James Crutchfield received his B.A. summa cum laude in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Physics there in 1983. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Davis, where is helping to establish a new research and graduate program at the Center for Computational Science and Engineering. Prior to this he was Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute for many years, where he ran the Dynamics of Learning Group and SFI's Network Dynamics Program. In parallel, he was Adjunct Professor of Physics in the Physics Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Before coming to SFI in 1997, he was a Research Physicist in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1985. He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, University of California, San Francisco; a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UCB; a UCB Physics Department IBM Post-Doctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Physics; a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and a Bernard Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium.

Over the last two and a half decades Prof. Crutchfield has worked in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, solid-state physics, astrophysics, fluid mechanics, critical phenomena and phase transitions, chaos, and pattern formation. His current research interests center on computational mechanics, the physics of complexity, statistical inference for nonlinear processes, genetic algorithms, evolutionary theory, machine learning, quantum dynamics, and distributed intelligence. He has published over 100 papers in these areas.

James Crutchfield at U.C. Davis

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At the San Francisco Exploratorium he has occupied many positions in both the teaching and exhibit development arenas and now holds the position of Senior Scientist. He is very involved in the teaching of staff, including Explainers. Dr. Humphrey was essential in the creation and funding of the Teacher Institute training program and maintains an active role as guest lecturer in the program.

He has taught physics and perception at many art institutes and universities, including the University of San Francisco and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He invented the course "Perception in Art and Science," which he has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, John Carroll University, and the Academy of Art College.

He has given many invited lectures and speeches and has represented the Exploratorium at art, science, and education conferences and symposia. He was invited to be a respondent at the 1996 "American Creativity at Risk" symposium held at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Other invitations include the Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Museums, American Association of Physics Teachers, Museum Educators of Southern California, and the Symposium on Art and Science held at Adelphi College. He also gives public lectures occasionally at the Exploratorium. most notably on the topics of Gravity and the Physics of Football.

During the period 1980-84, Dr. Humphrey worked as a sculptor in Cleveland, Ohio, exhibiting four one-man shows and appearing in several juried shows including the May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Some of his work is on permanent display at John Carroll University. He also curated a show on color at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been the principal investigator on 24 Exploratorium grants dealing with a range of topics and activities: light and vision, sound, perception, mathematics, feedback, navigation, teacher education, environmental artists, exhibit design training and interpretive essays. He has constructed many exhibits for the Exploratorium and contributed to the development of many others. Dr. Humphrey wrote the first Exploratorium catalog and has contributed articles to Exploring, the Exploratorium magazine. He has consulted in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

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I currently serve on the Comite National of the French CNRS for astronomy and on the French National Commission on Cosmology. My current research interests are in observational cosmology and am a co-I on the SNAP Consortium project for a space observatory dedicated to elucidating the nature of dark energy and dark matter. I am a co-investigator member of the science teams of the NASA GALEX and FUSE space observatories.

I am Chairman of the Board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts/Sciences and Technology in San Francisco and President of the sister Association Leonardo in Paris. These organizations are dedicated to creating links between artists, scientists and engineers. I am executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press.

I am an elected member of Section IV the International Academy of Astronautics, currently serve as Chair of Commission VI on Space Activities and Society. I am a member of the IAF committees on Education and Space and the Comite on Space Exploration.

I am the eldest son of Frank J Malina, astronautics pioneer, who was the first director of JPL, a co founder of Aerojet General Corporation and a founder and President of the International Academy of Astronautics.

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Prof. Perlmutter is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Association for the Advancement of Science named the measurements (by the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z SN Search) indicating an accelerating universe "Science Magazine's 1998 Breakthrough of the Year." Among his prizes, he has received the E.O. Lawrence Award in Physics and the Henri Chretien Award from the American Astronomical Society. During this past year he was awarded the John Scott Award, the 2006 International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, and shared the Padua Prize ("Padova Citta Delle Stelle") and the Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Prof. Perlmutter is the author of more than 100 papers in the fields of physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, in which he has addressed such topics as the cosmological constant, dark energy, supernovae, pulsars, gravitational lenses, massive compact halo objects and advanced detector systems for astrophysics. At Berkeley, he has developed a course for non-scientists on "Physics & Music." He has written numerous articles for both academic and popular publications, is a frequently invited lecturer and author, and has appeared in PBS and BBC cosmology documentaries.

