The Santa Fe Institute is a private, independent, multidisciplinary research and education center, founded in 1984. Since its founding SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging syntheses in science. Operating as a small, visiting institution, SFI seeks to catalyze new collaborative, multidisciplinary research, to break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to spread its ideas and methodologies to other institutions, and to encourage the practical appliations of its results.
Dr. Edward A. Knapp, President
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