We're losing the battle against complexity. So, can artificial intelligence (AI) rise to the rescue? A new survey of 800 IT decision-makers by Camunda found IT teams deal with an average of 50 ...

Scientists are exploring how organisms can evolve elaborate structures without Darwinian selection. Charles Darwin was not yet 30 when he got the basic idea for the theory of evolution. But it wasn’t ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

I recently read Scott Carey’s great InfoWorld article that focuses on application complexity as an agent for reducing developer productivity and livelihood. The article has some great ideas, including ...

What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape. How fundamentally difficult is a problem?

In the midst of industry discussions about productivity and automation, it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of properly reckoning with complexity. Provided byThoughtworks Technology Radar is ...

We’ve all heard the KISS talk: Keep It Simple, Stupid. And it’s good advice if you’re preparing an argument or making a presentation. There are rafts of management tools—from spreadsheets to process ...

Ragnar van der Merwe received funding from the John Templeton Foundation as part of the project The Evolution of Complexity hosted at Bath University. Alex Broadbent received funding from the John ...