Santa Fe Institute

SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur explores how new technology is created, and how closely evolutionary processes in technology mirror those from biology.

An article in The Guardian about ways to build sustainable cities offers advice from several experts, beginning with SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt.

The city is no longer just a place but a living field of information to be harvested, according to an article that cites early work at SFI to see if Kleiber's Law helped describe cities.

SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset's research to find statistical patterns underlying large datasets, including data about terrorism, is featured in the Denver Westword News.

Cities have been compared to everything from beehives to river networks, but most of these metaphors fall short. SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt looks to the data to suggest a new way of thinking about how cities function and grow.

A new multimedia exhibit at the Santa Fe Children's Museum gives kids a glimpse of what SFI scientists are learning about cities.

A 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.

SFI 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.

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.

The Atlantic's Emily Badger asks whether mathematical scaling relationships found in past SFI research can be extended to natural space, such as parks and tree cover.