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December 2017

• 26th • SF film • Rogue One
• 26th • books • new format for book stats plots
• 23rd • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Alliance of Equals
• 12th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing in Materio: An Evaluation of Configuration through Evolution", full paper
• 4th • SF • Katy B. Wagers • After the Crown

November 2017

• 30th • SF • Jonathan Strahan • Edge of Infinity
• 7th • essays • Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats
• 7th • SF • Justina Robson • Down to the Bone
• 3rd • SF film • Blade Runner 2049

October 2017

• 30th • NSC • Inspired by Nature, preface
• 30th • NSC • "Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistries", abstract
• 26th • SF TV • Dark Matter, season 1
• 24th • equality and diversity • Iris Bohnet • What Works

September 2017

• 27th • humour • Mallory Ortberg • Texts from Jane Eyre
• 16th • SWE • "A conceptual and computational framework for … non-equilibrium gene regulatory networks …", full paper
• 10th • language • John McWhorter • The Language Hoax
• 11th • SWE • "An Investigation into the Use of Mutation Analysis for Automated Program Repair", abstract
• 8th • SF • Liz Williams • Worldsoul
• 6th • NSC • "Functional grouping analysis of varying reactor types in the Spiky-RBN AChem", full paper
• 5th • NSC • "Tuning Jordan Algebra Artificial Chemistries with Probability Spawning Functions", full paper
• 2nd • SF • Naomi Novik • Uprooted
• 1st • NSC • "When Does a Biological System Compute?", abstract

August 2017

• 25th • SF con • Worldcon 75 notes
• 17th • SF • Becky Chambers • A Closed and Common Orbit
• 15th • NSC • "East-West paths to unconventional computing", abstract
• 14th • SF • David Wake • Empire of the Dead
• 9th • NSC • Wolfgang Banzhaf, Lidia Yamamoto • Artificial Chemistries
• 8th • NSC • "The Geometry of Speed Limiting Resources in Physical Models of Computation", abstract
• 2nd • SF • J. D. Robb • Apprentice in Death

July 2017

• 28th • SF • Becky Chambers • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
• 25th • NSC • "The Natural Science of Computation", abstract
• 23rd • SF • Tanya Huff • A Peace Divided
• 12th • NSC • "Evolving Carbon Nanotube Reservoir Computers", full paper
• 9th • fiction • Isabella Barclay • A Bachelor Establishment
• 4th • SF • Cixin Liu • The Three-Body Problem
• 1st • SF TV • Doctor Who, new season 10

June 2017

• 29th • narrative • David Herman • Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences
• 27th • SF TV • Once Upon a Time, season 3
• 27th • NSC • "Probabilistic Graph Programming", full paper
• 17th • NSC • "ECAL 2015 special issue editorial", abstract
• 12th • SF • Ruth Vincent • Elixir
• 8th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing in materio with LEDs", abstract
• 8th • NSC • "Extendible Hardware Platform for Reservoir Computing in materio", abstract
• 7th • SF • Rob Appleby, Ra Page • Thought X

May 2017

• 31st • SF • Katy B. Wagers • Behind the Throne
• 24th • SF • John Scalzi • The Collapsing Empire
• 19th • NSC • "The ternary graph as a questionnaire – a new approach to assessment of quality of life?", abstract
• 18th • writing • Gerald M. Weinberg • Weinberg on Writing
• 18th • NSC • "Semantic closure demonstrated by the evolution of a universal constructor architecture in an artificial chemistry", full paper
• 17th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing in materio: A Computational Framework for in materio Computing", abstract
• 1st • SF • Genevieve Cogman • The Masked City

April 2017

• 21st • SF con • Innominate 2017: Eastercon 2017 notes
• 17th • SF • Diane Duane • Games Wizards Play
• 5th • SF • Daniel O’Malley • Stiletto
• 2nd • NSC • "Augmenting Live Coding with Evolved Patterns", full paper

March 2017

• 29th • education • Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber • The Slow Professor
• 6th • NSC • "The Art of Penrose Life", full chapter

February 2017

• 27th • NSC • "Introduction to Unconventional Computing", abstract
• 18th • NSC • "Computability and Complexity of Unconventional Computing Devices", arXiv preprint
• 17th • NSC • "Maximising the adjacent possible in automata chemistries", full paper
• 14th • SF criticism • Kameron Hurley • The Geek Feminist Revolution

January 2017

• 23rd • SF • Daniel O’Malley • The Rook
• 7th • SF film • Ghostbusters
• 5th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Bold

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