Re: [FRIAM] Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident(fwd)

2007-02-16 Thread Stephen Guerin
James, I would highly recommend the UChicago/Argonne Agent conference (http://www.agent2005.anl.gov/) and UCLA's Arrowhead (http://hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm). Agent leans slightly more toward modeling and tools and Arrowhead more toward social theory. Agent has the Netlogo and RePast workshops wh

Re: [FRIAM] netflix prize

2007-02-16 Thread Nick Frost
Giles Bowkett wrote: > howdy from the distant land of los angeles -- saw something kind of > nifty. it's a competition to develop a ratings algorithm for Netflix. > the winning teams are all using machine learning. > > http://netflixprize.com/ > For reference (in thinking about an algorithm for

Re: [FRIAM] Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident (fwd)

2007-02-16 Thread James Steiner
Hi, folks! As a birthday present to myself, I want to send myself to one of the ABM /CAS/EB/etc conferences. I've noticed that there's a few. If I can only afford to go to one, which one should I go to? At least two I know of will have a NetLogo workshop on the agenda, and that's a draw, since