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December 2011

• 31st • SF film • The Social Network
• 29th • SF film • Ratatouille
• 28th • SF film • Monsters vs Aliens
• 27th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
• 26th • SF • Hannu Rajaniemi • The Quantum Thief
• 25th • ethics • Richard A. Posner • The Little Book of Plagiarism
• 24th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
• 23rd • SF TV • Medium, season 6
• 15th • creativity • Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
• 4th • computing • Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• 4th • complexity • Eric D. Schneider, Dorian Sagan • Into the Cool

November 2011

• 11th • SF • Diana Rowland • My Life as a White Trash Zombie
• 8th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Angel Town
• 5th • detective • Janet Neel • O Gentle Death

October 2011

• 30th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Rivers of London
• 16th • psychology • Oliver Sacks • The Mind's Eye
• 11th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • The Sleeping Beauty
• 11th • NSC • "A Framework for Heterotic Computing", abstract
• 4th • SF • Jack Campbell • Stark's War
• 3rd • reading • Daniel Pennac • The Rights of the Reader
• 3rd • NSC • CoSMos 2011 workshop, full proceedings
• 2nd • internet cat • Mugumogu • I am Maru
• 1st • SF TV • Doctor Who, new season 6

September 2011

• 27th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Truth of Valor
• 26th • computing • Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages
• 18th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • The Other Side
• 17th • SF • Timothy Zahn • Odd Girl Out
• 17th • NSC • "Boolean logic gate design principles for unconventional computers: an NMR case study", abstract
• 11th • cartoons • Zach Weiner • Save Yourself, Mammal!
• 10th • SF • David Weber • Out of the Dark
• 8th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Late Eclipses
• 4th • NSC • "Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation", full proceedings
• 4th • NSC • "The Game of Life Rules on Penrose Tilings: still life and oscillators", full chapter
• 4th • NSC • "Counting preimages of homogeneous configurations in 1-dimensional cellular automata", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Investigations of the Game of Life cellular automata rules on Penrose Tilings: lifetime, ash and oscillator statistics", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Computer Simulation: the imaginary friend of auxin transport biology", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Classical Computing in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "From binary to continuous gates -- and back again", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Exploiting Loose Horizontal Coupling in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Using the CoSMoS Process to Enhance an Executable Model of Auxin Transport Canalisation", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Controlling Complex Dynamics with Artificial Biochemical Networks", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Reflections on the Simulation of Complex Systems for Science", full paper
• 3rd • SF TV • Andromeda, season 3

August 2011

• 27th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Grail
• 25th • safety • Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto
• 21st • philosophy • Matthew B. Crawford • The Case for Working with Your Hands
• 19th • SF film • Super 8
• 18th • SF • J. D. Robb • Treachery in Death
• 14th • detective • Laurie R. King • The God of the Hive
• 4th • SF • Tony Ballantyne • Recursion

July 2011

• 16th • misc • Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes
• 12th • SF • Gail Carriger • Heartless
• 10th • maths • Keith Devlin • Logic and Information
• 10th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Saltation
• 9th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Chill

June 2011

• 26th • SF TV • Roswell, season 3
• 22nd • SF • Peter Dickinson • The Ropemaker
• 22nd • technology • W. Brian Arthur • The Nature of Technology
• 18th • NSC • "Degeneracy enriches Artificial Chemistry binding systems", abstract
• 12th • NSC • "Embodied copying for richer evolution", abstract
• 12th • NSC • "Energy as a driver of diversity in open-ended evolution", abstract
• 12th • NSC • "Controlling legged robots with coupled Artificial Biochemical Networks", abstract
• 11th • Z • "Atomicity Failure and the Retrenchment Atomicity Pattern", abstract
• 11th • SF • Greg Egan • Schild's Ladder
• 9th • SF • Justina Robson • Selling Out
• 4th • NSC • "Embodied genomes and metaprogramming", abstract
• 4th • NSC • "Reflecting on Open-Ended Evolution", abstract

May 2011

• 31st • SF • Diane Duane • A Wizard of Mars
• 29th • NSC • "Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate", abstract
• 29th • NSC • "Multiple model simulation: modelling cell division and differentiation in the prostate", abstract
• 29th • NSC • "CoSMoS process, models, and metamodels", abstract
• 28th • detective • Jill Paton Walsh • The Attenbury Emeralds
• 22nd • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Defiance
• 22nd • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Dust
• 15th • technology • Neil Gershenfeld • Fab
• 14th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Longeye
• 9th • SF • J. A. Pitts • Black Blade Blues
• 2nd • essays • Malcolm Gladwell • What the Dog Saw
• 1st • SF TV • Dark Season

April 2011

• 30th • language/cognition • Daniel L. Everett • Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
• 26th • SF • Peter Watts • Blindsight
• 20th • SF • Jo Walton • Among Others
• 18th • SF • Jasper Fforde • One of Our Thursdays is Missing
• 16th • SF • Seanan McGuire • An Artificial Night
• 5th • complexity/systems • Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
• 5th • business/psychology • John Kay • Obliquity
• 4th • SF TV • Medium, season 5
• 3rd • SF • Madeleine E. Robins • Petty Treason

March 2011

• 30th • SF • J. D. Robb • Indulgence in Death
• 27th • SF • Kage Baker • The Life of the World to Come
• 21st • NSC • "Heterotic Computing", abstract
• 19th • SF film • Princess Mononoke
• 11th • SF • Madeleine E. Robins • Point of Honour
• 1st • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Finding the Way

February 2011

• 26th • SF film • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• 26th • SF • David Weber • In Fire Forged
• 23rd • SF • Sarah A. Hoyt • Darkship Thieves
• 19th • SF TV • Outcasts
• 16th • SF • Seanan McGuire • A Local Habitation
• 11th • cognition • Matthias Scheutz, ed • Computationalism: new directions
• 6th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Grand Central Arena
• 6th • SF TV • Dollhouse, season 2
• 3rd • maths • Donald G. Saari • Decisions and Elections

January 2011

• 30th • SF film • Inception
• 22nd • SF • Iain M. Banks • The State of the Art
• 9th • SF • Joss Whedon et al • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat
• 9th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Rosemary and Rue
• 3rd • SF film • WALL·E
• 3rd • maths • William Goldbloom Bloch • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
• 2nd • SF • Robin McKinley • Pegasus
• 1st • NSC • "Automorphisms of transition graphs for linear cellular automata", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Automorphisms of transition graphs for elementary cellular automata", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Highly entangled multi-qubit states with simple algebraic structure", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Environment orientation: an architecture for simulating complex systems", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Cotranslational protein folding with L-systems", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "RBN-World: A Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistry", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Molecular microprograms", full paper
• 1st • NSC •  "Visualising Random Boolean Network Dynamics: effects of perturbations and canalisation", full paper

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