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01. Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Atlantic Monthly
01.01. Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web, NYTimes
01.02. Wikipedia, Meet Knol, NYTimes
02. The Pivotal Role Of News Agencies In The Context Of Globalization: A
Historical Approach, Global Networks
03. Comrades To Consumers: Study Of Advertising Reveals China's Startling
Transformation, Innovations-report
04. Context Is Everything: New Research Uncovers Key To Consumer Preferences,
ScienceDaily
05. Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction, vnunet.com
06. Emotional Robots In The Spotlight, Innovations-report
07. The Role Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex In The Pursuit Of Happiness And More
Specific Rewards, Nature
08. Seven Reasons Why People Hate Reason, New Scientist
09. Behavior Genetics Association: Voting: In Your Genes?, Science
09.01. The Sociable Brain, Science
09.02. Do Good Sperm Predict A Good Brain?, Science
10. Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier To Remember, ScienceDaily
11. A New Strategy For Assessing Sensitivities In Biochemical Models, Phil.
Trans. A
12. Motor Neuron Disease: The Curious Ways Of ALS, Nature
13. Signal Transduction: Linking Nutrients To Growth, Nature
14. Systems Biology: On The Cell Cycle And Its Switches, Nature
15. Developmental Biology: Serpent Clocks Tick Faster, Nature
16. Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest, NYTimes
17. Global Wind Power - Radar Data Offer Clues To Turbine Potential., Nature
18. Physics: Let Quantum Mechanics Improve Your Images, Science
19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
19.01. 'Foreign' Terror? London Bombings, Resistance And The Failing State,
British J. Pol. & Int. Rela.
20. Links & Snippets
20.01. Other Publications
20.02. Webcast Announcements
20.03. Conference Announcements
20.04. Other Announcements

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01. Is Google Making Us Stupid? , Atlantic Monthly

Excerpts: The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed 
data-processing
machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the
network's reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web 
-
the more links we click and pages we view - the more opportunities Google and
other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us
advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a
financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit
from link to link - the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these 
companies
want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It's in
their economic interest to drive us to distraction.

* [4] Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Nicholas Carr, 08/08, Atlantic Monthly

[4] http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

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01.01. Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web , NYTimes

Excerpts: Google has been publishing a series of posts about how its search
engine works, like [5] this one from Amit Singhal, one of the crucial
scientists in its search quality group. (I met Mr. Singhal when I wrote [6]
this article about Google's search algorithms.)  This series reminds me how
much confusion there is in the discussion about the future of search and how 
so
many companies are going to become Google-killers by building what they call
"semantic search."  Semantic search is based on the idea that if you can 
build
technology that better understands what a user is really looking for and 
what a
Web page is really about, you can find the page most users want 
faster. Semantic
technology has great promise to improve search, and it offers to 
provide gainful
employment to scores of linguists who have been toiling unappreciated in the
world's universities.

* [7] Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web, Saul Hansell,
08/07/17, NYTimes

[5]
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03google.html
[7]
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/google-and-the-real-search-for-meaning-on-the-web/index.html

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01.02. Wikipedia, Meet Knol , NYTimes

Excerpts: Seven months after Google [8] began testing a service called Knol, 
a
Wikipedia competitor, the company on Wednesday [9] finally introduced it. The
search expert Danny Sullivan aptly describes [10] Knol as " [11] Like
Wikipedia, With Moderation." Articles on various topics are penned by
individuals, and in many cases, experts - not collectively by the anonymous
masses. Knol authors can choose to benefit from the "wisdom of the crowds" by
letting others edit or supplement their articles. But those changes make it
into Knol entries only with the author's permission.

