Richard Wagner 
The Autobiography of Richard Jeffery Wagner 
A quest to understand

From being drafted into the military during the Vietnam war to solving the so-called hard problem of consciousness; from playing in chess tournaments to working on space robots for interplanetary spacecraft; from attending public schools in John Steinbeck’s hometown to teaching computer science at a major university; from riding the big surf at Waimea Bay to inventing the world’s fastest sorting algorithm; from racing model cars as a teenager to mentoring teenagers on high school robotics teams: Dr. Wagner’s debut book, twenty years in the making, chronicles his struggle to live meaningfully in a quest for a coherent understanding of the human condition.

‘… an interesting life full of amazing experience … indeed an extraordinary man.  I am honored to be his friend.  He has been a great inspiration and motivation to my son, Kai, and myself.’ —Ron Van Clief, the Black Dragon