SFI Fractal Faculty member Stuart Firestein's new book, It Could Be Otherwise, "proposes a subtly radical notion," writes SFI ...
In natural and artificial systems, the act of searching is ubiquitous, but it's also complicated: Searchers may die off or ...
Influenza spreads in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when per-capita hospital beds plummet below the typical ...
SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead of the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, ...
Melanie MitchellJames B. Alley, Jr. Professor + Science Steering Committee Member at SFI, and Author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" ...
This event is closed to the public. What would the antebellum American economy have looked like without slavery? Using new micro-data on the U.S. economy in 1860, we document that where free and ...
This event is closed to the public. This meeting is the second annual retreat for the ARIA project. ARIA, or the AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants, is a multi-institution ...
SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University) received a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...
“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...
In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...
Since the 1970s, the cost of solar-energy systems has plummeted by over 99 percent. In a recent paper published in PLOS One, SFI External Professor Jessika Trancik (MIT) and colleagues identify the ...
External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to ...