Link: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/amorphous/index.html
it's a couple years old, but looks like good background reading. cool stuff for anyone unfamiliar...don't know much about computing or data...but i feel that more distributive methods of data analysis have a lot of possibilities as far as exploiting nano/bio tech goes. especially considering the amount of time it would take to collect and process the data if collected bit by bit.
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anders pearson - Fri 16 Nov 2001 15:46:37
check out <a href="node.pl?nid=464">this bookmark</a>. i've got the book if you want to borrow it sometime. i'm not sure why they call it "amorphous computing" though. i don't see anything that really sets it apart as more than just a subfield of <a href="keyword.pl?keyword=artificial%20life">artificial life</a> or cellular automata theory.lani - Fri 16 Nov 2001 15:47:37
the page for the bookmark didn't show up. don't know why. some person at MIT is just trying to either precedent a name or dispute it. probably just wants it to become household. everyone wants to found/name their own field of science these days.anders pearson - Fri 16 Nov 2001 15:49:37
updated the link. should be ok now.lani - Fri 16 Nov 2001 15:50:37
"Images of a machine as organism and an organism as machine are as old as the first machine itself. But now those enduring metaphors are no longer poetry." -Out of Control, Kelly. looks interesting, but to long to read online. must borrow. Is this quote a reference to Babbage/Lovelace?sarah - Fri 16 Nov 2001 15:48:37
Sounds like Snowcrashology. But if you've not figured that I'm an unlettered pud, you've not been reading. That said, I got into a fight with someone who thought that the computer model was a good one for the human mind. Sure I thought, if you're a 3 year old with a linearity fetish and a penchant for porn. But the wise woman at home said to me... if you are playing chess, and we get into an argument, and I reach over and break your queen in half... we can replace it with a wine cork. Try that with a computer. She claims to have heard that somewhere but diddn't know where.