Articles

Stirrings on the Info Mesa
Complexity science and informatics companies are picking up steam
by Catherine Anderson / TechComm Journal, December 2003

Local Software Firms Vanish
by Emily Van Cleve / Albuquerque Journal, 15 December 2003

Dal Nuovo Mexico in laguna per lanciare una scommessa
di Alberto Vitucci / la Nuova di Venezia e Mestre, 11 November 2003

Imprese, l'innovazione sbarca a Sant'Elena
di Silvio Testa / il Gazzettino, 11 November 2003

Venezia capitale delle aziende senza prodotti
by Stefan Ciancio / Corriere del Veneto, 11 November 2003

Infomesa Firms Join Italian Tech Boom
by Anne Constable / Santa Fe New Mexican, November 6, 2003

NM tech experts come clean about tech toys.
by NMBW Staff / New Mexico Business Weekly, March 28 - April 3, 2003

Chaos, Inc.
Inventory reduction, better baggage handling, sophisticated tracking -- the obscure science of complexity boosts the bottom line.
by M. Mitchell Waldrop / Red Herring, January 22, 2003

The Coming Revolution
Actuaries have a new tool at their disposal that has the potential to revolutionize the way that insurance companies model and manage risk. The highly sophisticated program produced by Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Assuratech, Inc. (www.assuratech.com) uses simulation and data mining techniques to take modeling on a quantum leap in accuracy, reliability and versatility.
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by Lilli Segre Tossani / The Society of Actuaries, Risks and Rewards Newsletter, Issue No. 40, October 2002.

Weathering the storm

The Prediction Company made self-taught, automated trading systems famous in the late 1990s, but that was a time, you will recall, of unprecedented wealth in the stock market.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 20 October 2002

Informatics summit starts next Sunday in Santa Fe
It's only been a year since the first High Altitude Thinking International Informatics Summit, but times have changed.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 20 October 2002

Could Silicon Valley be a model for Santa Fe?
From a statistical standpoint, Santa Fe's fledgling informatics industry looks a lot like Silicon Valley did during the 1960s.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 20 October 2002

Science Matters: Summit: Infomesa Alive And Well International
By most accounts, Sept. 11 and the current economic slump hit Santa Fe's "InfoMesa" fairly hard.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 7 October 2002

"I know what you'll do next summer"
by John Casti / New Scientist Magazine, 31 August 2002, pages 29-32.
Short Summary

New Mexico Clusters Around Informatics
National Commision on Entrepreneurship

INSIDE TRACK: Organisational lesson from the ant colony:
LOGISTICS: An insect-based computer model helped one US company improve its delivery planning
by Tom Lloyd / Financial Times, 30 April 2002

Can N. M. Merge Its Science Might, Business Smarts?
Some say entrepreneurial daring must light a fire under potential technology
by Winthrop Quigley / Albuquerque Journal, 28 April 2002

Informatics society launched in Santa Fe
Promoters say the newly formed International Informatics Society could boost Santa Fe's growing reputation as the "Infomesa," home to a collection of companies combining complexity science and powerful computers in an effort to understand everything from the stock market to the human genome to the world of insurance.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 14 March 2002

The List
Complexica ranked among top 25 technology companies in New Mexico
by Lisa Gillespie / New Mexico Business Weekly
February 12-28, 2002, page 17.

Informatics firms band together to raise profile
New Mexico's high-tech community has always been home to some strange, cryptic and complex ideas - and the newly formed International Informatics Society is thrilled about it.
by Sue Vorenberg / The Albuquerque Tribune, 25 February 2002

Bridging Santa Fe's digital divide
Logging on to the Internet at high speeds can be an iffy business in Northern New Mexico. Some customers connect to the World Wide Web at a speedy 1.5 megabits per second or faster, while others limp along with plain old telephone service and a standard dial-up modem.
by Anne Constable / Santa Fe New Mexican, 24 February 2002

International Informatics Society to launch in Santa Fe
The International Informatics Society, a professional organization for the advancement of new applications of complexity science, informatics and data mining, will be launched via satellite next month in Santa Fe.
by Anne Constable / Santa Fe New Mexican, 10 February 2002

What If ...?

by Kathleen Melymuka / ComputerWorld, February 4, 2002

New Group to Address Business Complexity Operations
by Kathleen Melymuka / ComputerWorld, February 4, 2002

The Science of Surprise

Can complexity theory help us understand the real consequences of a convoluted event like September 11?
by Dana Mackenzie / Discover, February 2002

Science matters: Technological warfare: terrorists beware
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, Jan 7, 2002, p. B1.

