Finally found a Bill Gates and Santa Fe Institute connection : https://imgur.com/a/lmzJpD1 *From left, Bill Gates, from Microsoft, Michael Dell, from Dell Computer, Bill Joy, from Sun Microsystem/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, *Doyne Farmer, from Prediction Company/Santa Fe Institute, and Esther Dyson, from EDventure Holdings, sit together at a table during a dinner at the annual PC Forum, Tucson, Arizona, February 23-26, 1992. [Source: https://m.mysanantonio.com/news/photo/20130221Gates136021713-10-5126c2d026b87-4231947.php]

THE EDGE OF COMPUTATION SCIENCE PRIZE - https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-edge-of-computation-science-prize

J. DOYNE FARMER & NORMAN H. PACKARD, for their work at the forefront of the sciences of prediction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer

J. Doyne Farmer (born 22 June 1952) is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Though born in Houston, Texas, Farmer grew up in Silver City, New Mexico. He was strongly influenced by Tom Ingerson, a young physicist and Boy Scout leader who inspired his interest in science and adventure.[1] Scout activities included searching for an abandoned Spanish goldmine to fund a mission to Mars, a road trip to the Northwest Territories and backcountry camping in the Barranca del Cobre.[2] Farmer graduated from Stanford University in 1973 with a BS in Physics and went to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied physical cosmology under George Blumenthal.

Chaos and the Dynamical Systems Collective

After the roulette project Farmer switched his dissertation topic to chaotic dynamics and joined together with James P. Crutchfield, Norman Packard, and Robert Shaw to found the Dynamical Systems Collective (subsequently known by others as the Chaos Cabal).

The Los Alamos Complex Systems Group

After finishing his doctorate in 1981, Farmer took a post-doctoral appointment at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and received an Oppenheimer Fellowship in 1983. He developed an interest in what is now called complex systems and co-organized several seminal conferences in this area.[10][11][12] In 1988 he founded the Complex Systems Group in the Theoretical Division and recruited a group of postdoctoral fellows who subsequently became leaders in the field, including Kunihiko Kaneko, Chris Langton, Walter Fontana, Steen Rasmussen, David Wolpert, James Theiler and Seth Lloyd.

Farmer and Norman Packard developed the concept of metadynamics, i.e. co-evolving networks and dynamical systems. For example, the nodes of the network might represent chemical species and the edges their possible reactions, whose kinetics give rise to a system of differential equations. As new species are produced the set of reactions changes and the kinetics are in turn altered. This concept was used to model the immune system and the origin of life.[14] Joint work with Richard Bagley produced a simulation of an autocatalytic set of polymers in which a few species are maintained at high concentration, with many of the properties of a metabolism; the autocatalytic set evolved through time in a manner resembling the evolution of living systems, but without a genetic code.

In 1991 Farmer gave up his position at Los Alamos, reunited with Norman Packard and graduate school classmate James McGill, and co-founded the Prediction Company.

Farmer and Packard's work on roulette, along with their adventures in the casinos of Nevada, has been featured in the 2004 Breaking Vegas documentary series, "Beat the Wheel

Well, where do I even start with all the Jeffrey Epstein connections?