Santa Fe Institute - Definition and Overview

The Santa Fe Institute [SFI] is A non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico founded by Murray Gell-Mann in 1984 to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory.

SFI has recently announced that its original mission to develop and disseminate a general theory of complexity has been realized (noting that numerous complexity institutes and departments have sprung up around the world -- cf. CCS (http://bambi.ccs.fau.edu/ccs.html) and the NECSI), and that it was working on updating its mission for the coming fifty years.

External links

• Official SFI site (http://www.santafe.edu/)
• The Center for Complex Systems (http://bambi.ccs.fau.edu/ccs.html)
• First International Conference on Complex Systems (http://necsi.org/html/iccs.html)
• YA "first" international conference on complex systems (http://www.ams.org/mathcal/info/2004_sep19-22_cherbourg.html)
• Bandung Fe Institute (http://www.bandungfe.net) Research Institute for Social Complexity Studies in Indonesia