9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast at SFI 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Introduction by David Krakauer, “Emergently Engineered Timescales” 10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. James Holehouse, "Unnecessary Bureaucracy?

Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII’s distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. The Collective Learning Network is a network of researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines and countries investigating the opportunities ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

Fifty-six participants from six continents met at SFI for the 2024 Postdocs in Complexity Global Summit on September 23–26. Participants shared knowledge and skills, discussed challenges, deepened ...

Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII’s distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their ...

SFI's Past President and Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West has received the Freedom of the City of London award. West was nominated by the Lord Mayor, Professor Michael Mainelli, for his ...

No matter how mundane or life-changing, the decisions we make are necessarily based on whatever limited information is available to us. If you’re weighing the risks of going outside during a pandemic, ...

SFI has consistently nurtured relationships with insightful practitioners and radical innovators. In robust discussions, these leaders have raised provoking questions and offered access to data, while ...

Two systems exist in thermal equilibrium if no heat passes between them. Computers, which consume energy and give off heat as they process information, operate far from thermal equilibrium. Were they ...