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[Complexes] Go Obama!

2008-09-30T20:57:35Z

Why people should vote for Obama?Well, better the other way around: the
only reason I can think of for people not voting for him is racism.A
few months ago, I went to a doctor. He had been a pilot in WWII, made
his way up the hard way, complained about the American youth. When I
told that I hoped that Obama would be the next U.S. president, he was

Kristin Davis Stripping Dow

2008-09-09T02:08:08Z

What a sexy broad she is!
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[Complexes] New Paper: The Sigma Profile: A Formal Tool to Study Organization...

2008-09-06T13:47:53Z

The Sigma Profile: A Formal Tool to Study Organization and its
Evolution at Multiple ScalesAbstract: The σ profile is presented as a
tool to analyze the organization of systems at different scales, and
how this organization changes in time. Describing structures at
different scales as goal-oriented agents, one can define σ

Tyra Banks Hot Photoshoot

2008-09-06T13:30:09Z

Tyra has award winning cleavage!
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[Complexes] Self-organization at the Olympiad: The Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony

2008-08-15T21:09:35Z

The impressive opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
exploited considerably the concept of self-organization in a very
artistic fashion.To start the ceremony, 2008 drummers entered the
stadium.Their drums and sticks had lights, so when the lights went out,
beautiful patterns were formed. Then a countdown started (to

[Complexes] More Fractal Tessellations

2008-07-28T20:06:25Z

Following the Fractal Tessellation inspired by the Alhambra, I made a
few more: here's one with octagons, and another with curved triangles...

[Complexes] Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?

2008-07-22T23:29:04Z

I was among the researchers consulted for the production of this Slate
video...

[Complexes] Evolution of Complexity: Special Issue Published

2008-07-17T19:52:41Z

A special issue on the "Evolution of Complexity" I co-edited with Tom
Lenaerts was just published in Artificial Life 14(3):Editorial
Introduction Evolution of Complexity Carlos Gershenson, Tom
LenaertsArtificial Life Summer 2008, Vol. 14, No. 3: 241–243.First Page
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[Complexes] People Working Together

2008-06-27T20:47:21Z

I designed this pattern for a T-shirt of the New England Complex
Systems Institute. I took the NECSI logo, which represents five "people
working together". Then I overlayed different sizes of it over patterns
of a Penrose tiling, which is a tesselation with five-fold symmetry. In
other words, it fills the space without repeating itself. Since the

[Complexes] Fractal Tessellation

2008-06-20T12:08:16Z

A couple of years ago, while living in Granada, I got inspired by the
Moorish patterns at the Alhambra. Playing around with Inkscape, I came
up with the idea of a Sierpiński-style fractal that would be more
interesting and also tileable. Only recently I put several tiles
together, and I was amazed to see that there were more and more

[Complexes] Self-organizing traffic lights in Flanders

2008-06-17T17:12:10Z

Francis sent me a link to an article from the newspaper De Morgen (in
Dutch), where they mention a simulation of the Wetstraat (a main avenue
in Brussels) where my student Seung Bae Cools implemented
self-organizing traffic light controllers I developed. The news is that
the Flemish parlament wants to approve the implementation of

[Complexes] From know-what to know-where

2008-05-30T19:07:03Z

One measure of people's knowledge is the amount of information that a
person can come up with. In the "old" days, this information would come
mainly out of your head. From experience, you can know what things are,
e.g. facts, dates, etc. With a good memory, you can reproduce much
learned information. Add reasoning, and you can combine your

[Complexes] Evidence for Cyclic Universe

2008-05-23T20:05:59Z

When I was in high school I read a book by Stephen Hawking, which
stimulated me to develop my own theory of the universe. Still in my
teens I wrote about it and presented these ideas at a conference in
Mexico in 1997.It was funny more than a decade afterwards to find about
this paper by Aurich et al. They analyzed cosmic microwave background

[Complexes] Book Review Published: "Self-Organization and Emergence in Life S...

2008-05-13T20:50:38Z

Gershenson, C. (2008). Book Review: "Self-Organization and Emergence in
Life Sciences", edited by Bernard Feltz, Marc Crommelinck and Philippe
Goujon. Artificial Life 14 (2):239-240.Excerpts:Self-orga nization and
emergence have received much attention in biology and artificial life
[1, 2, 4, 5], even though these pervasive concepts have eluded strict

[Complexes] New Aphorisms

2008-05-06T21:13:42Z

“Sciences, not even the hardest ones, are not purely objective, nor
arts are purely subjective...”“We can access reality only through
models/metaphors”“The more you scream, the less I'll hear”“So few
intelligent people, so many wise guys...”“Belief in an absolute truth
leads to intolerance”“Is it me, or is it the context?”“Nature brings us