Be Like Virgil. To help overcome differences in terminology used by researchers in various fields, plenary "tutorials" will be given by experts before the conference. Each expert provided an overview of his or her field in language that other researchers -- scientists, engineers, or medical researchers -- not familiar with the discipline can understand.
Recently: The founder of a data-mining tool called WikiScanner, Griffith is also a visiting researcher at the mysterious Santa Fe Institute, where “complex systems” are studied.
From the archive: If you haven't been personally denounced by Steven Colbert, you just aren't that important ...
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