Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident (fwd)

[Richard Lowenberg]

>From Andy Carvin:

Hi everyone,

I've just received the terrible news that education
technology pioneer Seymour Papert has been gravely
injured in an accident in Hanoi. He was attending a
conference there and was hit by a motorbike,
sustaining significant head trauma.

The boston globe has a story here:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/07/mit_figure_struck_injured_in_hanoi/

and I've blogged about it here:

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/12/prayers_for_seymour_papert.html

Seymour is one of the developers of constructionist
learning theory. He helped found MIT's artificial
intelligence lab, developed the LOGO programming
language and inspired both the Maine laptop initiative
and the $100 laptop.

Hopefully he will pull through, but he will need all
the thoughts and prayers we can muster.

andy


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Andy Carvin
andycarvin at yahoo  com
www.andycarvin.com
www.pbs.org/learningnow
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[James Steiner]

Hi, folks!

As a birthday present to myself, I want to send myself to one of the
ABM /CAS/EB/etc conferences.

I've noticed that there's a few. If I can only afford to go to one,
which one should I go to?

At least two I know of will have a NetLogo workshop on the agenda, and
that's a draw, since   that's my focus, and I can meet some NetLogo
folks and potential clients. But what else?

What conferences (or whatever) do all y'all go to?

~~James
_____________________
http://www.turtlezero.com

[Stephen Guerin]

James,

I would highly recommend the UChicago/Argonne Agent conference
(http://www.agent2005.anl.gov/) and UCLA's Arrowhead
(http://hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm). Agent leans slightly more toward modeling
and tools and Arrowhead more toward social theory. Agent has the Netlogo and
RePast workshops while Arrowhead does not. The community is pretty blended so
you'll see the same folks at both. Arrowhead's setting up in the mountains and
shared 3 meals really promotes a lot of interaction. You tend to get to know
people better there.

NAACSOS is a third conference to look at though we haven't participated there
before.
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2007/

-Steve


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Steiner [mailto:gregortroll at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in
> Motorbike Accident(fwd)
>
> Hi, folks!
>
> As a birthday present to myself, I want to send myself to one
> of the ABM /CAS/EB/etc conferences.
>
> I've noticed that there's a few. If I can only afford to go
> to one, which one should I go to?
>
> At least two I know of will have a NetLogo workshop on the agenda, and
> that's a draw, since   that's my focus, and I can meet some NetLogo
> folks and potential clients. But what else?
>
> What conferences (or whatever) do all y'all go to?
>
> ~~James
> _____________________
> http://www.turtlezero.com
>
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