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BIOLOGY'S GIFT TO A COMPLEX WORLD

How studying biological interactions and evolution yields techniques for predicting the outcome of complex interactions.

In the late 1980s, engineers at General Electric used an algorithm to design a new engine for the Boeing 777.1 It broke new ground for aircraft turbine efficiency. In 1990, a Santa Fe, NM-based investment firm called The Prediction Company introduced a new strategy, the long-term success of which attracted the attention of some of the largest finance houses. The company was bought by Union Bank of Switzerland in 2005. In 2008, two researchers developed a more efficient way of finding defects in silicon microchips, saving tens of millions of dollars annually, and inserting ...

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