All day
Breakfast with SFI
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Talk
Garden Court Hotel
Grove Three Room
520 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA
Crowdsourcing Global Human Development
Luís Bettencourt
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Data and technology, together with some good ideas from the study of complex systems, are changing the way we think about cities, human development, and the nature of human societies. In this talk, Luís will discuss what we know about the nature of cities as massive social networks. He’ll explore how a project at the Santa Fe Institute (in collaboration with Slum Dwellers International) is creating technology that helps to understand human development at the level of neighborhoods and individuals, facilitating a new integrated model for urban planning around the world. Finally, Luís will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in bringing new urban planning technology to global scale and how it connects with post-2015 global development goals.
Luís Bettencourt is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a former research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research interests include describing cities in quantitative and predictive ways and understanding innovation and sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases, and information processing in complex systems, such as the brain. He is the author of more than 80 scientific papers and several edited books. His research has been featured worldwide, including in The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, National Public Radio, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Wired, New Scientist, and SEED magazine.
Seating is limited and by invitation only.
Please click here to register and reserve your place online or call the Office of Advancement at 505.946.3678 by December 5.