[Grumpy] Thought of the Day --> could be the same, every day
On the useless hopelessness of on-line support:If we could only measure the utter amount of frustration and spirit-crunching generated in the world by these online (or phone-based, or generally technology-enabled and -constrained) support services, I think even the Devil would be astounded.
Interesting Initiatives
Nature-Inspired Computing Systems
- Autonomic Computing
- Organic Computing
- Amorphous Computing
- Swarm Intelligence
- SwarmWiki
(collaborative resource for Agent-Based Modeling) - Evolutionary Computation
- Introduction to Evolutionary Computation (e-book)
- MIT Press Journal on Evolutionary Computation
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Soft Computing
- Morphogenetic Engineering
- "Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems", book to appear in 2011, Springer-Verlag (Overview)
- Artificial Life
- Artificial Autonomy