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Max Tegmark
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Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 May 1967
- Works
- 6
Top works
- What Are You Optimistic About?
- Life 3.0
- Microwave foregrounds
- Improved limits on gamma-ray burst repetition from BATSE
- The angular power spectrum of BATSE 3B gamma-ray bursts
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 196
- Total plays
- 1,574
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,059x
- A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,166x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,324x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
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Quotes
- “I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.”
- “So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.”
- “If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.”
- “... I would rather have questions that I can't answer than answers that I can't question. (variation of a remark by Richard Feynman)”
- “Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.”
- “We have to get away from this idea today with some fact-checking sites which might themselves have an agenda and you just trust it because of its reputation. You want to have these sort of systems [where] they earn your trust and that is completely transparent.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Max Erik Shapiro , ( 1967-05-05 ) 5 May 1967 (age 59) , Stockholm , Sweden
- Alma mater
- Stockholm School of Economics ( BA ), Royal Institute of Technology ( MSE ), University of California, Berkeley ( MA , PhD )
- Fields
- Cosmology , physics , machine learning
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Future of Life Institute
- Thesis
- Probes of the Early Universe (1994)
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Silk
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- space.mit.edu/home/tegmark
- Image
- Max Tegmark 2024 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1967-05-05
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Max Tegmark
- Commons category
- Max Tegmark
- birth name
- Max Shapiro
- social media followers
- 125997
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Article
Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.
Originally a cosmologist, Tegmark's focus shifted toward artificial intelligence (AI). His 2017 book Life 3.0 presents scenarios for what the world might look like as AI continues to develop. Tegmark advocates for a halt on the development of artificial superintelligence.