History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 1, Special Issue: In vitro, In vivo, In silico: Models in Contemporary Biomedicine (August 2014), pp. 60-89 (30 pages) The pervasive use of ...

Computer simulations and artificial intelligence often make significant errors when predicting the properties of new, high-performance materials, according to a new international study led by the ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure and SDG 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions. Computer simulation, ranging from video ...

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate ...

That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

What if we are merely part of an experiment by an advanced civilization? To the Editor: Re “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?,” by Preston Greene (Sunday Review, Aug. 11): Let me get this ...

Looking back at the history of computers, it’s hard to overestimate the rate at which computing power has scaled in the course of just a single human lifetime. But yet, existing classical computers ...

In 2015, the United Nations Member States signed up to a set of 17 sustainable-development goals or SDGs, to be reached by 2030. These goals are utopian, including lofty aspirations like ending ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. Like pilots, some business executives are using computer simulations ...