Understanding Society

Is it possible to elucidate complex social outcomes using computational tools? Can we overcome some of the issues for social explanatio...

The worrisome likelihood that Russians and other malevolent actors are tinkering with public opinion in Western Europe and the United St...

One of the more intriguing currents of social science research today is the field of complexity theory. Scientists like John Holland ( C...

What is involved in designing, implementing, coordinating, and managing the deployment of a large new technology system in a real social, p...

One of the important developments in engineering and management thinking since World War II is the value of approaching large proble...

image: representation of  a mammalian brain  neural network  After World War II John von Neumann became interested in the central ner...

There is a very lively body of work emerging in the intersection between computational mathematics and various fields of the social scienc...

Hilton Root has published some very interesting ideas about systems thinking in international relations theory in  Dynamics among Nations:...

image: screenshot from video , "A Bird Ballet" I've argued in several places that we need to think of the social world as...

Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition provided an alternative model for thinking about society. We can think o...