Perhaps the first lesson to be learned from biology is that there are lessons to be learned from biology.
— Robert RosenEssays on Life itself

Archive for October, 2007

Wolfram awards his 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

 
Update 10/26:  Some interesting discussions regarding this award are occurring on the FOM list.
 
From wolframscience.com:

Wolfram’s 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
October 24, 2007–Wolfram Research and Stephen Wolfram today announced that 20-year-old Alex Smith of Birmingham, UK has won the US $25,000 Wolfram 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize.
In his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram hypothesized […]

Rosen Topical Issue of Chemistry and Biodiversity now available

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

The Rosen commemorative issue[1] of Chemistry & Biodiversity is now available. This project came to fruition primarily due to the efforts of Don Mikulecky of VCU, and this issue includes sixteen research articles plus Don’s editorial. The articles are diverse and touch upon a wide range of aspects of Rosen’s work, such as the Modelling Relation, entailment structures, […]