The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a non-profit research institute located in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States) and dedicated to the study of complex systems.
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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 at Florida Atlantic University [1]
- The CSE at UC Davis [2]
- 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[3]
Some of the other accomplishments 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.
- Foundational contributions to the complexity economics school of thought.
- SFI is coordinating the "Evolution of Human Languages" project, an attempt to trace all human language to a common root (cf. Proto-World).[4][5]
Resident faculty
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In popular culture
The fictional mathematician Ian Malcolm in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novels worked at the Santa Fe Institute.
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References
- ^ [http://www.ccs.fau.edu/ CCS
- The CSCS at the University of Michigan. CSCS
- ^ CSE
- ^ Institute Para Limes in Europe, retrieved 01 April 2008.]
- ^ Evolution of Human Languages
- ^ Linguists seek a time when we spoke as one. USA Today, 20 July 2007. [1]
- ^ John L. Casti: Biography
External links
- Official SFI site
- New England Complex Systems Institute
- The Center for Complex Systems
- The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at University of Michigan
- Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at UC-Davis
- The Santa Fe Complex
- First International Conference on Complex Systems
- YA "first" international conference on complex systems
- Evolution of Human Languages
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