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SFI Press reissues Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information | Santa Fe Institute

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For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly 80 physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and curious others flocked to St. John’s College in Santa Fe for what, in hindsight, was a foundational meeting on the physics of information. The workshop was hosted by the Santa Fe Institute, then just five years old, and brought together researchers who shared common convictions about the centrality of information. In the late 1940s, Claude Shannon had described a kind of grand theory of communication — the mathematical rules for how information is transmitted. His work, and that of others, sparked decades of excitement among scientists, but by the 1980s the hype had largely deflated, giving way to deep theoretical and experimental work. The workshop attracted “scientists who took Shannon seriously, and who instituted a new science of physics and complexity based on information theory,” according to quantum mechanical engineer Seth Lloyd, who attended the workshop just after finis

SFI Press reissues Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information | Santa Fe Institute On February 28, the SFI Press released a two-volume reprint of the seminal book of proceedings “Complexity, Entropy & the Physics of Information” edited by Wojciech H. Zurek. (image: SFI) February 28, 2023 For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly 80 physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and curious others flocked to St. John's College in Santa Fe for what, in hindsight, was a foundational meeting on the physics of information. The workshop was hosted by the Santa Fe Institute, then

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