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Title: |
Adaptive Model Theory: A History |
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Authors: |
Megan D.
Neilson, Peter D. Neilson |
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(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
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Citation
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Megan D. Neilson, Peter D.
Neilson (2013). Adaptive Model Theory: A History,
ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0010 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0010 |
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Abstract: |
Our
accompanying presentation overviews the constructs of
Adaptive Model Theory, a computational account of human movement control that
has evolved over a research lifetime that began in the 1950s. Its
origins are in the fascination of two young people with the prospect of
applying their training in physics, mathematics, and
engineering principles to the modelling of
biological systems. Unlike today, it was an era in which such
interdisciplinary work was rare and the path to undertaking it was
essentially of one’s own making. In this presentation we explore some of the
history of that journey. There was the getting of technical jobs in UNSW’s newly established medical school to provide a
gateway to the biological world; the finding of labs where “way-out” ideas
were tolerated, if not entirely understood; and the support for part-time
graduate research. Not to mention the finding of unmeetable
mentors accessible only via the literature. |
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