Santa Fe Institute

Simon DeDeo (Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley and author of several books on child learning, including The Scientist in the Crib and The Philosophical Baby.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division of Cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Imaging for the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Director of the Zoobiquity Research Initiative at UCLA, and Co-Director of the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine Program.  In addition to her expertise in cardiology, she also is a psychiatrist. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her psychiatry residency and served as Chief Resident at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She combines her training in psychiatry and cardiology to focus on the relationship between psychological states and heart disease. She also serves as a cardiovascular consultant to the Los Angeles Zoo as a member of its Medical Advisory Board. She has provided medical consultation and imaging services to the zoo’s veterinarians, assisting with many patients representing various mammal and non-mammal species.

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College and received a Master’s degree from Harvard University. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and the Law.  

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

Michael Crow is President of Arizona State University. Since 2002 he has guided the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities – a model he terms the “New American University.”

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.  Goldstein was a 2011 Santa Fe Institute Miller Scholar.

Steven Pinker is a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and is the author of seven books, most recently The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

Complexity and the Biology of Computation

SFI External Professor and Science Board member Stephanie Forrest is a professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico. She is a recipient of the University’s Research Lectureship (2012) as well as the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery/AAAI Allen Newell Award for innovations in computing technology that have enabled computer science to solve real-world challenges. 

George Dyson is an author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation to the physical environment and the direction of society.