Mitsuhiro Itakura
Jul16-04, 09:19 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>\n\n\nLast week I attended a conference "Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems\nand its Applications". (http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/SPDSA/)\nVarious kind of interesting applications of statistical physics to\ninformation technology, such as cryptography, compression, error correction,\nnetwork connectivity, were presented. However, the most interesting\napplication (for me) was a board game which is based on the\nsand-pile model of self-organized criticality, presented at the banquet:\nhttp://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kinzel/disx.html\n\nYou can play its online version on the above site. The rule is\nexactly the same as the 2D sand-pile model. The larger avalanche\nyou trigger, the more points you get.\n--\nM.Itakura http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ita/\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Last week I attended a conference "Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems
and its Applications". (http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/SPDSA/)
Various kind of interesting applications of statistical physics to
information technology, such as cryptography, compression, error correction,
network connectivity, were presented. However, the most interesting
application (for me) was a board game which is based on the
sand-pile model of self-organized criticality, presented at the banquet:
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kinzel/disx.html
You can play its online version on the above site. The rule is
exactly the same as the 2D sand-pile model. The larger avalanche
you trigger, the more points you get.
--
M.Itakura http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ita/
and its Applications". (http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/SPDSA/)
Various kind of interesting applications of statistical physics to
information technology, such as cryptography, compression, error correction,
network connectivity, were presented. However, the most interesting
application (for me) was a board game which is based on the
sand-pile model of self-organized criticality, presented at the banquet:
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kinzel/disx.html
You can play its online version on the above site. The rule is
exactly the same as the 2D sand-pile model. The larger avalanche
you trigger, the more points you get.
--
M.Itakura http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ita/