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about the author<br />
Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Molecular<br />
Biophysics and Biochemistry. He graduated first in his class from Franklin<br />
and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in<br />
three years. He is author of the popular books The Science of Aliens (Basic Books,<br />
1998), Strange Brains and Genius (Plenum, 1998), Time: A Traveler's Guide<br />
(Oxford University Press, 1998), The Alien 7Q Test (Basic Books, 1997), The Loom<br />
of God (Plenum, 1997), Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide (John Wiley & Sons,<br />
1996), and Keys to Infinity (Wiley, 1995). He is also the author of numerous other<br />
highly acclaimed books including Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a<br />
Fractal World (1994), Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected (1992),<br />
Computers and the Imagination (1991) and Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty<br />
(1990), all published by St. Martin's Press—as well as the author of over 200 articles<br />
concerning topics in science, art, and mathematics. He is also coauthor, with<br />
Piers Anthony, of Spider Legs, a science-fiction novel recently listed as Barnes &<br />
Noble's second best-selling science-fiction title.<br />
Pickover is currently an associate editor for the scientific journals Computers<br />
and Graphics, Computers in Physics, and Theta Mathematics Journal, and is an editorial<br />
board member for Odyssey, Speculations in Science and Technology, Idealistic<br />
Studies, Leonardo, and YLEM. He has been a guest editor for several scientific journals.<br />
He is the editor of Chaos and Fractals: A Computer-Graphical Journey (Elsevier,<br />
1998), The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature (World Scientific, 1995),<br />
Visions of the Future: Art, Technology, and Computing in the Next Century (St. Martin's<br />
Press, 1993), Future Health (St. Martin's Press, 1995), Fractal Horizons (St.<br />
Martin's Press, 1996), and Visualizing Biological Information (World Scientific,<br />
1995), and coeditor of the books Spiral Symmetry (World Scientific, 1992) and<br />
Frontiers in Scientific Visualization (John Wiley & Sons, 1994), Dr. Pickover's primary<br />
interest is finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art,<br />
science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor.<br />
The Los Angeles Times recently proclaimed, "Pickover has published nearly a<br />
book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art and thought." Pickover<br />
received first prize in the Institute of Physics' "Beauty of Physics Photographic<br />
Competition." His computer graphics have been featured on the covers of many<br />
popular magazines, and his research has recently received considerable attention by<br />
the press—including CNN's "Science and Technology Week," The Discovery<br />
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