• 1966: Born to Carol and Ted Goertzel, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
• 1968: Moved to Eugene, Oregon (an excellent, hippy-ful place, at that time)
  
• 1973: Moved to suburban South Jersey (egads...)
  
• 1982: Left high school after the 10'th grade to start university at Simon's Rock College (an outstanding institution that I highly recommend to all bright high school age people). This is where in 1984 I met my future wife Gwen Yorgey....
  
• 1985: Graduated Simon's Rock in mathematics, then lived in New York City for a while, attending graduate school in applied math at NYU's Courant Institute, and in my spare time beginning to do serious research in cognitive science and AI
  
• 1987: Moved to Philadelphia and attended graduate school in mathematics at Temple University. Got married. Started playing the piano and writing lots of weird fiction, in parallel with doing cognitive science and AI research and trying to unify physics and other fun stuff.
  
• 1989: Received my PhD in math from Temple University, moved to Las Vegas to take my first real job, as a math professor at UNLV. Late in 1989, Gwen's and my first son, Zarathustra Amadeus, was born.
  
• 1993: Birth of our second son, Zebulon Ulysses. And we moved to New Zealand, where I lectured in the Computer Science department at Waikato University, and we toured around a lot. This was also the year my first two books came out, The Structure of Intelligence and The Evolving Mind, though they were written a while before. Chaotic Logic came out the year after that.
  
• 1995: Moved to Perth, Western Australia, where I had a research fellowship in Cognitive Science at the University of Western Australia. Wonderful place! Of all the places I've lived, I'd rate Perth by far the best. Would be great to move back there one day.
  
• 1997: Got the crazy idea to leave academia and start a software company, and relocated to New York City to launch Intelligenesis Corp. (later known as Webmind Inc.), a company with the mission of creating a truly intelligent AI system and making money along the way by productizing its components. In early 1997, Gwen and I had our first girl, Scheherazade Okilani Nastasya. My book From Complexity to Creativity, written in Australia and NZ, finally came out in 97. Also, I taught at the College of Staten Island, part of the CUNY system, during 1997-98 while Intelligenesis was getting off the ground.
  
• 2001: Webmind/Intelligenesis shut its doors, reducing my paper millions to zero. Around the same time, Creating Internet Intelligence was published -- ironic since that book, with its Global Brain focus, summarized a lot of the vision that had gone into founding Intelligenesis in the first place. Moved to New Mexico where I had a research professorship in the Computer Science department of UNM. Lived in Zuzax, in the mountains east of Albuquerque -- the second best place I've ever lived, after Perth. Founded Novamente LLC, Webmind's successor; and also Biomind LLC, a company specifically intended to apply Novamente technology to bioinformatics.
  
• 2002: Relocated to the Washington DC metro area, because I found a small amount of funding for Biomind from an investor near there, and he wanted the company based near him. Shortly after moving to the DC area, Gwen and I split up.
  
• 2004: Got remarried, to Izabela Lyon Freire
• 2005-2007:  During this period, as well as operating Novamente and Biomind as companies and developing  my AI (and other) research projects, I started putting time into developing AGI as a research community: organizing the AGI conference series, a few edited volumes, etc.  I also finally finished a novel, Echoes of the Great Farewell.  I published The Hidden Pattern, summarizing a lot of my "theory of mind" work.  And began working on AI for controlling agents in virtual worlds.
  
• 2008: In addition to everything else ... founded the OpenCog open-source AGI software project.  Probabilistic Logic Networks was published, and I finished a second novel, Edge of the Bleeding Abyss.
  
• 2009: In addition to everything else ... became a Visiting Faculty in the Artificial Brain Lab in Xiamen University in China, and began a project there using OpenCog to control a humanoid robot
  

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