Selected Invited Lectures

• AI and Applications, Embassy of Mongolia, Tsahim Urtuu Kholboo NGO, Mongolian Association of the UK, London, England, 15 June 2018.
• RhodesFest 81: Emmy Noether Research Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 4-7 June 2018 - in honor of the the 3^4 birthday of UC Berkeley Mathematics Professor John Rhodes.
• Tutorial at IEEE SSCI on Finding and Exploiting Hidden Symmetry and Hierarchical Structureに Complex Adaptive Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. 27 November 2017.
• Imperial College London, Bioengineering Dept. Seminar on "Simulating and Reconstructing Neurodynamics with Epsilon-Machines applied to EEG Microstate Sequences" (joint work with Dr. Elena Antonova (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London), 16 November 2017.
• University of York, Dept of Mathematics, "The Flow Transformation Semigroup of a Digraph, a Complete Invariant for Finite Graphs: Solution to a Conjecture of Rhodes on its Maximal Subgroups and Krohn- Rhodes Complexity, and Relations to Biological Computation" (joint Work with Gábor Horváth (Univ Debrecen, Hungary) and Károly Podoski (Rényi Institute, Hungary) 1 November 2017.
• "Exploiting Recurrent Transience: From Local Symmetries to Natural Subsystems to Global Structure of Biological and Computational Dynamics", Invited Plenary Talk at EU Commission FP7 Funded Unconventional Computing TRUCE workshop, 1 September 2015.
• "Coproducts for Permutation Groups, Transformation Semigroups, Automata and Related Categories", Invited Plenary Talk at London Mathematical Society (LMS) and British Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Counicl (EPSRC) Research Symposium "Permutation Groups and Transformation Semigroups", Durham University, UK, 20-30 July 2015.
• "Permutation Groups Associated to a Complete Invariant for Graphs", GTG 2015 - Groups and Topological Groups (Debrecen, Hungary), 13-14 February 2015, Opening Keynote Presentation.
• "Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics", Invited Plenary Keynote at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), Singapore 15-19 April, 2013
• "Hierarchial Coordinate Systems on Symmetry Structures and Automata", Invited Talk at Guided Self-Organization 4, Hatfield, UK, September 8-10, 2011
• "Global Hierarchical Coordinates on Groups", Invited Keynote at A^3 Abstract Algebra and Algorithms Conference, Eger, Hungary, August 14-17, 2011
• "Evolvability, Fitness, and Artifacts", Opening Invited Keynote at 1st Workshop on Exploring Evolvability and Fitness in Personal Learning Environments (EFEPLE'11) -- STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous, French Alps, March 27-31, 2011.
• EVOBODY2 Workshop: New Principles of Unbound Embodied Evolution, Mallorca, Spain, March 24-25, 2011. (Invited Participant).
• "Steps in Algebraic Biology: Towards Understanding and Manipulating Cellular & Organismal Systems ia Hierarchical Coordinate Systems" (Plenary Lecture) at EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES (IPCAT 2009) "From Small Scale Dynamics To Understanding Systems Behavior", 5-9th April 2009, Centro Stefano Franscini Ascona, Switzerland
• "Coordinate Systems for Groups and Permutation Puzzles", International Conference on Automata, Languages and Related Topics (ALRT), in Honour of Professor Pál Dömösi's 65th Birthday, 21-24 October 2008, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen.
• "Algebra, Symmetries & Biological Applications", Natural Sciences Meeting (London School of Economics, - 12 June 2008).
• "Cascade Synthesis of Arbitrary Groups", Groups Generated by Automata - organizers L. Bartholdi, R. Grigorchuk, V. Nekrashevych & S. Sidki (Monte Verita, Switzerland 10-15 February 2008).
• "Sensorimotor Experience, Information and Development", 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence (Monte Verita, Switzerland 9-14 July 2006)
• International Conference on Algebra in Honor of Adalbert Bovdi's 70th Birthday, 18-23 November 2005, University of Debrecen, Hungary: "Constructing Holonomy Groups for Krohn-Rhodes Theory" (with A. Egri-Nagy) and "Emulation of Synchronous Automata Networks with Dynamically Changing Topologies by Asynchronous Automata Networks"
• Invited lecture "Self-Replication, Evolvability and Asynchronicity" at 3rd Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications (Symposium Stochastische Algorithmen, Grundlagen und Anwendungen) - SAGA'05, Moscow State University, Russia, October 20-22, 2005.
• Invited Talk at Santa Fe Institute Workshop "The Road to Software Evolvability" organized by David Ackley (UNM), Stephanie Forrest (SFI/UNM), and Jim Rutt (SFI). June 26 - 30, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
• "Evolutionary Information-Theoretic Foundations of Sensory Ecology: Channels of Organism-Specific Meaningful Information" at 10th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology: Modeling Biology: Structures, Behavior, Evolution, July 9-11, 2004, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Altenberg, Austria.
• "Asynchronous Automata Networks Can Emulate Any Synchronous Automata Network: Theory and Applications", Institute of Mathematics & Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary, February 2004.
• "Solving the Correspondence Problem in Robotic Imitation across Embodiments: Synchrony, Perception, and Culture in Artifacts", Keihann Human Info-Communication Research Center, Communications Research Lab, Japan, 22 July 2003.
• "Social Learning and Imitation in Animals and Artifacts" at 15th Joint Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'02), Canberra, Australia, 2-6 December 2002. (Plenary Keynote Lecture).
• "Feedback is Easy for Pseudovarieties", at RhodesFest: International Conference on Semigroups and Groups in Honor of the 65th Birthday of John Rhodes, University of Porto, Portugal June 26-June 29, 2002 (Plenary Lecture).
• "Open-Ended Evolution, Evolvability and Embodiment in Biology and Other Sciences of the Artificial", EuroGP2002: 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Kinsale, Ireland, 3-5 April 2002. (Opening Plenary Lecture).
• "Finite Semigroups and the Letichevsky Criteria for Non-Empty Words in Finite Automata", the Workshop on Automata and Formal Languages, 23-24 July 2001, in honour of the 60th birthdays of Masami Ito and Magnus Steinby, Szeged, Hungary.
• "Algebra, Complexity and Evolvability", Santa Fe Institute, Working Group on Evolvability, New Mexico, USA, 2000.
• "Algebraic Automata Theory and the Evolution of Complexity of Biological Organisms", NASA Ames Research Laboratory, Mountain View, California, USA, 1999.
• Algebraic Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Constructive Biology: Lectures at the University of Lisbon, 1-5 February 1999.

