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December 2016

• 29th • SF • Jodi Taylor • A Symphony of Echoes
• 29th • NSC • "Artificial Epigenetic Networks", full text
• 25th • psychology • Caroline L. Arnold • Small Move, Big Change
• 25th • SF film • Frozen
• 20th • statistics • David C. Howell • Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
• 19th • SF • J. D. Robb • Brotherhood in Death
• 12th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing in Materio: An Evaluation of Configuration through Evolution", abstract
• 11th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • Down the Rabbit Hole
• 3rd • NSC • "Editorial/Introduction to the Artificial Life 2015 Conference Special Issue", introduction
• 2nd • SF film • Arrival

November 2016

• 29th • SF • Jodi Taylor • Just One Damned Thing After Another
• 24th • SF TV • Orphan Black, season 3
• 20th • SF • Jasper Fforde • The Last Dragonslayer
• 19th • psychology • Greg McKeown • Essentialism
• 9th • SF • Charles Stross • The Annihilation Score

October 2016

• 31st • NSC • "Report on UCNC 2016"
• 15th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Indexing: Reflections
• 5th • SF • Joel Shepherd • Originator
• 1st • SF TV • The Expanse, season 1

September 2016

• 27th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Dragon in Exile
• 19th • maths • Jonathan M. Borwein, Keith Devlin • The Computer as Crucible
• 17th • SF TV • Childhood’s End
• 12th • NSC • "Defining and Simulating Open-Ended Novelty", full text (view-only)

August 2016

• 28th • SF • J. D. Robb • Devoted in Death
• 25th • SF • Benedict Jacka • Chosen
• 16th • SF TV • Grimm season 4
• 15th • SF • Diane Duane • Interim Errantry
• 11th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing as a Model for In Materio Computing", abstract
• 5th • SF • Leonard Richardson • Constellation Games

July 2016

• 21st • SF • Seanan McGuire • Every Heart a Doorway
• 17th • SF • Sharon Lee • Carousel Seas
• 11th • NSC • "EvoMachina: a novel evolutionary algorithm inspired by bacterial genome reorganisation", extended abstract
• 11th • NSC • "Evolving Carbon Nanotube Reservoir Computers", abstract
• 10th • SF • Joel Shepherd • Operation Shield
• 8th • NSC • "Jordan Algebra AChems: Exploiting Mathematical Richness for Open Ended Design", full paper
• 7th • NSC • "Bio-Reflective Architectures for Evolutionary Innovation", full paper
• 5th • NSC • "Emergent Bonding Properties in the Spiky RBN AChem", full paper
• 5th • NSC • "Modelling and Training Unconventional in-Materio Computers using Bio-Inspired Techniques", extended abstract
• 4th • NSC • "Open-Endedness: Definitions and Shortcuts", extended abstract
• 2nd • SF film • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

June 2016

• 16th • NSC • "Heterotic computing: past, present and future", full paper

May 2016

• 26th • SF • Joel Shepherd • 23 Years on Fire
• 24th • SF TV • Arrow season 3
• 22nd • NSC • "Defining and Simulating Open-Ended Novelty", abstract
• 9th • astronomy • Mercury transit

April 2016

• 9th • SF con • Mancunicon 2016: Eastercon 2016 notes
• 4th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Sparrow Hill Road
• 2nd • SF film • Mad Max: Fury Road

March 2016

• 31st • NSC • "Report on UCNC 2015"
• 30th • NSC • "Augmenting Live Coding with Evolved Patterns", abstract
• 19th • SF film • The Martian
• 15th • SF • J. D. Robb • Obsession in Death
• 13th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
• 12th • SF • Marie Brennan • A Natural History of Dragons
• 6th • NSC • "The Art of Penrose Life", intro

February 2016

• 23rd • SF • John Scalzi • Lock In
• 18th • SF • Sharon Lee • Carousel Sun
• 3rd • SF • Jo Walton • My Real Children
• 2nd • SWE • "CellBranch CoSMoS model : increments 1, 2 and 3", technical report

January 2016

• 27th • medicine • Atul Gawande • Being Mortal
• 23rd • NSC • "Maximising the adjacent possible in automata chemistries", abstract
• 21st • SF • Tanya Huff • An Ancient Peace
• 9th • physics • Lee Smolin • Time Reborn
• 7th • SF • Genevieve Cogman • The Invisible Library
• 2nd • SF film • Inside Out

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