Fifty-six participants from six continents met at SFI for the 2024 Postdocs in Complexity Global Summit on September 23–26.

SFI has consistently nurtured relationships with insightful practitioners and radical innovators. In robust discussions, ...

SFI's Past President and Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West has received the Freedom of the City of London award.

No matter how mundane or life-changing, the decisions we make are necessarily based on whatever limited information is ...

In a new PNAS Perspective, a team of authors argues that stochastic thermodynamics provides the mathematical tools needed to ...

SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University) received a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in ...

A historical archive of SFI's in-house preprint series, retired in 2017.

Fifty-six participants from six continents met at SFI for the 2024 Postdocs in Complexity Global Summit on September 23–26. Participants shared knowledge and skills, discussed challenges, deepened ...

Large language models, like ChatGPT and Claude, have remarkably coherent communication skills. Yet, what this says about their “intelligence” isn’t clear. Is it possible that they could arrive at the ...

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, ...

Using computer databases of scientific papers in physics, biomedical research, and computer science, we have constructed networks of collaboration between scientists in each of these disciplines. In ...

Through conceptual examples and demonstrations, we argue that the symbiotic combination of the Internet and humans will result in a significant enhancement of the previously existing, self-organizing ...