To: alife@cognet.ucla.edu
Subject:  Alife Digest Volume #067

                       Alife Digest, Number 067
                     Wednesday, December 4th 1991

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Today's Topics:

                   Calendar of Alife-related Events
                 Cellular Automata Meeting in London
                  L-systems Software on Macintoshes?
                      Supercomputing Conference
           Journal of Ideas - Cummulative Table of Contents
                      Special Issue on Emergence
                     ALife Course Syllabus Search
                   Cognitive Science at Birmingham

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 18:47:30 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events


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 CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:

 First European Conference on Artificial Life                 Dec 11-13, 1991
 ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI                      Aug  3-7,  1992
 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels               Sep 28-30, 1992
 10th National Conference on AI, San Jose                     Jul 12-17, 1992
 Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver                            May 11-15, 1992
 Artificial Life III, Santa Fe                                June 15-19, 1992

 (Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)

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From: Ashok Gupta <gupta@prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 91 09:12:36 GMT
Subject: Cellular Automata Meeting in London

                          The British Computer Society 
                       Parallel Processing Specialist Group

                                    Second
                               Call For Papers
                               
                               One day Meeting
                                      On

                              CELLULAR  AUTOMATA

                                  Feb 12 1992
                               Imperial College
                                  London, U.K.

 o  Special Purpose Hardware for Cellular Automata

 o  Cellular Automata Simulation on other architectures

 o  Software Systems for Cellular Automata

 o  Use of Cellular Automata models to simulate systems in the physical
      and biological sciences

 o  Visualisation of Cellular Models

Provisional List Of Speakers :-

    G.S. Pawley   Univ of Edinburgh
    R. Taylor     Univ of York
    F. George     Univ of Edinburgh
    B. Martin     Univ of Lyon, France
    A. Broggi     Parma, Italy

If you wish to contribute please send a brief abstract to :-

    Prof. Dennis Parkinson
    A.M.T.
    65 Suttons Park Avenue
    Reading
    U.K.
    RG6 1AZ
    Telephone: +44 734 661111     Electronic Mail :-  dp@amthq.co.uk


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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 91 01:49:59 MST
From: cgl@t13.lanl.gov (Chris Langton)
Subject: L-systems software on Macintoshes?

  Does anyone have code for running and rendering L-systems on 
Apple Macintosh computers (Mac II's in particular...)?

   Cheers!

   Chris Langton

   Complex Systems Group
   MS B213, Theoretical Division	Phone: (505) 667-9471
   Los Alamos National Laboratory	Email: cgl@t13.lanl.gov
   Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA		FAX:   (505) 665-3003
   87545


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Date:    Sat, 23 Nov 1991 11:41:35 GMT-0600
From: "PBACAD::M_PAPRZYCKI"@utpb.pb.utexas.edu
Subject: Supercomputing Conference

                   Call for Papers

       PERMIAN BASIN SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE 1992

                     March 13-15 

       The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
                    Odessa, Texas

Organized by:        Marcin Paprzycki
Advisors:            Firooz Khosraviyani, Mogens Melander

In cooperation with: SIAM Supercomputing Group

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers in
all fields of supercomputing, high performance computing and
parallel computing for an effective exchange of ideas and
discussion of recent developments and future directions of
research.

Tutorial:	"Large-scale and Parallel Computations in System Control
		 Theory" will be presented by Prof. Biswa Datta

Sponsored by:
            Center for High Performance Computing, Austin 
            Cray Research Inc. 
            DECmpp 12000 Group 
            Intel Corporation 
            University of Texas of the Permian Basin 

Invited Speakers: 
            Chris Bischof, Julio Diaz, Ian Gladwell, David Kincaid, 
            Robert Plemmons, Danny Sorensen, Robert van de Geijn.

Submit three copies of detailed abstract (not to exceed 1000 words) by 

                     December 20, 1991

to:
	Marcin Paprzycki, Conference Chairman
	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 
	University of Texas of the Permian Basin
	Odessa, TX 79762 

	Phone: (915) 367-2244 
	Fax: (915) 367-2115 
	E-mail: m_paprzycki@utpb.pb.utexas.edu
	        m_paprzycki@utpb.bitnet

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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 17:03:31 pst
From: well!moritz@apple.com (Elan Moritz)
Subject: Journal of Ideas - Cummulative Table of Contents


                                Journal of Ideas
                                ________________

                               Tables of Contents

        ISSN 1049-6335,  [(c)] The Institute for Memetic Research, Inc.
                        Panama City, Florida, 32406-1327

   ________________________________________________________________________

   Volume 1 #1                                                September 1990
   _________________________________________________________________________

   Moritz, E. [Institute  for Memetic Research,  Panama City, Fl.],  MEMETIC
   SCIENCE: I - GENERAL INTRODUCTION, pp. 3-23.

