A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

This event is closed to the public. The brain’s fundamental challenge is the equivalent of competing in a game show without knowing the topic, the format, the level of complexity, the strength of the ...

Eric BeinhockerProfessor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; External Professor and Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute Andrea LiuProfessor of Physics, University of ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

This event is closed to the public. In the history of neuroscience and psychology, we can, for the first time, discover complex algorithms of intelligence in concrete, computational terms. I will ...

Innovations improve technology costs through various kinds of engineering advancements, including changes to materials choices and device or process designs. Understanding how these innovations relate ...

The definition of society as identity group is most likely to be useful when combined with the instrumental functions of identity groupings. These take two key forms, with important differences. First ...

Understanding how genomic information is selectively utilized across different life stages is essential for deciphering the developmental and evolutionary strategies of metazoans. In holometabolous ...

Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) is a potent and powerful tool for analyzing empirical networks, as the distribution of the curvature values can identify structural information that is not readily ...