[bioundgrd] Fwd: PED Seminar: Sandy Pentland & Ankur Mani (Sept. 14th @ 3:00pm)

[Joyce Roberge]

The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/> presents:

"Value exchange in early human societies.<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/abstracts/9-14-11.html>"

by Ankur Mani<http://web.media.mit.edu/~amani/> (MIT) and Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland<http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/> (MIT)

Abstract:

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.

When: 3:00pm, Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Where: 1 Brattle Square, 6th floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 (link to map/directions<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/>)

For more info on the PED Seminar Series<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/>, please contact: mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu>

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Michael John Wojcik
Staff Assistant
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
1 Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
Room 623
Office: (617) 496-4737
Fax: (617) 496-4629
mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu>






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