Brian Christian

Author of Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Brian Christian is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By (with Tom Griffiths), which have been translated into nineteen languages. A visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in San Francisco. — biography from The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values… (more)

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions 1,208 copies, 39 reviews

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It… 509 copies, 12 reviews

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values 107 copies, 3 reviews

GameMaker Programming By Example 4 copies

The Most Human Human (Unabridged) Part 2 1 copy

The Most Human Human (Unabridged) Part 1 1 copy

Algorithmen für den Alltag: Die Wissenschaft der perfekten… 1 copy

Algoritmos para viver: A ciência exata das decisões humanas (Portuguese… 1 copy

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1984

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Wilmington, Delaware, USA

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Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011, and has been translated into ten languages.

His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science. Christian has been featured on The Charlie Rose Show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has lectured at Google, Microsoft, the Santa Fe Institute, and the London School of Economics. His work has won several awards, including fellowships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, publication in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and an award from the Academy of American Poets.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Christian holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and poetry from Brown University and the University of Washington. He lives in San Francisco.

http://www.brian-christian.com/bio-co...

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