Contract
University of Oklahoma
Santa Fe, NM, USA
The Santa Fe Institute —a private, not-for-profit research and education facility—has an opening for a two-year full-time postdoc. We are seeking a highly motivated scholar with expertise in Computer Science and a desire to apply their expertise to analyze the evolution of human social systems from pre-historic times up to the present. This two-year position is part of a project inspired by recent results uncovering deep connections among information theory, energy expenditure and harvesting, and computation. The goal is to investigate the long-term evolution of human social complexity through the lens of computer science theory. This position is based in-person in Santa Fe, NM. The project aims to model societies as computational systems, examining how they process and store information to adapt to dynamic environments while leveraging increasing computational power to extract more energy from the environment in order to sustain and grow. By combining insights from...


