NKS Summer School

http://www.wolframscience.com/summerschool/

Group Photos from 2003, 2004 and 2005

Summer school content

Homework
Lectures
Projects

Sample CA Homeworks from 2005

Schedule of week 1 in 2005

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"Whirlwind tour of NKS/NKM--Stephen Wolfram", 

"Live Experiment--Stephen Wolfram", 

"Fundamentals:Simple rules:cyclic,nested,and complex-- Todd Rowland", 

"The basic experiment as an experiment.-- Ed Pegg", 

"Mathematica training-- Matthew Szudzik", 

"Live Experiment--Stephen Wolfram", 

"Mathematica training-- Matthew Szudzik", 

"Basic notions of NKS,intrinsic randomness,exhaustive searches:Kovas Boguta", 

"Example experiment:Modeling talk on something based on Chapter 8.-- Ed Pegg", 

"Mathematica training.--Paul-Jean Letourneau", 

"Applied NKS:A case example-- George Danner", 

"Writing Efficient Mathematica-- Seth Chandler", 

"Live Experiment--Stephen Wolfram", 

"Systems survey--Matthew Szudzik", 

"Applied NKS:A case example-- George Danner", 

"Turing machines-- Matthew Szudzik", 

"TuringMachine:Kovas Boguta", 

"CellularAutomaton:Richard Phillips", 

"Conducting Searches-- Ed Pegg", 

"Stephen Wolfram Lecture", 

"Enumeration-- Matthew Szudzik", 

"Physics in NKS-- Oyvind Tafjord", 

"Formal limits to knowledge in history-- Jason Cawley", 

"Perception:Frederico Meinberg"}]\)

Samples from past Lectures

Educational materials at wolframscience.com

Projects

Mohammed Al-Quraishi  Multi-Agent Interaction Modeling [[Multi-headed Turing machines]]

Chad Kennedy  Complex 3D Branching Structure Generation, Analysis and Comparison to Physiological Structure for Tissue Engineering Application 
[[Substitution systems applied to angiogenesis]]

Matthew Neeley Neighbor-Dependant Substitution Systems: Searching and Visualizing

Ben Koo Visualizing Bayesian Belief Networks as Colored Cellular Automata

Katarina Miljkovic  Mapping Simple Programs into Sound

Petra Povalej   Machine Learning  [[via random searches of decision trees]]

Some instructors

Stephen Wolfram

Catherine Boucher
Todd Rowland

Oyvind Tafjord, Matt Frank, Matthew Szudzik, Jason Cawley, Ed Pegg, Kovas Boguta, Fred Meinberg, Seth Chandler