Five millennia ago, wealth inequality — which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years — exploded. It has stayed ...

SFI External Professors Alison Gopnik and Scott Page are among 120 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced ...

SFI Life Trustee and Chairman Emeritus Bill Miller has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Miller ...

Collective action can be highly effective within a community, but can be harder to achieve across communities. People who ...

SFI Applied Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Zhang joins the inaugural class of U.S. Research Software Sustainability ...

Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with domain-general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of language. Recent research in the ...

We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, when averaged over all possible cost functions. In particular, if algorithm A outperforms algorithm ...

We develop a unifying approach for complexity measures, based on the principle that complexity requires interactions at different scales of description. Complex systems are more than the sum of their ...

SFI opened the doors to its newest building, constructed at the Miller Campus in Tesuque. With floor-to-ceiling sliding glass ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

This paper tests two of the simplest and most popular trading rules--moving average and trading range break, by utilizing a very long data series, the Dow Jones index from 1897 to 1986. Standard ...