Engineering is in the midst of an explosion of complexity.
New semiconductor chips contain a billion subcircuits. A new car contains 20 microprocessors. Home health care systems are being designed that monitor the heartbeat and temperature of a home's occupants. A conference November 19-20 sponsored by MIT and the Santa Fe Institute will address this trend by bringing together a variety of people from academia and industry who are working on complex systems. Speakers include Nobel laureate Murray Gell Mann and Alex d'Arbeloff, Chairman of Teradyne and of the MIT Corporation.