UPDATE: Dr. Sayama had to cancel his early retirement and go back to work, because his "Distributed Ghost" began watching anime and reading manga non-stop. At the press conference, he stated: "That's one small defeat for a man, one giant accomplishment for mankind."

[BREAKING] Binghamton, NY - The Sayama AI Lab at Binghamton University successfully developed "Distributed Ghost", a revolutionary technology that allows for the total conversion of a human individual's physical/mental processes into 4D deterministic cellular automata rules. #AFD

Final version published - here is a 50-day free access link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mr7e1M2-2...

New paper just released in Physica A: Why we experience society differently: Intrinsic dispositions as drivers of ideological complexity in adaptive social networks doi.org/10.1016/j.ph... Work by Akshay Gangadhar [Note that this is still a pre-proof version]

Thanks to the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science at @binghamtonu.bsky.social, the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (@ssieschoolbu.bsky.social), and the School of Management at @binghamtonu.bsky.social !

Thanks to Entropy (an open access journal by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social) and to the Graduate School at @binghamtonu.bsky.social !

Thanks to Frontiers in Complex Systems, PLOS Complex Systems (host by @plos.org), and the Institute for AI and Society at @binghamtonu.bsky.social !

Let's start revving up our engines for #CCS2026 by thanking all the sponsors who will make this event possible. Thanks to them, we will be able to offer you a unique and unforgettable event!

Photos from Christian's CoCo talk yesterday

Good news if you’re still finishing your #ALIFE2026 submission! ⏳ Deadline extended to April 12, 2026 (AoE) — final extension. 📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year. 👉 Details & templates on our website. 2026.alife.org

Christian's amazing CoCo talk now on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1177500991

The International Society for Artificial Life is offering 5$ memberships to a limited number of people located in low/middle income countries. If you have been interested in the membership benefits (alife.org/membership/) but cannot afford it, apply here: alife.org/2026/03/24/n... #ALife

Photos from Jordan's CoCo talk yesterday

Christian's CoCo seminar tomorrow!

Jordan's Extra CoCo Seminar is now on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1176730203

You know your day's gonna be great when you learn your favorite Dunkin employee is also a fellow CSM fan Today is the day, folks

Updated flyer of Jordan's extra CoCo seminar tomorrow

Wut, why

CoCo Seminar on *Thursday* March 26 by Christian Peco from PSU about Swarm Robotics! (in EB T1)

Extra CoCo Seminar on Tursday March 24 by Jordan Scharmhorst (in EB R15)

Paper accepted

For authors submitting papers to ALIFE 2026 once the next week. Today I belatedly learned that submissions should NOT be anonymized. This came from Chrystopher Nehaniv (@nehanivcl.bsky.social) one of the conference co-chairs. #ALife

Photos from Spring 2026 CoCo Student-Faculty Mixer

Grant rejected

The Distributed Maple Leaves -- a special session at ALIFE 2026 Please submit your cutting-edge work! bingdev.binghamton.edu/sayama/SS-di...

Happy -i log(-1) in the US

New paper out: On the Preservation of Input/Output Directed Graph Informativeness Under Crossover doi.org/10.1155/cplx... Great collaboration with Andreas Pape, J. David Schaffer and Chris Zosh!

Trying the #NERCCS2026 presenter badge generator tool

#NERCCS2026 was a fantastic conference!! Huge thanks to the organizers! See you all at CCS2026 in Binghamton this fall

Closing both the LLM Learning, Optimization, and Alignment parallel session and #NERCCS2026, Andrea Monoli shows us his approach to characterize AI agents interacting in a common environment.

Keep going, Ossama Zaroual presents his project on how to automate prompt engineering using modularity and genetic algorithms. #NERCCS2026

Now kicking off the last parallel session on LLM Learning, Optimization, and Alignment, Nancy Dhameja discusses how prospect theory can inform LLMs training. #NERCCS2026

Leonardo Mascagni studies opinion formation dynamics among multiple LLM agents #NERCCS2026

Andreas Pape uses LLM agents to see if they show similar behaviors in the segregation model #NERCCS2026

*Portland ME

The last day of #NERCCS2026 starts with @ireneferri.bsky.social promoting our US Northeast Chapter of the Complex Systems Society. Follow @cssusne.bsky.social, join our #ComplexSystems community, and see you in Portland MN next year for #NERCCS2027! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Krishnan Padmanabhan, our last keynote speaker at #NERCCS2026, gives us an overview of his research on experimental neuroscience and mathematical modeling of the brain.

Final #NERCCS2026 keynote speaker Krishnan Padmanabhan studies experimentally the dynamics of animal brain development

Amahury and Irene introducing the CSS US Northeast Chapter #NERCCS2026 #NERCCS2027 will be in Portland, ME!!

Final day of #NERCCS2026 will start soon!

From today's afternoon session (3) #NERCCS2026

From today's afternoon session (2) #NERCCS2026

From today's afternoon session (1) #NERCCS2026

#NERCCS2026 speaker dinner!

Gerardo Palafox-Castillo closes the Self-Organization, Robustness, and Epidemic Coupling session by discussing his epidemic model, capable of capturing symbiotic processes. See you tomorrow for more! #NERCCS2026

Gerardo Palafox-Castillo studies co-infection SIR models #NERCCS2026

Our second keynote speaker today is Adilson Motter, who overviewed high-order interactions in physical networks and introduced a general tensor-based framework to represent them. #NERCCS2026

Now Srikanth Iyer presents his research on using density classification in cellular automata to characterize collective intelligence, using bacteria quorum as motivation. #NERCCS2026

Now starting the Self-Organization, Robustness, and Epidemic Coupling parallel session, Georgi Georgiev presents his general approach to characterize self-organization in open stochastic systems. #NERCCS2026

Srikanth Iyer shows that density classification rules with greater redundancy and robustness evolve under noisy conditions #NERCCS2026