From: Michael Levin on
I'm a biologist at Tufts University (www.drmichaellevin.org) and need a little Matlab programming assistance. I can pay, or can serve as a reference for your resume if you prefer. What I need is:

1) a Matlab function that returns random numbers obtained by a hardware random number generator - it's a USB device and there's an API/SDK and drivers (Windows XP) for it. It's not hard to access, but I need to encapsulate the Matlab-C interaction in a separate module so that Matlab people who don't know how to do it can use it in their own Matlab code.

and also,

2) set up the Tournament described here (it's a bunch of Matlab routines competing in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma format):

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/328/5975/208.pdf
p. 30- of http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/328/5975/208/DC1/1

I have the some strategies (Matlab code pieces usable with this tournament framework) which make stochastic decisions about what moves they make in the tournament, and I want to alter them a bit, then run the tournament, and collect some data.

If anyone is interested, please email me: michael.levin AT tufts DOT edu