Stuart Kauffman joins University of Vermont

This news item just showed up. Stuart Kauffman, who is one of the gurus of complex adaptive systems research, will be spending the fall of 2010-2012 at the University of Vermont as the Macmillian Scholar-in-Residence. He was deeply involved in the origins of the Sante Fe Institute - ground zero for many of today's leading complexity theorists.

The full article featuring an interview with Kauffman is here.

For those of you who haven't had a chance to read Reinventing the Sacred, I would recommend this as a significant personal statement by Kauffman of how complexity research has shaped his view of the world. The book is a courageous and candid exploration, that will fail to satisfy anyone but will spark important thinking by all who read it.

I look forward to seeing what angles Kauffman's research work will take at UVM.