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Updates on the book Biological Computation (Lamm & Unger)
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Nobody told me, but it turns out the book has a Kindle edition. w00t! amzn.com/1420087959
Self-organized criticality and the sand pile model (which is a cellular automaton model) + reflections on reductionism allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/02/self-o…
"...The beautiful undergraduate text by Lamm and Unger may be the first step." Thanks, Richard Stark.
A very positive review of Biological Computation is Computing Reviews. "Biological computing... is read for our educational mainstream..."
Richard Stark wrote a great review of the book for Computing Reviews. reviews.com/review/review_…
Highly interesting, though necessarily incomplete talk, about the history of synthetic biology (Alife is in chp. 6) bit.ly/pwo7wg
DNA computes a square root: "the work of the Caltech team gets very close to the 'molecular transistor':" bit.ly/nlZPhm
Remarkable EM picture of synaptic vesicles. We talk about synapses in chp. 4. neuroimages.tumblr.com/#8605879522
Another fun video to enjoy this weekend: Karl Sims virtual creatures (discussed in chp. 6) archive.org/details/sims_e…
DARPA announces new artificial lifeforms program at the Fifth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology at Stanford: http://bit.ly/jxZMcX
Self-reproducing automata (discussed in chp. 2) got your juices flowing? Check out Penrose Mechanical Models (ca. 1958) vimeo.com/10297756
You can now peek inside the book using Amazon's Look Inside the Book feature. http://amzn.com/1420087959 #BioComputing
Ron posted slides he uses when teaching courses on the material discussed in the book. http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~unger/slides.htm
The contents: biological introduction; cellular automata; evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms);neural networks; molecular computing
Biological Computation by Lamm and Unger is now available. http://amzn.com/1420087959
Amazon says: Only 6 left in stock! Hurry up before they are all GONE! http://amzn.com/1420087959
We are planning to make slides available to help educators and those learning by themselves. Watch this space.
Woo Hoo! The book should be available today! Please check it out. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420087956
The book is on its way to the printer. Pre-Order today! http://amzn.to/lm4n3E
David Rumelhart, pioneer in cognitive neuroscience, dies at 68 http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/march/david-rumelhart-obit-031711.html
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