SFI External Professor Jessika Trancik, a former SFI Omidyar Fellow and current professor at MIT, was named the director of ...

In a paper in Nature, SFI External Professor Luis Bettencourt and co-author Nicholas Marchio, both researchers at the ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening ...

Since the 1970s, the cost of solar-energy systems has plummeted by over 99 percent. In a recent paper published in PLOS One, ...

The New New Science, a September 15-18 working group, meets to address what it means to view the humanities as subjects described by — and understood through — mathematical and computational concepts.

SFI External Professor Jessika Trancik, a former SFI Omidyar Fellow and current professor at MIT, was named the director of MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) this summer.

Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation are based on spin models which include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily -- the tendency for people with similar ...

On August 12-13 a working group at SFI explored the challenges and opportunities of digital-twin technology — virtual representations of physical objects, designed to exactly mimic its inspiration — ...

In July, the National Science Foundation announced a $100 million investment in AI research, spread over six Research Institutes. Three SFI researchers will participate as leaders and collaborators in ...

In the criminal justice system, decisions about when and how long to detain people have historically been made by other people, like judges and parole boards. But that process is changing: ...