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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a non-profit research institute, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, dedicated to the study of complex systems.

Overview

The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky. All but Pines and Gell-Mann were scientists with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

SFI\'s original mission was to disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary research area, complexity theory referred to at SFI as "complexity science". Recently it has announced that its original mission to develop and disseminate a general theory of complexity has been realized. It noted that numerous complexity institutes and departments have sprung up around the world:

• the CCS and CSCS at the University of Michigan.CCS, CSCS
• The CSE at UC Davis CSE
• The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University
• and the NECSI),

And it noted that it was working on updating its mission for the coming fifty years.

SFI\'s complexity research led to efforts to create artificial life modeling real organisms and ecosystems in the 1980s and 1990s.

It is also mainly from the various works of the SFI that was founded the complexity economics school of thought.

SFI is also coordinating the Evolution of Human Languages project, an attempt to trace all human language to a common root (cf. Proto-World).Evolution of Human LanguagesLinguists seek a time when we spoke as one. USA Today, 20 July 2007. [1]

The publications of the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity all carry an imprint inspired by a Mimbres pottery design.

Faculty associated with the Santa Fe Institute

See also

• Complex systems
• Complex adaptive system
• Systems thinking

References

External links

• Official SFI site
• New England Complex Systems Institute
• The Center for Complex Systems
• The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at University of Michigan
• Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at UC-Davis
• First International Conference on Complex Systems
• YA "first" international conference on complex systems
• Evolution of Human Languages

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