Stephen Guerin

Summary

Stephen is a Research Associate in the Visualization Lab in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. His focus is geospatial agent-based models, interactive projection for local and remote collaboration and theories of complex systems and artificial life. Stephen is the inventor and CEO of Simtable which produces interactive simulations for firefighters and communities that are projected onto physical 3D sandtables. Simtable was developed in 2009 and named one of Time Magazine's top 5 inventions in 2011 along with Apple's Siri and the Lytro camera. Simtable is the first "app" on RedfishGroup's AnySurface platform for making all surfaces in the room interactive via coupled projector / camera systems. Stephen is the founder and CEO of RedfishGroup. Redfish developed graphics applications in commercial prepress and interactive media 1991-1993. Redfish operated in Beijing and Shanghai 1994-1997 with the first foreign commercial servers on the Chinese Internet and provided early web services to multinational and Chinese firms. Redfish hosted the US Embassy in China, one of the first embassies to go online. In 1996, He remains deeply interested in China's development and US-China relations. In the late 90s, Stephen focused his research in Cognitive Science with applications to decentralized software systems. He worked as a Senior Software Developer at BiosGroup as a member of Stuart Kauffman's research group. He has continued that collaboration over the last 25 years considering Stu to be a close friend and mentor. Stephen has lectured as a faculty member of Santa Fe Institute's (http://santafe.edu) Complex System Summer School Stephen researches universal laws in self-organization, structure formation in non-equilibrium systems, and living systems. He's currently exploring how primal and dual systems transact via "Least Action". He suspects bidirectional path tracing in dual particle/field systems may be a general algorithm more universal than natural selection for system evolution, symmetry breaking and turing completeness in self-organized critical systems. Please reach out if you have ideas in this space or are willing to listen to related ramblings. Stephen lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Alison, and their two sons. He believes Santa Fe is emerging on the world stage as a hub of decentralized collective intelligence design.  He invites like-minded folk to move there or at least visit!