simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (09/28/89)
Volume: 11, Issue: 5, Thu Sep 28 08:32:09 EDT 1989 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Simulation and Training Devices (2) Inquiry: A Historical Account of Simulation (3) Machine Dreams * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR post to comp.simulation via USENET * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu, login as 'ftp', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. * Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the directory to pub/simdigest/tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Sep 89 14:07:00 EDT From: "Robert Breaux" <breaux@ntsc-74.navy.mil> Subject: REsponse to Steve Glicker To: "simulation" <simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu> The Interservice/Industry Training Systems Conference (I/ITSC) is sponsored alternately each year by National Security Industrial Association (NSIA) and American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA). This year it is at Tarrant county Convention Center, Ft. Worth, Nov 13-16, expecting about 1200 attendees. I/ITSC promotes cooperation among the military, industrial and academic communities in the joint pursuit of improved training programs, identification of common training issues and development of multi-service and academic programs and solutions. Initiated in 1966 as the Naval Training Device Center/Industry Conference, increased participation from the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps, plus Europe, led to the first I/ITSC in 1979. Additional info is available fromn ADPA, Rosslyn Center, Suite 900, 1700 N. Moore Street, Arlington, VA 22209. ------------------------------ Posted-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 08:36:18 CDT Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 08:36:18 CDT From: steve@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Steve Glicker) To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Inquiry: a historical account of simulation I am interested in a historical account of simulation, particularly digital computer simulation. Any references or tips would be appreciated. If there is interest I will post the responses to this inquiry. Steve Glicker Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin (steve@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 09:44:24 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu> To: simulation@ufl.edu Subject: machine dreams Well, we are one of the "eight big ideas of the eighties"!! Check out the article in Discover Magazine, October 1989, entitled "Machine Dreams". Here is an excerpt: "Science is generally conceived of as a dialogue between theory and experiment, but in recent years a third party has joined the conversation. The intruder is computer simulation, and it proposes nothing less than a new method of discovering truth - a way of understanding the world by re-inventing it. In the 1980s this third way of doing science has penetrated most areas of research..." -pf +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Prof. Paul A. Fishwick.... INTERNET: fishwick@bikini.cis.ufl.edu | | Dept. of Computer Science. UUCP: gatech!uflorida!fishwick | | Univ. of Florida.......... PHONE: (904)-335-8036 | | Bldg. CSE, Room 301....... FAX is available | | Gainesville, FL 32611..... | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ END OF SIMULATION DIGEST ************************