Robert Stetson Shaw (born 1946)[1] is an American physicist who was part of Eudaemonic Enterprises in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
[3] He was part of the Dynamical Systems Collective with J. Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard, and James Crutchfield.
The collective, also known as the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal, was best known for its work in probing chaotic systems for signs of order.
[4] A documentary is being made about Shaw's life, his art, and his science, entitled Strange Attractors: a movie for curious people.
[5] While at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Shaw also worked briefly with the Eudaemons, a group of physicists attempting to create a computer capable of predicting the outcome of a game of roulette.