Our world runs on increasingly complex systems. From cars to power plants, we increasingly expect immediate connectivity, machine learning on product data, and technology infusion, all of which are ...

As President Barack Obama rightly noted in one of his first directives, his "highest priority is to keep the American people safe."[1] Addressing homeland security challenges effectively requires ...

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable — be it a biological species, a voting region, a company stock, or a local climate — to ...

Complex systems as a research area focuses on studying systems composed of many interacting components whose collective behavior exhibits nonlinearity, emergence, adaptation, and self-organization. It ...

The area of information processing and computing is highly fractionalized. It covers sub-fields in machine learning, neuroscience, physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, biology, social ...

The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or ...