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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Controlling Systems with Data

A Conversation.
One question that fascinated me in the last two years is, to what extent can we use data to control systems? What elements of a system can be effectively controlled by a stream of complex and highly variable data?  It can be done with machines and simple systems. But how about strongly economic or social systems?    There follows a related conversation with:

ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.... 

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