C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time ...

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected ...

The Quantessence of Reality, former SFI External Professor Sander Bais offers a three-volume set that reviews classical physics, dives deeper into quantum mechanics, and explores the underpinnings of ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “his outstanding ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson ...

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

Abstract: Deterministic Turing machines and their associated complexity measures, by construction, cannot capture the complexity of the output of stochastic processes - like those in the real world.

Large language models like GPT-4, the one behind ChatGPT, train on vast stores of data to complete one task: Produce a convincing sequence of words in response to a user’s written request. The tools ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abstract: Democracy is a system: a complex nonlinear tightly coupled system of systems that's surprisingly vulnerable to hacking, subversion and ...