A new paper in the journal Birds documents what may be a previously undescribed Pine Grosbeak vocalization in a pattern that ...

In a new paper in PNAS, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton, SFI External Faculty Fellow, and Science Board ...

SFI External Professor Nicholas de Monchaux has been named the new dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED ...

In the 1970s, Thomas Nagel famously asked “what is it like to be a bat?” Today, large language models clamor to give an ...

Reporting on Math in the Age of A.I. ... Abstract TBA ...

Abstract: Diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) initiatives tend to be many-fold. However, while the approaches are rather diverse, the ultimate aim is to ensure a sustainable diverse population ...

Meeting Description: Claude Shannon’s landmark 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, took the radical step of defining information in a manner that completely eliminated meaning from ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary ...