computational anthropology members wanted

[Nick Gessler]

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>

             0/  0/  ARTIFICIAL CULTURE:  \0  \0
            /#  /#     Experiments  in    #\  #\
             /\  /\       Synthetic      /\  /\
           """"""""""    Anthropology   """"""""""
               (in preparation for MIT Press)

               Founding Member - Coordinator
         COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY GROUP
  CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
                  Department of Anthropology
          University of California at Los Angeles
                            c/o
  11152 Lucerne Avenue, Culver City, California 90230-4244
                  Phone/FAX:  310-559-6661
        WWW: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/gessler
 


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