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Biographical Sketch

James P. 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 Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he runs the Dynamics of Learning Group in which post-doctoral researchers work and Ph.D. students pursue research on their dissertations. He is also 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 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, and distributed intelligence. He has published over 90 papers in these areas; most are available from his website: www.santafe.edu/~chaos.

Synergistic Activities:

1. Scientific Director of a major NSF-funded science museum exhibit series on pattern formation and complex systems--"Turbulent Landscapes: The Forces that Shape Our World", San Francisco Exploratorium, 1996, currently on multiyear tour of the nation's science museums.
2. Director of SFI's Intel-sponsored Program on Network Dynamics and architect of its 128-CPU GNU-Linux cluster.
3. Director of the SFI Dynamics of Learning Group and SFI's Computation, Dynamics, and Learning Program.
4. With composer David Dunn, constructing the Theater of Pattern Formation, a large-scale multichannel video-audio exploration of structure and emergence in the spatial and acoustic domains. The target venues are sensory-immersive all-digital dome theaters.
5. Co-founder, Vice President, and Scientific Director of the Art and Science Laboratory, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a nonprofit research center that supports collaborations between artists and scientists working in the computing arts.
6. Referee and Editorial Board member for journals in theoretical physics, mathematical biology, computer science, nonlinear mathematics, engineering, and complex systems.