* [12] Wikipedia, Meet Knol, Miguel Helft
, 08/07/23, NYTimes

[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/technology/15web.html
[9] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html
[10] http://knol.google.com/
[11] http://searchengineland.com/080723-133642.php
[12]
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/wikipedia-meet-knol/?ref=technology

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02. The Pivotal Role Of News Agencies In The Context Of Globalization: A
Historical Approach , Global Networks

Excerpt: The global media play a fundamental role in contemporary
globalization, making possible instant communication and promoting an
experience of global connectedness. The globalization of media communications
has deeply shaped the modern journalistic field in the last 150 years and, at
the same time, global news organizations have been instrumental in creating 
the
very conditions that have made globalization possible. In this 
article I explore
the relationship between globalization and the media and trace the historical
development of the field of global news, examining in detail the role and
trajectories of its most important players, the global news agencies, (...).

* [13] The Pivotal Role Of News Agencies In The Context Of Globalization: A
Historical Approach, [14] E. Bielsa, Jul. 2008, Online 2008/05/30, DOI:
10.1111/j.1471-0374.2008.00199.x, Global Networks
* Contributed by [15] Pritha Das

[13] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120089126/abstract
[14] mailto:eb136 at le.ac.uk
[15] mailto:prithadas01 at yahoo.com

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03. Comrades To Consumers: Study Of Advertising Reveals China's Startling
Transformation , Innovations-report

Excerpts: From ancient Arabian traders to Marco Polo  followers, merchants
have tried to transform China  massive population into materialistic
consumers. (...) How did China become a consumerist society (...) looks at 
the
role advertising has played in China  transformation. (...) analyzed
advertisements in the Chinese media for clues on how sociological and
ideological change has taken place (...). hroughout the 1980s and even today,
sacred political icons such as red stars and red flags, which used to 
be closely
connected with the power and ideology of Chinese communism, have often been
co-opted in advertising to promote consumer goods from color TVs to
refrigerators,  write (...).

* [16] Comrades To Consumers: Study Of Advertising Reveals China's Startling
Transformation, 2008/07/18, Innovations-report
* Contributed by [17] Atin Das

[16] 
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-114689.html
[17] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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04. Context Is Everything: New Research Uncovers Key To Consumer Preferences 
,
ScienceDaily

Excerpts: When consumers shop for televisions or cereal, what makes them 
prefer
one option to another? Which brand will they purchase again and tell their
friends about? New research (...) reveals that a product  attractiveness can
shift depending on the other choices that are available at the time. Authors
(...) demonstrate that if consumers perceive they e choosing the best item
from a set of options, they are more likely to feel good enough about 
choosing
the product again next time. (...)

* [18] Context Is Everything: New Research Uncovers Key To Consumer
Preferences, 2008/07/18, ScienceDaily & University of Chicago Press Journals
* Contributed by [19] Atin Das

[18] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717095024.htm
[19] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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05. Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction , vnunet.com

Excerpts: The computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and 
will
be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe. (...)
"The new generation of smartphones like the iPhone all now have tilting
mechanisms or you can shake the device to do one or more things." Prentice 
also
highlighted home entertainment efforts from Panasonic which employ hand and
facial recognition techniques to display information in place of a 
conventional
remote control. However, while the mouse's 40 year-old reign is coming to an
end, the keyboard is here to stay, according to the analyst. (...)

* [20] Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction: Humble Input Device Being 
Usurped
By Touch Screens And Facial Recognition, G. Dixon, 2008/07/18, vnunet.com
* Contributed by [21] Atin Das

[20] 
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2222012/computer-mouse-faces-extinction
[21] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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06. Emotional Robots In The Spotlight , Innovations-report

Excerpt: A robot with empathy sounds like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but 
with
the aid of neural networks European researchers are developing robots in tune
with our emotions. The tantalising work of the Feelix Growing project is
grabbing the world  attention. Feelix Growing is developing software
empowering robots that can learn when a person is sad, happy or angry. The
learning part is achieved through the use of artificial neural networks, 
which
are well suited to the varied and changing inputs that erceptive  robots
would be exposed to. Using cameras and sensors, the very simple robots being
built by the researchers (...).