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From 1970 till 1976 he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., on the design and investigation of Charge-Coupled Devices for imaging and signal processing applications. At Bell Labs he also got introduced to the world of Computer Graphics in classes given by Ken Knowlton.

In 1977 he joined the faculty in the EECS Department at Berkeley. He started out by teaching courses on the subject of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, thereby trying to build a bridge between the CS division and the EE faculty. In the early 1980's, jointly with D. Patterson he introduced the `RISC' concept to the world of microcomputers. He was head of the Computer Science Division from 1980 till 1983. Since then he has concentrated on computer graphics, geometric modeling, and on the development of computer aided design (CAD) tools for circuit designers, architects, and for mechanical engineers. During the last five years he has collaborated with P. Wright in Mechanical Engineering on the CyberCut/CyberBuild project with the goal to streamline the path from creative design to rapid prototyping.

S‚quin's work in computer graphics and in geometric design have also provided a bridge to the world of art. In collaboration with a few sculptors of abstract geometric art, in particular with Brent Collins, S‚quin has found a new interest and yet another domain where the use of computer-aided tools can be explored and where new frontiers can be opened through the use of such tools.

Dr. S‚quin is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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Viking published his second book, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, in hardcover in 1998 and within weeks it was on the national bestseller list. Penguin distributed his book internationally in 1999 and it is now available in paperback. The Washington Post called it "Bold and fascinating," George Steiner in the London Observer wrote that it was "Provocative and Innovative." The New York Times’ Idea Section discussed his thought provoking theory. David Gergen interviewed Dr. Shlain for The Jim Lehrer News Hour and Frank Stasio did the same for National NPR. He has been featured in Newsweek for his surgery. His new book Sex Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution achieved national bestseller status in hardcover by Viking and the Book of the Month Club’s Paperback Division chose ST&P as the best non-fiction paperback in 2004 in its New Visions category. The History Channel interviewed Dr. Shlain for its program on Leonardo and PBS’s did the same for Children of the Code

Dr. Shlain lectures widely both here and in Europe. He has been a keynote speaker for such diverse groups as the Smithsonian, Harvard, Florence Academy of Art, Salk Institute, Phillips collection, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, and the European Union’s Ministers of Culture.

Dr. Shlain has won several literary awards for his visionary work and also holds several patents on innovative surgical devices. He is presently working on two books, Leonardo’s Brain: The Left/Right Roots of Creativity.

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Her broad expertise in contemporary art was developed both through the practice of art and as an art writer. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited at venues ranging from SFAI's Walter and McBean Galleries to the Rosicrucian Museum and drew her recognition as one of 47 artists included in Mark Johnstone and Leslie Holzman's 2002 survey Epicenter: Art from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1996 her primary public practice has been in publications. She got her start in art journalism as a commentator for KQED-FM in San Francisco. In addition to fifteen years of broadcasting, she has authored hundreds of interviews, catalog essays and reviews for magazines such as San Francisco, 7x7, and SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle online) and written museum and gallery catalogs for artists such as Hung Liu, Paul Kos, and Ed Moses. Her magazine credits include Editor-in-Chief of Artweek, art editor of LIMN and Breathe magazines, and founding editor of Art Contemporaries. She is a member of the artist collective Stretcher, which has published the Web magazine Stretcher.org since 2001. Stretcher was included in "Bay Area Now 4" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2005 and "The Way We Work" at the Southern Exposure Gallery in 2004. Tromble also edited a monograph on the new media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson which was published by the University of California Press in 2005.

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