The "how-to" isn't obvious, but I think this may be delivered via some sort
streaming video connection.
-tom
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Subject: John Holland "A Model of Language Acquisition and Evolution",
April 13, 12-2pm @ the Swiss Consulate in Cambridge (420 Broadway) RSVP
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The The National Center for Digital Government and the Cambridge Colloquium
on Complexity and Social Networks
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government would like to invite you to:
"A Model of Language Acquisition and Evolution"
a presentation by John Holland of the University of Michigan
with videocast comment by Boi Faltings of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne
April 13 at SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Noon-2:00 pm (see
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A light lunch will be provided. **Please RSVP by April 8 to
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This event is part of the Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex
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Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH). It is sponsored by the
National Center for Digital Government (www.ncdg.org) and the Cambridge
Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks
(www.ksg.harvard.edu/complexity) at Harvard, and ETH (
http://www.ethz.ch/).
This presentation treats language as a complex adaptive system (cas),
concentrating on language as a social activity involving agents that
interact and learn.?? The model presented is an exploratory model still in
the process of implementation, developed in cooperation with Prof. Wm.
S.-Y. Wang (Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong).? The objective
is to demonstrate that there is sufficient information exchanged in the cas
that (i) newborns can acquire syntax and grammar without receiving specific
information about those structures, and (ii) language evolution follows a
somewhat similar course.? Part of the presentation concerns the development
of social networks under the impetus of language.
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Biography
John H. Holland is known worldwide as the "father of genetic algorithms".
Holland is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, and a member of The Center for the Study of Complex
Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan, and a member of Board of
Trustees and Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. He is recipient of a
MacArthur ("genius") fellowship and a fellow of the World Economic Forum.
He is the author of a number of books about complex adaptive systems,
including "Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity" (1995),
"Emergence: From Chaos to Order" (1998) and his ground-breaking book on
genetic algorithms, "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems"
(1975,1992).
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