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 ...

Melanie MitchellJames B. Alley, Jr. Professor + Science Steering Committee Member at SFI, and Author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" ...

Influenza spreads in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when per-capita hospital beds plummet below the typical ...

This event is closed to the public. The origin of life is one of science’s most profound unsolved mysteries. While the 21st century has subsequently brought significant conceptual advances in ...

This event is closed to the public. For half a century a doomsday drumbeat has predicted the end of the physician’s profession. This workshop argues the opposite—a bright future, though a profoundly ...

This event is closed to the public. We formalize and investigate explainability of machine learning classification in the particular setting where the explanation is to be provided by a part ...

Every human has implicit biases, or involuntary associations about members of different social groups. But these biases are not fixed. Rather, they’re malleable reflections of our everyday experiences ...

For many researchers, peer review can feel like a black box. This study aims to analyse this undertheorized and undercharacterized process. (image: Edson De la O / SFI) By calling out potential biases ...