2008
Roles
Father
Scholar
Achievements
Major Activities
Intelligence Engineering with a focus on Self Organising Systems, Mathematics and Analogy. Commenced work on a first attempt to grow an intelligent device on a serial computer.
Lived in Wuyishan, Fujian, China
Training
Influential reading
Complexity and Information (Lezioni Lincee) - Traub & Werschulz - Cambridge University Press
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse - Bantam Books
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern - Hofstadter - Basic Books
Design Patterns. - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides - Addison-Wesley
Computers and Intractability. - Garey & Johnson - W.H.Freeman and Company
The Dreams of Reason. - Pagels - Bantam Books
Mathematics Today - Steen - Vintage Books
Self-organisation and Evolution of Social Systems - Hemelrijk - Oxford University Press
Attitudes Chaos & the Connectionist Mind - Eiser - Blackwell
Sleep and Brain Plasticity - Maquet, Smith & Stickgold - Oxford University Press.
How the Immune System Works - Sompayrac - Blackwell Publishing
The Self-Made Tapestry - Pattern Formation in Nature - Ball - Oxford University Press
The Science of Fractal Images - Barnsley, Devaney, Mandelbrot, Peitgen, Saupe & Voss - Springer-Verlag
Self-organisation and Evolution of Social Systems - Hemelrijk - Cambridge
The Essence of Chaos - Lorenz - University of Washington Press.
Computers and Intractability - Garey & Johnson - W.H.Freeman and Company
Chaotic Evolution and Strange Attractors (Lezioni Lincee) - Ruelle - Cambridge University Press
Mathematics Today - Steen - Vintage Books