SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 26 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Daniel C. Dennett, one of the most influential and provocative philosophers of our times, passed away on April 19 at the age of 82 in Portland, Maine. At the time of his passing, Dennett held the position of External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He had recently left Santa Fe, having attended the late-March "Investigating Reality - A Philosophical, Mathematical, and Scientific Exploration" wo  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 25 -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: SFI External Professor Karen Willcox (UT Austin), who also serves on SFI's Science Board, recently won the 2024 Theodore von Karman Prize for her contributions to computational science and engineering. The Theodore von Karman Prize was established in 1968 by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and is awarded every five years to a notable application of mathematics to mechanics or enginee  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 26 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Standard economic theory is struggling. It relies on faulty assumptions about the world, and it hasn't done the best job predicting the economic impact of major world events, including the global COVID pandemic, argues SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford) in a new book. But in Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/284357/  more