SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell has received a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of flexible, relational reasoning that comes naturally to humans. Program ...

Why do people make short-term decisions that may not be in their long-term interest? An October 22-25 working group takes ...

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...

Popular and academic books and chapters, authored or edited by SFI researchers. Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

Through meetings, schools, community events, and media, we invite curiosity-driven individuals to share our discoveries and support complex systems science. For more than 35 years, a small team of ...

You don't come here to get an answer to something. You come here to understand things in a different way.

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 ...

“. . . 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 ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Each student develops a project in collaboration with their mentor(s); ...