Special Issues, Conferences and Workshops Organized:

Conference and Workshop Program Committees

• SAB 2008, Artificial Life 2008, Epigenetic Robotics 2008, ICDL 2008, GWAL 2008, IEEE ROMAN 2007, 2008, ACAL, ...
• The First IEEE Conference on Artificial Life, IEEE-ALife'07 April 1-5, 2007, Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort, Honolulu, HI, USA (Publicity Chair & PC member)
• GWAL-7 7th German Workshop on Artificial Life, Jena, 26. -28. July 2006
• ALIFE X: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 3-7 June 2006, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Deadline 11 November 2005.

• The Second International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (January 26 - 27, 2006 Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan)

• GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference25-29 June 2005, Washington DC, USA.

• Invited Session on Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware at KES 2005 - Ninth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 14-16 September 2005. (D. Polani - University of Hertfordshire, UK & M. Prokopenko - CSIRO, Australia)

• ECAL 2005: 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, 5-9 September 2005, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK.

• IEEE CEC 2005: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - Special Sessions on "Artificial Life" and on "Complex Adaptive Systems" (proposed), 2-5 September 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

• IEEE CIRA 2005 : 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation - Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland - June 27-30, 2005

• Artificial Life IX: Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 12-15 September 2004.

• Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Genoa Italy, USA, 25-27 August 2004.

• FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 8 - The Eighth International Conference on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'04) 13 - 17 July 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• GECCO 2004 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - 26-30 June 2004 - Seattle Washington.

• Bio-ADIT 2004 - The First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology Laussane, Switerland, 29-30 January 2004.

• ACAL2003: The First Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Canberra, Australia, 6-7 December 2003.

• Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston University, USA, 4-5 August 2003.

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computational Conference GECCO - 2003, Program Track on "Artificial Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colonies", July 12-16, 2003. Chicago, Illinois, USA

• European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'03), September 14-17, 2003 Dortmund, Germany

• FLAIRS'2003 - 16th International FLAIRS Conference: Special Track "Integrating Emotion and Cognition in Formal Models", Casa Monica Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida May 12-14, 2003

• Artificial Life VIII: The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9th-13th December, 2002.

