Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark | |
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Tegmark in 2006 | |
| Born | 5 May 1967 |
| Nationality | Swedish American |
| Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology (MSE) Stockholm School of Economics (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 |
| Signature | |
Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is best known for his book Life 3.0 about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute.