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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
Science On Screen continues May 8 with Simon DeDeo and 'Sneakers'
The popular Science On Screen series returns to Santa Fe Wednesday evening, May 8, with Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker film Sneakers. ... More
Past REU student works to harness cell phone data for social good
MIT NewsJameson Toole, a 2009 participant in SFI's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, sees cell phones as little sensors with big potential, according to a feature in MIT News. ... 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
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
Giving those 'who fly the economy more information and a better control stick'
PNASSFI researchers are building improved models capable of capturing the financial behavior of millions of households, companies, and governments playing roles in an economy. ... More
Video: In sports & gaming, how a competition's structure determines tempo & outcomes
In a recent SFI seminar, Aaron Clauset introduces a model that can quantify a competition's scoring tempo and balance and uses the model to draw interesting new conclusions about the relationship between a game's structure and dynamics. ... More
Optimizing optimization
In trying to optimize a data-rich process using many sources of information, scientists traditionally have used their intuitions to choose from information sources on the fly. SFI External Professor David Wolpert wants to let machines do it instead. ... 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
Video: How one researcher is studying the co-evolution of economics and sociality...in the rainforest
SFI Omidyar Fellow Paul Hooper wants to understand how economics and human social behavior have co-evolved through human history to create the highly complex institutions we are a part of today ... More
Linda Cordell passed away March 29
Linda Cordell, an SFI External Professor and a senior scholar at the School for Advanced Research, passed away in her Santa Fe home on Friday, March 29. She was 69. ... More
The hunt for a unifying theory of particle interactions
Today Online (Singapore)Finding a theory that unifies all interactions among particles, including gravitation, is the Holy Grail of physics, said SFI Distinguished Fellow and co-founder Murray Gell-Mann during a recent visit to Singapore. ... More
New clues to Wikipedia's shared super mind
Wikipedia'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
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
High school students: Apply now for the Summer Complexity and Modeling Program (CAMP)
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking current high school students for its Summer Complexity and Modeling Program (CAMP), July 28 through August 9, 2013. Space is limited; apply now. ... More
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