THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineResearch seminar co-hosted with Rutgers University.ABSTRACTMore i

2012. Phys. Rev. Lett.108:128701.

2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab

Cogito Machina - Investigating the emergence of artificial general intelligence

Is AGI emergent? In order to know, several questions need to be answered and this project aims to provide the answeres. What is AGI? What is required for a system to have it, and how might we know whether AGI is emergent in a system. 

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

The Institute for Future Studies is looking for three highly qualified postdocs to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research program on modeling social processes. The program is directed by P

The future of disabilities: The ethics and politics of disability and technology

This project will investigate how theories on equality and justice are affected by the fact that many disabilities are becoming a matter of choice as a consequence of the use of new technologies.

The Institute for Futures Studies and the Swedish Institute, is looking for a highly qualified postdoc to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research network, the World Values Survey, based in S

The Institute for Futures Studies is searching for a researcher for a research project on psychological and sociological differences between voters, depending on what party they would prefer to give t

Peter Edlund, Researcher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Abstract In my presentation, I will develop a theoretical account that centers on how certain actors are constructed i