* [22] Emotional Robots In The Spotlight, 2008/07/18, Innovations-report
* Contributed by [23] Atin Das

[22]
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/report-114648.html
[23] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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07. The Role Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex In The Pursuit Of Happiness And More
Specific Rewards , Nature

Excerpts: Cues that reliably predict rewards trigger the thoughts and 
emotions
normally evoked by those rewards. Humans and other animals will work, often
quite hard, for these cues. This is termed conditioned reinforcement. The
ability to use conditioned reinforcers to guide our behaviour is normally
beneficial; however, it can go awry. For example, corporate icons, such as
McDonald's Golden Arches, influence consumer behaviour in powerful and
sometimes surprising ways, and drug-associated cues trigger relapse to drug
seeking in addicts and animals exposed to addictive drugs, even after
abstinence or extinction.

* [24] The Role Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex In The Pursuit Of Happiness And
More Specific Rewards, Kathryn A. Burke ,  Theresa M. Franz ,  Danielle N.
Miller ,  Geoffrey Schoenbaum, 08/07/17, DOI: doi:10.1038/nature06993, Nature

[24] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7202/full/nature06993.html

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08. Seven Reasons Why People Hate Reason , New Scientist

Excerpts: From religious fundamentalism to pseudoscience, it seems that 
forces
are attacking the Enlightenment world view - characterised by rational,
scientific thinking - from all sides. The debate seems black and white: 
you're
either with reason, or you're against it. But is it so simple? In a series of
special essays, our contributors look more carefully at some of the most
provocative charges against reason. The results suggest that for all the
Enlightenment has achieved, we still have a lot of work to do.

* [25] Seven Reasons Why People Hate Reason, 08/07/14, New Scientist

[25]
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14312-seven-reasons-why-people-hate-reason.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn14312

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09. Behavior Genetics Association: Voting: In Your Genes? , Science

Excerpts: At the Behavior Genetics Association meeting, a political scientist
presented evidence that DNA has a hand in the intensity of people's partisan
political attachments and even in whether they bother to vote.

* [26] Behavior Genetics Association: Voting: In Your Genes?, Constance 
Holden,
08/07/25, Science

[26] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5888/486

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09.01. The Sociable Brain , Science

Excerpts: A recent test of the "social brain theory," which suggests that 
human
brain size was selected in particular for capabilities that are 
useful in social
groups, found no correlation between IQ and number of friendships, according 
to
results presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting.

* [27] The Sociable Brain, Constance Holden, 08/07/25, Science

[27] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5888/487a

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09.02. Do Good Sperm Predict A Good Brain? , Science

Excerpts: In work presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting,
researchers found a low but significant correlation between IQ and sperm
quality.

* [28] Do Good Sperm Predict A Good Brain?, Constance Holden, 08/07/25, 
Science

[28] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5888/487b

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10. Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier To Remember , ScienceDaily

Excerpts: Which is easier to remember: 4432879960 or 443-297-9960? The 
latter,
of course. Adults seem to know automatically, in fact, that long strings of
numbers are more easily recalled when divided into smaller "bite-sized 
chunks,"
which is why we break up our telephone and Social Security numbers in this 
way.
Now researchers (...) have discovered that children as young as 14 months old
can -- and do -- use the same technique to increase their working memories,
indicating that "chunking" information in this way is not a learned strategy,
but is, instead, a fundamental aspect of the human mind. (...)

* [29] Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier To Remember, 
2008/07/20,
ScienceDaily & Johns Hopkins University
* Contributed by [30] Atin Das

[29] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714172155.htm
[30] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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11. A New Strategy For Assessing Sensitivities In Biochemical Models , Phil.
Trans. A

Excerpt: An integral part of any systems biology approach is the modelling 
and
simulation of the respective system under investigation. However, the values 
of
many parameters of the system have often not been determined or are not
identifiable due to technical experimental difficulties or other constraints.
Sensitivity analysis is often employed to quantify the importance of each of
the model's parameters in the behaviour of the system. This approach can also
be useful in identifying those parts of the system that are most sensitive 
with
the potential of becoming drug targets. (...)

