Santa Fe Institute

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI ) is a private non-profit research and educational institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1984 to develop a theory of complex adaptive systems in physics, biology, engineering and social sciences in interdisciplinary basic research. The founding members were George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, the Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Metropolis, Herbert L. Anderson, Peter Carruthers, and Richard Slansky, until Pines and Gell-Mann all the scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Institute sees its original goal as achieved, since the theory of complex systems now is an established research topic, which devote a number of scientific institutions worldwide. As current work issues called the Institute: Cognitive neuroscience, computer simulation in physics and life sciences, economic and social interactions, evolutionary dynamics, network dynamics and robustness.

Some scientists who work with the Santa Fe Institute

Santa Fe (New Mexico) Peter A. Carruthers Computersimulation Samuel Bowles (economist) James P. Crutchfield John Henry Holland Integrated Authority File
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