SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) has received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ...

A recent study by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Steir and Professor Brandon Ogbunu in NPJ Complexity shows that many U.S.

Recent research has entirely vindicated the authors' once-controversial estimates of high levels of intergenerational persistence of economic status, the unimportance of the heritability of IQ in this ...

Yakovlev, G.,Gran, J. D.,Turcotte, D. L.,Rundle, J. B.,Holliday, J. R.,Klein, W. In this paper, a composite model for earthquake rupture initiation and propagation is ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding ...

Music is a universal language across time, peoples, and geographies, and also fundamental to our human experience, a result ...

Until recently, using machine learning for a specific task meant training the system on vast amounts of relevant data. The same was true for data representing a system that changes over time, says SFI ...

Local causal states are latent representations that capture organized pattern and structure in complex spatiotemporal systems. We expand their functionality, framing them as spacetime autoencoders.

Melanie Mitchell. Sandia National Laboratories. “Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs.” $600,000 for three years. Andrew Stier. Russell Sage Foundation. “Theory Directed Measurements of Implicit Racial ...

Greetings from the mountains of Santa Fe. In turbulent times for science and society, SFI’s role as “A place removed from the pressure of received ideas” (Murray Gell-Mann) is more important than ever ...

How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions? To model such a process, we used a genetic algorithm (GA) to ...