* [31] A New Strategy For Assessing Sensitivities In Biochemical Models, S.
Sahle ,  P. Mendes ,  S. Hoops ,  U. Kummer, 2008/07/17, DOI:
10.1098/rsta.2008.0108, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical &
Engineering Sciences
* Contributed by [32] Atin Das

[31]
http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/p2764334621gj76r/?p=c43c31830fa64fd4a0e1605a0cff0391&pi=4
[32] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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12. Motor Neuron Disease: The Curious Ways Of ALS , Nature

Excerpts: That mutations in the SOD1 enzyme underlie inherited forms of a 
motor
neuron disease known as ALS is clear. But the question of what the 
consequences
of such mutations are seems to have more than one answer. (...) Among the
biggest challenges will be to distinguish mechanisms that cause the disease
from those that are only epiphenomena. In our view, the most likely 
possibility
is that every set of observations discussed here is partly right, with
age-dependent, selective toxicity requiring a convergence of damage to motor
neurons and non-neurons alike.

* [33] Motor Neuron Disease: The Curious Ways Of ALS, Magdalini Polymenidou ,
Don W. Cleveland, 08/07/17, DOI: doi:10.1038/454284a, Nature

[33] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7202/full/454284a.html

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13. Signal Transduction: Linking Nutrients To Growth , Nature

Excerpts: How cells sense nutrients to control growth is largely unknown. One
missing link involved in conveying the nutrient signal to the TOR protein,
which regulates growth, seems to be the Rag proteins. In mammalian cells,
nutrients (such as amino acids), growth factors and cellular energy together
trigger a molecular signalling pathway, mediated by the protein TOR, that
controls cell growth. Deregulation of this pathway is implicated in cancer, 
and
TOR inhibition by the anticancer drug rapamycin prevents unruly cell growth.

* [34] Signal Transduction: Linking Nutrients To Growth, Vittoria Zinzalla ,
Michael N. Hall, 08/07/17, DOI: doi:10.1038/454287a, Nature

[34] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7202/full/454287a.html

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14. Systems Biology: On The Cell Cycle And Its Switches , Nature

Excerpts: For the cell-division cycle to progress, hundreds of genes and
proteins must be coordinately regulated. Systems-level studies of this cycle
show that positive-feedback loops help to keep events in sync.  The cell 
cycle
is a complex but orderly sequence of events that culminates in the production
of two cells from one.

* [35] Systems Biology: On The Cell Cycle And Its Switches, Silvia D. M. 
Santos
,  James E. Ferrell, 08/07/17, DOI: doi:10.1038/454288a, Nature

[35] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7202/full/454288a.html

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15. Developmental Biology: Serpent Clocks Tick Faster , Nature

Excerpts: Snakes have graceful, elongated bodies containing hundreds of
vertebrae. This extreme of morphology stems from evolutionary changes in a
developmental clock that regulates body patterning. (...) Their data suggest
that a developmental 'clock', which regulates key steps in body patterning,
ticks faster (relative to growth rate) in snakes than in shorter-bodied
animals. This is a dramatic example of heterochrony, in which adjustments in
developmental timing lead to morphological change.

* [36] Developmental Biology: Serpent Clocks Tick Faster, Freek J. Vonk ,
Michael K. Richardson, 08/07/17, DOI: doi:10.1038/454282a, Nature

[36] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7202/full/454282a.html

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16. Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest , NYTimes

Excerpts:     Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia University, created
the vertical farm concept with 82 graduate students. He says that the
skyscrapers could protect a city's food supply from floods and droughts, and
from pathogens that attack crops.
 Photo: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    When Mr. Stringer heard
about the concept in June, he said he immediately pictured a "food farm"
addition to the New York City skyline. "Obviously we don't have vast amounts 
of
vacant land," he said in a phone interview. "But the sky is the limit in
Manhattan." Mr. Stringer's office is "sketching out what it would take to 
pilot
a vertical farm," and plans to pitch a feasibility study to the mayor's 
office
within the next couple of months, he said. "I think we can really do this," 
he
added. "We could get the funding."

