News + Events
The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
Smithsonian Magazine: Scientists Discover Exposed Bacteria Can Survive in Space for Years
With commentary from SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Grefenstette.
Knowable: Why some artificial intelligence is smart until it's dumb
Quoting SFI Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell and citing her book AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
Big Think: How math predicts life on Earth and the universe beyond
Interviewing SFI Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West.
Aeon: Uncertain times
Esssay by SFI Professor Jessica Flack and Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell.
KSFR 101.1 FM: When Big Data and Criminal Justice Combine, Bias Can Happen If Not Careful
Interview with SFI Professor Cris Moore and UNM Assistant Professor Kathy Powers, both members of the Interdisciplinary Working Group for Algorithmic Justice.
MarketWatch: Opinion: Why the COVID-19 'baby bust' could impact stock prices
Citing research by SFI External Professor John Geanakoplos.
Wired: A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring
Quoting SFI External Professor Danielle Bassett.
CNET: Digital data could overtake Earth's actual atoms, physicist says
Quoting SFI Professor David Wolpert.
BioWorld: For neurodegeneration, a different way to slice the pie
Quoting SFI External Professor Danielle Bassett.
The Economist: A new AI language model generates poetry and prose
Quoting SFI Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell.
Los Angeles Times: What will it take for schools to reopen safely in the midst of a pandemic?
Citing work by SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers, SFI Professor Michael Lachmann, and Spencer Fox at the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
PhysicsWorld: COVID-19: an economic perspective
An interview with SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer.
The New York Times: The Risk That Students Could Arrive at School With the Coronavirus
Featuring research by SFI Professor Michael Lachmann, External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers (University of Texas Austin), and Spencer Fox (University of Texas Austin).
Santa Fe Reporter: Best of Santa Fe 2020-- Arts & Entertainment
Naming SFI's Community Lecture Series #2 in Santa Fe for Best Lecture Series.
Knowable Magazine: Collective behavior: How animals work together
Featuring work by SFI Science Board member Deborah Gordon.
FQXi: Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay Contest
Awarding second place to an essay by SFI Professor David Wolpert and Omidyar Fellow David Kinney, titled "Noisy Deductive Reasoning: How Humans Construct Math, and How Math Constructs Universes."
Harvard Business Review: Reopening the Office? Here’s How to Stymie Transmission of Covid-19.
Op-ed by SFI External Professor Scott E. Page.
APS Physics Magazine: A Statistical Model for Optimizing Output
Featuring research by SFI Professor Sidney Redner and colleagues.
IFL Science: Preventing A Future Pandemic Could Cost A Tiny Fraction Of Military Spending
Featuring research by SFI External Professor Andy Dobson and colleagues.