what’s new, 2018

December 2018

31st • SF • Martha Wells • Exit Strategy
27th • SF • J. D. Robb • Secrets in Death
25th • security • Geoff Manaugh • A Burglar's Guide to the City
21st • SF • Jane Lindskold • Artemis Awakening
14th • SF • Neve Maslakovic • Regarding Ducks and Universes
14th • SF film • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4th • NSC • From Simplex to Complex Narrative?, chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Commentary on contributions, chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Discussion and Comment (Time Will Tell), chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Time will Tell: narrative expressions of time in a complex world, chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Discussion and Comment (A Simple Story of a Complex Mind?), chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Complex Systems for Narrative Theorists, chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Introduction and Overview: Who, What, Why, chapter abstract
4th • NSC • Narrating Complexity, book blurb

November 2018

30th • SWE • Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments, preface
17th • SF TV • Into the Wild Green Yonder
14th • SF • Seanan McGuire • A Red-Rose Chain
4th • SF • Martha Wells • Rogue Protocol

October 2018

30th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Privilege of Peace
30th • NSC • "Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistries", full chapter
22nd • NSC • "Evolving Living Technologies—Insights from the EvoEvo project", abstract
20th • politics • Dawn Foster • Lean Out
17th • psychology/economics • Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational
12th • SF • Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe • Robots vs Fairies

September 2018

29th • physics • Sabine Hossenfelder • Lost in Math
26th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • The Gathering Edge
12th • SWE • "The ternary graph as a questionnaire", full paper
11th • SF • Andy Weir • Artemis
11th • SWE • "An Investigation into the Use of Mutation Analysis for Automated Program Repair", full paper
1st • NSC • "Abstraction and Representation in Living Organisms", full chapter

August 2018

30th • SF • Charles Stross • The Nightmare Stacks
24th • SF TV • Dark Matter, season 3
15th • NSC • "East-West paths to unconventional computing", full paper
10th • learning • Alina Tugend • Better by Mistake
8th • NSC • "The Geometry of Speed Limiting Resources in Physical Models of Computation", full paper
4th • maths • Julian Havil • The Irrationals

July 2018

26th • SF TV • Dark Matter, season 2
26th • NSC • "Modular combinations of Artificial Chemistries", full paper
24th • NSC • "Characterising Unconventional Computers using Novelty Search", full abstract
22nd • SF • Paul Cornell • The Lost Child of Lychford
21st • SF • Benedict Jacka • Hidden
20th • NSC • "Reservoir computing with computational matter", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • "Encoding and representation of information processing in irregular computational matter", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • "Computability and Complexity of Unconventional Computing Devices", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • "Philosophy of Computation", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • "UCOMP Roadmap: Survey, Challenges, Recommendations", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • "Introduction to Computational Matter", chapter abstract
20th • NSC • Computational Matter, book abstract
19th • design • Donald Norman • Living with Complexity
12th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Commanding
12th • SF TV • Continuum, season 4
12th • philosophy • Graham Harman • Object-Oriented Ontology
9th • SF • John Scalzi • Head On
8th • SF • Vivian Shaw • Strange Practice
1st • SF • Martha Wells • Artificial Condition

June 2018

30th • NSC • UCNC 2018 proceedings, preface
30th • NSC • "Probabilistic Graph Programs for Randomised and Evolutionary Algorithms", abstract
24th • SF • James L. Cambias • A Darkling Sea
22nd • SF film • Solo: A Star Wars Story
20th • philosophy • Bernard Suits • The Grasshopper
14th • SF TV • Grimm, season 6
6th • SF • Edgar Cantero • Meddling Kids
4th • SWE • "BugZoo – A Platform for Studying Software Bugs", poster paper

May 2018

28th • SF • Seanan McGuire • The Winter Long
23rd • lifestyle • Carl Honoré • In Praise of Slow
23rd • essays • John Brockman • This Explains Everything
19th • NSC • "Reservoir Computing in materio: A Computational Framework for in materio Computing", full paper
14th • NSC • "Abstraction/Representation Theory and the Natural Science of Computation", introduction
12th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Admiral
2nd • SF TV • Grimm, season 5
1st • SF • Mike Shepherd • Emissary

April 2018

18th • health • Katy Bowman • Dynamic Aging
16th • SF • Tanya Huff • Finding Magic
4th • NSC • "Dynamical Music with Musical Boolean Networks", abstract
4th • NSC • "Evolving Graphs by Graph Programming", abstract

March 2018

29th • SF film • Ready Player One
28th • SF • Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
27th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Challenges of the Deeps
13th • SF • Mike Brooks • Dark Run
10th • psychology • Frans de Waal • The Bonobo and the Atheist
5th • SF • J. D. Robb • Echoes in Death

February 2018

27th • NSC • "Introduction to Unconventional Computing", full chapter
26th • SF • Heide Goody, Iain Grant • Oddjobs
20th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • The Hanging Tree
9th • psychology • Douwe Draaisma • The Nostalgia Factory
6th • SF • Katy B. Wagers • Beyond the Empire
3rd • statistics • Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
3rd • SF • Seanan McGuire • Down Among the Sticks and Bones

January 2018

28th • SF • Martha Wells • All Systems Red
23rd • SF TV • Arrow, season 4
21st • SF • Paul Cornell • Witches of Lychford
18th • SF • T. A. Pratt • Blood Engines
7th • SF film • The LEGO Batman Movie
5th • SF TV • The Librarians, season 1
3rd • python • Brent Slatkin • Effective Python
2nd • NSC • "Reservoir Computing as a Model for In Materio Computing", full chapter

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