This blog is an online record of my efforts in working towards a part-time PhD.
This particular page is designed to act as a working version on my research title, which currently reads as:
(as of 28-Apr-2006)
The aim is to produce something which can perform intelligent, dynamic transfer of group leadership from one individual to another. This will incorporate issues regarding trust (how do I know you are going to lead me in the right direction?) and selection (why should you lead over invidual X?).
[...] The About page on this blog will act as the working draft of the research title: I’m aiming to spend a good 15min today sitting down and thinking what I think this would be at this point in time. I appreciate this could just be a few sentences, but should provide a base/talking point to work with and align activities. [...]
Pingback by Jon’s PhD Journal » Today’s activities … — April 28, 2006 @ 8:44 am
dude, fascinating stuff,,… what does it have to do with lobsters, again?
Comment by revmanny — September 25, 2006 @ 7:31 pm
Hi,
I came across your site by chance and it looks like we have overlapping interests. I have previously done some work on leadership and flocking (Couzin et al. Nature 433, 513-516; can download it from my website – I included the site above or you can Google me). Feel free to contact me should you like to discuss ideas! We’re also doing experiments on this topic which is fun.
All the best and good luck with your project,
Iain
Comment by Iain Couzin — January 23, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Jon,
As an experienced programmer, and a PhD student could I offer you some advice for leanring to program? Choose your languange, stick with it and then set yourself a project. You can read programming books until you are blue in the face but will learn very little. The problem is that it is easier to read a book than it is to program! Set yourself a task, preferably from scratch, write some pseudo code and just do it. Your progress will seem slow but this is actually the fastest way to learn how to program.
Hope this helps, and I hope you don’t mind me commenting here.
David
Comment by David — January 30, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
:)
Comment by bibomedia.com — March 7, 2008 @ 9:31 am