Social and Information Sciences Laboratory at CalTech

The Social and Information Sciences Laboratory - SISL - studies how markets and other social systems aggregate large amounts of information that is widely distributed. Researchers in SISL are also working to design new and improved markets, network protocols, sensor systems, and political processes. One of the novel aspects of SISL research concerns understanding how humans interact with technology and what that implies about the design of the technology. Since such systems involve both human behavior and technology, SISL brings together researchers from the social sciences, engineering, and applied and computational mathematics.