[PRL] FW: [SHARE] April 13, 2005, Noon-2:00 pm: Lecture by John Holland on Language Acquisition at SHARE

[Karl Lieberherr]

Unfortunately, we have a hiring talk on that day. 
 
-- Karl
 
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From: Kati Reusche [mailto:Kati at shareboston.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:06 PM
To: young_swiss_042005 at creativeswitzerland.com
Subject: [SHARE] April 13, 2005, Noon-2:00 pm: Lecture by John Holland
on Language Acquisition at SHARE
 
 
  SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland invites you
to the lecture 

A Model of Language Acquisition and Evolution


A TAICON
<http://www.shareboston.org/events/20050413_Taicon/20050413_taicon_invit
e.html#AddInfo>  lecture given by


John H. Holland
University of Michigan

Wednesday, April 13th 12:00 PM
SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland
420 Broadway, Cambridge MA 
 
<http://www.shareboston.org/events/20050413_Taicon/20050413_taicon_invit
e.html#rsvp> RSVP and
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e.html#parking> Directions to SHARE

 
This presentation treats language as a complex adaptive system (cas),
concentrating on language as a social activity involving agents that
interact and learn. The model presented is an exploratory model still in
the process of implementation, developed in cooperation with Prof. Wm.
S.-Y. Wang (Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong). The objective
is to demonstrate that there is sufficient information exchanged in the
cas that (i) newborns can acquire syntax and grammar without receiving
specific information about those structures, and (ii) language evolution
follows a somewhat similar course. Part of the presentation concerns the
development of social networks under the impetus of language.
Professor Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in
Lausanne (EPFL), will deliver teleconferenced comments from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich (ETHZ).
For program details and bios see
<http://www.shareboston.org/events/20050413_Taicon/20050413_taicon_invit
e.html#program> . 
 
Please RSVP to: kati at SHAREBoston.org 
 
 
This lecture is the second event of TAICON (The Trans-Atlantic
Initiative on Complex Organizational Networks) organized by Prof.
Lars-Erik Cederman, ETh, and Prof. David Lazer, Harvard University, in
partnership with SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland in Boston.
TAICON is a Trans-Atlantic community, based at Harvard and the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich that brings together
research on social networks and complexity. Further information can be
found under: http://icr.ethz.ch/taicon 
 
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Please feel free to forward this invitation to interested persons.
 
 
Best regards, 
 
The SHARE Team
 
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Marianne Gerber
SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland
420 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone : (617)876 3076 ext. 16
Fax: (617)876 3079
E-Mail: marianne at SHAREBoston.org
 
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