Hello everyone, I would like to indroduce myself. My name is Udo Waechter, still studying Cognitive Science in Osnabrueck. I am very much interested in the visualization of data (from Databases to subsymbolic data of any kind). But what do we do if we have a wonderful visualization which is not interactive? Thus I am also interested in the navigation of huge amounts of data. I also spend a big deal of my time with computer networks, and with the endless fight of making different operating systems work with each other. I am currently working on my bachelor thesis which is about clustering music by its content with SOMs, visualizing them and providing the user means of navigating through his collection via an intuitive (that is one hope) interface. The whole thing is not so much about the extraction of the right data from music (some people spend their lifetime on doing such things) but the clustering and navigation of it. I have not done anything (at least not more than knowing what its all about) on the alife stuff so far, but the infection is already there. Looking forward to meeting you all, udo. -- sig-sic