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WEBWelcome to Santa Fe Institute. How do violent policies spread among governments? At the Santa Fe Institute, we're asking big questions.
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WEBThe Santa Fe Institute is leading the world in complexity science, with a mixed group of physicists, biologists, economists, political scientists, computer experts, and mathematicians working together. — Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books. Learn more about SFI. View all News. Science for a Complex World. Events. Here's what's ...
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WEBSFI's History. Founded in 1984, the Santa Fe Institute was the first research institute dedicated to the study of complex adaptive systems. We are operated as an independent, nonprofit 501 (c) (3) research and education center. Learn More.
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WEBResearch pursuits at SFI are highly exploratory, often risky expeditions into the unknown. Because we are looking for patterns and processes common to many kinds of systems – across physical, biological, social, technological realms – an insight or solution for one kind of system often snowballs into insights about other kinds of …
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WEBHigh on a hill, 7,500 feet above sea level in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Cowan Campus has served as the research hub for the Santa Fe Institute for nearly 30 years. The original estate was built in 1959 for Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, a politician and attorney. Hurley was the 51st United States Secretary of War serving under President ...
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WEBThis is the Santa Fe Institute, a sort of Justice League of renegade geeks, where teams of scientists from disparate fields study the Big Questions.
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WEBIn May 1984 the Institute was incorporated under the alternative name “Rio Grande Institute.” (Months later, Cowan purchased the preferred name “Santa Fe Institute” from the struggling treatment center for $5,000 and changed the Institute’s name to the “Santa Fe Institute for Science.”) In summer 1984, there were still many ...
What is complex systems science? | Santa Fe Institute
WEBThere are, however, on this planet, phenomena that are hidden in plain sight. These are the phenomena that we study as complex systems: the convoluted exhibitions of the adaptive world — from cells to societies. Examples of these complex systems include cities, economies, civilizations, the nervous system, the Internet, and ecosystems.
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WEBWelcome to Santa Fe Institute. You don't come here to get an answer to something. You come here to understand things in a different way.