A December 10–12 working group met to bring together researchers from two fields — neuromorphic computing and stochastic ...

Francis Spufford, an internationally award-winning writer of nonfiction and fiction, has joined SFI as Miller Scholar. A ...

In late December 2025, SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin was appointed the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

Every task we perform on our computer — whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article — requires different components of the machine to interact with one another. "Communication ...

Since the origins of modern philosophy and poetry, imagination has been a technical term for the human ability to cognize in images and thought combinations that reconfigure our memories or immediate ...

Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the theoretical models taught in Ph.D. coursework have been slow to catch up. In a new ...

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data, they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm’s output matches reality.

In October, the International Society for Artificial Life recognized several SFI researchers and co-authors with the ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2024. The award celebrates the paper ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, biologists at UCLA documented a natural experiment as it played out among a population of dark-eyed juncos in Los Angeles. The pandemic lockdowns offered a rare chance to ...