• GWAL V: 5th German Workshop on Artificial Life, 18-20 March 2002, Lübeck, Germany
  (Submission Deadline: 18 January 2002)

• ECAL 2001: 6th European Conference on ARTIFICIAL LIFE 2001, September 10-14, 2001 University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

• First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, 17-18 September 2001, Lund, Sweden

• CT'2001: Fourth International Cognitive Technology Conference (6-9 August 2001 - Univ. Warwick, U.K.)

• Artificial Life VII: The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-6 August 2000

• UkrPROG'2000: The 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference on Programming, Ukraine, Kiev, May 23-26, 2000.

• Computation in Cells: An EPSRC Emergent Computing Workshop (17-18 April 2000) University of Hertfordshire, UK

• WIRE-2K : 2000 Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE-2000)
  30 April - 1 May 2000 at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

• CIRA'99: 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterey, California, November 8-9, 1999
• AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence 5-7 November 1999, Cape Codd, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  (click here: for all AAAI Fall Symposia for 1999)
  Click here for symposium schedule and papers.

• CT99: Third International Conference on Cognitive Technology -- Networked Minds (11-14 August 1999), San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  (Click here for CFP)

• GECCO-99
  1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (14-17 July 1999), Orlando Florida USA. GECCO Program Committee.

• Special Session on ``Constructive Biology and Robotics'' at SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotics Systems (SFDCRS II) Conference, Boston, September 17-22, 1999; co-organized with Gerard McKee.

• Special Session ``The Constructive Viewpoint in Biology and Robotics'' at 14th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control /Intelligent Systems and Semiotics, ISIC/ISAS'99 - September 15-17, 1999 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society

• Third International Colloquium on Words, Languages and Combinatorics, Kyoto, Japan, 14-18 March 2000.

• Biologically-Inspired Machine Learning Workshop at ACAI 99, 5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece

• Self-Replication & Reproduction Workgroup
  at GWAL-98: the Third German Workshop on Artificial Life (17-18 September 1998), Bochum, Germany.
  Organizers: Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire) and Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Reading).

• IS98
  A Joint Conference on Intelligent Systems: IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC98)
  International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 98)
  Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS 98)
  
  September 14-17, 1998
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Gaithersburg, Maryland U.S.A.

• Aizu International Student Forum-Contest on Multimedia
  University of Aizu, Japan, July 20-24, 1998

• UKRASOFT

University of Hertfordshire Courses

• Artificial Life: Biology and Computation (MSc)
• Requirements Engineering: Research and Practice (Final Year BSc)
  Section on Algebraic Specification
• Formal Languages and Deduction (First Year, BSc) [internal access only via StudyNet]
• MSc Thesis and BSc Final Year Project Supervision

Scientific & Professional Societies
American Mathematical Society	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Society for Mathematical Biology	Society for Developmental Biology
American Association for the Advancement of Science	New York Academy of Sciences	Cognitive Technology Society
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IEEE Computer Society	IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics	IEEE Robotics & Automation	IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology

Web Journals, Searches and Calls for Papers/Conferences

• Computing Journals (University of Hertfordshire access)
  • Artificial Life
  • Theoretical Computer Science
• Conference Announcements - Computer Science (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), Stuttgart)

• EATCS Conference Announcement Links

• Sony Call-For-Papers Server

• Lycos - The Catalog of the Internet
• Webcrawler Search
• InfoSeek
• Internet Rescource Discover Tool
• Yahoo

• Google Web Search:

Computer Languages
CMU Language Research	Hyperlinked Language Overviews	Steele's Book on Common Lisp (1000 page dvi file, ~3.4 MB)
WWW Virtual Library: Computing, Programming Languages	SNOBOL & Relatives	The Icon Programming Language
PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language

Biology & Generalizations
Artificial Life Group in Aizu (ALGA)	Zooland: Sante Fe Institute	Primer on Molecular Genetics (U.S. Dept. of Energy)	Outbreak: the Emerging Disease Web Site
Center for Computational Ecology at Yale	Cellular Slime Mold WWW Server	The Squidpage (Cephalopods)	Marine Phylum Index Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Karl Sims's Work	Genetic Programming	Introduction to Phylogeny	Excellent Links to Morphogenesis Pages (by A.V. Spirov)
Boids, Etc.	Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, UC Berkeley	The Tree of Life	Danny Yee's Book Reviews
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex	Observer's Web (Autopoiesis & Enaction)	History of Life	Centre for the Study of Evolution
Population Ecology	National Center for Biotechnology Information	Software for Field Biologists	Java-Based Molecular Biology Workbench

