THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Social and computer scientists stand at the cusp of a revolution, with the potential of AI and Machine Learning poised to transform social and computational research and teaching.
The Chicago Center for Computational Social Science (C3S2), informally known as “the Cube” (C3), was created in early 2026 as part of the University of Chicago’s Division of the Social Sciences to support new collaborative activities. Over the past decade, research and teaching at the intersection of social science and computation have matured at the university to the point where a dedicated center is warranted: More than 20 UChicago departments, centers and labs now engage in computational social science, including in Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Comparative Human Development, Booth, Harris, and more.
The goal of the Cube is to serve as the hub for this group of researchers, instructors and students, and their projects, courses, and engagement opportunities. It will be successful if it builds new engagement opportunities, strengthens pathways and programs for undergraduate and graduate students to connect with CSS classes and research, catalyzes new cross-disciplinary research, and develops industrial and policy partnerships in the next three years.
The Center’s physical home is the East Wing of 1155 East 60th Street, where it joins complementary programs such as Knowledge Lab, the MA in Computational Social Science, and the Spatial Data Science Lab. The space includes flexible teaching labs, seminar and collaboration rooms.