Grant winners get a surprise bonus

How to Get (and Keep) a Research Grant

Ian Witten wrote the article \How to get a research grant". after having just spent three years on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant selection committee for Computer and Information Science. This revised version of the paper was prepared by Janice Glasgow after a similar term on the NSERC committee. The updating of the document was motivated by the ev...

Using Surprise to Create Products that get the Attention of other Agents

This paper addresses an aspect of social environments comprising a series of processes that begin with an artificial agent (the “author-agent”) producing surprising products (objects, events, etc.), continue with other artificial agents (the “jury-agents”) appraising those products with respect to surprise (manifested, for instance, by the focus of their attention on those products), and end wi...

Bacteria spring a surprise

Elastic forces within DNA drive the segregation of chromosomes in bacteria.

A Surprise Follow-Up.

A little surprise packet.