Author, Jeffrey Mishlove, received an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. He has been a trader, investor and a registered Commodity Trading Advisor. He has also been a California licensed psychologist. From 1987 to 2002 he hosted the national, public television series, Thinking Allowed. Since 2002, his forecastingsystems.com blog has tracked developments in computer software trading programs. He is the author of the Handbook for Contestants in CNBC’s 2007 Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. In 2010, he was part of a team that discovered the first dinosaur tracks found in the State of Nevada. He has served as president of the nonprofit Intuition Network.