This course is taught by Scott E Page, the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan where he directs the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.

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Integrating reservations systems is a complex and enormous task for airlines, partly because they have to take the systems temporarily offline, even though flight operations must continue.

WSJ: Delays Hit 1,300 American Airlines Flights

To address the big data issue, governments must continue to develop and enhance their complex analytical targeting systems to scour the data for the proverbial needle in a haystack that would flag a suspicious shipment.

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They are also touting the processor as a solution for use in solving hard problems involving complex systems as well as number theory problems.

FORBES: D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer

Dr Meyer's flight of fancy shows that such computers could also operate comfortably in the area of game theory, with all that implies for modelling complex systems and, presumably, for games themselves.

ECONOMIST: Quantum computing

It is true that the core operating hardware for buildings, from home furnaces to complex office HVAC systems, is dramatically more efficient than 20 years ago, and getting better still.

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The New England Complex Systems Institute said the Arab Spring was rooted in foot prices and predicts that the circumstances for civil disturbance will be ripe again in August 2013.

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Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.

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