Santa Fe Institute

Bio

David Wolpert comes from Los Alamos where he was the Ulam scholar at the Center for Nonlinear Studies.  Before that he was at NASA Ames Research Center and a consulting professor at Stanford University, where he formed the Collective Intelligence group. He has worked at IBM and a data mining startup, and been external faculty at numerous institutions (including the Santa Fe Institute).

His current research focuses on
 i)   Game theory
 ii)  The application of machine learning to both optimization
        and to Monte Carlo methods
 iii) Complexity measures
 iv)  Evolution of technology
 v)   Information theory
 vi)  The foundations of physics and inference

His degrees are in physics, from UC Santa Barbara and from Princeton.
He is the author of three books, three patents, over one hundred refereed papers, and has received numerous awards.