SFI Applied Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Zhang will join the inaugural class of US Research Software Sustainability ...

Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation are based on spin models which include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily -- the tendency for people with similar ...

The concept of emergence, and several auxiliary ideas, including coarse-graining, effective theory, and compression, play a huge role in complexity science. Formalizing emergence is becoming more ...

Science Board & Trustees Symposium on The Emergent Political Economy of Climate Change ...

SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain clinical ...

For more than 100 years, electric companies in the U.S. have maintained the same basic business model, carefully fine-tuned to sometimes conflicting local, state, and federal regulation. But over the ...

SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Policies designed to promote green behavior can backfire. “Imagine a policy that banned cars in cities. People might start biking more, reducing carbon emissions. But many would feel a loss of freedom ...

Over the past three years, C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time Resident Professor. Ogbunu’s life has defied ...

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 ...