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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a non-profit
research institute located in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States) and dedicated to the study
of complex
systems.
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:
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]
Resident
faculty
Other
associated faculty
In popular
culture
The fictional mathematician Ian Malcolm in Michael
Crichton's Jurassic Park novels worked at the Santa
Fe Institute.
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