[FRIAM] Systems Biology: Big is Good

Perhaps of interest to listers. Systems Biology: Big is Good at 1:43 PM | Labels: ODE Modelling

[FRIAM] Fwd: TED2009's first Great Unveiling, The new TED Fellows program

In case you know of any bright -- and young-ish -- potential applicants -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Rielly Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM Subject: TED2009's first Great Unveiling, The new TED Fellows program To: jtjohnson...@gmail.com Unveiling t

Re: [FRIAM] Google Earth 5.0 Includes Historical Imagery - View Urban Growth/Sprawl

And Owen's suggestion produced another interesting link: http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/09/digital-urban-tutorials.html -tj On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Just in case any of our urbanists missed this: > > http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-earth-50-i

Re: [FRIAM] Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails

And I, too, would pay to attend such a workshop. -tj On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Nick Frost wrote: > On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > That's a hard google: GLASS = Gemstone Linux Apache Seaside Smalltalk = >> http://seaside.gemstone.com which didn't appear on the fi

Re: [FRIAM] Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails

s. > I think that GLASS has promise, but I could be wrong. I am really > curious to see what the limitations might be when people at the Complex > try to do what they do in their day jobs, with GLASS. > > davew > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:56:43 -0700, "Tom Johnson" >

[FRIAM] Fwd: the sixth sense technology

More feedstock for "ambient computing" efforts at SFx. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Rizzotto Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM Subject: the sixth sense technology To: Tom Johnson http://www.break.com/index/really-cool-new-sixth-sense-techn

Re: [FRIAM] It's cute but what is it for? To Explore Knowledge

Great observations from both Steves. But I would add that the map -- as helpful as it is -- strikes me as very English- and perhaps U.S. - centric. For example, we have recently learned of the close connections in Latin America among those who coming from both physics and philosophy to study Compl

[FRIAM] YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art

Imagine the creator/artist trying to initially explain to the sheep ranchers what he was up to and what he wanted them to do. But I love the emergence of it all, given that the only major rule for the "sheep agents" is "Move away from the dog. Quickly." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Re: [FRIAM] YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art

retty cool idea even if 90% of it is fake animation. It should work as a > viral ad, though, like the faked one-wing killathrill plane landing video > from last year: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxe8Nm2w8I > > -s > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Tom Johnson w

[FRIAM] Fwd: Awareness Watch Newsletter V7N4 April 2009 Announcement

fyi. I find Marcus' reports to be comprehensive and, hey, the price is right. Bill Press: Be sure to read down to find the section on bio informatics. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:35 AM Subject: Awareness Wat

Re: [FRIAM] TOTALLY AWESOME: Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven

Yes, a good idea. And Victor Papanek was pushing it amost 40 yrs. ago. For a good read, track down: Papanek, Victor (1971). Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, New York, Pantheon Books . ISBN 0-394-47036-2. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Robert Howard wrote: > The $5

[FRIAM] Free seminar on ArcGIS tools in U.S.

FYI, gang. Hey, the price is right, should you be interested in mapping. I'll be driving down from Santa Fe, should anyone want to car pool. -Tom Johnson (t...@jtjohnson.com) = *Learn How to Deploy Fast Modern Web

[FRIAM] NetLogo Tutorial in Spanish Available

) and Frank Wimberley (wimber...@earthlink.net) and Tom Johnson (t...@jtjohnson.com) in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. We welcome your comments and corrections and, of course, please feel free to distribute this link as widely as you wish. To link to the Gizzi tutorial in both English and Spanish,

[FRIAM] Upcoming Conferences for System Dynamics in K-12

Pardon the cross-posts. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Lees Stuntz Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:10 PM Subject: Upcoming Conferences for System Dynamics in K-12 To: t...@jtjohnson.com [image: CLE logo] Upcoming Conferences of Interest for System Dynamics in K-12 Education

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity and Institutional Philanthropy

