J. Doyne Farmer
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J. Doyne Farmer, born 1952, in Houston, Texas is an American physicist and one of the founding fathers of chaos theory. Farmer received his Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz and is currently a McKinsey research professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
While still a graduate student, Farmer achieved some renown for efforts to use a computer hidden in a shoe to predict the behavior of roulette tables in Las Vegas (see Eudaemons). He went on to lead the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he did pioneering work in nonlinear dynamical systems. From 1991 - 1999 he served as Co-President and Chief Scientist at Prediction Company, a for-profit entity that develops automated trading systems for a variety of commodity and securities markets. He is a co-founder of the Atalaya Institute, a new and independent public policy institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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