Abstract. The working group at the Institute 14-16 February 2016 will bring together economists, people from the publishing business (both electronic and print), online content designers, and others.

SFI External Professor Brian Enquist (University of Arizona) has been awarded the Ecological Society of America's prestigious ...

SFI External Professor Han van der Maas has been named the next director of the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Van der Maas, a professor of psychological methods at the ...

The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation have awarded SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers working in network science. The ...

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good at recognizing objects from this kind of minimal 3D information. A new ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...

In a recent paper, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhao Zhang and co-author William Gilpin show that a deceptively simple forecasting strategy can outperform several leading machine learning ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans, it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but ...

Conversations about AI seem to have infused every field of inquiry, but are those conversations focused enough to be productive? “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG).

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...