Examples of public administrators and policy makers of measuring and defining "tipping point" successfully and then taking positive action, please? Perhaps I'm too pessimistic, but I recall more failures than successes. e.g. In the '50s, when urban planners apparently decided some cities had passe

Re: [FRIAM] H1N1 Swine Google Mashup

Has anyone calculated the size of the virus and the size of the holes in those face masks everyone seems to be wearing in MEX? I suspect those are more of a psychological balm than a true prophylactic. -tj On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/m

Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again

Try this: http://physicsandfact.notlong.com -tj On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I am told on Higher Authority that I cannot think about emergence any > more before I have read the following reference: > > > Cartwright, Nancy D. "Do the

Re: [FRIAM] FW: NYTimes.com: End the University as We Know It

Owen: For me, the best thing about tenure was that it allowed me to take up to two years of unpaid-leave whenever I wanted, safe in the knowledge that my job (with fine retirement and health bennies) would be there when I came back. Without that safety valve, I surely would not have been able to b

[FRIAM] So you're quoting a scholarly journal, huh?

All: For your information " Tags: math physics academia elsevier publishing journ

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Need minis, projectors and equipment loans for sum...@sfcomplex Art Series

I have a digital projector you can borrow. -tom johnson On 5/6/09, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > We have a pretty exciting line-up this summer for art shows. To help us > out, we will need some short-term loans of mac minis and a 4 or 5 lcd > projectors for our "Projected Light&qu

[FRIAM] Fwd: Upcoming Webcasts: Location-Enabling Websites, Google SketchUp, iPhone Hacks, and Effective Communication

A number of topics here that will interest some FRIAM-ers. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: O'Reilly Media Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM Subject: Upcoming Webcasts: Location-Enabling Websites, Google SketchUp, iPhone Hacks, and Effective Communication To: jtjohnson...@gmail.

[FRIAM] Book on Emergence

This work-in-progress will be of interest to some on the list. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Peggy Holman Date: Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM Subject: {JTM} Re: Why is this working so well? To: JTMlist Here's a link to the V2.0 book draft. The working title: Engaging Emerg

[FRIAM] Updating one's quantitative skill set

Check out the YouTube channel 'The Khan Academy'. Cool videos ranging from Calculus to Economics to Physics: http://bit.ly/94s1 -- tj == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

[FRIAM] Map of medical costs in U.S.

Per the discussion this a.m. regarding U.S. medical costs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31390679/ns/health-health_care -tj -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

[FRIAM] Fwd: hacking for Iran - dispatches from the Iranian cyberfront

All" Interesting example of "dynamic social complexity" -tj *Dispatches from the Iranian cyberfront *I’ve spent the last seventeen hours living inside a cyberpunk novel. A libertarian cyberpunk novel. It’s been a weird and awesome experience. Within an hour after I

[FRIAM] Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos

A fun site for poking around. Sixty Symbols -- 5m videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy. Great stuff! (via Glutnix on Twitter ) http://www.sixtysymbols.com/# -tj FRI

[FRIAM] Good remote access tool

All: >From time-to-time I need to help someone trouble-shoot something on their computer, and need to do so remotely. I have a subscription to LogMeIn, which I like a lot, but thanks to the "Scout Report" I learned of this app, TeamViewer. It's free; my favorite price. TeamViewer seems to run a

[FRIAM] No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

Of interest to some of us... http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9135086&source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-07-02<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9135086&source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailya

[FRIAM] Debategraph home

An interesting too that "might" assist some of our discussion. http://debategraph.org/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.

