SFI Collective Intelligence Short Course 201 - Faculty 2017
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SFI Collective intelligence, markets & prediction short course
October 12-13, 2017 - The Park, New York City, New York
DIRECTOR
Photo: Gabriella Marks
Short Course Director Jessica Flack
Jessica Flack is a professor at SFI where she also runs the Collective Computation Group. The focus of C4 research is on fundamental problems in evolutionary theory concerning collective behavior, collective computation, and collective intelligence—at all levels of biological organization—from societies of cells to societies of individuals to machine-human hybrid societies. C4 researchers use insights and tools from statistical physics, information theory, evolutionary theory, biology, cognitive science, complexity science, animal behavior, and theoretical computer science.
Quanta Magazine article on Jessica Flack's Research: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
CO-DIRECTOR
Short Course Co-Director Michael Mauboussin
Co-Director Michael Mauboussin, Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York & Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute
Michael J. Mauboussin is Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York. Prior to joining BlueMountain in July of 2017, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse.
Before rejoining Credit Suisse, he was Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management from 2004-2012. Mr. Mauboussin originally joined Credit Suisse in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst and was named Chief U.S. Investment Strategist in 1999. He is a former president of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey in the food industry group. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Santa Fe Institute.
Mr. Mauboussin is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places-Updated and Expanded. He is also co-author, with Alfred Rappaport, of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns.
Mr. Mauboussin has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.