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Live on Twitter: Follow the complexity economics rethink live this week
May 14, 2012 -

The economics status quo isn't working; it's time for a rethink. SFI and the Krasnow Institute present "The Science of Complexity: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis" May 16-18 in Arlington, Virginia. Follow the discussion live on Twitter at #rethink.

Video - Rebecca Goldstein lecture on appealing to intuitions: Why we can't get along without them
April 16, 2012 -

In an SFI Community Lecture on April 9 in Santa Fe, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein considered intuition as an essential part of our moral and philosophical thinking. Watch the video here.

Video: What Computers Teach Us About Being Human
March 22, 2012 -

In a February community lecture, Brian Christian shared his experiences as a "confederate" in an annual man vs. computer "Turing Test," offering insights on ways computers are reshaping what it means to be human. Watch his presentation here.

2012 at SFI: Asking big questions that matter
- Santa Fe New Mexican
Jan. 3, 2012 -

SFI President Jerry Sabloff tells readers of the Santa Fe New Mexican what the Institute does, and why 2012 is a year for asking big questions at SFI.

Audio: 'Science symphony’ combines Bach and brain science
- Santa Fe Radio Cafe
Nov. 3, 2011 -

On Sunday, October 30, in Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Symphony collaborated to produce a unique concert event exploring the interface between music and science. Listen to the radio interview here.

Video - Copyright in the digital age: Mine, yours, or ours?
Nov. 1, 2011 -

In an October 5 community lecture, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling explored how free access to digital media is blurring the lines between intellectual property and individual expression and what that means for copyright law. Watch the video here.

Resident faculty positions: SFI seeks broad, creative, risk-taking, transdisciplinary thinkers
Sept. 27, 2011 -

The Santa Fe Institute is seeking nominations and applications for resident faculty positions.

Video: Security & Cryptography in a Quantum World
April 22, 2011 -

Cryptography has come a long way since invisible ink and decoder rings. In an April 13 SFI community lecture, Cris Moore describes how we might protect information in a future world of quantum computing. Watch the video here.

New book: Duncan Watts on how common sense fails us
April 12, 2011 -

A new book by Duncan Watts reviews recent research in social science and social networking and shows how what we call common sense can mislead us and undermine our ability to address complex issues in business, government, and life.

Video: The complexities of a way forward in Afghanistan
March 10, 2011 -

SFI’s 2011 community lecture series began March 2, with SFI Diplomat in Residence Bill Frej describing the complex system of Afghanistan and the challenges of achieving sustainable development in that war-torn country. Watch the video here.

Video: SFI President Urges Anthropologists to Go Public or Perish
- SFI News
Dec. 20, 2010 -

In a distinguished lecture at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, SFI President Jerry Sabloff urges his anthropological peers to go public or perish. Watch the video.


SFI's Valerie Plame Wilson's experiences portrayed in “Fair Game”
- SFI News
Nov. 5, 2010 -

SFI’s Valerie Plame Wilson and her experiences as a former CIA agent are portrayed in the movie "Fair Game," which opened in major cities November 5.  

October 31 music-science symphony to explore the planets
- SFI News
Oct. 25, 2010 -

Where science meets music: "Voyages of Discovery: The Planets," a collaboration between SFI and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, interspersed music, visual imagery, and scientific commentary.

Video: The science & practice of cooperation
- SFI News
Oct. 24, 2010 -

In an October 13 SFI public lecture, Harvard's Yochai Benkler questions the centuries-old practice of managing people through rewards and punishment and reviews successful institutions that succeed through cooperation. Watch the video here.

Taking a fresh look at the peopling of the Americas
- SFI News
Sept. 28, 2010 -

Recent advances in biology, linguistics, and computer modeling, along with new archeological finds, prompted SFI to host a September meeting that took a fresh, transdisciplinary look at the peopling of the Americas.

What secrets does the ECG still hold?
- SFI Public Lecture
Aug. 17, 2010 -

On August 18 in Santa Fe, SFI External Professor Tim Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine, explained how paying closer attention to the electrocardiogram's signal might shed new light on the complex adaptive system that is human health.

We've run out of time on sustainability. Here's what we should do about it.
- Santa Fe New Mexican
July 13, 2010 -

Dennis Meadows, who has spent decades studying Earth's capacity to endure human population growth and extractive economies, says we've run out of time to turn around our global version of the Titanic...

Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology - the Santa Fe Institute Perspective
March 2, 2010 -

May 19 through May 21, 2010 in Portland Oregon. The course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.

The Santa Fe Institute at 25 Featured on the Science Network
- The Science Network
Feb. 10, 2010 -

The Santa Fe Institute celebrates 25 years.

Watch video interviews with SFI Professors David Krakauer, Sam Bowles, Murray Gell-Mann and Harold Morowitz discussing the future of complexity .

Seminar - Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Feb. 10, 2010 -

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 12:15 p.m. Medium Conference Room

 Memento: Time Travel for the Web

Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Seminar - Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
Feb. 9, 2010 -

Wednesday, February 10,  2010 - 3:30 p.m. - Noyce

Community Detection Algorithms:  A Comparative Analysis

Santo Fortunato, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Italy

SFI Professor Sam Bowles Featured in the Santa Fe Reporter
- Santa Fe Reporter
Feb. 9, 2010 -

Born Poor ? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.

Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems. Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [Using Networks to Make Predictions]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Thursday, September 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [What Networks Can Tell Us about the World]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [The Connected World]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

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