In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. A recent paper in ...

Thank you to the many individuals and organizations who support our efforts to pursue the most compelling questions facing science and society today. This list of donors includes contributions from ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

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.

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, ...

Pietraszewski's representation scheme is parsimonious and intuitive. However, internal mental representations may be subject to resource constraints that prefer more unusual systems such as sparse ...

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 Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational ...