With massive amounts of data being generated in electronic format, there is a need in basic science laboratories to adopt new methods for tracking and analyzing data. An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) is not just a replacement for a paper lab notebook, it is a new method of storing and organizing data while maintaining the data entry flexibility and legal recording functions of paper note...

In this demonstration we present Say Anything, an open domain interactive storytelling application where an author's original story sentences are used to select subsequent sentences from a corpus of millions of stories extracted from Internet weblogs. Demonstration: Say Anything Interactive storytelling has become a rich area of research for computer science, interactive-media and the learning ...

T wo terms have all but surpassed the cliché stage in our current lexicon: the Internet of Things (IoT) and sustainability. The notion of the IoT, or the Internet of Anything (IoA),1 as we prefer to call it, is widely prevalent. Taken to extremes, the IoA subsumes drones, smart swarms, the smart grid, intelligent buildings, and autonomous cyber-physical and cyber-biological systems, each of whi...

This brief essay reviews an approach to defining and then detecting the emergence of complexity in nonlinear processes. It is, in fact, a synopsis of Reference [1] that leaves out the technical details in an attempt to clarify the motivations behind the approach. The central puzzle addressed is how we as scientists — or, for that matter, how adaptive agents evolving in populations — ever “disco...

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