Topos Institute

We work to ensure that the infrastructure of the future belongs to the public

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Topos means place

Our place is the meeting point of academia, industry, and society. We convene a community of scientists, technologists, social impact experts, and policymakers to collectively advance sciences of connection and integration for the benefit of all.

We achieve our mission through three equally important interdependent pillars of activity

Together, these pillars pioneer a new model of the practice of science for societal good. This integrated combination of basic inquiry, guided by ethical engagement, and expressed in groundbreaking tools, is essential for facing the great, systemic challenges of our times.

Ethics and society

We believe technology is best co-created with society, so that diverse voices can shape its goals and impacts, and the values of communities are baked into the very core of what we build. In order to produce technology that benefits all, we need to ensure that all can be present in the conversations.

Fundamental science

Change begins at the source. We are a world-class mathematical and computer science research lab, whose work underpins today’s technology and presents a vision for tomorrow’s. We pioneer emerging mathematical sciences of connection and integration to help us collaboratively navigate towards a collective future.

Technological innovation

Our lives have been transformed by global networks of trade, travel, and communication. Driven by new technologies, these networks enrich our lives, but also lead to new threats, including surveillance, polarization, and pandemics. We work to ensure that the infrastructure of the future belongs to the public.