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The growing use of computational models of social, physical and biological systems raises many questions and concerns. Platforms such as SWARM enable researchers to construct detailed, robust computational models. The availability of SWARMlike platforms will speed the pace of the computational revolution and open new areas of research. In this talk, I discuss twenty--six topics pertaining to these computational models. Unbelievably, each of the twenty--six subject headings begins with a different letter! Given this fortuitous fact, I have chosen to arrange the topics alphabetically. Though containing bits of levity, this talk should be taken seriously both as a social scientist's commentary on a nascent field and as a guide to future research.
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In Janaury 2000, Scott Page became Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, where he is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political Science. Previously Scott was an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Economics. He is also a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). Scott organizes SFI's Fellows at Large program, and together with John Miller, he runs an annual workshop in computational economics at SFI. Scott belongs to the MacArthur Foundation's working group on income inequality. In his spare time, he writes for www.sportsjones.com under the pseudonym Orrie Glenn.
