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uvvy.com: Rudy Rucker's "The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul" is out and you can buy it on Amazon. There is also a pdf book sample with a few chapters. This is one of the books that I most wanted to read - I have bought the hardcopy and am reading the pdf book sample. From the introduction on the book's website: We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. (via Cosmos)

  One Stop Thought Shop: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (via Cosmos)

  Jeff Still Lives Here: It's light on philosophy and heavy on mathematical concepts, in my opinion, but that probably has something to do with the fact that I'm heavy on philosophy and light on mathematical concepts. It's sort of another version of 'everything is information', with what I think is an interesting twist: The notion that, though things may work according to finite rules (the physical laws o' the universe), the outcome, the 'final' result, can only be had by actually going through the computation. (via Cosmos)

  Anarchaia: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, “What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy” by Rudy Rucker. (via Cosmos)

[Accelerating.org] Accelerating Change 2005 - Speaker Biographies and Read Aheads: Fogel received the Sigma Xi Southwest Region Young Investigator Award (2002), the Sigma Xi San Diego Section Distinguished Scientist Award (2003), the SPIE Computational Intelligence Pioneer Award (2003), and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award (2004). He was technical program chairman for the 1995 and 1998 IEEE International Conferences on Evolutionary Computation, co-technical program chairman for the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, co-general chairman of the 2004 and 2005 IEEE Conferences on Computational Intelligence in Homeland Security and Personal Safety, general chairman of the 2002 IEEE World

 [Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: A weblog about pop culture. ... A tiny, guest-edited blog! Rudy Rucker Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. ...

 [Cs.sjsu.edu] THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ONE: LUCKY NUMBER

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