Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Chaos theory for software engineering? sure but Keywords: chaos Message-ID: <5309@eos.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 17:39:11 GMT References: <4125@pegasus.ATT.COM> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 29 In article <4125@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes: >Yeah, I know, the last thing software people need is more chaos.-) But >seriously, I'm partway through CHAOS: THE MAKING OF A NEW SCIENCE by A great joke! 8) The problem with this book is the non-linear dynamics has become yet another scientific fad. One can't even go into a restaurant locally to hear someone say some nonsense. I do not work in the field, but know a few people who do. Do not use the word "chaos" near some of them anymore. (Like the expression "Santa Cruz [the University] does not do chaos any more.") >Has anyone found any references to applying chaos theory to software? See Hubermann's The Ecology of Computation. Hubermann is in the last chapter of Gleick, he also has a Virtual Journal. If you want pictures, Cliff Pickover's journal at IBM is popular. Hum.... No one mentioned either of these? Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Live free or die.