Steve Omohundro has had a wide-ranging career as a scientist, professor, author, software architect, and entrepreneur doing research that explores the interface between mind and matter. He has degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Stanford and a Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley. He was a professor in the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and cofounded the Center for Complex Systems Research. He published the book “Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics”, designed the programming languages StarLisp and Sather, wrote the 3D graphics system for Mathematica, and built systems which learn to read lips, control robots, and induce grammars. He has worked with many research labs and startup companies and founded Self-Aware Systems to bring cooperative human values to emerging technologies. More recently he has worked with clients using a variety of individual and organizational change processes including Rosenberg’s Non-Violent Communication, Gendlin’s Focusing, Travell’s Trigger Point Therapy, Bohm’s Dialogue, Beck’s Life Coaching, and Schwarz’s Internal Family Systems Therapy. He is involved with a group investigating EEG-based neurofeedback. He is an award-winning teacher who has given hundreds of talks around the world. Some of his scientific papers and talks are available here: Scientific Contributions and here: Self-Aware Systems. His new book and seminars present systematic formulas for using the new psychology and neuroscience to transform our lives and businesses for the better.
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