Team SFe Planning Meeting - 6 Aug 2008
Santa Fe Complex
Attending:
- Tom Johnson - tom@jtjohnson.com
- Josh Thorp - joshua@stigmergic.net
- Steve Guerin - stephen.guerin@redfish.com
- Kim Sorvig - sorvig@santafe-newmexico.com
- Glenn Wikle - Glenn Wikle" glennwikle@gmail.com
Related Resources
- NetLogo - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
- StarLogo TNG - http://education.mit.edu/drupal/starlogo-tng
Topics:
- General approach to our sessions
- Demonstrate examples of Applied Complexity
- Discuss role of Complexity Theory and how that/those theories translate to Applied Complexity
- Teaching
- Basic modules
- NetLogo - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/
- Nick Bennett's Netlogo modules
NetLogo Mystery Pattern.pdf - 177k- Ant Patterns with NetLogo.pdf - 195K
- Basic Rock-Paper-Scissors in NetLogo.pdf - 274k
- Heatbugs with NetLogo.pdf - 185k
- StarLogo TNG http://www.projectguts.org/ [NB: Be sure to examine the items listed under "Student Projects" in the top right column.]
- Prof. Mike Gizzi's work
- Prof. Gizzi's planning process - http://www.professorgizzi.org/modelingcomplexity/netlogo/modeling_process.html
- NetLogo - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/
- Hands-on training:
- [Colleagues: please enter suggestions of three or four topics to use to introduce attendees to the actual coding NetLogo process]
- Marcelo's suggestions in GREEN -
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· It would be interesting something like a methodology: as for example, what Mike Gizzi suggests as the “modeling process”.
· I suggest using one or two examples to explain the full process, using the above mentioned methodology
· In this point, the objective could be to give a methodology to understand complexity in the real world.
- Attendees for pre-conference workshop
- Ask colleagues in Camagüey to select 8-10 students who:
- Are considered sophisticated computer users
- Have some experience in programming in ANY language
- Have a fairly good knowledge of Complexity Theory
- Are likely to be in position to teach what they learn
- It is a good idea. We can select these students.
- Ask colleagues in Camagüey to select 8-10 students who:
- Translation of StarLogo and NetLogo Manuals
- TJ will create a wiki page to coordinate the distributed translation of the first three pages of Mike Gizzi's instructional materials and first three pages of StarLogo Manual
- Part of this translation will include the building of two glossaries of application-specific terms that will be printed as a hand-out. Glossaries should emphasize what a word DOES, not what it means.
- Objectives:
- Determine an approximate measure of how long it takes to translate a page of the manual?
- Given that the actual programming of NetLogo will use English terms, is it necessary to translate the entire manual?
- Is it possible that we only need to create a translated glossary of terms
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For our seminar, I think it is not necessary to translate the whole manual. But, it could be useful to have a translated simplified version, which could be used by beginners.
- Ask Nick Bennett and Paige Prescott if they will let us use their StarLogo learning modules as demonstrated by Josh Thorp
- Ask Marcelo, et al. if they would like us to present a plenary session on "Applied Complexity"
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It is a very good idea! Let´s propose a preliminary program for it.
TASKS