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BUILD DAY
video slideshow bonus audio interview video soundtrack (free download) print (PDF) BUILD DAY It’s a gray Saturday morning and the MIT campus is dead. Empty courtyards testify that most students are either sleeping off last night’s fun, or still attached to a screen after an all-night computer programming session. Some are up, however, and I’m [...]
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INDIRECT EFFECTS
Gallflies used to combat invasive knapweed in Montana–which does an estimated $14 million of damage statewide–have recently been shown to hurt native plant growth through indirect food chain “ripple effects.” The flies, originally introduced in the 1970s, provide an attractive source of extra calories for native deermice, which leads to a deermouse population increase. Since [...]
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AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
printable view (PDF) As old methods fail to quell ongoing Wall Street turmoil, decision makers may soon be hunting for “America’s Next Top Model”—computer model, that is. Some contestants will likely come from a new breed of social science simulations called “agent-based models” (ABMs). The idea is to use the huge number of calculations available [...]
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Audio, Drafts, Remixes, Science, Video, Writing
NASW ROUND UP
This post rounds out what I have from the 2008 NASW conference in Palo Alto. These are presented in no particular order. First up, here’s a talk by Prof. Cliff Nass of Stanford about robots that can disobey humans and howwe can build a world of more harmonious human-machine interaction. He’s a very lively speaker. [...]
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DANCE OF THE MUSSELS
(Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.) It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved. Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly [...]
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