The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
In a special Science On Screen event Tuesday, February 11, physicist Geoffrey West and director Mark Levinson introduced the hit documentary film PARTICLE FEVER, the story of the machine and the people who sought, and found, the elusive Higgs boson.
SFI External Professor Herb Gintis remarks on a new paper that examines decision-making organisms' seemingly irrational violations of transitivity, or the logical ordering of preferences.
Nearly 200 prominent thinkers, including several researchers affiliated with SFI, responded to The Edge's annual big question: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
In an interview on VoiceAmerica, SFI External Professor Peter Neal Peregrine reconsiders population growth and technology as drivers of cultural evolution.
SFI President Jerry Sabloff has been selected to receive the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014.
"Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications, 1968-1988" by former SFI Trustee James Pelkey is now available as a hypertext online book.
SFI Chair of the Faculty Jennifer Dunne has announced that Mirta Galesic has been selected as SFI's next Cowan Chair in Human Social Dynamics. Galesic plans to join SFI in January 2015.
Name any problem that concerns humanity and "the city is the crucible where you will find it bubbling away,” said SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.
SFI's Eric Rupley tells a story about how declassified U.S. military satellite imagery offered key insights that helped changed archaeologists' views of early human societies.
A new study assessing the D-Wave Two, an updated version of the first commercial quantum computer, suggests that the device's apparent failure to outperform traditional computers could be attributable in part to reliance on inadequate benchmarks.
Complexity was little understood a generation ago, but research into complex systems now has important applications in many fields, from biology to political science. Several scientists discuss the history and promise of complexity science, noting SFI's contributions to the emerging field.
Participants in a summer 2012 workshop at SFI contributed to a recently published paper that defines the 25 defining challenges now before archaeology.
An SFI working paper by W. Brian Arthur has been selected as one of the best long-form business articles of 2013.
In an essay in the Templeton Foundation publication Big Questions Online, SFI's Melanie Mitchell asks what is complexity science.
In a recent paper, SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset and collaborator Sears Merritt find that scoring rhythms in pro hockey, football, and basketball are remarkably similar.
A representation of a food web by SFI Faculty Chair Jennifer Dunne is among Wired magazine's 10 best scientific visualizations of 2013.
Physics Today reviews Spin Glasses and Complexity, a recent book co-authored by SFI Science Board member Daniel Stein that offers an accessible introduction to spin glasses.
More than 200 million excess Google searches during the Great Recession for certain stress-related health ailments suggest that health and wealth may be more strongly linked than previously thought, a new study finds.
When Ben Althouse and Laurent Hebert- Dufresne attended SFI’s 2012 Complex Systems Summer School, they began a productive collaboration, developing a model of influenza resistance to antiviral medications.
Geriatrician Walter Bortz II, M.D. laments the shortcomings of reductionism, particularly in medicine, and notes SFI's interest in emergence.