Max Tegmark

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5 total works indexed

1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,059x

2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

   · 1995 · cited 21,166x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,953x

4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 19,324x

5. 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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Official website

space.mit.edu/home/tegmark

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