For Roger Jones the mathematician see Roger Jones (mathematician)

Roger D. Jones, PhD (born 1953) is an American physicist and entrepreneur.

Roger D. Jones is currently Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer of Qforma

Qforma

Qforma, Inc. was founded in 2000 by physicist Roger D. Jones from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and pharmaceutical executive, Kelly D. Myers. The company is one of several companies in Santa Fe, New Mexico that were founded on technologies first created at the Los Alamos National...

, Inc. located in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, USA. Trained in physics at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

, Jones worked as a staff physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...

 from 1979 to 1995. His primary research interests were in laser fusion and machine learning

Machine learning

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...

. In the early nineties he headed projects that applied his machine learning inventions to technical problems in the private sector

Private sector

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. At that time he became embroiled in controversy over corporate welfare

Corporate welfare

Corporate welfare is a pejorative term describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations. The term compares corporate subsidies and welfare payments to the poor, and implies that corporations are much less...

 and the role of technology transfer from the national laboratories to the private sector. In 1995 in collaboration with Citibank

Citibank

Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

, Jones co-founded the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA)

Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA)

The Center for Adaptive Systems Applications was a company founded in 1995 by physicists and a business developer from Los Alamos National Laboratory...

, a company that applied neural network

Neural network

The term neural network was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neurons. The modern usage of the term often refers to artificial neural networks, which are composed of artificial neurons or nodes...

 and adaptive technology to consumer banking. CASA was acquired by HNC Software

Robert Hecht-Nielsen

Robert Hecht-Nielsen is an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded HNC Software, and became a vice president of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation when it acquired the company....

 in March 2000, at the peak of the dotcom boom. HNC Software was subsequently acquired by Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac Corporation is a public company that provides analytics and decision making services—including credit scoring—intended to help financial services companies make complex, high-volume decisions.- History :...

 Corporation. Much of the technology developed at CASA became part of the credit scoring

Credit score

A credit score is a numerical expression based on a statistical analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of that person...

 offerings of Fair Isaac. Jones along with other Santa Fe scientists and entrepreneurs such as Doyne Farmer

J. Doyne Farmer

J. Doyne Farmer is an American physicist and entrepreneur, with interest in chaos theory and complexity. He is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He was also a member of Eudaemonic Enterprises.-Biography:...

, Norman Packard

Norman Packard

Norman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata...

, Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher concerning the origin of life on Earth...

, and David Weininger

David Weininger

David Weininger is a chemist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Daylight Chemical Information Systems, a company in Santa Fe, New Mexico that does rapid analysis of massive chemical databases. Weininger is the inventor of Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification , a universal...

 founded several other high-technology startup companies

Startup company

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 in the emerging Santa Fe technology community, dubbed by Wired Magazine as the "Info Mesa

Info Mesa

Info Mesa is the named coined by Ed Regis to describe the emerging technology companies and community in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The name was first used in an article in Wired Magazine in 2000 and later in a book by Regis published in 2003...

." Jones introduced the first entirely virtual company. Much of the effort of these startups focused on finance

Finance

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 and the catastrophic reinsurance

Reinsurance

Reinsurance is insurance that is purchased by an insurance company from another insurance company as a means of risk management...

 industry. By 2004 the companies Jones co-founded merged into a single company, Qforma

Qforma

Qforma, Inc. was founded in 2000 by physicist Roger D. Jones from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and pharmaceutical executive, Kelly D. Myers. The company is one of several companies in Santa Fe, New Mexico that were founded on technologies first created at the Los Alamos National...

, Inc., that focused on adaptive and predictive

Predictive analytics

Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events....

 technologies for the pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical company

The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to deal in generic and/or brand medications and medical devices...

 and financial industries.

Roger Jones has an Erdős number

Erdos number

The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...

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