A few of us, specificallt Brandon Mechtley and I along with Ellen Campana and Harvey Thornberg are going to start a reading group where we meet once a week and discuss various texts that describe ideas that relate to semantic meaning, metaphor, embodiment, and how to make any sorts of meaning from these. We [...]
Hi all,
We are holding a bi-weekly study group on readings about social network analysis. The idea is that every two weeks we read at least one or two papers together. We’ll meet every other Thursday at 12-1pm and discuss the selected papers. This week Munmun will lead a discussion about this and this. Reading list [...]
Hi everyone, this seems as good a time as any to start discussing when and how the reading group should meet this year. Since everyone now is even more widely distributed than before (place-wise, I mean), it would be really good if we could all meet every other week and discuss our work/research. [...]
Meeting Summary from 11/30
I’ve posted a summary of the paper that we discussed the last time as a comment in the thread here.
Yu-ru has agreed to suggest a paper for the next reading group meeting (probably on social network analysis). My estimate is that we can have one more reading group meeting before the semester ends. [...]
We will have the reading group tomorrow (i.e. Friday) at 3 pm at the Brickyard conference room on the 3rd floor.
The paper for this week is a review of Chomsky’s linguistics that appeared in the New York Review written by the philosopher John Searle. The essay is online here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10142.
(Note that [...]
Reading Group Meeting – Summary
Friday, October 28 2005 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Attended by: Saif Ali, Yu-Ru Lin, Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ankur Mani, Stepjan Rajko
General Theme: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms
Specifically: “Evolving Virtual Creatures� by Karl Sims
Karl Sims addresses the complexity vs control trade-off in creating complex virtual worlds. The focus of the work [...]
the idea behind the reading group is to discuss interesting papers/articles/essays/anything else. Also the papers can be on a variety of subjects. The idea is basically that every week (or two weeks) one person chooses an interesting piece that he/she would like to discuss.