   Bonner, J.  T.  [Dept. of  Ecology  and Evolutionary  Biology,  Princeton
   University, N.J.], CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A Biologist's View, pp. 24-34.

   Brooks, D. R. and  D. A. McLennan [Department  of Zoology, University  of
   Toronto], SEARCHING FOR  A GENERAL  THEORY OF  BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION,  pp.
   35-46.

   Wiley, R. A. [Biobalance Services, Panama City, Fl.], THE METABOLIC ROOTS
   OF CONSCIOUSNESS, pp. 47-53.

   Salthe, S. N. [Biology Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY, N.Y.],  SKETCH
   OF A  LOGICAL DEMONSTRATION  THAT THE  GLOBAL INFORMATION  CAPACITY OF  A
   MACROSCOPIC SYSTEM MUST BEHAVE  ENTROPICALLY WHEN VIEWED INTERNALLY,  pp.
   54-59.

   Henson, H. K. and A. Lucas [San Jose, Ca.], MEMES AND CREATIONISM, pp.
   60-63.

   _________________________________________________________________________
   Volume 2 #1                                                  January 1991
   _________________________________________________________________________

   EDITORIAL: NEWS, VIEWS, STATUS & PLANS, pp. 1-2.

   Lynch, A. [Warrenville,  Il.], THOUGHT CONTAGION  AS ABSTRACT  EVOLUTION,
   pp. 3-10.

   Lumsden, C. [Department of Medicine, University of Toronto], CULTURE AS A
   SEMANTIC FRACTAL: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND THICK DESCRIPTION, pp. 11-18.

   Witten, M. [Center  for High Performance  Computing, University of  Texas
   System, Austin], MODELING THE  DISTRIBUTION OF A "MEME"  IN A SIMPLE  AGE
   DISTRIBUTION POPULATION: I  . A  KINETICS APPROACH  AND SOME  ALTERNATIVE
   MODELS, pp. 19-25.

   Heylighen, F. [Free University of Brussels], C. Josslyn [Systems  Science
   Dept. SUNY  Binghamton], and  V. Turchin  [Computer Science  Dept.,  City
   University  of  New  York],  A   SHORT  INTRODUCTION  TO  THE   PRINCIPIA
   CYBERNETICA PROJECT, pp. 26-29.

   Moritz, E. [Institute for Memetic Research, Panama City, Fl.], BRAIN  AND
   MIND: THE ULTIMATE GRAND CHALLENGE, pp. 30-32.

   _________________________________________________________________________
   Volume 2  #2/3                                           April/July  1991
   _________________________________________________________________________

   Locke, J. [United Kingdom],  OF IDEAS, pp. 33-47.

   Maurer, B.  A. [Zoology  Dept.,  Brigham Young  University]  and   D.  R.
   Brooks, D.   [Zoology Dept.,  University of  Toronto],   ENERGY FLOW  AND
   ENTROPY PRODUCTION  IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, pp. 48-53.

   Moritz, E. [Institute for  Memetic Research, Panama City,  Fl.],  ON  THE
   ROAD TO  CYBERNETIC  IMMORTALITY:    A  Report  on  the  First  Principia
   Cybernetica Workshop, pp. 54-58.

   Barkow,  J.  H.  [Sociology  and  Social  Anthropology  Dept.,  Dalhousie
   University],   THE ORIGINS OF THE CAPACITY FOR CULTURE, pp. 59-62.

   Barkow,  J.  H.  [Sociology  and  Social  Anthropology  Dept.,  Dalhousie
   University],    FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, FREE WILL AND EVOLUTION, pp. 63-66.

   _________________________________________________________________________

                           JOURNAL of IDEAS
   _________________________________________________________________________

     Editors                                   Editorial Advisory Board
   _______________                           _____________________________

   Elan Moritz                                R. W. Clouse, Vanderbilt U.
   Patricia S. Smith
   The Institute for Memetic Research         Peter Kiss, Sentar Corp.,
                                              Huntsville

                                              Terry M. Mikiten, U. Texas
                                              Health Science Center, San
                                              Antonio

                                               Matthew Witten, Center for
                                               High Performance Computing,
                                               U. Texas System, Austin

   __________________________________________________________________________

           manuscripts and information requests should be directed to
                Dr. Elan Moritz (E-mail:  moritz@well.sf.ca.us)