* [37] Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest, Bina
Venkataraman, 08/07/15, NYTimes

[37] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15farm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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17. Global Wind Power - Radar Data Offer Clues To Turbine Potential. , Nature

Excerpts: The radar measures the scatter in microwaves bouncing off the sea
into orbit; the wave motion measured indicates wind speed. The image shows
wind-power density in December, January and February; during June, July and
August the density becomes greatest in the high latitudes of the Southern
Hemisphere. Many areas with high wind-power values experience mid-latitude
winter storms, trade winds or monsoons. In other cases, the shape of the land
funnels the wind into reliable jets.

* [38] Global Wind Power - Radar Data Offer Clues To Turbine Potential., Emma
Marris, 08/07/16, DOI: doi:10.1038/454264b, Nature

[38] http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080716/full/454264b.html

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18. Physics: Let Quantum Mechanics Improve Your Images , Science

Excerpts: Entanglement of light beams allows images to be transmitted and
recorded in ways that surpass classical limits.

* [39] Physics: Let Quantum Mechanics Improve Your Images, Robert W. Boyd,
08/07/25, Science

[39] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5888/501

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19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks





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19.01. 'Foreign' Terror? London Bombings, Resistance And The Failing State ,
British J. Pol. & Int. Rela.

Excerpts: The British government's response to the London bombings sought to
make the terror of that day foreign, even though it appeared largely 
domestic.
This helped construct it as unusual, contingent, (...). However, it also drew
the response into the arena of British foreign policy, where the 'failing
state' has been the dominant conceptualisation of insecurity and terrorism,
especially since September 11th. When the bombings are examined through the
'failing state' disturbing and important problems are uncovered. Primarily, 
the
'failing state' discourse deconstructs under the influence of the terrorism 
in
London, revealing that Britain itself is a 'failing state' by its own
description (...).

* [40] 'Foreign' Terror? London Bombings, Resistance And The Failing State, 
D.
Bulley, Aug. 2008, Online 2008/04/09, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00305.x,
British Journal of Politics & International Relations
* Contributed by [41] Pritha Das

[40] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120174886/abstract
[41] mailto:prithadas01 at yahoo.com

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20. Links & Snippets





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20.01. Other Publications




- Scare Factor May Lead To Mistaken Identification, 2008/07/17,
Innovations-report
- Review. Cognitive And Emotional Consequences Of Binge Drinking: Role Of
Amygdala And Prefrontal Cortex, 2008/07/18, Philosophical Transactions:
Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0097
- Review. Neural Mechanisms Underlying The Vulnerability To Develop 
Compulsive
Drug-Seeking Habits And Addiction, 2008/07/18, Philosophical Transactions:
Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0089
- Summation Of Perceptual Cues In Natural Visual Scenes, 2008/07/15,
Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0692
- Birds Have A Good Sense Of Smell, 2008/07/16, ScienceDaily &
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Bees Go 'Off-color' When They Are Sickly, 2008/07/19, ScienceDaily &
University of Leicester
- Globalization, Empire And Natural Law, May 2008, Online 2008/05/06,
International Affairs, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00715.x
- The Case For Euro Oil Trading, Mar. 2008, Online 2008/07/09, OPEC Energy
Review, DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-0237.2008.00140.x
- Physics: Elemental Complexity, 08/07/25, Science
- Physics: Elemental Complexity, 08/07/25, Science


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20.02. Webcast Announcements



 [42]
Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22

As roads and highways become ever more clogged, Danielle Parsons tells us how
researchers are studying ways to learn from nature's own traffic-flow 
experts:
ants.


 7th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 07/10/28-11/02

 [43]
Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007

 [44] World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27


TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006


Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale 
de
Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03

Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 
2006,
Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05

 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30


Artificial Life X,
10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 
Bloomington,
IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07


6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 
06/05/15-18

Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
 [45] An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
 [46]
Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25

 [47]
Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming
Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23

 [48]
Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14

 [49]
ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life,
Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9

 [50]
T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, [51] The Washington Center
for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), [52]
Podcast


 [53] North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical 
 Activity
2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida,
05/06/09-11

 [54] Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and
Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC,
05/05/16-19

 [55] Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the
65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de
Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16

 [56]
1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7



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