Not 'The Sims,' But Close: How Computer Models Help Public Health Researchers Plan for Disasters

If a plume of toxic smoke was to hit downtown Los Angeles, would you be better staying inside your building or dashing for the street?

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NYU College of Global Public Health professor Joshua M. Epstein’s research uses "agent-based modeling"—think of a more serious version of the game "The Sims"—to predict how real people with real emotions will respond and interact in the case of a major emergency.