New England Complex Systems Institute

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The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent research and educational institution based in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

In addition to the in-house researchers, the NECSI shares lecturers and students with neighboring elite universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University , Brandeis University and other universities around the world.

The NECSI was founded in 1996 and is dedicated to the research of complex systems .

In the German-speaking area, the prognosis of the Arab Spring , which the researchers attributed primarily to the repeated rise in food prices in the region following the deregulation of the raw materials market , and the increasing segregation of eligible voters around the 2016 US presidential elections were among the media-effective .

In addition, the institute offers certificate courses for professionals and students, which either focus on application-oriented, delimited subject areas or the basics of modeling and data analysis. The lecturers included Alex Pentland and Stephen Wolfram on several occasions .

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  1. ↑ Jason Koebler: The 'Complex Systems Theorist' Who Predicted the Arab Spring. In: Vice. June 17, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marco Lagi, Karla Z. Bertrand, Yaneer Bar-Yam: The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East . New England Complex Systems Institute (NESCI), August 10, 2011, arxiv : 1108.2455
  3. ^ Yaneer Bar-Yam, Alexander Siegenfeld: When Representative Democracy Isn't. In: Medium. Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), November 20, 2016, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Alexander Siegenfeld, Yaneer Bar-Yam: Negative Representation and Instability in Democratic Elections . New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), October 29, 2018 (English) arxiv : 1810.11489
  5. ↑ Learn. In: New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). Retrieved September 11, 2019 .