Steve Donaldson (PhD, University of Alabama) is the director of the computer science program and co-director of the computational biology program at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also one of the co-founders of the Samford University Center for Science and Religion. His interests in cognition, machine intelligence, evolutionary systems and the interface of science and religion have led him to pursue a number of interdisciplinary teaching and research opportunities and to mentor students in award-winning research. Donaldson enjoys mountain climbing, whitewater kayaking, snow s...