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Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar Series
September 7, 2016
Hiroki Sayama (Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University)
“Recent Trends in Network Science”
Slides are available from: http://coco.binghamton.edu/CoCo-sayama-fall2016.pdf 

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Self-driving cars are coming! Will their future deliver us a transportation heaven, or hellacious cities? AVs are the first of many future waves of automation. How they impact labor, energy, land use,, and tax revenue is in our hands. If we act now, we can control the outcome.

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The Global Connectivity Revolution with strategist and author Parag Khanna. We’re accelerating into a future shaped less by countries and more by mega-cities; less by borders and more by connectivity. It is time to reimagine how life is organised on Earth. Leading strategist Parag Khanna shows how the global connectivity revolution – in transport, infrastructure, communications – has upended the ‘geography is destiny’ mantra, and how connectivity, not sovereignty, has become the organising principle of 21st century society.

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We’re on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity — and it’s not human. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception and distributed learning. In this captivating demo, he shows how neural nets trained to recognize images can be run in reverse, to generate them. The results: spectacular, hallucinatory collages (and poems!) that defy categorization. “Perception and creativity are very intimately connected,” Agüera y Arcas says. “Any creature, any being that is able to do perceptual acts is also able to create.”

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