This spring, the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Board Chair and Vice-Chair, ...

This spring, the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Board Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. McKinnon and Peters, who both grew up in New Mexico, have multi ...

ACtioN Briefing: AI’s Impact on Social and Economic Distributions - Resource Page ...

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In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

Cormac McCarthy, a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the greatest American novelists, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, at his home in Santa Fe. He was 89 years old.

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind, died peacefully May 24, 2019.

A new paper in Animal Behaviour lays out three concepts from complex systems science that could advance studies into animal social complexity.

What if life evolved not just once, but multiple times independently?  In a new paper, published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Santa Fe Institute researchers Chris Kempes ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific ...