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[Ted Carmichael]

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

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[Gary Schiltz-4]

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.org didn'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
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[Ted Carmichael]

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 <[hidden email]> 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.org didn'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

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[Gary Schiltz-4]

Well, I remembered it about ten minutes after posting, and boy did I  
feel dumb then :-) I mainly just used it as an excuse for telling a  
silly joke that it reminded me of. - Gary


On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote:

> 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

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[Ted Carmichael]

Maybe we could form a new group ... the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Insemination.

-Ted

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Well, I remembered it about ten minutes after posting, and boy did I feel dumb then :-) I mainly just used it as an excuse for telling a silly joke that it reminded me of. - Gary

On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote:

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

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[Stephen Guerin]

Hi Ted,

Welcome! BTW, SwarmFest will be in Santa Fe this year. It may be a  
good excuse for you and some research associates to come out and meet  
the local community.

-Steve
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On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:19 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
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[Steve Smith]

CAS is Complex Adaptive Systems in this context, but I doubt over half
of the list would have known that off hand... I hope one of us will
update the disambiguation page on WikiPedia.

> 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.
In my early technical career (1980-1985),  I had conversations like this
at cocktail parties on two projects I worked on (Advanced Interactive
Display System - AIDS) and (Easy Structured Programming  - ESP).   I
literally would talk to someone from outside my technical sphere for
several minutes in vague generalities until one of us realized we were
not talking about the same thing.  The key to AIDS was that it was not
part of the public vernacular at that time (yet) and the key to ESP was
that I could never imagine anyone actually believed in Extra Sensory
Perception in any literal way.  But I was young and hadn't come to
understand Santa Fe in the New Age yet.

- Steve


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