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SFI Community Lecture Thursday night: Zoobiquity with Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
In an SFI Community Lecture on Thursday evening, May 30, in Santa Fe, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz draws from the latest in medical and veterinary science to propose an approach to health for doctors treating patients of all species. ... More
Student study of ignition interlock devices attributes fewer crashes to 2005 law
Four Santa Fe-area high school students teamed up with three SFI scientists to study data about the effectiveness of ignition interlock devices in curbing drunken driving accidents in New Mexico, with illustrative results. ... More
Simon DeDeo's presentation of 'Sneakers'
The popular Science On Screen series continued Wednesday, May 8, with SFI's Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker film Sneakers. If you missed the event, you can read DeDeo's remarks here. ... More
What drives the nonliving to living, the simple to complex, and the instinctual to intellectual?
Chronicle of Higher EducationAn article in the Chronicle of Higher Education explores on the intersection of philosophy and evolution and invokes the perspectives of several current and past SFI researchers about evolution, order, and complexity. ... More
Which came first: Farming or private property? Wrong question, suggests new paper
PNASIt has long been assumed that the advent of farming 12 millennia ago led to the advent of private property rights. A new paper and some mathematical modeling by SFI researchers tell a very different story. ... More
What to do with 'big data' when we don't yet have a theory of complex systems
Scientific AmericanA column in Scientific American by SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West makes the case for a theory of complex systems. ... More
Video: To keep pace with challenges, we need to innovate faster and more cooperatively
Skoll FoundationIn a Skoll Foundation "Dare to Imagine" video, SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West offers his thoughts about innovation, cooperation, and sustainable growth. ... More
Big data for personalized medical treatment
Boston GlobeColin Hill, whose company GNS Healthcare is helping provide personalized medical treatment through genetic data analytics, says his summer at SFI contributed to his idea to merge chaos theory, big data, genetics, and health care. ... More
Sen. Jeff Bingaman elected to SFI's Board of Trustees
Former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (ret.) has been elected to the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees for a three-year appointment. ... More
The science of families: SFI's Paul Hooper on why we need grandparents
Santa Fe New MexicanSFI Omidyar Fellow Paul Hooper writes about his research to understand the origin of some traits that make us uniquely human, including the support of both parents and grandparents during an unusually lengthy period of child development. ... More
In memoriam: Darragh Nagle
Darragh Nagle, one of the Santa Fe Institute's co-founders, passed away on April 22. He was 94. ... More
States of complexity: Why and how did the state emerge in human societies?
SFI’s interactive science magazine, the SFI Bulletin, is now live. Our first issue of 2013, "States of Complexity," explores the increasing complexity of human society. ... More
Two SFI Science Board members elected to the National Academy of Sciences
SFI congratulates two of its Science Board members, Marcus Feldman and Juris Hartmanis, who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. ... More
Quantum illumination demonstrated in lab
NatureResearchers have demonstrated quantum illumination in the lab, a technique first proposed in 2008 by SFI Science Board member and External Professor Seth Lloyd, according to a paper published in Nature. ... More
Quantitative urbanism: The city as one giant math problem
Smithsonian magazineA feature in the May issue of Smithsonian reviews the birth at SFI of the growing field of "quantitative urbanism" and its progress toward an improved theoretical, mathematical understanding of cities. ... More
Revealing the rhythms and patterns of violence
The Financial TimesSFI External Professor Aaron Clauset is among a small group of scientists beginning to use statistical tools from seismology and physics to forecast future patterns of war and terrorism. ... More
New clues to Wikipedia's shared super mind
Newsweek/The Daily BeastWikipedia's remarkable accuracy and usefulness comes from something larger than the sum of its written contributions, a new study by SFI Research Fellow Simon DeDeo finds. ... More
One photographer's 'day with Sam Shepard' at SFI
Photographer Mike Piscitelli spent a day at SFI with Sam Shepard recently and posted this selection of photos. ... More
Intelligent behavior as a response to entropy?
SFI Research Fellow Simon DeDeo comments on a recent paper in Physical Review Letters that proffers a mathematical explanation for intelligent behavior based on entropy. ... More
Three SFI-affiliated scientists named Guggenheim Fellows
Three SFI-affiliated scientists -- Jessica Green, Scott Page, and Patricia McAnany -- are among 175 U.S. and Canadian scholars, artists, and scientists named today as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. ... More
Court transcripts, military reports reveal telling patterns in information
SFI researchers are drawing on information theory and a couple of remarkable datasets – hundreds of years of courtroom transcripts and thousands of military action reports – to discover hidden patterns in information. ... More
Announcing the 2013 Chile Complex Systems Summer School
The Santa Fe Institute and the Universidad del Desarrollo are now accepting applications for the 2013 Chile Complex Systems Summer School. ... More
Study: 'Economy of scale laws' hold up well against observed data
NatureResearchers from SFI and MIT have evaluated six economy of scale "laws" against observed data for 62 technologies and found that they do fairly well in predicting relationships between the scale and cost of technological production. ... More
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