Vitorino Ramos: Stuff

JJ Merelo and Chris Langton at the El Farol Bar 1995

From left to rigth, Nelson Minar (link), JJ Merelo (link; one of my co-authors), Manor Askenazi (link) and Chris Langton (link; founding father of Artificial Life) at the El Farol Bar (*), Santa Fe, New Mexico, during summer 1995. At the same year, Chris was the editor of the well-know Artificial Life book, by MIT Press, and JJ for the 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life, Granada, Spain.

(*) If you do not have a clue what the El Farol Bar meant to the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), have a read here to Brian Arthur's paper "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality: The El Farol bar problem", American Economic Review, 84, 406-411, 1994. I am happy to say that I was also there, visiting Santa Fe back in 2000, speaking with, among other people with Cosma Shalizi (link), as well as having a smoke and a beer at the El Farol. Much probably at this table, which was near the front door window, one of my favourite ones during my two week stay.

Poemas de Domingos Cabana Fialho, Marmelar, Vidigueira.