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What Can We Really Know About That Which We Cannot Even Imagine? No Free Lunch
Dr Tevin Naidu in conversation with David Wolpert
About this episode
David Wolpert is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, external professor at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, adjunct professor at ASU, and research associate at the ICTP in Trieste. He is the author of three books (and co-editor of several more), over 200 papers, has three patents, is an associate editor at over half a dozen journals, has received numerous awards, and is a fellow of the IEEE. He has over 30,000 citations, was the Ulam Scholar at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, and before that he was at NASA Ames Research Center and a consulting professor at Stanford University, where he formed the Collective Intelligence group. His degrees in Physics are from Princeton and the University of California.
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