Other important things

Motto of the Life:

"The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us. ..."

"The good fight is the one that's fought in the name of our dreams. When we're young and our dreams first explode inside us with all of their force, we are very courageous, but we haven't yet learned how to fight. With great effort, we learn how to fight, but by then we no longer have the courage to go into combat. So we turn against ourselves and do battle within. We become our own worst enemy. We say that our dreams were childish, or too difficult to realize, or the result of our not having enough known about life. We kill our dreams because we are afraid to fight the good fight."

-- P. Coelho, The Pilgrimage, 1992

Important links:

leading Research Institute of Complex Systems at Santa Fe
many others that could be found using the Google search engine where you insert something like:
- "complex systems" AND "A TERM FROM MY FIELD"
- "cellular automata" AND "A TERM FROM MY FIELD"
- where "A TERM FROM MY FIELD" could be "physics", "biology", "medicine" and so on ...
as a good starting point for beginners it could be recommended to look at the home page of Mitchel Resnick's with StarLogo program; it gaves a perfect introduction into decentralized style of thinking
the above mentiones software should be accompanied by reading of the book:
Resnick M.: Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds. A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, 1997.
check the official page of LIIN in Karlsruhe maintained by Thomas Worsch for other available CA software (but this page is not maintained since 2004)

Important Books:

Andrew Ilachinski, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe" , World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2001. (buy it)
Steven Johnson, "Emergence -- the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software", Penguin Books, 2001. (excellent popular science book)
Per Bak, "How nature works: the science of self-organized criticality", Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1996.

Software links:

operating system Linux
programming language C which can be used to program Cellular Automata
StarLogo program of Mitchel Resnick
Mathematica software integrates a numeric and symbolic computational engine, graphics system, programming language, documentation system, and advanced connectivity to other applications, suitable for cellular automata simulations.
publishing tool LaTeX represented by:
- excellent shareware text editor WinEdt of A. Simonic (for Windows)
  [author: WinEdt (shareware) is a powerful, extremely flexible and versatile native editor and shell for Win32 with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents (and much more!)...]
- linked to publicly available MiKTeX package of Ch. Schenk (for Windows) and
- containing Yap (Yet Another Previewer) to view DVI files, such as are produced by TeX (WinEdt and Yap enables forward and inverse search between LaTeX source and DVI output by use of source specials)
- excellent freeware text editor Emacs (for Linux and Windows)
- linked to publicly available eTex: an Eclipse editor plugin for LaTeX documents (for Linux)
excellent shareware file manager Windows/Total Commander of Ch. Ghisler (for Windows)
CygWin is a Linux-like environment for Windows
The GIMP is an acronym for freeware GNU Image Manipulation Program working under all OS

The Czech Republic and our beautiful capital city Prague or link Praha (both in English).