tape nine of The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System workshop
Speaker:Greenspan, Neil
Title:Complexity, cooperativity and complementarity in immunological recognition
Date:1996-02-29
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:The search to identify the structural elements responsible for immune recognition involves determining the compositions of sets of amino acid (or atoms) that are subsets of the components of the immune receptors or antigens. Speaker examines different criteria for including structural elements corresponding to a paratope or epitope, concluding that the ontology of immune recognition is dynamic.
Notes:
Speaker:Burbanks, Andy
Title:Computer assisted proofs in analysis
Date:1995-11-03
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Speaker develops a mathematical framework to systematically represent and perform computations with numbers and functions resulting in being able to use quantitative computer calculations to prove qualitative mathematical results, needed in genuine mathematical proofs.
Notes:
Speaker:Boman, Bruce
Title:Computer simulation of the coupling of cell growth and differential populations
Date:1995-06-21
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Horgan, Terry
Title:Connectionism and the philosophy of psychology: Noncomputable dynamical cognition
Date:1995-10-27
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Human cognition is too flexible and open-ended to be captured by hard rules like computer programs. The speaker argues that the mind is best understood as a dynamical system realized in a neural network.
Notes:
Speaker:Mittermeier, Russell
Title:Conserving the tropical forests: Global imperative for the '90s
Date:1989-11-14
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Speaker describes work of Conservation International and the identification of the earth's environmental "hot spots."
Notes:
Speaker:Chown, Eric
Title:Consolidation and learning: A connectionist model of credit assignment
Date:1994-05-13
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:An adaptive system must have the ability to learn about a wide range of environments. The speaker focuses on a method of learning called consolidation, which refers to the process by which memories are formed.
Notes:
Speaker:Moore, Cris
Title:Continuous computers and real recursion
Date:1995-10-19
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:How can we build a theory of computation that makes sense in a classical, analog world where states are continuous and processes take place in continuous time? The speaker describes a class of recursive functions which can be stratified according to "how unphysical" they are.
Notes:
Speaker:Ewald, Paul
Title:Converting medical swords into plowshares: evolutionary tools for epidemiological problems
Date:1995-03-15
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Community Lecture
Summary:Current work on the evolution of virulence suggests ways in which the most difficult pathogenic adversaries can be molded evolutionarily by more clever use of vaccines, antibiotics and hygienic interventions.
Notes:
Speaker:Silverman, Scott
Title:Cooperative magnetic interactions in organic molecules
Date:1993-10-22
Length of Recording:54 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Subtle effects influencing the parallel or anti-parallel alignment of unpaired electron spins in organic molecules are discussed.
Notes:
Speaker:Schultes, Eric
Title:Coordinating sequence space with applications to molecular evolution
Date:1995-02-28
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Weller, Klausdieter
Title:Correlation analysis of process data for convergence detection in genetic algorithms
Date:19950616
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Correlation analysis of appropriate process data may be used to automatically detect GA convergence.
Notes:
Speaker:Chiels, Hillel
Title:Coupling of central and peripheral dynamics in adaptive behavior
Date:1996-01-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Though neurobiologists often focus on the dynamics of the nervous system to account for adaptiveness in animal behavior, the speaker shows that the coupling of peripheral with central dynamics more accurately explains adaptive behavior in animal or robot behavior.
Notes:
Speaker:Sole, Ricard
Title:Criticality and unpredictability in macro-evolution
Date:19960712
Length of Recording:60 min.
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-house Colloquium
Summary:Speaker presents a new model of large-scale evolution which seems to be linked with a critical state, and implies that evolution is a dynamical process leading to high unpredictability.
Notes:
Speaker:Falsenstein, Joe
Title:Cryptic gene geneologies and hidden Markov models: Recent work on likelihoods and phylogenies
Date:1996-06-11
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Abstract not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Hommon, Robert
Title:Cultural complex adaptive systems
Date:1995-05-25
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:A human culture satisfies the definition of a complex adaptive system. A culture system's global complexity emerges from its constituent human agents as each adapts to a shifting environment. Speaker suggests that a human culture differs sufficiently from other complex adaptive systems that it should be considered in a distinct class, the cultural complex adaptive system.
Notes:
Speaker:Fikentscher, Wolfgang
Title:Cultural complexity
Date:1996-03-22
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Cultures and culture can be understood as complex adaptive systems, opening the door to research in cultural complexity and establishing a new level of abstraction, anthropological systems theory.
Notes:
Speaker:Luisi, Luigi
Title:Definition of minimal life in synthetic chemical cells
Date:1995-02-16
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:
Notes:
Speaker:Laserna, Mario
Title:Descartes, analytic geometry, and the origins of complexity
Date:1996-02-08
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Whatever their origins, truth and complexity are properties not of objects but of our knowledge of objects expressed in language. In science, those linguistic constructs called models are declared true if they are adequate to reality. What aspects of nature demand the language of complexity?
Notes:
Speaker:Feldman, David
Title:Detecting non-critical organization
Date:1996-11-12
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:In-House Colloquium
Summary:Summary not available.
Notes:
Speaker:Goodwin, Brian
Title:Developmental complexity and evolutionary order
Date:1992-07-10
Length of Recording:
Number of Tapes:1
Type of Meeting:Workshop Lecture
Summary:The development of a morphologically complex organism from a simple spherical egg