Some Cool Biologists
Lynn Margulis	Leo W. Buss (& ALChemy)	Thomas S. Ray (& Tierra)	Richard E. Michod (University of Arizona EEB)
Michael W. Nachman	Günter Wagner	John Maynard Smith	Joel R. Peck
Eors Szathmary	Richard Dawkins (Unofficial Page)	Lee Altenberg	Theoretical Biology/Bioinformatics Group (Universiteit Utrecht) Paulien Hogeweg (Director)

Math Sites
University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics Department (my alma mater)	American Mathematical Society	University of Aizu Mathematical Sciences Seminar	AMS MathSciNet Demo - MATH REVIEWS
Semigroups On-line by J.H. Renshaw	Ben Steinberg	Pál Dömösi	Combinatorics on Words (M. Lothaire)	The Geometry Center
Jorge-Nuno Silva	Steven Benzel	John R. Stallings	George M. Bergman	Fred Richman
Groupoid Home Page	Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley)	Symbolic Sculpture & Mathematics	AMS Mathematics Calendar	Gillian Z. Elston

(Some of) My Favorite Mathematicians

• Eudoxus
• Archimedes, (see also Archimedean solids)
• Emmy Noether
• Kurt Gödel
• Alan Turing, by Andrew Hodges, (Turing related pages: Morphogenesis, Another Biography)
• John von Neumann
• Alexandre Grothendieck

PhD Supervision

1. K. Mary Buchanan
   Thesis: Behaviour Constraints, Patterns and Conformance: Reconciling Object-Oriented Inheritance with Temporal Restrictions on the Ordering of Methods
   [PhD awarded; Thesis nominated for a Distinguished Dissertions Award]
   
2. Maria S. Kutar
   Thesis: Specification of Temporal Properites of Interactive Systems
   [PhD May 2001]. Now Senior Lecturer at University of Salford.
3. Aris Alissandrakis (Imitation in Adaptive Systems)
   Thesis: Imitation and Solving the Correspondence Problem for Dissimilar Embodiments - A Generic Framework
   [PhD award: December 2003], then a post-doc here in the EU-funded COGNIRON project, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and most recently a researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (IRC), working on Social Human-Robot Interaction based on UNR (ubiquitous network robot technology). Now Senior Lecturer at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
4. Attila Egri-Nagy (Algebraic Engineering)
   Thesis: Algebraic Hierarchical Decomposition of Finite State Automata - A Computational Approach
   [PhD defense passed: 3 November 2005]
   First a post-doc here in the Royal Society Wolfson BioComputation Lab, in 2009-2010 working in the OPAALS European project. Then an Assistant Professor in Eger, Hungary; Postdoctoral researcher in Algebraic Biology at University of Western Sydney; now Associate Professor in Mathematics as Akita International University, Japan.
5. Wan Ching Ho (Autobiographic Agents in Virtual Environments)
   Thesis: Computational Memory Architectures for Autobiographic and Narrative Virtual Agents
   [PhD thesis submitted October 2005, viva passed]. Subsequently a post-doc here with the EU eCircus project, and EU FP7 project LIREC.
6. David Jacob (Fast Learning, Factorization of Learning via Embodiment)
   [PhD thesis submitted July 2005, passed defense with minor corrections September 2005]
7. Lars A. Olsson (Sensor Evolution in Robots)
   Thesis: Information Self-Structuring for Developmental Robotics: Organization, Adaptation, and Integration
   Employed by Netemic in London.
   [PhD viva passed with minor corrections: 16 May 2006]
8. Alexander Klyubin (Sensor Evolution and Relevant Information)
   Thesis: Organization of Information Flow through the Perception-Action Loop
   [PhD thesis submitted December 2006, defense passed with minor corrections 27 March 2007]
   Known whereabouts: Bloomberg, London. Now Senior Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
   