Re: [FRIAM] Debategraph home

m of working through problems (although >> still with us like a vestigial tail) and ratchets up confrontation to a >> win-lose dance. Dialogue seeks to open space for creative, non-bifurcated >> thinking, that leads to better outcomes on contentious i

[FRIAM] Matt Webb from Schulze & Webb in London

When you have a moment, give this a look, esp. those of us involved in the SF Complex. >From O'Reilly Radar: *"Scope -- talk by Matt Webb, given to Reboot 2009. Every ten slides I sigh happily as new mental connections slide into place, as only Matt c

[FRIAM] Related to Castellani and "Sociology and Complexity Science"

If you are willing to ignore the fact that this is an example of one of the world's worst PowerPoint decks, go here and download the paper and PPT presentation. There will be some material possibly useful to those of us in the teaching biz. See http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bcastel3/

[FRIAM] WordPress and collaborative mathematics

FYI from O'Reilly Radar. And does this suggest possibility of something like "distributed data analysis" whereby a number of widely scattered watchdogs could be poking into the same data set? If so, it raises interesting questions for journalism educators: who is developing the tools to manage su

[FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

fyi http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish-factor-in-spiralling-retractions/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe,

Re: [FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

th first reports, with quantity > over quality, and with "sexyness" over other measures of importance or > accuracy. > > Eric > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 02:13 PM, *Tom Johnson * wrote: > > fyi > > > http://www.resourceshe

[FRIAM] 2009 Healthspottr Fellows Program | Healthspottr

FYI -- http://healthspottr.com/fellows Healthspottr Fellow <http://healthspottr.com/fellows> -- *outstanding entrepreneurs will be awarded prizes of up to $250,000 to accelerate their innovative endeavours*. Think MacArthur Genius Grant for healthcare. -tom j

[FRIAM] Could World of Warcraft be the new War a nd Peace? –

FYI for those of us interested in simulation/gaming (or is it gaming/simulation?) http://niemanstoryboard.us/2009/10/01/could-world-of-warcraft-be-the-new-war-and-peace/ Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM USA FRIAM

[FRIAM] 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization

Food for thought RE dataviz http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/hope/Education/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4883 -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubs

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

I have Driver Detective -- yeah, it does change you for the updates -- but I use Driver Robot. -tj On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My c

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone need a google wave invite?

Yes, I would also appreciate an invite. -tom On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: > I've got 6 left -- R > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures,

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

It just seemed to do the best job with the simplest user interface. And, when I had to have my HD reformatted and then a complex job of reinstalling XP, it did a good job of finding some relatively obscure XP drivers for my VISTA-appropriate machine. -tj On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Nicholas

Re: [FRIAM] Facebook: OK, now what!?

Yes, go to -- and get -- Tweetdeck.com -tj On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Thanks for the help, good examples. > > One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so > that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status" update. > Not

[FRIAM] Data Unbound - Data Architect, Consultant, Trainer, and Author Raymond Yee on data and software in research and education

Interesting site for data junkies http://blog.dataunbound.com/about/ -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

[FRIAM] FAQ - Stack Overflow

An interesting concept and tool. Has anyone used stackoverflow.com ? http://stackoverflow.com/faq -tom FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps a

[FRIAM] An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft ’s Newest Data Visualization Tool

*FYI -- * *-tj * *Crunch Network*: CrunchBase * *the free database of technology companies, people, and investors An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft’s Newest Data Visualization Tool

[FRIAM] -- A 'New Digital Class' Digs Into Data

December 04, 2009, 02:03 PM ET A 'New Digital Class' Digs Into Data By Jennifer Howard Fifty-three thousand 18th-century letters. Twenty-three thousand hours of digitized world music. The records of more than 197,000 individual

[FRIAM] Eureqa @ Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory

<http://delicious.com/pigor> ) http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] HUBzero - Platform for Scientific Collaboration

r/> - List of features » <http://hubzero.org/tour/features> - Start your own Hub » <http://hubzero.org/tour/hosting> http://hubzero.org/home -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Rethinking artificial intelligence

Reunion of AI pioneers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/science/08sail.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=markoff%20%22artificial%20intelligence%22&st=cse -tj On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > Most of early AI was heuristics, not algorithms. Some algorithms were > incorporated into e

