Daily Archives: December 19, 2002

Book Review – Emergence

By | December 19, 2002

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson This book received a lot of what I think was overly harsh criticism for not providing a significant amount of in depth technical coverage of the cross-functional area of emergence, i.e., cellular automata, self organization, complexity theory, etc. Obviously, one book on… Read More »

More Rice

By | December 19, 2002

The semi-annual letter from Rice president Malcolm Gillis just showed up in my mailbox. The letter isn’t published to the Rice website, yet, but click on alumni letters on the Office of the President’s page if you care to see old alumni letters and eventually, the fall 2002 letter. In addition to pointing out the… Read More »