Alexander Wissner-Gross

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Alexander David Wissner-Gross (born 1981) is an American physicist, computer scientist, investor and entrepreneur. He earned B.S. degrees in physics, electrical engineering, and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—the last student to triple-major before the option was discontinued—and completed a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 2007, where he is a fellow at the Institute for Applied Computational Science. His work has spanned applied technology and theoretical physics. In 2007, he founded CO2Stats, a Y Combinator-funded company that measured the carbon dioxide emissions associated with website usage, and attracted public attention during a dispute over the carbon cost of a Google search. His most widely discussed research, published in Physical Review Letters in 2013 with collaborator Cameron Freer, proposed a physical link between intelligent behaviour and entropy, arguing that systems driven to maximise their future freedom of action can produce apparently...

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