Mark Stahlman

Biologist, technologist, financial analyst, strategist and organizer. In 2015, he co-founded the Center for the Study of Digital Life (CSDL), which was spun-out of analysis done for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA). He has two incomplete PhDs, one in Theology from the University of Chicago and another in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin. A retired Wall Street analyst/banker, he was closely associated with Sun Microsystems and led the IPO team for America Online (AOL). His “godfather” was Norbert Wiener and considers his work on AI to be an extension of Wiener's “The Human Use of Human Beings” (1950).