9. Robert J. Lowe (Affective Expression and Signalling)
   Thesis: The Evolution of Affective Displays and Related Strategies
   [PhD defense passed 2006].
   Now Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science, University of Skövde, Sweden.
10. Tom Quick at UCL (Structural Coupling, Embodiment, Genetic Regulatory Network Evolution)
    Now Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Netemic
11. Megan Davis (Narrative, Interfaces, and Autism)
    Thesis: TouchStory: Interactive Software Designed to Assist Children with Autism to Understand Narrative
    [PhD defense passed January 2009]
12. Joe Saunders (Imitation in Robotics)
    Thesis: Observational Imitation, Self-Imitation and Environmental Scaffolding in Robotic Systems
    [PhD thesis submitted December 2006, PhD exam 29 January 2007 passed with minor amendments, accepted 22 February 2007]
    Then post-doc here in the Adaptive Systems Research Group and co-investigator for the EU FP7 ITALK project on Emergence of Language and Communication in Robots, and subsequent grants.
13. Naeem Assif Mirza (Ontogenetic Robotics)
    Thesis: Grounded Sensorimotor Interaction Histories for Ontogenetic Development in Robots
    [PhD defense passed 16 June 2008]
    First job after PhD: post-doc at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.
14. Johannes F. Knabe (Evolvability of Developmental Genetic Regulatory Networks - DGRNs)
    Thesis: Evolvability of Computational Genetic Regulatory Networks
    [PhD defense passed 4 June 2009], Now a post-doc at Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam.
15. Moritz Buck (Transitions in Individuality for Developmental Genetic Regulatory Networks - DGRNs)
    Thesis: Evolution of Multicellularity: A Computational Artificial Life Approach
    [submitted March 2010, PhD defense passed 21 April 2010, Award January 2011]
    After graduating, a post-doctoral researcher at University of Freiburg, Germany in Medical-Systems Biology.
    
16. Gábor Horváth (Algebra, SNAG (finite Simple Non-Abelian Group) computers, and Computational Complexity)
    Thesis: Functions and Polynomials over Finite Groups from the Computational Perspective
    [PhD defense passed on 9 April 2008 (without corrections)]
    First a Visiting Research Fellow here and then a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics with the BIONETS European FET project til end of February 2010.
    Now, Associate Professor in Mathematics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary (Mathematics Institute, Department of Algebra).
17. Philippe Capdepuy (Internal Organization and Information Flow in the Perception Action Loop)
    Thesis: Information Principles of Perception Action Loops and Collective Behaviours
    [Submitted March 2010, PhD defense passed 14 July 2010]
18. Tom Anthony (Empowerment, Information Theory, Perception Action Loop)
    [PhD Defense passed 7 December 2017, with minor amendments]
19. Frank Förster (Emergence of Language and Negation in Robots)
    Thesis: Robots that Say 'No': Acquisition of Linguistic Behaviour in Interaction Games with Humans
    [PhD defense passed 17th December 2013, without amendments]
    First a post-doc at Queen Mary University of London, now at University of Hertfordshire.
20. Sander G. van Dijk (Empowerment & Hierarchical Perception-Action)
    Information Driven Acquisition and Adaptation of Behaviour Structure
    Thesis : Informational Constraints and Organization of Behaviour
    [first progression viva passed, March 2010; 2nd passed, January 2011, PhD defense passed with minor corrections 11 October 2013]
21. Malte Harder (Information and Self-Organization)
    Thesis: Information-Driven Self-Organization of Agents and Agent Collectives
    [PhD defense passed with minor corrections 18 October 2013]
22. Esther-Anna Loeliger (Information Visualization)
    [first and second year progression exams passed]
23. Konstantinos Theofilis (Development, Communication and Imitation in Humanoids)
    [first and second year progression exams passed].
    Presently employed as a humanoid robotics researcher at Asada Laboratory in Osaka University, Japan.
24. Andrés Burgos
    Thesis: Information-Theoretic Models for Biological Systems
    (PhD defense passed with minor corrections 27 February 2017)
25. Martin Biehl (Agents in Artificial Universes)
    Thesis: Formal Approaches to a Definition of Agents
    (PhD defense passed 25 March 2017 without amendments)
26. Nathan Burke (Interaction Histories in AI Robotics)
    [First progression exam passed]
27. Peter Shannon (Evolvability of Behaviioural Modularity)
    [First progression exam passed]
28. Ágnes Bonivárt (Biological and Mathematical Basis of Interaction Computing)
29. Andrei-Daniel Robu (Information Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems)

Traditional Japanese Culture

• Noh Plays, Life-like changeability of noh masks, Noh subtlety for the British,
• Kabuki
• Sumo
• Karakuri
• Japanese Grammar Cribsheet
• Quick & Dirty Guide to Japanese by Tad Perry
• Japan Related Lists
• Origami

