A simple evolutionary process can discover sophisticated methods for emergent information-processing in decentralized spatially extended systems. The mechanisms underlying the resulting emergent ...

Levin, D. A.,Scarpino, S. V. Dated phylogenies rarely include the divergence times of sister intraspecific taxa, and when they do little is said about this subject. We show that over 90% of the ...

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

SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) has been named a Fellow of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an interdisciplinary research community that is dedicated to ...

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

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

In September 2016, Stanford's "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued the first report of its planned long-term periodic assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

In an attempt to understand the origin of relaxor ferroelectricity, it is shown that interesting behavior of the onset of nonergodicity and of precursor nanodomains, found in first-principles ...

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