Eric Bonabeau

Who is Eric Bonabeau?

The founder and Chief Scientist of Boston-based Icosystem Corporation,

Eric Bonabeau is one of the world's leading experts in complex systems

and distributed adaptive problem solving. His book Swarm Intelligence

has been a scientific bestseller for eight years and provided the

inspiration for another bestseller, Michael Chrichton's Prey. His

articles in Harvard Business Review (Swarm Intelligence, May 2001;

Predicting the Unpredictable, March 2002; Don't Trust Your Gut, May

2003; The Perils of the Imitation Age, June 2004; You Heard It Here

First, February 2005; What Is Luxury Without Variety?, February 2006;

The Two Faces of New Product Development, November 2007, to appear)

and MIT Sloan Management Review (Understanding and Managing Complexity

Risk, Summer 2007) have all been exploring the limits of human

decision making in a complex, decentralized and unpredictable world.

Eric's commercial experience includes years of research and

development in US and European telecommunications and software

companies. He sits on the advisory board of a number of Fortune 500

corporations. Prior to his current position, Eric was the CEO of

Eurobios, then a joint venture with Cap Gemini Ernst Young applying

the science of complex adaptive systems to business issues. He has

been a research director with France Telecom RD, an RD engineer with

Cadence Design Systems (in Lowell, MA, USA), and the Interval Research

Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

Eric is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journals Advances in Complex Systems

(World Scientific) and ACM Transactions on Adaptive and Autonomous

Systems (ACM Press) and serves as a member of the editorial board of

several scientific journals. In addition to Swarm

Intelligence and more than one hundred scientific articles, Eric

is the co-author of Self-Organization in Biological Systems (Princeton

University Press), a best-selling biology textbook. He has a Ph.D. in

Theoretical Physics from Paris-Sud University in France, and is an

alumnus of the two premier French universities: Ecole Polytechnique

and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des

Télécommunications.