SFI gives $25K to Solace Crisis Treatment Center

The Solace Crisis Treatment Center, located in Santa Fe, NM, has received $25,000 to further its mission "to prevent sexual violence and empower survivors of all traumatic experiences through restoring dignity, strength and resilience.”

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New Book: The Ethical Algorithm

In The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design, SFI External Professor Michael Kearns and his University of Pennsylvania colleague Aaron Roth offer a set of principled solutions based on the emerging science of socially aware algorithm design.

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Study: Bigger cities boost ‘social crimes’

Why it is that only some crimes supercharge from city size is explained in a new paper published this week in Physical Review E.  According to Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Vicky Chuqiao Yang and her coauthors, the same underlying mechanism that boosts urban innovation and startup businesses can also explain why certain types of crimes thrive in a larger population.       

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