Ulam died in 1984, the very year the Santa Fe Institute was founded, which was 40 years ago from the time of this lecture, and the Ulam lecture series (now in its 29th iteration) was named after him as a fitting memorial.
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“he died sadly in 1984 the very year that the Santa Fe Institute was founded this 40 years ago and um it was very fitting that when um the idea developed that there should be such an annual leure as we have tonight um that it should be named after Stan so um that's uh so since then we've had what 28 of them and this will be the 29th”
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