For educators

Courses that used the book, and the author's offer to trade teaching material.

A Little Give and Take

To date, I have received a couple of emails from people starting up classes based on the book (even a high school class---very cool). Would you like to exchange ideas for class activities, projects, lectures, and experiments? If so, this is the place to do it. Send me email with any questions that your have, or with resources that you want to share.

Possible contributions could be:

• lecture transparencies in power-point, PS, or PDF,
• a compilation of student project ideas,
• problem sets and solutions within specific areas,
• quizzes, tests, homework or program assignments,
• actual student projects, or
• source code for new and improved examples.

So, in a nutshell, if you have something to contribute, send it to me. If you need something and want to post a request, send that as well.

This page will have a download section for class / instructor resources as soon as critical mass on contributions is achieved,

Recent CBofN Sightings

The following is a partial list of classes that use (or have used) CBofN.

• Stephanie Forrest of the University of New Mexico is teaching Topics in Complex Adaptive Systems with CBofN.

• Hayward Alker of the University of Southern California taught an advanced International Relations course based on CBofN.

• Michael Schmitt of Ruhr-Universität Bochum teaches Algorithmic Description of Complex Systems and uses CBofN as the primary text.

• Sam Samanta of Finger Lakes Community College uses CBofN as the primary text in his course entitled CHAOS: The Self Organizing Universe.

• Douglas White of the University of California Irvine uses CBofN as a recommended and collateral reading in his Social Dynamics and Self Organizing Systems course.

• David P. Feldman of the College of the Atlantic teaches a course on Chaotic Dynamics and uses CBofN as a supplementary text.

• Mark White of North Carolina State University uses CBofN in his Distributed Computation course.

• Dave Goforth of Laurentian University has plans to use part five of CBofN in his Artificial Intelligence course.

• Thiemo Krink of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, uses CBofN in his EvALife Seminar, “Multiagent systems in interdisciplinary research on information technology and life sciences”.

• David Mullins of the New College of the University of South Florida used CBofN for a student directed self-study course on artificial life and complex systems.