SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University) received a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in ...

Large language models, like ChatGPT and Claude, have remarkably coherent communication skills. Yet, what this says about their “intelligence” isn’t clear. Is it possible that they could arrive at the ...

SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Sam Zhang wants to understand the causal mechanisms that drive outcomes — particularly the ...

In my talk, I went over two main empirical studies. In the first, we used a dataset that highly-sampled 10 individual subjects, across different days and tasks. We asked how functional brain networks ...

Susan FitzpatrickPresident (Retired) of the James S McDonnell Foundation, + Chief Strategist, LSRT Associates; Science Board Member at SFI ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abstract: Open Source Software is everywhere: from our phones to our cars, behind our banks and health systems, and even on Mars. Last but not least, ...

Monte Carlo simulation is widely used to price complex financial instruments. Recent theoretical results and extensive computer testing indicate that deterministic methods may be far superior in speed ...

Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

We argue that the coordination of the activities of individual complex agents enables a system to develop and sustain complexity at a higher level. We exemplify relevant mechanisms through computer ...