b'SPEAKER BIOS D DAVID KRAKAUE e Rcodename :chaos primsanta fe institute//president andwilliam h .miller professor ofcomplex systemsDavid Krakauer is the president and William H . Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico . He works on the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth . He is the founder of the InterPlanetary Project at SFI and the publisher/editor-in-chief of the SFI Press . His most recent book is an edited volume, Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight .SPECIAL SKILLS Seeks evolutionary wisdom, is terrified by orthodoxy, envies the patience of trees and the cycloidal perspective of the octopus, would replace the Golden record with a wooden abacus,and wishes that Umberto Eco had set The Name Of The Rose at the Santa Fe Institute . LAUREN L ANCEL MEYERS codename :violet coronauniversity of texas ,austin// professor ,departments ofi ntegrativebiology and statistics&datasanta fe institute//externalprofessorLauren Ancel Meyers is a professor in the Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics & Data Science at the University of Texas atpage 8'