[FRIAM] A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

An interesting book review: A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing By JOHN MARKOFF Published: December 14, 2009 "In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the Ca

[FRIAM] Free Online Course: Learn to Build iPhone Apps

SEEhttp://training.oreilly.com/iphonewebapps/?utm_content=iPhone+Online+Course&utm_campaign=Training+promos&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=0524f7&cmp=iPhone+Online+Course Free Online Course: Learn to Build iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- tj =

[FRIAM] Something wonderful from the days when books were works of art AND science

Turning The Page Online -- historic science books in high-resolution online. Hookes Micrografia was the first view of the microscopic world, and his astonishingly detailed and beautiful illustrations are there to view and print. http://archive.nlm.nih

[FRIAM] Fwd: Fw: Teacher Arrested...

I know this usually isn't a forum for humor, but. -tj ** Teacher arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport A teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule, and

[FRIAM] The Promise and Peril of Big Data

FRIAM-ers-- I'm not sure if you've seen this report,"The Promise and Peril of Big Data." It's a current and interesting read. http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/InfoTech09.pdf *"According to a recent report(1), the amount of digital content on the Internet is no

[FRIAM] More Visualization Links on Twitter

FYI http://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter2.html *"More Visualization Links on Twitter* *By: Jeff ClarkDate: Sat, 23 Jan 2010* * In a recent post I showed the Top 20 Individual Data Visualizations Mentioned on Twitterand rem

Re: [FRIAM] More Visualization Links on Twitter

ll. > > Hmm, lede.com is parked on an ad-farm, who's got a budget? > > -- rec -- > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > >> FYI >> >> http://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter2.html >> *"More Visualization Link

Re: [FRIAM] More Visualization Links on Twitter

have to put in the URL? > > -- Russ Abbott > _ > Professor, Computer Science > California State University, Los Angeles > Cell phone: 310-621-3805 > o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ > > > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM, T

Re: [FRIAM] AAAI 2010 CAS Fall Symposium

And where might this take place? -tj On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > Dear FRIAM folks: > > We were extremely pleased with the turnout and participation of last year's > AAAI Fall Symposium on CAS and the Threshold Effect. With over 70 > participants, it turned out to b

[FRIAM] Found Functions

Found Functions -- Nikki Graziano (of RIT) adds mathematics to photographs. Her photos let me see the world through a mathematician's eyes. (via O'Reilly Radar) http://nikkigraziano.com/foundfunctions.html

[FRIAM] Fwd: Online science museum, emergentuniverse.org

>From my friend David Pines. A very impressive presentation of online exhibits/information related to a highly sophisticated aspect of Complexity. -tom === Dear All, I write to invite you to explore ICAM’s new online exhibits about emergent phenom

[FRIAM] Undergraduate Summer Program for Statistics | FlowingData

If anyone is working with bright undergrads. http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/05/undergraduate-summer-program-for-statistics/ -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Co

Re: [FRIAM] Software for an organization's calendar

I find that Google calendar is first rate for groups. Only drawback is that users need to get a Gmail account if they are going to have edit rights. -tj On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, George Duncan wrote: > Would any of you have a recommendation for web-based software that could be > used to

[FRIAM] Fwd: {JTM} High speed on your hip

-- Forwarded message -- From: "Bentley, Clyde" Date: Feb 15, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: {JTM} High speed on your hip To: "jtml...@googlegroups.com" , " rji-fell...@googlegroups.com" The mobile industry announced a fast-track adoption of a single standard for high-speed 4G today. I’m

[FRIAM] Fwd: TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology

Interesting stuff to come. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com www.ted.com TED Talks In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, B

[FRIAM] National Science Foundation (NSF) News - 2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced

fyi http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116369&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://w

Re: [FRIAM] google's public data explorer

The cancer data set is interesting in that there are fewer skin cancers in NM than one might expect: http://www.google.com/publicdata/overview?ds=z4c3seit6ifd53_ -tom On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: > I'm having way too much fun with Google's public data > explorer

