Sim Society: DARPA, serious simulation, and the model that stopped a flood

This illustration accompanied an article on Eurogamer.net
by Emily Gera

"If we can take a principled approach to using the simulations - building increasingly complex simulations - that might give us an idea when facing a problem in the real world. If we can assess the complexity of the problem based on things we learn in ground truth, we have a much better sense of the kind of approach we'll need to take to understand and potentially predict that complex social system." - Dr. Adam H. Russell