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Complexity Science, formerly called Chaos Theory

Pseudo-science?

"I think the next century will be the century of complexity."
-Stephen Hawking January 2000

A new scientific discipline has come of age in the last
few years. It's a revolution in scientific thought that rivals
any of the great discoveries. And yet few know much
about it. I doubt if anyone in these three ngs even
knows what the 'integral', so to speak, is of
complexity science. Let alone are comfortable
with the core concepts. If that's the case, you're
still living in the scientific Dark Ages.

Complexity science is not just some new equations
or interesting concepts. It's an entirely different
scientific method which completely alters our
view of the universe and our place in it.

To emphasize just how quick and far this new idea
has spread, below is a list of govt agencies and
various universities that have begun complexity
programs in some form in the last five, or at most, ten
years according to this survey

The Use of Complexity Science

"In 2002, the U. S. Department of Education asked the Washington
Center for Complexity and Public Policy to look at how complexity
science is being used -throughout the federal government, in
private foundations, universities, and in independent education
and research centers-"
http://www.hcs.ucla.edu/DoEreport.pdf

Research Findings

A. United States Congress

13 1. Congressional Research Service
13 2. House Science Committee
13 B. Executive Office of the President
13 1. Office of Science and Technology Policy
13 RAND/Science and Technology Policy Institute
14 C. Executive Departments
15 1. Department of Agriculture
15 USDA Forest Service
15 Agricultural Research Service
16 2. Department of Commerce
16 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
16 National Institute of Standards and Technology
17 3. Department of Defense
18 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
19 National Defense University
20 4. Department of Education
21 5. Department of Energy
21 Office of Science
21 National Laboratories
23 Argonne National Laboratory
23 Los Alamos National Laboratory
25 Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
26 Sandia National Laboratories
27
2 National Nuclear Security Administration
29 6. Department of Health and Human Services
30 7. Department of Homeland Security
31 8. Department of Housing and Urban Development
31 9. Department of the Interior
32 US Geological Survey
32 10. Department of Justice
32 Federal Bureau of Investigation
32 11. Department of Labor
33 12. Department of State
34 Foreign Service Institute
34 English Teaching Forum
34 13. Department of Transportation
35 Planning in Air Traffic Control
35 Application of Agent Technology to Traffic Simulation
35 14. Department of the Treasury
35 15. Department of Veterans Affairs

36 D. Independent Agencies and Government Corporations

36 1. Central Intelligence Agency
36 Global Futures Partnership
36 2. Federal Reserve System
36 3. National Science Foundation
38 4. Smithsonian Institution
38 Resident Associates Program
38 E. University-affiliated Research Centers
39 1. Boston University
39 2. Brandeis University
40 3. California Institute of Technology
40 4. Duke University
41 5. Florida Atlantic University
41 6. George Mason University
41 The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies
41 Center for Social Complexity
42 7. Northeastern University
42 8. Notre Dame
43 9. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
43 10. UCLA
44 11. University of Illinois
44 12. University of Michigan
45 13. University of Texas
45 14. University of Wisconsin-Madison
46 3

F. Independent Education and Research Centers

46 1. Brookings Institution
46 2. CNA Corporation
46 3. Chaordic Commons
47 4. Institute for Coherence and Emergence
48 5. New England Complex Systems Institute 4
8 6. Plexus Institute
48 7. RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study
of the Longer Range Global Policy and the
Future Human Condition
49 8. Santa Fe Institute
49 9. Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy
50 10. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
50 G. Private Foundations
51 1. John E. Fetzer Institute
51 2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
52 3. W.K. Kellogg Foundation
53 4. James S. McDonnell Foundation
54 5. David and Lucille Packard Foundation
55 6. Pew Charitable Trusts
55 H. Museums and Art Galleries
56 1. The Exploratorium
56 2. The Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board
56 3. Center for Art and Visual Culture University of Maryland Baltimore
County
57 I. Specific Complexity and Education-related Projects
58 1. American Educational Research Association
58 2. Center for Connected Learning & Computer-based Modeling
58 3. New England Complex Systems Institute
59 J. References Cited 60 K. Selected References
61 L. Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy

Some Complexity links

CALResCo Complexity Writings
http://www.calresco.org/themes.htm

Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) FAQ
http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm

DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
http://necsi.org/publications/dcs/index.html

London School of Economic Complexity Programme
http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/

Paul J. Steinhardt
Department of Physics
Princeton University
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/

Complexity Digest
http://www.comdig.org/index.php

Complexity Science: A Worldview Shift
by ERIC B. DENT
George Washington University
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~edent/emergence/emerge2-r.htm

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