James M. Bower

James Mason Bower (born February 17, 1954 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA) is an American neuroscientist and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc., creator of the Whyville.net educational virtual world. He graduated from McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, New York attending Antioch College and Montana State University as an undergraduate and then received his PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S. in 1982. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Rodolfo Llinas at NYU School of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and then took a faculty position at the California Institute of Technology where he was promoted to Professor of Computational Neuroscience. From 2002 to 2014 he held the position of Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio Since 1999, Bower has been CEO and Chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc, founders of Whyville.net Whyville. In 2015 Bower founded and became CEO of Virtual Worlds IP Inc., based in Ashland, Oregon.

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