oming). Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serp

oming). Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serp

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Budapest. She currently resides in Washington, DC and New York City. GEOFFREY WEST Geoffrey West is Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, Oxford University. Prior to joining SFI in 2003, he was leader of high energy physics at L

ften supports their research financially with the only proviso that they keep doing what they are doing. One example of this is Murray Gell-Mann of the Santa Fe Institute, the Nobel Prize winning physicist who predicted the existence of the quark and who later collaborated with colleagues at the institute on what has