The power of design

Mark Newman ()
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Mark Newman: Santa Fe Institute

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6785, 412-413

Abstract: Carefully engineered systems sometimes fail catastrophically despite the best intentions of their designers. A new theory called ‘highly optimized tolerance’ attempts to explain how this happens.

Date: 2000
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