When physicists study a “random walk,” they’re investigating the path followed when you’re allowed to take each step in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain, continues to pass on life in the same form all the way down.
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 ...
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