New Awards
David Wolpert. “Conference: NeST: Neuromorphic Stochastic Thermodynamics Workshop at SFI.” National Science Foundation. $49,373 for one year.
Melanie Mitchell and David Krakauer. “Building Diverse Intelligences through Compositionality and Mechanism Design." Templeton World Charity Foundation/Indiana University. $246,689 for almost two years.
New Proposals
Jen Dunne and Chris Kempes. “Life’s Processes Under Extremes, from Genomes to the Biosphere; The Biodiversity Forecasting Institute.” Simons Foundation. $810,988 for five years.
Chris Kempes, David Krakauer, and Melanie Mitchell. “The Emergence of Agentic Intelligence: The Physics of Life, Autonomy, and Meaning.” John Templeton Foundation/University of Rochester. $826,454 for almost three years.
David Wolpert. “Neuro Thermo Kit: Estimating Entropy Production and Free Energy from Brain Data.” National Institutes of Health/City College of New York. $698,861 for three years.