Computer Science

• University of Hertfordshire Interactive Systems Engineering Research Seminar
• University of Hertfordshire Adaptive Systems Research Group
• University of Hertfordshire Artificial Neural Networks Research Group
• Computer Science and Engineering at Berkeley
• Prof. J. Brzozowski (University of Waterloo)
• Prof. Joseph Goguen (UC San Diego)
• Tessa Lau (University of Washington) - Programming by Demonstration, Version Space Algebra
• Institute of Mathematics & Informatics Institute, University of Debrecen, Hungary
• Department of Informatics, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
• EATCS, Hyperbulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
• comp.theory (newsgroup)
• Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering

Animals

• Spotted-Tailed Quoll, a Marsupial carnivore.
• The Fabulous Kakapo
• Kookaburra
• The Cephalopod Page
      (How Do Squid Change Color?)

Miscellaneous

Design & Structures

• R. Buckminster Fuller : WNET Archivist / Synergetics / BFI / Dome Geometry
• Design Science LInks (Harvard)
• Amy C. Edmondson's A Fuller Explanation: The Synergistic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller on-line (originally published in 1987 by Birkhäuser).

Human Rights

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Amnesty International Gopher 1994 Human Rights Report, U.S. State Department

Tibetan, Sanskrit and Buddhist Resources

• Tibetan Archives (Australia)
• Asynchronous School of Buddhist Dialectics Homepage
• Dharma Electronic Archive(DharmaNet International)
• Buddhist Studies - WWW Virtual Library
• Tibetan Studies - WWW Virtual Library
• Milarepa Flyer
• Hinduism
• The Bhagvad Gita - Sanskrit Verses
• Sanskrit
• Free Tibet
• Japan Tibet Homepage
• another Tibet page in Japan

Natural Languages, Writing Systems, & Linguistics

• travlang's On-Line Translating Dictionaries
• Meriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary on-line
• Human Languages Page
• Akkadian
• Icelandic
• Hungarian
• Mayan
• Ukrainian Language and Culture Page
• Tibetan
• Tibetan Alphabet
• Yamada Web Language Guides, University of Oregon
• ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup (doesn't include Ukrainian G / g ! )
• Computer-Generated Writing Page (by Marius Watz)
• ''All Scripts of the World''
• English Verb Machine by Steve Tripp.

Art

• Dada Server
• Surrealism Server
• CHILD 21, Aizu International Children's Art Project
• Too Much Coffee Man

Places

Ukrainian Links

• Resources (gopher)
• Ukrainian WWW Links
• Ohio SuperComputer Center (OSC) Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) Ukrainian Server
• Ukraine (links by Oleh Baran).
• Excite City Net Guide to Ukraine
• CIA Factbook: Ukraine
• Ukraine: FAQ+
• Ukrainian Cyrillic & Transliteration Chart (Harvard)

Books

• Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc.
• Amazon Books
• Powell's Technical Books
• Greek Classics On-Line (MIT)
• Voyager (UH Library)

Metaphors & Applications

• The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs by Donna Haraway.
• Algebraic Models for Understanding: Coordinate Systems and Cognitive Empowerment by C. L. Nehaniv (postscript)
• Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents

Freedom, Cooperation, Privacy

• Lessons from Geese
• Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities by Timothy C. May, Pretty Good Privacy and Digital Cash, Commerce & Colonization of Cyberspace
• A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes on Privacy & Encryption
• Cypherpunks Homepage in Berkeley
• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and The Media
• Electronic Frontier Foundation

University of Aizu Links and Things

• my old page in the University of Aizu Faculty Profiles brochure

• People Advancing Knowledge for Humanity,
  University of Aizu Faculty Profiles Brochure , Yours Truly (editor).

• Aizu Sighteseeing Guide

• Some Seminars at University of Aizu

  • University of Aizu Mathematical Sciences Seminar
  • Artificial Life Group in Aizu (ALGA)
  • Software Engineering Seminar

• Course Outlines from Aizu

  • Discrete Systems II (Automata, Formal Languages, Grammars, & Algebra) (1995, 1996, 1997)
  • Mathematical Logic (1995, 1996, 1997)
  • Software Engineering I (1996, 1997)
  • Software Engineering II (1997, 1998)
  • Advanced Software Engineering I (1997)

• Aizu Student Project Seminars

  • Computational Geometry in Nature (1994-95)
  • Genetic Algorithms & Adaptive Systems (1994-96)
  • Computational Morphogenesis (1995-1998)
  • Mathematical Ideas in Biology (1996-1998)

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