   __________________________________________________________________________

     **  AIMS &  SCOPE  **   The Journal of Ideas  is an archival  (print)
     forum  dedicated  to  the  dissemination  of  research  results   and
     discussion relating to the formation and spread of ideas in human and
     machine systems.  Areas covered  include: 1) dynamical and structural
     theories of idea and  meme generation, mutation, combination,  spread
     and dissolution, 2) knowledge generation, representation, and storage
     in living and artificial systems, 3) cognition and self-awareness  in
     living and  artificial  systems  4)  generalized  theories  of  life,
     evolution, and  ecology  in  biological,  mechanical  and  electronic
     systems, 5) classical and  quantum mechanical theories of  brain/mind
     interactions, 6) human  and   machine creativity and,  7) results  of
     experiments in the preceding areas.   The Journal publishes  research
     communications, critical  reviews,  short notes,  book  reviews,  and
     relevant historical material.   The  Journal is geared  to a  diverse
     audience coming from classical disciplines such as physics,  biology,
     evolutionary  and  ecological   studies,  psychology,   anthropology,
     computer science, mathematics, and philosophy.

   __________________________________________________________________________

   The Journal of Ideas appears quarterly.

   Ordering information  for  US  and  Canada:  personal  subscriptions  are
   $46/year, institutional  subscriptions  are $138/year.  Back  issues  are
   available [while supply  lasts] at  $26/issue. Make checks  [drawn on  US
   banks] payable  to the  Institute  for Memetic  Research, PO  Box  16327,
   Panama City, Florida 32406-1327. Credit card subscriptions are  available
   through   EBSCO    Subscription   Services,    (201)-387-2660.    Foreign
   subscriptions are available at higher rates.



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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 21:02:09 +0100
From: ctika01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (George Kampis)
Subject: Special Issue on Emergence

There have been numerous requests on the exact co-ordinates of a journal
Special Issue I announced on some lists a time ago.

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON EMERGENCE of World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution

contains papers from I Tsuda, F Heylighen, EO Rustler, V Csanyi, M Requardt,
P Cariani, S Salthe, Fernandez-Moreno-Etxeberria, and G Kampis
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The WF Spec Issue can be bought for USD 38 as a book, it's
ISBN 2-88124-526-9, order from Gordon and Breach, POBox 786 Cooper Station
New York, NY  10276 USA
phone (212) 206 8900    FAX (212) 645 2459

George Kampis kampis@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

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Date:         Thu, 28 Nov 91 16:12:08 +0100
From: JANSSEN Jacques <CADEPS%BBRNSF11.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>
Subject:      ALife course syllabus search


Dear ALifers,

               I am considering initiating an undergraduate and graduate
course in ALife at my university, and would like to exchange
ideas for a syllabus at the two levels. If you are already giving, or are
considering such a course, could you please email me or broadcast to this
net, your syllabus, reading list etc. I will report back to this net, with
the most interesting suggestions.

Cheers,

Hugo de Garis

Brussels University, Belgium, Europe.
George Mason University, VA, USA.
ElectroTechnical Lab, Tsukuba, Japan.

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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 15:10:30 GMT
From: D.M.Peterson@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk
Subject: Cognitive Science at Birmingham

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                         University of Birmingham 

                   Graduate Studies in COGNITIVE SCIENCE 

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The Cognitive Science Research Centre at the University of Birmingham
comprises staff from the Departments/Schools of Psychology, Computer
Science, Philosophy and English, and supports teaching and research in
the inter-disciplinary investigation of mind and cognition. The Centre
offers both MSc and PhD programmes.

                        MSc in Cognitive Science 

The MSc programme is a 12 month conversion course, including a 4 month
supervised project. The course places a particular stress on the
relation between biological and computational architectures.
	Compulsory courses: AI Programming, Overview of Cognitive
Science, Knowledge Representation Inference and Expert Systems,
General Linguistics, Human Information Processing, Structures for Data
and Knowledge, Philosophical Questions in Cognitive Science,
Human-Computer Interaction, Biological and Computational
Architectures, The Computer and the Mind, Current Issues in Cognitive
Science.
	Option courses: Artificial and Natural Perceptual Systems,
Speech and Natural Language, Parallel Distributed Processing.
	It is expected that students will have a good first degree ---
psychology, computing, philosophy or linguistics being especially
relevant.
	Funding is available through SERC and HTNT. 

                        PhD in Cognitive Science

For 1992 studentships are expected for PhD level research into a range
of topics including:

o computational modelling of emotion
o computational modelling of cognition
o interface design
o computational and psychophysical approaches to vision 

                          Computing Facilities

Students have access to ample computing facilities, including networks
of Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Sparc workstations in the Schools of Computer
Science and Psychology. 

                               Contact

For further details, contact: The Admissions Tutor, Cognitive Science,
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

Phone:  (021) 414 3683

Email:  cogsci@bham.ac.uk

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