Santa Fe Institute

"To be sure, the cadre of scientists who conceived of the Santa Fe Institute in the early 1980s were serious scientists. Most of them – George Cowan, Stirling Colgate, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Darragh Nagle, Peter Caruthers,Ed Knapp, Richard Slansky, and Louis Rosen – were senior fellows at Los Alamos National Laboratory with distinguished careers in physics, chemistry, and computation...

"In August 1986 a small group of Institute researchers and invited economists met in Santa Fe at the request of Citicorp CEO John Reed, who was frustrated with his own economists’ past failures to foresee market catastrophes. Reed, like many whose intellects gravitated toward the Institute, believed traditional economics was somehow missing the bigger picture, and he was eager to hear whether thinking by innovative economists like John Holland, Kenneth Arrow, and W. Brian Arthur might help his company plan for unexpected market shifts that seemed to defy conventional economic theories. The meeting, and Reed’s resulting monetary support, grew into SFI’s program in economics as a complex system, a program that continues today. .."

Science Board
Accessed April 2012:


 * Philip W. Anderson, Elizabeth Bradley, David K. Campbell, Nina Fedoroff, Marcus W. Feldman, Walter Fontana, Stephanie Forrest, John Geanakoplos, Murray Gell-Mann, Nigel Goldenfeld, Deborah M. Gordon, David Gross, Juris Hartmanis, John H. Holland, Erica Jen, Eric Klopfer, Mimi Koehl, Tim Kohler, Arthur Lander, Richard Lenski, Simon A. Levin, Richard Lewontin, Peter Littlewood, Seth Lloyd, Eric Maskin, Baron May of Oxford, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Melanie Mitchell, Harold Morowitz, Mark Newman, George Oster, Alan Perelson, David Pines, Lord Martin Rees, Thomas Rosenbaum, Donald Saari, Daniel Schrag, Montgomery Slatkin, Derek Smith, Dawn Song, Daniel L. Stein, Charles Stevens, Geoffrey West, Peter G. Wolynes, Henry T. Wright


 * Ex-officio - Jeremy (Jerry) A. Sabloff, Chris Wood

Trustees
Accessed April 2012:


 * Bill Miller, Chairman Emeritus (2005-2009)
 * Greg Amadon
 * Karen Heim Amadon
 * Gary F. Bengier
 * Jenne Britell
 * Kay Taylor Burnett
 * John D. Chisholm *
 * Michael Collins
 * George Cowan
 * Esther Dyson
 * William Enloe *
 * Marcus W. Feldman †
 * John Geanakoplos †
 * Murray Gell-Mann
 * Stewart Greenfield
 * John H. Holland
 * Mari Kooi
 * Henry Lichstein
 * Dan Lynch
 * Diana MacArthur
 * Michael Mauboussin
 * Robert Maxfield
 * Cormac McCarthy
 * William Melton
 * Jerry Murdock
 * Ann Nitze
 * Pierre Omidyar
 * J. Leighton Read
 * Jim Rutt *
 * Jeremy (Jerry) A. Sabloff †
 * William Sick
 * Graham Spencer *
 * David B. Weinberger

(† Ex Officio Member, * Executive Committee Member)

Contact
URL: http://www.santafe.edu

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