A sample text widgetEtiam pulvinar consectetur dolor sed malesuada. Ut convallis euismod dolor nec pretium. Nunc ut tristique massa. Nam sodales mi vitae dolor ullamcorper et vulputate enim accumsan. Morbi orci magna,tincidunt vitae molestie nec,molestie at mi. Nulla nulla lorem,suscipit in posuere in,interdum non magna. | A former student of colleague Steve Ross sends this interesting report on how simulation models can/are being used in the real world: I’m the communications officer for the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University. The IRI specializes in making forecasts of climate for every part of the world by using data from satellites,meteorological stations and proxy records (tree rings,corals,etc) to run models. The models tell us,with varying degrees of certainty,how much off the “norm” rainfall,temperature and humidity will be for a given place in the world. We’re not so …[...] The past week or two has brought some press stories about games being designed/developed as tools for learning,as in “productive learning,”not learning how to inflict terror or be a better car-jacker. We recently ran across the site below,“Social Impact Games.” It's well worth a visit,as are the others. We think these [...] Friend Steve Guerin tips us to “Cabspotting,”a fascinating site created by San Francisco's Exploratorium. It's about georgraphy,traffic flow,and complexity. Give a look to “Cabspotting” About Cabspotting Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map [...] Some interesting presentations this morning on visualization and modeling as they can be applied in GIS. See: Check out http://vissim.uwf.edu/ This is a growing library of public domain shape models. “This website offers access to a new hierarchical data structure that allows the efficient storage of natural and man-made feature data for use in a [...] Interesting new tool from the folks at Google. If Sketchup follows the evolutionary line of Google Maps,we can expect to see some interesting mash-ups in coming weeks. We are looking forward to some flowchart models that can be annotated with URL and comments. But until then…. “The modeling tool SketchUp has long been a [...] Yet another fine example of creative thinking wherein a good idea in one discipline is morphed into an unintended application in another. (Something all-too-rare in the practice of journalism.) The journal Nature reports:Another day another dollar The website wheresgeorge.com invites its users to enter the serial numbers [...] Serious Games Initiative http://www.seriousgames.org/ The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education,training,health,and public policy. Says [...] With newspapers —and news magazine —cutting staff on an almost weekly basis,some of us in journalism are going to have to reinvent ourselves. One of our tenents of Analytic Journalism is simulation modeling,a methodology and analytic tool we believe will be to the social sciences in the 21st century (and journalism IS a social science) what quantum physics was to the hard sciences in the 20th. So here's an interesting opportunity for someone. “>The Department of Mathematics as the University of California,Los
>Angeles is soliciting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship
>position in Mathematical …[...] Simulation modeling is one of the four cornerstone areas of interest to the IAJ. It's a relatively new,and largely unknown,field that can be of great advantage to journalists if we can take the time to learn how it works and then how we can apply it to our field. The best resource to date for journalists is the J-Lab,(http://www.j-lab.org/) at the University of Maryland. But today along comes this announcement of a rich issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. It's filled with deep thinking and application. =============================================
The Journal of …[...] Friend Steve Guerin sends this from Santa Fe…. The Disaster Dynamics Project at UCAR looks timely:http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd/2 Check out the Hurricane Landfall gamehttp://swiki.ucar.edu/dd/71The Hurricane Landfall Disaster Dynamics Game is a four-player virtual strategy game about the interaction between natural disasters and urban planning. The game is computerized;it plays like a traditional physical boardgame,but there [...] | |
