RE: Friam Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14

[Nick Thompson]

I just met a guy from nesci (new england complexity ..... etc) which seems
to be an autonomous softmoney institute in Harvard Square.  Seem to be
working on the "turtles all the way down" problem ,   agents of agents of
agents... etc.  very intesting.  ought to involve them in any electronic
reach out rushing nick.

 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
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>    1. RE: Extension of Friday Morning Meeting (Stephen Guerin)
>    2. AW: [FRIAM] Extension of Friday Morning Meeting (Jochen Fromm)
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> From: "Stephen Guerin" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: RE: [FRIAM] Extension of Friday Morning Meeting
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> Jochen,
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> Sorry for the delay in responding. A group of us are at the Arrowhead

conference
> this week...
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> Our current meeting place at St. John's does have wireless though we're
not sure
> how dependable. The meetings are very informal that rarely have a
conversation
> that engages the whole group once the size is abobve 8 people. We tried
web cams
> briefly last year but found them to be disruptive to the flow of
spontaneous
> interaction. That said, perhaps the WedTech meetings would be more
appropriate
> to webcast as there is usually a more structured presentation. Those
happen

> around 1p on Wednesdays every few weeks. Are you available for those?
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> -Steve
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> > From: Jochen Fromm [mailto:[hidden email]]
> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:22 AM
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> > Subject: AW: [FRIAM] Extension of Friday Morning Meeting
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> > Sorry, I made a number of mistakes, the time difference for example is

only
> > 8 hours (9am in Santa Fe about 5pm here). Was it a bad idea to enlarge
the
> > meeting? You certainly have a WLAN connection in the cafe? Or is there
no

> > meeting anymore?
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> > -J.
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> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:47:31 +0200
> From: "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]>
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> I do not know what WedTech meetings are, but Wednesday is of course OK,

too.
> I thought it would be nice to use techniques like instant messaging (AOL
or
> Yahoo Instant Messenger, ICQ) and chat (IRC) for something useful: to
> exchange ideas, to discuss problems, etc. You usually do not meet people
> interested in complex systems, complexity or emergence with these tools.
It
> would also be interesting to select each week (or month) a paper about
> complex systems, swarm intelligence or ALife and discuss it online, like
the

> complex systems reading group (CSRG) from the University of Michigan. This
> would probably generate too much traffic for a mailing list.
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> -J.
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