Hi All,

Been cruising around as usual and I liked some materials and thought I
would share them.

The intial page I hit (Lecture 17) was prepared by a computer science
teacher for an Advanced Topics in Machine Intelligence class focusing
on Complex Systems and Self Organization... You know, the kind of
stuff Tom Lehrer might have described as light, vacation reading...

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/420/handouts/

My interest, of course, was in Lecture 17

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/420/handouts/Lecture-17.pdf

which is a discussion of game theory, competition and cooperation, and
Nash equilibrium which is an excellent handout but I also cruised over
to the first and second lectures that are similarly named on the
'handout' page above and they really tweaked my interest.

Incidentally - ever find a website from which you just want to
download everything you see? I use a program called "Wget" that just
downloads the entire website and even other parts of the parent
websites tree structure and reconstructs it on your hard drive. You
can get this open source software from:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

you'll need to clean out the stuff you don't want later but it beats
the heck out of trying to download dozens of files ad seriatum...

bear