Re: computational anthropology members wanted

[Mike McCann]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Gessler <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>;
address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, 27 February 1998 18:41
Subject: computational anthropology members wanted


>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!
>
>>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>
>
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