[FRIAM] 5 Stages of Programmer Incompetence « yi eld thought

http://coderoom.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/5-stages-of-programmer-incompetence/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] BlenderArt Magazine

FYI. Surely of interest to some of the list subscribers. Also, be sure to check out the AMSER site. -tom johnson *BlenderArt Magazine* http://blenderart.org/ Blender art is that which is created by using Blender, a free 3D "creation suite". In other words, it's a graphic

Re: [FRIAM] Dennis Cox, amateur extraordinaire, with 6 views given via Google Earth by Rich Murray of 360 m high mountain E of Fresno, CA, with uphill and then downhill ejecta melt flows -- informativ

Yes, I had probs with some of the links. -tj On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, michael barron wrote: > rich: > > I tried to open some of the links, and could not do it inside gmail. > Are you having a simular problem, or shoud I try the Yahoo account! > > regards > michael barron > > > > On Fri,

[FRIAM] Applied Complexity in Havana

In January, Team Santa Fe (Tom Johnson, Steve Guerin, Nick Bennett, and Alfredo Covaleda [Bogota]) rolled into Havana to attend the 10th Congress of Complexity Studies in Cuba. (Steve, Nick and Alfredo also taught a day-long workshop on Netlogo and simulation modeling following the conference

[FRIAM] Periodic table explained in video

ALL: A wonderful set of videos explaining each of the elements in the periodic table. http://periodicvideos.com/# Be sure to check out Zinc -- apparently the Pluto of the elemental solar system. -tom -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism

[FRIAM] Deep Web Technologies Enhances DOE Science Accelerator With Alerts

ed to their areas of interest. The service performs these searches on users' behalf every week and emails the users notifications of newly published results. -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

[FRIAM] Proto-PC Inventor, and inspiration for Microsoft, Dr. Henry Edward (Ed) Roberts passes

*Proto-PC Inventor, and inspiration for Microsoft, Dr. Henry Edward (Ed) Roberts passes *Dr. Henry Edward Roberts is best known for inventing the Altair 8800, a personal computer that would spark the home computer era. Dr. Roberts died yesterday after complications from pneumonia. Dr. Roberts fou

[FRIAM] The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky

The other is that, for many media business, that second option is unreachable. Here’s why.* * * http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ -tom joh

[FRIAM] Data visualization tutorial in Processing

A solid tutorial here. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: FlowingData Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:07 AM Subject: FlowingData - Data visualization tutorial in Processing To: jtjohnson...@gmail.com FlowingData - Data visualization tutorial in Processing

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more

I think there is still much to be learned, especially about pre-contact North-South trade routes and, hence, cultural diffusion. I have a recent interest in, for example, the use/role of lienzos (see www.lienzo.ufm.edu) during that period. And there are relatively new discoveries at places likeEl

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn

But don't forget that often times the grand structures we see today were built atop previous and smaller versions, which were built atop previous and smaller version, etc. It's turtles all the way down. -tom On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Having recently been in Abu Dh

[FRIAM] Teaching Tools: Using Online Simulations and Games | Edutopia

http://www.edutopia.org/online-games-simulations-teaching-tools?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. Joh

[FRIAM] Fwd: Information Visualization - Table of Contents alert Volume 9 Issue 2

Some interesting work here on data visualization, and all the articles are free for the download until May 31, 2010 -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Information Visualization Alert Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:47 AM Subject: Information Visualization - Table of Contents alert Vo

[FRIAM] Synthetic Bacterial Genome Takes Over Cell - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?ref=science FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Fwd: Journalists wanted

FYI. Feola is one of the very early CAR pioneers. -tom johnson -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Feola Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:08 AM Subject: Journalists wanted To: Chris Feola Greetings, As you may have heard, nextPression is these days in the business of

