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Re: computational anthropology members wanted
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Dr Gabriel Viera |
Subject: |
Re: computational anthropology members wanted |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 22:55:54 +0000 |
1) Dr Gabriel Viera
2) P.O. Box 596 Randwick Sydney Australia
3) address@hidden
At 11:19 PM 26-02-98 -0800, you wrote:
>Please distribute this announcement as widely as possible in and out of the
>SWARM community.
>UCLA - 26 February 1998:
>
>We need YOU as a "prospective member" for a new COMPUTATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY
>SECTION (CAS) of the American Anthropological Association. We need YOU
>within ten days! Please help us to establish a computational presence in
>the AAA.
>
>COMPUTATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY is about writing and running computer programs
>which help us understand human cultural and biological processes. It is
>about understanding the relationship between the individual and the group or
>population, the social and physical environments, the natural and artificial
>(artifactual) world. It is about learning, cognition, development,
>selection, evolution, and cultural transmission. It is about the interplay
>between ideas, cognitions, behaviors, physiology, materiality and nature.
>It is about memes and genes. COMPUTATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY has applications in
>archaeological, biological, physical, social, cultural and linguistic
>anthropology.
>
>Becomming a "prospective member" is free. When we reach 250, we will be
>given "probationary status," resources, and a chance to recruit 250 paid
>members from the thousands already belonging to the AAA. It costs you
>nothing to give us a chance to become a section.
>
>In addition to your membership fees for the American Anthropological
>Association, wouldn't it be worth $10 expected dues for an opportunity to
>present your own work and hear about others' work in building computer
>representations of human cultural and biological processes? Wouldn't it be
>worth $10 to have access to a directory of anthropologists modeling cultures
>on the Web? Wouldn't it be worth $10 to have your research listed in our
>proposed "Computational Anthropology" website? Wouldn't it be worth $10 to
>become a "charter member" of a new section which can only grow as interest
>in modeling, complexity, non-linear systems, emergence, origins and
>evolution grows across the sciences? Wouldn't it be worth $10 to get in on
>the ground floor?
>
>Here is what we need from you NOW!
>
>1) Your full name (required).
>2) Your full postal mailing address (required).
>(We can keep your address off the public list if you wish.)
>3) Your full email address (if you have one).
>4) Your full website address (if you have one).
>5) Please distribute this call for members as widely as possible.
>
>* T O * D O * LIST *
>====================
>A) PRESS REPLY.
>B) FILL IN THE INFORMATION IN 1) TO 4) ABOVE.
>C) PRESS SEND.
>
>Check out our "prospective members" Website which is at:
>http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/cas-aaa.html
>(Please be patient for your name to appear - the website is not automated
>(yet) and all entries have to be done by hand.)
>
>Please join us...
>Thanks, Nick Gessler
>address@hidden
>
> Nick Gessler <address@hidden>
>
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> /\ /\ Synthetic /\ /\
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> CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
> Department of Anthropology
> University of California at Los Angeles
> c/o
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> WWW: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/gessler
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