Scientists of diverse disciplines at the Santa Fe Institute are using the field of complexity as a common thread to unlock the sevrets of social, biological and economic evolution.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 December 2001

Finding order in what seems to be chaos
The science of complexity is about studying systems that seem overwhelming.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 December 2001

How the Santa Fe Institute operates
Private foundations fund almost 40 percent of the total budget; close to 25 percent comes from such government agencies as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy; another 25 percent is raised through the institute's network of corporate sponsors; individual contributions make up the rest.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 December 2001

'I haven't looked back,' says Santa Fe Institute president
Santa Fe Institute President Ellen Goldberg considers herself an experimentalist.
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 December 2001

Key players at the Santa Fe Institute
by Jeff Tollefson / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 December 2001

Private sector volunteers for war duty
by Roger Snodgrass / lamonitor.com, 24 December 2001

Software Simplifies Insurance
AssuraTech quickly developed tools for an industry shocked by Sept. 11
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by Winthrop Quigley / Albuquerque Journal, 12 November 2001

Meeting of the Minds
Big mountains meet big minds in Santa Fe, which has become a point of convergence for brainiac physicists, high-mesa prognosticators, and Jungian psychoanalysts.
by Devon Jackson / Santa Fean, Nov. Dec 2001, page 50

(Data) mining in the mountains
Companies that provide mathematical modeling for drug development and corporate planning find homes in Santa Fe.
by Cullen T. Vogelson / Modern Drug Discovery, October 2001

The study of complex systems -- Ground Zero: Santa Fe -- has created an exciting industry that's taking number-crunching to a higher level and promises businesses greater efficiencies and better bottom lines.
by John D German III / New Mexico Business Journal, September 2001

Talk of creation at InfoMesa Summit
LANL nuclear-weapons chief discusses creating 'artificial consciousness'
by Kristen Davenport / Santa Fe New Mexican, 30 August 2001

InforMesa Summit touches on supercomputers
by Kristen Davenport / Santa Fe New Mexican, 29 August 2001

Clouds Over Info Mesa
Advanced tech firms in Santa Fe meet a slow business cycle
by Winthrop Quigley / Albuquerque Journal, 20 August 2001

Smartening up in Santa Fe:
Roger Jones teaches computers to think for us.
by Emily Van Cleve / New Mexico Business Weekly, Santa Fe Market Profile
August 13-19, 2001

Four area teens will be interning for Complexica this summer, and, compared to other options, they think this is a Cool Summer Job
by Anne Constable / Santa Fe New Mexican, 28 June 2001

Complexica's tangled web weaves new technologies
Technologists form information age guild system to share info and help solve complex business problems
By Emily Esterson / New Mexico Business Weekly, 18 June 2001

Life on the info frontier
by Anne Constable / Santa Fe New Mexican, 22 April 2001

Life on the Info Mesa
by Deborah Davis / Santa Fe New Mexican, 25 March 2001

A Meeting of the Minds at SFI
by Emily Van Cleve / New Mexico Business Weekly
19-25 March 2001, page 14 (Supplement)

Complexity's Business Model
Part physics, part poetry--the fledgling un-discipline finds commercial opportunity
By Julie Wakefield / Scientific American, January 2001

Technology Boom Too Tempting For Many Government Scientists
by Katie Hafner / New York Times, 19 September 2000

Albuquerque, Santa Fe score as tech hot spots
by Sue Vorenberg / Albuquerque Tribune, 11 June 2000

Greetings from Info Mesa
Forget coyote art and adobe. Santa Fe's next claim to fame will be rescuing us from the digital data avalanche.
by Ed Regis / Wired Magazine, June 2000

Firm Forecast
by John Casti / New Scientist Magazine, 24 April 1999
"Managing the vagaries of everyday life has always been a nightmare for chiefs of disaster insurance companies and senior stock brokers. Now, a generation of virtual humans could put the prediction business on a sound footing", says John Casti.