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Books & Articles

Hidden Order - John Holland
The End of Certainty - Ilya Prigogine
The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod
The Origins of Virtue - Matt Ridley
Micromotives and Macrobehaviour - Thomas Schelling
The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis
Global Brain - Howard Bloom
Linked - Albert Laszlo Barabasi
The Society of Mind - Marvin Minsky
Programing the Universe - Set Lloyd
At Home in the Universe - Stuart Kauffman
Gaia - James Lovelock

These books have been ordered for participants taking part in the courses. Please check with Gert-Jan Bleeker when they will be expected.

Links

Santa Fe Institute - Research on themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems.
The Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems - Website on complex system teachings.
American Society for Cybernetics - Check out their newsletters.
Cybernetics and Systems Theory - General background information.
Cellular Automaton -- from Wolfram MathWorld - The Web's most extensive mathematics resource.
John Conway's Game of Life - Cellular automaton in a game!