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Stephen Wolfram is the author of A New Kind of
Science and was the principal lecturer at the Summer
School. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica. Having started in science as a
teenager (he got his PhD at age 20), Wolfram had a highly successful
early career in academia. He began his work on NKS in 1981, and spent
ten years writing the NKS book, published in 2002. Over the course of
25 years Wolfram has mentored a large number of individuals who have
achieved great success in academia, business, and elsewhere. Starting
the NKS Summer School was his first formal educational undertaking in
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Directors
Todd Rowland was the 2006 NKS Summer School's Academic
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Todd Rowland assisted Stephen Wolfram with mathematical issues
found in A New Kind of Science Chapters 5, 9, and 12. Before joining the NKS team in
2001, he wrote entries for MathWorld. Todd received his PhD from the
University of Chicago in 1999, where he studied traditional
mathematics such as algebraic and differential geometry. Currently, he
is managing editor of Complex Systems. His interests include automated
theorem proving, and the fundamental theory, as well as NKS education.
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Catherine Boucher joined Wolfram Research in 1998. She led
project management during the production of A New Kind of
Science and is currently the Special Projects Director for Wolfram
Research. Catherine received her PhD in applied mathematics from
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in cluster
analysis.
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Instructors
The following people served as both
lecturers and project advisors to the participants of the Summer
School. |
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Kovas Boguta joined the Stephen Wolfram
Science Group in 2003. Kovas earned a BA in mathematics from the
University of Chicago; however, his NKS education began at a much
younger age, playing the Game of Life and
Rocky's Boots. At Wolfram Research, Kovas works on
a variety of projects, including NKS-related Mathematica
development and NKS outreach/education.
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Jason Cawley has been talking to Stephen
Wolfram about the ideas in A New Kind of Science and reading
early drafts of the work for over 10 years. In the last few years
before publication, Jason worked for Wolfram Research as a research
assistant on historical and philosophical issues, including many
topics covered in the notes. A former graduate student in political
science at the University of Chicago, Jason's wide-ranging interests
include philosophy, social science, and the history of thought. The
developer of the NKS
Forum, he has been its most active Wolfram Research participant,
answering user questions about NKS. He also works on applications of
NKS ideas in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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Paul-Jean Letourneau attended the 2004 NKS Summer School,
where he completed a pure NKS project on elementary cellular automata
with memory. He was invited back as an instructor in 2005 and 2006.
His project developed into his master's thesis at the University of
Calgary for his degree in theoretical physics. For the last several
years, he has worked for several industrial and academic laboratories
around North America, where he made original theoretical and
experimental contributions to real-world problems in medical imaging,
protein folding, geophysical data analysis, and DNA-protein
interactions. Most recently he has presented his work on Elementary
Cellular Automata with Memory at the NKS 2006 conference.
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Richard Phillips was a student at the first NKS
Summer School in 2003.
He joined Wolfram Research after that, and since then he has worked on
NKS- and Mathematica-related projects. During his formal education he
received a BA in physics and theoretical physics at the University of
Cambridge, and an MSc in computer science at Bristol University building
a system for Mobile Software.
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David Reiss received his PhD in theoretical physics from the
California Institute of Technology. He has extensive experience in
both academia and industry and has held positions at a premier
government laboratory, a Silicon Valley start-up, an internet
infrastructure start-up, a top-tier defense contractor, and as the
scientific communications director for Stephen Wolfram for the
completion and launch of A New Kind of Science. He is an
accredited Mathematica consultant and is a principal at Scientific
Arts.
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Michael Schreiber received his PhD from Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration (WU) for his dissertation on support
systems for university development. He has consulted for various entities
and taught marketing at WU. Throughout his career he has made many and various
contributions to art events and systems conferences in Europe. For the
last several years he has engaged himself in NKS research using
Mathematica. He is currently a research associate at Wolfram Research.
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Matthew
Szudzik made significant contributions
to A New Kind of Science from 1998 through 2000 and during
the summer of 2001 as a research assistant to Stephen Wolfram. His
work focused primarily on the analysis of simple programs and on the
theoretical foundations of computational mathematics. He is currently
a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, working toward
a Ph.D. in mathematical logic. |
