My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
Katherine Hayles, University of California at Los Angeles

Mathematician Stephan Wolfram has recently proposed that many different kinds of complex systems, including human thought and action, can be modeled using cellular automata. These very simple computational systems have demonstrated that they are capable of generating complex patterns [...]

i should have blogged this earlier, but there is a really exciting seminar about to happen in the lab! check out Nicholas Gessler and his talk about ALiCE: artificial life, culture and evolution. live streamed here

The virtual realities of artificial life, artificial culture and evolutionary computation are changing what it means to describe, explain and [...]

i figured it out!!! after online working with anjo last night and lots of reading this morning, i figured out how to use this wonderful and pain in the…um, foot, program. **doing little happy dance in my office**!!

Happy Birthday Babies!

Originally uploaded by Fairyring.

i can not believe you are 5 today. it seems that every day you look at me and say, “look mommy” and show me how you can do something new, something that challenged you just the day before. constantly growing [...]

7am… kids jump on my head
7.15…kids attempt running jump at my head
7.20…avoid running jump by getting out of bed
7.30…make oatmeal breakfast
7.55…check for emergency email
8.00…dress self, pack lunch, pack school bag
8.30…dress kids
9.00…take kids to daycare
9.30…get down to lab and print some stuff
10.00…stop working on abstract to receive new computer (wahoo…no more gerbils in my computer)
10.30…set up [...]

i am currently attending the furtrade conference and alas technology has failed me. i am recording the conference and was moving the first seminar to a remote server due to limited memory left on my tablet and somehow erased it. i can not find the file anywhere!! sigh. at least i have good notes from [...]

it is officially fall here. the mornings and evenings are this crisp, leaf smelling breezes which whip my long skirts around my ankles. last night he who remains unnamed and i watched the northern lights dance across the sky. every time i see them i am in such awe of our universe. from a self-proclaimed [...]

THE FUTHARK AND THE FUR TRADE
Reconstructing Language Contact
in the Pre-Viking Period
Workshop at Umeå University, September 14-16, 2005
i often talk about the exciting things that humlab does (conferences, international guests, etc.) but it is not often that i speak of my department. i am a student in the modern languages department/english and they are currently putting [...]