The
Multicellular Computing web site
explores the idea that the evolution of computing is following a path
similar to the biological evolution from single-cell to multicellular life.
Moreover, the similarities are due to fundamental properties of evolving
complex systems (see
brief history of the ideas)
About the author -- Steve Burbeck's personal history:
B.A.
California State University at Long Beach (1969) in Mathematics
Ph.D. University of California at Irvine (1979) in Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology
After completing his
PhD, he moved with his wife
to Menlo Park, California where they began raising a family. During the next
decade he worked at a biomedical research institute and in the computing industry.
In 1990, he and his family moved from Silicon Valley to the Research
Triangle Park in North Carolina where he worked at another startup company,
and then at IBM: briefly in Consulting, then Research, the Software Group, and
finally in the Life Sciences Group.
He and his wife now live on the coast near
Wilmington, NC. where he
currently is an independent consultant.
Contact: sburbeck at mindspring.com
Last updated May 15, 2010