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[Grumpy] Thought of the Day     --> could be the same, every day    

On the useless hopelessness of on-line support:
If we could only measure the utter amount of frustration and spirit-crunching generated in the world by these online (or phone-based, or generally technology-enabled and -constrained) support services, I think even the Devil would be astounded.

Interesting Initiatives

Nature-Inspired Computing Systems

• Autonomic Computing
  • IBM's Autonomic Computing (AC) homepage, &
    Vision and Manifesto

• Organic Computing
• Organic Computing initiative
• Organic Computing homepage
• Chemical Computing metaphor
• Amorphous Computing
• Amorphous Computing homepage
• Swarm Intelligence
• SwarmWiki
  (collaborative resource for Agent-Based Modeling)
• Evolutionary Computation
• Introduction to Evolutionary Computation (e-book)
• MIT Press Journal on Evolutionary Computation
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Soft Computing
• Soft Computing homepage
• Morphogenetic Engineering
• "Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems", book to appear in 2011, Springer-Verlag (Overview)

Artificial Nature-Like Systems

• Artificial Life
• International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL)
• Artificial Autonomy