Santa Fe Institute
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The Santa Fe Institute (or SFI) is a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study of complex systems in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 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"), but it has recently announced that its original mission to develop and disseminate a general theory of complexity has been realized (noting that numerous complexity institutes and departments have sprung up around the world — cf. CCS, CSCS at the University of Michigan, the CSE at UC Davis and the NECSI), and that it was working on updating its mission for the coming fifty years.
SFI's complexity research led to efforts to create artificial life modelling real organisms and ecosystems in the 1980s and 1990s.
It is also mainly from the various works of the SFI that was founded the complexity economics school of thought.
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[edit] Scientists associated with the Santa Fe Institute
- W. Brian Arthur
- Per Bak
- John L. Casti [1]
- Jim Crutchfield
- J. Doyne Farmer
- Jessica Flack
- Walter Fontana
- Murray Gell-Mann
- John H. Holland
- Stuart Kauffman
- David Krakauer
- Christopher Langton
- Brian Goodwin
- Robert May
- John H. Miller
- Melanie Mitchell
- Mark Newman
- Ricard V. Solé
- Duncan Watts
- David B. Weinberger
- Douglas White
[edit] Publications
The publications of the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity all carry an imprint inspired by a Mimbres pottery design.
[edit] See also
- Complex adaptive system (or complexity science)
- Systems thinking
[edit] 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
- First International Conference on Complex Systems
- YA "first" international conference on complex systems
- Bandung Fe Institute Research Institute for Social Complexity Studies in Indonesia
