what's new, 2011

December 2011

31st • SF film • The Social Network
29th • SF film • Ratatouille
28th • SF film • Monsters vs Aliens
27th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
26th • SF • Hannu Rajaniemi • The Quantum Thief
25th • ethics • Richard A. Posner • The Little Book of Plagiarism
24th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
23rd • SF TV • Medium , season 6
15th • creativity • Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
4th • computing • Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
4th • complexity • Eric D. Schneider, Dorian Sagan • Into the Cool

November 2011

11th • SF • Diana Rowland • My Life as a White Trash Zombie
8th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Angel Town
5th • detective • Janet Neel • O Gentle Death

October 2011

30th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Rivers of London
16th • psychology • Oliver Sacks • The Mind's Eye
11th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • The Sleeping Beauty
11th • NSC • " A Framework for Heterotic Computing ", abstract
4th • SF • Jack Campbell • Stark's War
3rd • reading • Daniel Pennac • The Rights of the Reader
3rd • SWE • CoSMos 2011 workshop, full proceedings
2nd • internet cat • Mugumogu • I am Maru
1st • SF TV • Doctor Who , new season 6

September 2011

27th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Truth of Valor
26th • computing • Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages
18th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • The Other Side
17th • SF • Timothy Zahn • Odd Girl Out
17th • NSC • " Boolean logic gate design principles for unconventional computers: an NMR case study ", abstract
11th • cartoons • Zach Weiner • Save Yourself, Mammal!
10th • SF • David Weber • Out of the Dark
8th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Late Eclipses
4th • SWE • "a href="../bib/ss/swe/cosmos10proc.htm">Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation", full proceedings
4th • NSC • "The Game of Life Rules on Penrose Tilings: still life and oscillators", full chapter
4th • NSC • "Counting preimages of homogeneous configurations in 1-dimensional cellular automata", full paper
4th • NSC • "Investigations of the Game of Life cellular automata rules on Penrose Tilings: lifetime, ash and oscillator statistics ", full paper
4th • SWE • "Computer Simulation: the imaginary friend of auxin transport biology", full paper
4th • NSC • "Classical Computing in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance", full paper
4th • NSC • "From binary to continuous gates – and back again", full paper
4th • NSC • "Exploiting Loose Horizontal Coupling in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics", full paper
4th • SWE • "Using the CoSMoS Process to Enhance an Executable Model of Auxin Transport Canalisation", full paper
4th • NSC • "Controlling Complex Dynamics with Artificial Biochemical Networks", full paper
4th • SWE • "Reflections on the Simulation of Complex Systems for Science", full paper
3rd • SF TV • Andromeda , season 3

August 2011

27th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Grail
25th • safety • Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto
21st • philosophy • Matthew B. Crawford • The Case for Working with Your Hands
19th • SF film • Super 8
18th • SF • J. D. Robb • Treachery in Death
14th • detective • Laurie R. King • The God of the Hive
4th • SF • Tony Ballantyne • Recursion

July 2011

16th • misc • Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes
12th • SF • Gail Carriger • Heartless
10th • maths • Keith Devlin • Logic and Information
10th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Saltation
9th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Chill

June 2011

26th • SF TV • Roswell , season 3
22nd • SF • Peter Dickinson • The Ropemaker
22nd • technology • W. Brian Arthur • The Nature of Technology
18th • NSC • " Degeneracy enriches Artificial Chemistry binding systems ", abstract
12th • NSC • " Embodied copying for richer evolution ", abstract
12th • NSC • " Energy as a driver of diversity in open-ended evolution ", abstract
12th • NSC • " Controlling legged robots with coupled Artificial Biochemical Networks ", abstract
11th • Z • " Atomicity Failure and the Retrenchment Atomicity Pattern ", abstract
11th • SF • Greg Egan • Schild's Ladder
9th • SF • Justina Robson • Selling Out
4th • NSC • " Embodied genomes and metaprogramming ", abstract
4th • NSC • " Reflecting on Open-Ended Evolution ", abstract

May 2011

31st • SF • Diane Duane • A Wizard of Mars
29th • SWE • "Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate", abstract
29th • SWE • "Multiple model simulation: modelling cell division and differentiation in the prostate", abstract
29th • SWE • "CoSMoS process, models, and metamodels", abstract
28th • detective • Jill Paton Walsh • The Attenbury Emeralds
22nd • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Defiance
22nd • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Dust
15th • technology • Neil Gershenfeld • Fab
14th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Longeye
9th • SF • J. A. Pitts • Black Blade Blues
2nd • essays • Malcolm Gladwell • What the Dog Saw
1st • SF TV • Dark Season

April 2011

30th • language/cognition • Daniel L. Everett • Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
26th • SF • Peter Watts • Blindsight
20th • SF • Jo Walton • Among Others
18th • SF • Jasper Fforde • One of Our Thursdays is Missing
16th • SF • Seanan McGuire • An Artificial Night
5th • complexity/systems • Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
5th • business/psychology • John Kay • Obliquity
4th • SF TV • Medium , season 5
3rd • SF • Madeleine E. Robins • Petty Treason

March 2011

30th • SF • J. D. Robb • Indulgence in Death
27th • SF • Kage Baker • The Life of the World to Come
21st • NSC • " Heterotic Computing ", abstract
19th • SF film • Princess Mononoke
11th • SF • Madeleine E. Robins • Point of Honour
1st • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Finding the Way

February 2011

26th • SF film • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
26th • SF • David Weber • In Fire Forged
23rd • SF • Sarah A. Hoyt • Darkship Thieves
19th • SF TV • Outcasts
16th • SF • Seanan McGuire • A Local Habitation
11th • cognition • Matthias Scheutz, ed • Computationalism: new directions
6th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Grand Central Arena
6th • SF TV • Dollhouse , season 2
3rd • maths • Donald G. Saari • Decisions and Elections

January 2011

30th • SF film • Inception
22nd • SF • Iain M. Banks • The State of the Art
9th • SF • Joss Whedon et al • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat
9th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Rosemary and Rue
3rd • SF film • WALL·E
3rd • maths • William Goldbloom Bloch • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
2nd • SF • Robin McKinley • Pegasus
1st • NSC • "Automorphisms of transition graphs for linear cellular automata", full paper
1st • NSC • "Automorphisms of transition graphs for elementary cellular automata", full paper
1st • NSC • "Highly entangled multi-qubit states with simple algebraic structure", full paper
1st • SWE • "Environment orientation: an architecture for simulating complex systems", full paper
1st • NSC • "Cotranslational protein folding with L-systems", full paper
1st • NSC • "RBN-World: A Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistry", full paper
1st • NSC • "Molecular microprograms", full paper
1st • NSC • "Visualising Random Boolean Network Dynamics: effects of perturbations and canalisation", full paper

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