Complexity science Content

Momentum Computing: the Next Cool Thing?

Andy Fell — June 22, 2022 - 10:56am

Electronic circuits generate a lot of heat, as you will have noticed if you have had a laptop actually in your lap. That represents wasted energy, and even more energy has to be used to keep racks of servers cool. This becomes a major problem – and a cost – as server farms become larger.

New Ways to Understand Collective Behavior

Andy Fell — February 10, 2022 - 2:26pm

When a flock of birds or a school of fish turn and act as one, they are exhibiting collective behavior. The same kind of behavior can be seen in something as simple as a group of cancer cells. Understanding how individuals can spontaneously act together in this way can give insights into biology from animal behavior to disease processes, as well as into phenomena such as traffic patterns.

Exotic Synchronization Patterns Emerge in a Simple Network

Andy Fell — March 07, 2019 - 1:13pm

From the power grid to the PTA, society relies on networks connected to other networks at scales from across the office to around the world. Understanding how connected networks behave and how breakdowns can be identified, prevented or repaired involves mathematics, engineering and physics.