SFI’s Orlando Montoya: Keeping the Institute humming for 17 years

Orlando Montoya makes possible the Institute’s constant hum of activity by keeping the lights on, keeping the boiler running, and performing (with a smile) myriad other activities critical to SFI’s smooth operation. He started working on the property in 1969, when it was owned by the family of Gen. Patrick Hurley, the former U.S. Secretary of War and New Mexico candidate for U.S. Senate.

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Video: The science & practice of cooperation

In an October 13 SFI public lecture, Harvard's Yochai Benkler questions the centuries-old practice of managing people through rewards and punishment and reviews successful institutions that succeed through cooperation. Watch the video here.

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SFI welcomes four Omidyar Fellows

The Institute has named four new Omidyar Fellows to join the six current Omidyar Fellows at SFI. Meet SFI's four new Fellows and learn about, apply for, or support the Omidyar Fellowship.

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Exhibit: How did life emerge?

SFI is leading an NSF-supported collaboration to create a new permanent exhibit for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque. The exhibit takes a fresh look at the origins of life. 


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Massachusetts Undergrads team up with middle schools to rethink traffic corridor

Several DeVargas Middle School students who are part of Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically), one of 28 such programs in the state hosted by the Santa Fe Institute that encourage young women and men to pursue science, technology, engineering and math careers, took time out of class to learn some real-world techniques for data collection from eight Massachusetts college students.

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Math Professor Helps Uncover Art Fakes

Daniel Rockmore, SFI External Professor and Dartmouth College mathematics department Chair, has developed a technique that sleuths out forgeries, estimated to make up 20 percent of the art market.

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The Enemy of My Enemy

Steven Strogatz, SFI External Professor and Professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, says it's traditional to teach kids subtraction right after addition.  "If you can cope with calculating 23 + 9, you’ll be ready for 23 – 9 soon enough," writes Strogatz.

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