Cristopher Moore received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University at the age of 23. He was a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute and is now an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico, with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He has written over 80 papers at the boundary between physics and computer science, including on quantum computing, phase transitions in NP-complete problems, and models of social networks. He is currently writing a book with Stephan Mertens entitled "The Nature of Computation", which will be published next year by Oxford University Press.