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February 7, 2017

Urban Sprawl—If Hunter-Gatherers Planned a City

Human settlements sprawl according to common factors, and modern cities show similar patterns to ancient ones, but hunter-gatherer encampments look much different. An SFI working group is trying to figure out why.

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February 6, 2017

VP for Science Jennifer Dunne named Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

For her central contributions to food web analyses, SFI Professor and Vice President for Science Jennifer Dunne has been selected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America for 2017.

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February 3, 2017

The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

Following an SFI discussion of recent events, President David Krakauer expresses unwavering commitment to the free exchange of ideas in a complex world.

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January 30, 2017

SFI's Jerry Sabloff to chair Cultural Property Advisory Committee

On September 30, 2016, SFI's Jeremy Sabloff was appointed the next Chair of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

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January 25, 2017

The Winter 2017 Parallax is now available

The Winter 2017 issue of SFI's quarterly newsletter is available online. Download it here.

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January 18, 2017

Rethinking general-purpose computing: Toward an internet of secure things

An SFI working group re-frames "cyber security-as-usual."

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January 17, 2017

From offense to defense in ecology and politics

Models from ecology may have some important things to teach us about politics, competition, and our modern-day social echo chambers. 

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January 13, 2017

JSMF, SFI fellows jam in first joint conference

Two sets of mathematically inclined, multidisciplinary postdocs convene at the Santa Fe Institute.

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December 13, 2016

Hacking geometry to crack math’s toughest unsolved problem

Working Group explores the suspiciously simple computer science question: Does P = NP?

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December 12, 2016

Modern approaches to a longstanding problem

It's not just us— ancient humans had to adapt to a changing climate, too.

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December 8, 2016

Nature’s living circuits and how they evolve

Circuits aren't just for electronics; living circuits exist in the biological world as well.

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December 6, 2016

Ray Monk is SFI's 2017 Miller Scholar

Philosopher and biographer Ray Monk is SFI’s Miller Scholar for 2017.

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December 6, 2016

Predicting unpredictability: Information theory offers new way to read ice cores

A new technique based in information theory promises to improve researchers' ability to interpret ice core samples and our understanding of the earth's climate history.

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December 1, 2016

A friend of a friend is…a dense network

Networks evolve in different ways depending on how often "second-neighbor," or friends-of-friends, connections occur.

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November 30, 2016

You might also like...a better, faster recommendation algorithm

Professor Cristopher Moore and collaborators unveil a more accurate, efficient algorithm for internet recommendations.

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November 29, 2016

How animals make decisions

Tools from human psychology could help behavioral ecologists learn about how other animals make decisions.

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November 22, 2016

Association for Psychological Science award recognizes Mahzarin Banaji

SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji has been selected to receive this year’s Association for Psychological Science’s (APS’s) William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of psychology.

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November 17, 2016

Living computation as a statistical physics problem

This week at SFI, a multidisciplinary group of experts is gathered at SFI to work toward a quantitative science of how living things process energy and information to solve problems.

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November 9, 2016

lawOS: Regulations as society’s operating system

A new research program at SFI looks at laws as operating systems for human societies.

 
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October 19, 2016

Video: Jordan Ellenberg on the power of uncertainty and contradiction

During an October 18 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg explored how math can help us think about the seemingly uncertain matters that dominate our lives. Watch his talk here.

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