Santa Fe Institute

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and The Guardian.

Supported by the Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation

Rebecca Goldstein, Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University. An author of both fiction and nonfiction, her books include The Mind-Body Problem, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

Sponsored by Penelope Penland

James Gleick, author, Chaos; Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman; Isaac Newton; Faster; What Just Happened, and The Information.

Sponsored by Joy and Phil LeCuyer

Dan Hruschka, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Arizona State University; author Friendship:  Development, Ecology and Evolution of a Relationship, SFI Omidyar Fellow Alumnus.

Sponsored in memory of Kate Klein, from the Kate Klein Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation

Duncan Watts, Principal Research Scientist, Human Social Dynamics Group, Yahoo! Research; author, Everything Is Obvious Once You Know The Answer, and SFI Post-doctoral fellow alumnus.

Sponsored by the Peters Family Foundation

Nathan Collins, Assistant Professor, political science, University of California at Irvine; SFI Omidyar Fellow alumnus.

Scott Ortman, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute; Lightfoot Fellow, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford; Professor, Zoology, Oxford University and Imperial College; former president of Britain's Royal Society, and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government

Sponsored by Diana MacArthur, Trustee, Santa Fe Institute