Summary
David Krakauer (born December 28, 1967) is an American evolutionary biologist.[1] He is the president and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.[2]
Biography edit
Born in Hawaii, Krakauer grew up in southern Portugal and moved to London, England, for secondary school.[3][4]
He attended Royal Holloway University of London, where he earned degrees in computer science and mathematics. He received his D.Phil. in evolutionary theory from Oxford University in 1995, where he stayed on as a postdoctoral research fellow.[2]
Career edit
Krakauer has held positions as a visiting fellow at the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Sage Fellow at the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a long-term fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and visiting professor of evolution at Princeton University.[5][2]
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he served as the founding director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, and professor of mathematical genetics.[2]
Since 2015, Krakauer has served as the president and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. He previously served as the institute's faculty chair and as a resident professor and an external professor. He also co-directs the Collective Computation Group (C4) at the Santa Fe Institute.[5][2]
Krakauer was included in Wired Magazine's Smart List 2012 as one of fifty people "who will change the world".[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world". WIRED UK. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "David Krakauer". www.santafe.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ John; Krakauer, David (August 7, 2017). "John and David Krakauer". Current Biology. 27 (15): R734–R737. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.008. ISSN 0960-9822.
- ^ "Remaking the UW". Isthmus. January 24, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ a b "David Krakauer". c4.santafe.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
External links edit
- Official website
- "Complexity and Stupidity" interview with Sam Harris on the Waking Up podcast
- "Laziness, Technology and Brain Scanning a Billion People: A Conversation with David Krakauer" interview with Robert Wolcott for Forbes
- "John and David Krakauer" profile in Current Biology
- "How Your Leadership Skills Will Determine Your Company Culture" article in Entrepreneur
- "Take Me to the Limit" interview with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on Science Radio Cafe
- "The Roots of Technological Singularity Can Be Traced Back to the Stone Age" editorial in Wired UK
- "Never Mind Turing Tests. What About Terminator Tests?" editorial in The Chronicle of Higher Education