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About E:CO

By alex | Published: 11/16/2004
Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO) is an international and interdisciplinary conversation about human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those organizations. With a unique format blending the integrity of academic inquiry and the impact of business practice, E:CO integrates multiple perspectives in management theory, research, practice and education. E:CO is […]
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Where is my OLIVER?

By alex | Published: 11/3/2004
I was recently rereading Licklidder’s “The computer as a communications device” (1968; available as a pdf) and was struck by this image of a personal network agent. It seems as though people do a lot of talking about this, but I want to know where mine is. Is the Bayesian spam filter the best we […]
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Guardian angel

By alex | Published: 2/12/2004
As a graduate student, I took a seminar with “Tom Furness”:http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/tfurness/. Before he came to Seattle to run the “HITLab”:http://www.hitl.washington.edu/, Furness designed advanced cockpit systems for the Air Force. One of the greatest dangers to pilots was something pretty dumb: forgetting to put the gear down before landing. In a very busy cockpit, it was […]
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More future tech

By alex | Published: 2/1/2004
Vodaphane has a dripping-with-cool flash site that will tickle your inner imagineer. I’m reforming my Media in the Information Age course next year to focus heavily on the personal information environment / convergence and the future. Assuming this is still around, it will be a fun addition.
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