<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><b><u>The <a href="http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/">Program for Evolutionary Dynamics</a> presents</u>:</b></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>"<a href="http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/abstracts/9-14-11.html"><b>Value exchange in early human societies.</b></a>"</div><div><br></div><div>by <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~amani/">Ankur Mani</a> (MIT) and <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/">Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland</a> (MIT)</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Abstract</u>:</b></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We examine the problems of value exchange and coordination under the conditions where agents have limited language abilities (e.g., signs and no recursion) and limited reasoning abilities (e.g., limited memory and no third order relationships). We find that surprisingly powerful group cooperation capabilities are not only possible but stable under these conditions. Interestingly some of the interaction characteristics predicted for these limited agents are typical of modern human performance.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>When</u>:</b> 3:00pm, Wednesday, September 14th, 2011</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Where</u>:</b> 1 Brattle Square, 6th floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 (<a href="http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/">link to map/directions</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>For more info on the <a href="http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/">PED Seminar Series</a>, please contact: <a href="mailto:mwojcik@fas.harvard.edu">mwojcik@fas.harvard.edu</a></div><div>
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