what's new, 2006

December 2006

30th • cognition • Daniel C. Dennett • Brainchildren
29th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Beguilement
28th • reading • Julie Rugg, Lynda Murphy • A Book Addict's Treasury
23rd • SF • Tanya Huff • Smoke and Mirrors
22nd • SF TV • Stargate Atlantis • season 2
20th • SF • David Weber • The War God's Own
16th • SF • Gael Baudino • Gossamer Axe
16th • SF TV • Charmed • season 8
10th • SF • Paul J. McAuley • Fairyland
10th • NSC • full paper of "Hypercomputation and the Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation"
1st • NSC • full paper of "Neutral Emergence: a proposal"

November 2006

19th • cognition • Oliver Sacks • The Island of the Colour-blind
18th • SF • Donna Andrews • Delete All Suspects
12th • NSC • full abstract of "A simulation environment for emergent properties"
12th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Resolute
11th • SF • David Weber and John Ringo • We Few
5th • SF • Cory Doctorow • Eastern Standard Tribe
4th • SF TV • Stargate SG-1 • season 9
4th • SF • Ken MacLeod • Engine City

October 2006

29th • management • Bill Jensen • Work 2.0
28th • psychology • Richard Dawkins • The God Delusion
15th • Z • abstract of "Retrenching the Purse: hashing injective CLEAR codes, and security properties"
12th • detective • Sarah Caudwell • The Sibyl in Her Grave
2nd • philosophy • Daniel C. Dennett • Breaking the Spell
1st • SF • Ken MacLeod • Dark Light

September 2006

25th • design • Donald A. Norman • Emotional Design
24th • design • Edward Tufte • Beautiful Evidence
24th • SF TV • Medium, season 1
23rd • NSC • full paper of "Penrose Life: ash and oscillators"
23rd • NSC • full paper of "An architecture for modelling emergence in CA-like systems"
13th • SF • John Varley • Mammoth
11th • biology • Deborah Gordon • Ants at Work
10th • SF • Ken MacLeod • Cosmonaut Keep
9th • SF • E. Everett Evans • Alien Minds
9th • Z • abstract of "Frameworks based on templates for rigorous model-driven development"
5th • systems • Gerald M. Weinberg • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
4th • NSC • preface of Unconventional Computation, UC 2006

August 2006

28th • cartoons • Jacky Fleming • Dear Katie
27th • SF • Tanya Huff • Stealing Magic
27th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Defiant
26th • detective • Laurie R. King • Locked Rooms
26th • cartoons • Stephen Notley • Bob the Angry Flower: Dog Killer
20th • SF • Neil Gaiman • Coraline
19th • SF • Kim Harrison • A Fistful of Charms
15th • biology • Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis • The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
12th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Deserter
10th • physics • Robert Laughlin • A Different Universe
5th • NSC • full paper of "A generic framework for population-based algorithms"
2nd • SF • Jasper Fforde • The Fourth Bear

July 2006

20th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Mutineer
18th • physics • Brian Greene • The Fabric of the Cosmos
17th • SF • J. D. Austin • Second Contact
16th • SF • Charles Stross • Accelerando
15th • SF film • The Powerpuff Girls Movie
14th • SF film • Finding Nemo
10th • SF • Malcolm Pryce • Aberystwyth Mon Amour
9th • SF • James P. Hogan • Outward Bound
9th • SF TV • Doctor Who, 10th Doctor
8th • SF • Kim Harrison • Every Which Way but Dead
2nd • SF • David Weber • The Shadow of Saganami
1st • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • The Hallowed Hunt
1st • Z • full paper of "Retrenching the Purse : Finite Sequence Numbers and the Tower Pattern"

June 2006

25th • SF film • Howl's Moving Castle
25th • SF • Jane M. Lindskold • The Buried Pyramid
24th • NSC • abstract of "Embodiment"
17th • SF • J. D. Robb • Memory in Death
15th • detective • Stephanie Barron • Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House
11th • SF • Charles Stross • Toast
5th • SF • Kim Harrison • The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
4th • SF • Cory Doctorow • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

May 2006

31st • SF • Esther M. Friesner • Turn the Other Chick
29th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
28th • SF TV • Invasion
28th • SF • Charles Stross • The Atrocity Archives
27th • Z • abstract of "A Formal Template Language enabling Metaproof"
21st • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Sword of Orion
20th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Crossroads
20th • NSC • abstract of "Engineering Emergence"
13th • SF • Kim Harrison • Dead Witch Walking
13th • Z • abstract of "Retrenching the Purse : the balance enquiry quandary"
7th • SF • J. K. Rowling • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

April 2006

24th • SF • Linda Nagata • Vast
21st • SF TV • Futurama season 4
18th • NSC • abstract of "Fusing Natural Computational Paradigms for Cryptanalysis"
12th • SF • John Ringo, Julie Cochrane • Cally's War
7th • SF TV • A for Andromeda
2nd • Z • full paper of "An Object-Oriented Structuring for Z based on Views"
2nd • Z • full paper of "Requirements as conjectures: intuitive DVD menu navigation"
2nd • Z • overview of "UML + Z: Augmenting UML with Z"
2nd • NSC • abstract of "Human-Competitive Evolution of Quantum Computing Artefacts by Genetic Programming"

March 2006

24th • complexity • Philip Ball • The Self-Made Tapestry
20th • SF • Linda Nagata • Deception Well
5th • SF • Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb • Remember When
4th • SF film • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4th • Z • abstract of "Retrenching the Purse: Finite Exception Logs, and Validating the Small"
1st • SF • Catherine Asaro • The Radiant Seas

February 2006

26th • SF TV • Battlestar Galactica • season 1
19th • SF • S. L. Viehl • Rebel Ice
13th • SF • Linnea Sinclair • Finders Keepers
11th • SF TV • Charmed • season 7
11th • science • Richard Feynman • The Meaning of it All
5th • SF • Gary Westfahl • Science Fiction Quotations
4th • SF • J. D. Robb • Origin in Death

January 2006

21st • NSC • abstract of "Rule Migration: Exploring a design framework for emergence"
19th • litcrit/humour • Frederick C. Crews • Postmodern Pooh
14th • NSC • introduction: "Journeys in Non-Classical Computation II"
14th • NSC • full paper of "Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems"
14th • SF • Alastair Reynolds • Absolution Gap
7th • NSC • full paper of "Conceptual Frameworks for Artificial Immune Systems"
7th • NSC • full paper of "Evolution of a Human-Competitive Quantum Fourier Transform algorithm using genetic programming"
7th • NSC • full paper of "Searching for highly entangled multi-qubit states"
5th • SF con • Interaction: Worldcon 2005

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