Emergence
You might remember a post I did back in January from Cambridge (the one in England), mentioning what I was up to on that quick trip.
It was a board meeting of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM), and I said, among other things:
ICAM has a great deal of interest in outreach -communicating science to the general public- and education, and this is one of the reasons I’ve been added to the board, since I’ve some experience and ideas to share in an advisory role. I’ll be giving a talk about some of these things using some projects of mine as examples (ASTI, blogging, etc). They’ve already been doing wonderful things in education and outreach, and have made it a priority to make it a major part of future activity. […]
I mentioned that one of the projects under development was their site called Emergent Universe, which promised to be rather fantastic to explore. It was under development at the time, and we (the board) spent some time at the meeting commenting on and making suggestions for its improvement. Well, it is finished, and boy it looks great! Suzi Tucker and her team should be immensely proud of their accomplishment.
There’s so much material there, beautifully presented (a still taken from it is […] Click to continue reading this post
