C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected ...

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to ...

We are building a theoretical framework that will guide the creation of artificial agents that adjust their neural networks (brains) to feedback from their bodies and surroundings -- in essence to ...

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to directly perceive their similarity. The latter approach, a shortcut that ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in issues of inequality by the economics profession. The sources of this increased interest are straightforward to discern. First, both increasing ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

What are models good for? Taking a largely pedagogical view, the following essay discusses the semantics of measurement and the uses to which an observer can put knowledge of a process's structure. To ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...