06/30 — 07/02 Working Group “Augmenting Intelligence Through Collective Learning,” hosted at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, organized by Henrik Olsson, Mirta Galesic, Rob Goldstone 07/14 — 07/17 ...

As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their ...

<p>Traditional models of how culture spreads were designed to describe early civilizations, typically focused on hunter-gatherers and almost always on pre-industrial societies. Today, a myriad of ...

SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) has received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Science. She shares the award with social psychologists Icek Ajzen, ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing more deeply into their profession.&nbsp;A recent paper&nbsp;in Nature Human Behavior mapped the dependency relationships ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected President of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, &ldquo;Ockham&rsquo;s razor&rdquo; has shaped scientific ...

Cultural traits &mdash; the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population&nbsp;&mdash; are influenced by conformity, the tendency to align with ...

Over the past three years, SFI has hosted an annual Complexity-GAINs school in different locations in Europe. The two-week-long programs, each focused on a unique theme, introduced Ph.D. students to ...

No matter how mundane or life-changing, the decisions we make are necessarily based on whatever limited information is available to us. If you’re weighing the risks of going outside during a pandemic, ...

Historians of philosophy are like painters; by giving an interpretation of another philosopher’s problems and concepts, they paint philosophical portraits. SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan paints ...