Background Our AI staff members have a wide variety of research interests; the list below gives a high level overview that is intended to be helpful for potential...

Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, and AI The "AI group" is a loose affiliation of staff who are spread across the ECS faculty as well as Maths. The current (...

AI Graduate Theses (completed) (this list has not been kept up to date!) Student Thesis degree supervisor Tony Butler Yeoman Disentangling complex c...

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Festival of Doubt The AI group at Victoria University runs an informal discussion series called the Festival of Doubt, for staff, students and the curious. We use...

Fisher's run away sexual selection process is a mechanism Fisher put forward to answer one of the big sex questions (go to the end) the apparently excessive...

Previously at the Festival of Doubt: This page lists all the talks, discussions, dogmatic rantings, collective sharings, and bunfights, since records began in 200...

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Suggested topics for future FoDs If you're lucky enough to find yourself hosting this week's Festival, you get to start a discussion about A Topic In Machine Lear...

List of regular doubters Dubious in 2016: (just a list of names non binding!) Staff: * David Balduzzi * JP (John Lewis) * Marcus Frean * Chris Holl...

What is FoD? "Festive", because if there isn't the occasional loud bang then why bother, and "doubt", because that's a fundamental notion driving interesting scie...

(a.k.a. "the search for momentum"). I like this one, as you can say things like "I'll see YOU at the Consequences". It has a certain Chuck Norrisness about it. ...

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(Notes on a lunchtime discussion between Sean Stephen, 2 July 2003) Although Wolfram identifies a class of cellular automata that generate 'complex' structure t...

Social evolution reading group Over the summer of 2008 2009 we looked into some social evolution ideas from a mathematical perspective. The first few were based o...

Keith says: To make things more entertaining, to me at least, I thought we would try introducing some "rules" about who has the right to speak. You've heard of R...

Stag Hunt A page for ideas about modeling signalling in the stag hunt game. (Anna can you edit this okay? Use the "raw edit" rather than "edit" as the latter ac...

big sex questions This is (a) my list of "why is it like this?" questions, (b) an attempt to trigger VUW's `websense' filter by using the s word lots on one page ...

For about 30 hours each in 2003 we pawed over A New Kind Of Science (ANKoS) by Stephen Wolfram http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/wolfie.jpg http://home...

I'd like to talk about how much sense it might make to apply concepts of social network analysis (SNA) to software engineering. Among other things, social network...

Extreme Executive Summaries... (just prettiness but anyway here goes): * Scaling laws in biology * Hierarchical branching systems * Energy dissipati...

http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/circularCA.jpg The Principle of Computational Equivalence * The notion of universal computation places an upper l...

The notion of computation Here's a not so digestable synopsis of the points in this chapter Tim Field * Computation as a Framework * a program is somet...

Fundamental physics Summary of chapter 9 (pdf) Sean Devine . http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/flat3body.jpg back to Wolframania

Implications for everyday systems Covering: Natural systems and the advantages of modeling them algorithmically. Note: This is a paraphrased summary of the chap...

mechanisms in programs and nature Salient points / claims: * there are 3 mechanisms for generating randomness: * from the environment (i.e. get it from s...

Starting from Randomness An old kind of concept...? Wolfram describes a CA classification with four classes: *Class 1 Starting from random initial conditio...

Two dimensions and beyond Salient points: * 2D systems are pretty much like the 1D ones * networks examples are given where each node has 2 outgoing link...

Systems based on numbers Salient points: * lots of 'simple' sequences of numbers look 'complex' if you write them in binary and draw them... * the shift m...

http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/circularCA.jpg The world of simple programs Salient points: * If a CA is too simple the behaviour is boring (stat...