LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOne of the main principles of classical Darwinian evolution is that the genotype, which instructs…
Evolution gave rise to every living thing and all of human culture, but evolved systems are very different from those designed by huma…
LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionA symposium celebrating the career of Glorianna Davenport.
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering.
How will gene drive systems evolve once released into the wild? Can they be reliably overwritten and blocked by immunizing reversal drives?…
Professor Kevin Esvelt talks to science journalist Hannah Thomasy about the power—and the risks—of biotechnology.
LocationHyatt Regency, Ballroom 5-7, 208 Barton Springs Rd. Description
Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…
DeBenedictis, E.A., Chory, E.J., Gretton, D.W. et al. Systematic molecular evolution enables robust biomolecule discovery. Nat Methods (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01348-4
Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins.
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
During the last few decades two important intellectual contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. On the one han…
LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe exposure to new information and opinions, and their diffusion within social networks, are important question…
Frank, Morgan R., Dashun Wang, Manuel Cebrian, and Iyad Rahwan. “The Evolution of Citation Graphs in Artificial Intelligence Research.” Nature Machine Intelligence 1, no. 2 (February 2019): 79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0024-5.
CA Hidalgo
Researchers find that, in published AI research, industry is overtaking academia, and the diversity of fields represented has declined.
Imagine you could edit a mouse’s genes to be resistant to Lyme Disease. The mouse would breed and evolution would take its course, leading …
Biomimicry looks to living organisms to create the future of sustainable engineering.
Anmol Madan, David Lazer, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
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Natan Linder, Pattie Maes
Balland, P.A. (2012) Proximity and the Evolution of Collaboration Networks: Evidence from Research and Development Projects within the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Industry, Regional Studies, 46 (6): 741-756
Tasnim, F., Sadraei, A., Datta, B., Khan, M., Choi, K.Y., Sahasrabudhe, A., Alfonso Vega Galvez, T., Wicaksono, I., Rosello, O., Lopez, C., Dagdeviren. C.†, Foresight, 20(6), 589-601, 2018.
Cesar A. Hidalgo
Wood and Rathnasabapathy speak at the SEE Lab Annual Event 2022, on "Fostering Multidisciplinary Research for the Future of Space."
Wood, D. & A. Weigel, “Charting the Evolution of Satellite Programs in Developing Countries – The Space Technology Ladder,” Space Policy, Vol 28, Issue 1, February 2012, p15-24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2011.11.001.
I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.
César A. Hidalgo, Elisa E. Castañer
Dany Bahar, Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo.
LocationMIT, Room 7-431(Long Lounge) DescriptionTake a broad perspective: evolutionary theory provides us with an unpredictably deep connec…
Miguel R. Guevara, Dominik Hartmann, Manuel Aristarán, Marcelo Mendoza, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; NEC Career Development Professor of Computer and Communications
Pinheiro, Flávio L., and Dominik Hartmann. "Intermediate Levels of Network Heterogeneity Provide the Best Evolutionary Outcomes." Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 15242.
Madan, A. "Social Evolution: Modeling Opinions and Behaviors in Face-to-Face Networks"
Nikhil Naik, Scott D. Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo
Research Assistant
Former Postdoctoral Associate
Research Assistant
Former Lab Manager
Former Postdoctoral Associate
Former Senior Postdoctoral Associate