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I deeply mourn the passing of Jim Simons, the founding benefactor of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, whose vision...

Resilience Pod News Article

In April, the Simons Institute launched a Research Pod on Resilience in Brain, Natural, and Algorithmic Systems. The Resilience Pod will explore the...

The Simons Institute invites proposals for science communicator in residence visits of one to three weeks for Summer 2024, Fall 2024, and Spring 2025.

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Simons Institute Director Shafi Goldwasser is an investigator on Project CETI, which uses advanced machine learning to decipher the meaning behind sperm whale clicks. The research project is one of a small number of initiatives featured in this New York Times article about scientific efforts to translate animal communication.

We are delighted to announce that Sandy Irani will be the Simons Institute’s next associate director. Her appointment begins this month.

Berkeley researchers are part of a newly launched multidisciplinary project aimed at cracking sperm whales’ Morse code-like communications off the Caribbean island of Dominica.