The modern city of Santa Fe

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 and CSCS at the University of Michigan.^[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]

Faculty associated with the Santa Fe Institute

• W. Brian Arthur
• Per Bak
• Tanmoy Bhattacharya
• Samuel Bowles
• John L. Casti^[6]
• George Cowan
• Jim Crutchfield
• Jennifer A. Dunne
• Douglas Erwin
• J. Doyne Farmer
• Jessica Flack
• Walter Fontana
• Stephanie Forrest

• Murray Gell-Mann
• Brian Goodwin
• John H. Holland
• Stuart Kauffman
• Bette Korber
• David Krakauer
• Christopher Langton
• J. Stephen Lansing
• Brian Goodwin
• Robert May
• Cormac McCarthy
• John H. Miller
• Melanie Mitchell

• Cristopher Moore
• Harold Morowitz
• Mark Newman
• D. Eric Smith
• Ricard V. Solé
• George Starostin
• Duncan Watts
• David B. Weinberger
• Geoffrey West
• Douglas R. White
• Jon Wilkins
• Chris C. Wood
• Libby Wood

See also

• Complex systems
• Complex adaptive system
• Systems thinking
• Dee Hock

References

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
• Evolution of Human Languages

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