Biographical Information on Steve Burbeck
B.A.
California State University at Long Beach (1969) in
Mathematics. Ph.D. University of
California at Irvine (1979) in
Mathematical/Cognitive Psychology
Soon after finishing his PhD, he and his wife moved
to Menlo Park, California where they began raising a family. He worked
for nearly a decade there on new techniques for computer analysis of
biological data -- what is today called bioinformatics. In 1990,
they moved from Silicon Valley to the Research Triangle Park area in
North
Carolina. They now live on the coast near
Wilmington, NC. He is
currently an independent consultant. For
details of his professional history
see the Chronology of Business
Experience.
This Multicellular Computing web site reflects ideas that have been
gestating since the late '90s. The ideas followed from taking
seriously the notion that the evolution of computing was recapitulating
the biological evolution from single-cell to multicellular life. And it
was doing so for fundamental reasons having to do with how complex
systems evolve (see brief
history of the ideas).
Last updated March, 2009