Next, Hunter Fraser told the group he'd heard about SFI from his father and then followed up with his own research. When I told people in the Biology Department at MIT that I was coming to SFI, they thought I was weird. His mentor is SFI Visitor Charles Sidman from the University of Cincinnati. Like Hunter, Roger Turner, a sophomore majoring in the history of science at Brown University, found SFI on his own, rather than through his home institution, and he's impressed with what he's experiencing. Things have become so splintered in academia.
People have one small thing they know about.
But here we learn to see patterns. We can study them and apply them to different systems. His mentor is SFI Visitor Douglas White from the University of California at Irvine. Roger is assisting with the Institute's secondary school computer modeling workshop. This workshop introduced high school students and teachers to the concepts of computer modeling using the Starlogo programming environment.