Santa Fe Institute Totally Explained

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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a non-profit research institute, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, dedicated to the study of complex systems.

Overview

The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky. All but Pines and Gell-Mann were scientists with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary research area, complexity theory referred to at SFI as "complexity science". Recently it has announced that its original mission to develop and disseminate a general theory of complexity has been realized. It noted that numerous complexity institutes and departments have sprung up around the world, including the following:

The CCS and CSCS at the University of Michigan.
The CSE at UC Davis
The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University
The New England Complex Systems Institute
The Institute Para Limes, a European initiative based in the Netherlands

Some of the other accomplisments of the SFI are:

SFI's complexity research led to efforts to create artificial life modeling real organisms and ecosystems in the 1980s and 1990s.

From various works of the SFI school of the complexity economics thought was founded .

SFI is coordinating the "Evolution of Human Languages" project, an attempt to trace all human language to a common root (cf. Proto-World).

Faculty associated with the Santa Fe Institute

W. Brian Arthur

Per Bak

Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Sam Bowles

John L. Casti

George Cowan

Jim Crutchfield

Jennifer A. Dunne

Douglas Erwin

J. Doyne Farmer

Jessica Flack

Walter Fontana

Bette Korber

David Krakauer

J. Stephen Lansing

John H. Miller

Melanie Mitchell

Christopher Moore

Harold Morowitz

Mark Newman

D. Eric Smith

Ricard V. Solé

Jon Wilkins

Chris C. Wood

Libby Wood Further Information

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