From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Mar 29 14:28:03 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l2TIS2vs021756 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:28:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front3.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2TIRwwE091535 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 28790 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 18:27:58 -0000 Received: from mailscan5.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.137) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 18:27:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 25295 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 18:27:57 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 18:27:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 23342 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 18:27:56 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 18:27:56 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4209219 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:27:55 -0400 Delivered-To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 7035 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 18:17:55 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 18:17:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 21407 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 18:17:50 -0000 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (66.249.92.170) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 18:17:50 -0000 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so659188uge for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.177.1 with SMTP id z1mr361679wae.1175192266447; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.54.13 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:17:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5d2589168f694f0a X-UB-Relay: (ug-out-1314.google.com) X-PM-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:46 -0400 Reply-To: Mike Prentice Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: Mike Prentice Subject: Wang's Carpets To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (ug-out-1314.google.com) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2961/Thu Mar 29 10:06:01 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 673 For anyone interested in science fiction stories, I just finished one called "Wang's Carpets" by Greg Egan (published in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, Mike Ashley ed.). It's interesting and relevant to this class because it touches on several issues we've explored in class, on the nature of computation and what is "real" versus unreal ("just cyberspace"). Also it has to do with Wang tiling and cellular automata. Plus it's just an interesting story. If you have time and like sci-fi, I recommend most of the stories in the volume, especially "Anomalies" and "The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon" for issues we've discussed in this course. -- Mike Prentice