C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values ...

Has the end of Apartheid made South African labor markets meritocratic? This paper presents an analytical framework with testable hypotheses concerning equal opportunity. Using this framework and ...

Book Review of: Alan C. Love (Editor). Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development. (Boston Studies in the ...

Decelle, A.,Krzakala, F.,Moore, C.,Zdeborova, L. In this paper we extend our previous work on the stochastic block model, a commonly used generative model for social and biological networks, and the ...

This paper is a review of a few problems associated with the observation of scaling laws in urban systems. Two levels in the spatial organization have to be formalized, cities as systems and systems ...

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The aim of this comment is to highlight the clear correspondence between some existing experimental data on cooperative foraging in ants, where it is known that mass recruitment is less flexible than ...

Robustness is the invariance of phenotypes in the face of perturbation. The robustness of phenotypes appears at various levels of biological organization, including gene expression, protein folding, ...

We introduce a new method for transforming chemical systems into desired logical operators (e.g. NAND gates) or similar signal-manipulation components. The method is based upon open-loop dynamic ...