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Home || Smart Growth Online. Craig S. Fleisher. The Science of Complexity: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis. May 16 – 18, 2012 George Mason University Arlington, Virginia Register now for the Science of Complexity symposium The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University and the Santa Fe Institute are jointly offering a three day symposium entitled “The Science of Complexity: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis” May 16-18, 2012. The event will take place at the new Founders Hall facility on the GMU Arlington campus. Through the lenses of finance, economics, complex systems, neuroeconomics, and computational social science, the symposium will explore the structure and dynamics of the 2008 financial crisis and its reverberations through time, including the current Eurozone crisis.

Attendees will come away with a high-level understanding of the tools the sciences of complexity bring to an emerging view of these crises, including cutting-edge insights from the application of non-linear dynamics, social networks, systemic risk, experimental economics and related approaches. TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute. Systems. OpenSecrets - Money in Politics. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. Stanford University. Silberzahn & Jones. The difficulty of anticipating strategic surprises is often ascribed to a ‘signal-to-noise’ problem, i.e. to the inability to pick up so-called ‘weak signals’ that foretell such surprises. In fact, monitoring of weak signals has become a staple of competitive intelligence.

This is all the more so since the development of information technology that allows the accumulation and quasi-automatic processing of massive amount of data. The idea is that the identification of weak signals will enable an organization to detect a problem (or an opportunity) early and, hence, to react more quickly and more appropriately. For instance, a firm can detect a change in attitude of consumer behavior by spending time with the most advanced of them, as Nokia did in the early 1990s, a move that enabled the firm to realize that the mobile phone was becoming a fashion item. Of course, there are other issues raised by the weak signals approach. One of them is that it is easily subject to disinformation. Signals Intelligence. What IS SIGINT? SIGINT is intelligence derived from electronic signals and systems used by foreign targets, such as communications systems, radars, and weapons systems.

SIGINT provides a vital window for our nation into foreign adversaries' capabilities, actions, and intentions. NSA's SIGINT mission is specifically limited to gathering information about international terrorists and foreign powers, organizations, or persons. NSA produces intelligence in response to formal requirements levied by those who have an official need for intelligence, including all departments of the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

For information on how NSA protects Americans' right to privacy, see the FAQs section. A Career in SIGINT The SIGINT mission must keep pace with advances in the high speed, multi-functional technologies of today's information age. Teresa H.