Founded 2016 · Long Beach, NY
We apply the new science of computation — agent based models, genetic programming, and minimal models of systems using the mathematical principles of biology, genetics and ecology — to provide explanations for the complex adaptive behaviors of society.
View our research"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.
We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard."
— John F. Kennedy, Rice University, 1963
The pasture is the commons. All may graze; all are tempted to push their share to the utmost, in short time the whole stock perishes.
— William Lloyd, Two Lectures on the Checks to Population, 1833
The social insects ... represent the most advanced forms of social evolution ... are based on rigid genetic programming rather than cultural evolution.
— E. O. Wilson, Sociobiology, 2000
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
— Albert Einstein, 2011
The Long Beach Institute applies the new science of computation — agent based models, genetic programming, and minimal models of systems using the mathematical principles of biology, genetics and ecology — to provide explanations for the complex adaptive behaviors of society.
Is wealth inequality a systemic property of societies that can store wealth?
Is extreme political polarization a systemic property of democratic legislative structures in free societies?
Developing minimal models of social systems with agent based models, stochastic processes and genetic programming that agree with the mathematical principles of biology, genetics and ecology.
Translating computational findings into evidence for social policy at national and international scales.