Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how they do it.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is Director of the New England Complex System Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, author of Making Things Work; Solving Complex Pro

Discover how the convergence of machine learning and graph technology is being used to combat the fake news epidemic in part one of this ongoing series.

Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus.

New research suggests physicists, computers and brains employ the same procedure to tease out important features from among other irrelevant bits of data.

Networks guru and author Albert-László Barabási says diseases are the results of system breakdowns within the body, and mapping intracellular protein networks will help us discover cures.

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2015 Joshua Lederberg - John von Neumann Symposium
"Towards Quantitative Biology"

Yasser Roudi
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Institute for Advanced Study
December 2, 2015

https://www.sns.ias.edu/scsb/lederberg-vonneumann2015…

Network scientist Daniel Larremore draws on his diverse interests to make sense of patterns in sporting records, hiring decisions, and the spread of diseases.

A political system is a set of interrelated social institutions that collectively perform the function of public governance within a society. Politics is the process through which a group of people make collective decisions that affect all and implement them;…

Abstract: Parametric inference is one of the cornerstones of statistics, but much of the classic theory revolves around asymptotic notions of convergence and relies on estimators that are hard to compute (particularly in high-dimensional problems).

In this…