[FRIAM] Video of Babbage Difference Engine No. 2

A few weeks back I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California and had the opportunity of seeing a wonderful demonstration of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine. This one, Number 2, is the only complete model ever built, and it plays an important role in the history of comput

[FRIAM] Elastic lists

letting you run into situations with zero results. They enhance traditional UI approaches for facet browsers by visualizing weight proportions, animated transitions, emphasis of characteristic values and sparkline visualizations."* -tom johnson IAJ Santa Fe ===

Re: [FRIAM] The new evil empire

Owen-- I think we can, and do, have it both ways. Most of the apps that I use work just fine on the desktop and in the cloud. There are exceptions, of course, but given that most of the day-to-day things have import/export at the very least, then word processing, spreadsheets, mind-mapping and e

[FRIAM] Life span of computing langues and such

This topic/data set harkens back to a discussion at least two years old around the SFX on the genealogy of computer languages. Well, sorta. *DRMacIver writes: * *"So I have this site, http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com* *It's about ranking programming languages acco

[FRIAM] Good times for Friday: "How-to-Speak-Geek: Decoding-Programmer-Jargon"

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/How-to-Speak-Geek-Decoding-Programmer-Jargon-663701/?kc=EWKNLBOE06042010FEA1 Cheers, -- tj == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

[FRIAM] EASA Media Anthropology Network - E-Seminar Series

have long seen as defining sources of identity and cultural difference. -tom johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] permanent free data archives

How large is the data set? If <2 gigs (ZIPPED???), there are many sites with 2-5 gigs free. That said, I would not count on any site being around forever or even 20 yrs. out. And even if the site/servers are around, the challenge will be reading/restoring the data before it becomes Swiss cheese.

Re: [FRIAM] Friam meeting 7/2?

Mike: I can't speak for others, of course, but I plan to be at FRIAM this week. -tom johnson On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, wrote: > Will you be meeting this Friday, given that it precedes the long holiday > weekend? > > If so, my son (a new listserv subscriber) and I wo

[FRIAM] How do you auto-create a network diagram?

Any FRIAM-ers have insights to this interesting query? -tom johnson -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan T Keating Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [NICAR-L] How do you auto-create a network diagram? To: nica...@po.missouri.edu The data structure described here

[FRIAM] UC takes scientific journals to task over fees

FYI http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20100707,0,1097810.column -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

[FRIAM] NSF 2010 Call for Entries

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Re: [FRIAM] NSF 2010 Call for Entries

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[FRIAM] Meeting site this Friday, July 30

St. John's Student Union will be closing way too early again this week. I suggest meeting at Downtown Subscription on Garcia Street. -tj -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

Re: [FRIAM] visitors at this week's Friam

Dave: If this Friday past is any indication, St. Johns in back in business for us. Is she still a proponent of Class-responsibility-collaboration cards(as part of the Responsibility-driven design process)? If so, could you tal

[FRIAM] Seeking contacts at UNAM (Universidad Na cional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City

s of rug designs over time? Of course, these are approaches I have heard and read about: it will be much more fun to turn up surprises. Thanks for any suggestions, and apologies for the double-postings. -tom johnson == J. T. Johnson Institute for Ana

Re: [FRIAM] The Man Behind the Complex

Apparently The New Mexican, for reasons I don't grasp, doesn't or cannot post all of the paper online at the same time. -tj On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Tyler White wrote: > Anybody have links to the article? > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > Yes indeed! > > > On S

Re: [FRIAM] The Man Behind the Complex

I think you're right. I know folks there: want to pitch 'em? -tj On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tyler White wrote: > How unfortunate. I bet they don't even have a mobile app. > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > Apparently The New Mexican, for

[FRIAM] Fwd: Journal of Simulation - Table of Contents alert Volume 4 Issue 3

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[FRIAM] Intelligent electric road

>From Roger Ebert blog: "This fills me with probably unreasonable hope for Green Electricity. " See http://j.mp/9pZorn -tj -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

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