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W. Brian Arthur

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W. Brian Arthur

W. Brian Arthur is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Visiting Researcher at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Formerly he was Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University. One of the pioneers of complexity theory, he also formulated the influential “theory of increasing returns,” which offered a paradigm-changing explanation of why some high-tech companies achieve breakaway success. Former director of PARC John Seeley Brown has said of him, “Hundreds of millions of dollars slosh around Silicon Valley every day based on Arthur’s ideas.” Arthur is the recipient of the International... Read full bio

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NOT SO SIMPLE MACHINES [Mechanical Engineering]
TMC Net, January 16, 2013
...aircraft jet engine development, providing a favorable step change in performance. "Technologies evolve," writes economist and engineer W. Brian Arthur in his book The Nature of Technology, "based on the chaotic and constant recombining of existing...
NOT SO SIMPLE MACHINES [Mechanical Engineering]
TMC Net, January 16, 2013
...aircraft jet engine development, providing a favorable step change in performance. "Technologies evolve," writes economist and engineer W. Brian Arthur in his book The Nature of Technology, "based on the chaotic and constant recombining of existing...
Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise of the Machines
New York Times, December 31, 2012
...also suggests that there is a lot of substance to the vision of machine-to-machine communication and intelligence that W. Brian Arthur terms “the second economy...
Big Data: Rise of the Machines
New York Times, December 31, 2012
...also suggests that there is a lot of substance to the vision of machine-to-machine communication and intelligence that W. Brian Arthur terms “the second economy...
Automation vs. Jobs [Mechanical Engineering]
TMC Net, June 28, 2012
...and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population." Economist W. Brian Arthur, currently a visiting researcher with the Intelligent Systems Lab at the Palo Alto Research Center, agrees. He calls the automated...
Automation vs. Jobs [Mechanical Engineering]
TMC Net, June 28, 2012
...and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population." Economist W. Brian Arthur, currently a visiting researcher with the Intelligent Systems Lab at the Palo Alto Research Center, agrees. He calls the automated...
Computers ate jobs too
Rome Sentinel, June 14, 2012
...million-dollar increment. Computers will do the work instead. In an important article in The McKinsey Quarterly last fall, W. Brian Arthur, a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and former professor of economics at Stanford University, suggested that a...