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PHILIP W. ANDERSON is a Nobel laureate physicist at Princeton and one of the leading theorists on superconductivity. He is the author of A Career in Theoretical Physics, and Economy as a Complex Evolving System. Beyond Edge: Philip W. Anderson Home Page

 

http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

http://www.wired.com/wired/index.html

He is author of numerous articles in scientific journals on the subject of autism, and has written several books including Mindblindness; and The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain. He is also author of a DVD-RoM entitled Mind Reading: the interactive guide to human emotions.

The Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Cambridge http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc/default.asp

 

JOHN BARROW 

He is the author of The World Within the World, Pi in the Sky, Theories of Everything, The Origin of the Universe (Science Masters Series), The Left Hand of Creation, The Artful Universe, Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits; Between Inner Space and Outer Space; and The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega—the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe:and The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega.    

Beyond Edge: John Barrow's Cambidge Homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/members/barrow.html

 

JESSE BERING -  Jesse Bering's Home Page

http://www.uark.edu/depts/psyc/fbering.html

 

SUSAN BLACKMORE - Susan Blackmore's home page

The Meme Machine, and Consciousness: An Introduction.

http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/

 

NED BLOCK

Ned Block's Home Page

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/

 

PAUL BLOOM - Paul Bloom Home Page

Bloom is the author of How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, which won the Eleanor Maccoby Award from APA for Best New Book in Developmental Psychology, and, most recently, Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human.

LINKS: NATURAL-BORN DUALISTS: A Talk with Paul Bloom

http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Epb85/

 

DAVID M. BUSS -  David Buss' Home Page

He is s Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses in evolutionary psychology and the psychology of human mating. He is the author of The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex; The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies Of Human Mating; and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science Of The Mind.

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Group/BussLAB/

 

WILLIAM H. CALVIN, Ph.D - William Calvin's Home Page; William Calvin: Books, Articles, Talks

He  is a neurobiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of a dozen books, mostly for general readers, about brains and evolution including The Throwing Madonna, The Cerebral Symphony, The River That Runs Uphill, The Cerebral Code, Conversations with Neil's Brain (with George Ojemann), and How Brains Think. His book with Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brainwith, is about syntax. The latest, A Brain for All Seasons:  Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change, about paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, and considerations from neurobiology and evolutionary biology. It won the 2002 Phi Beta Kappa book award for science. The latest is A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond about the mind’s big bang.

Further reading: "COMPETING FOR CONSCIOUSNESS": A Talk by William H. Calvin

http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/

 

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LEO CHALUPA - Beyond Edge: Leo Chalupa's home page

http://www.npb.ucdavis.edu/npbdirectory/chalupa.html

 

MIHALYI CSIKSZENTMIHALYI -  Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi Home Page; FlowNet

His research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology, and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world's major corporations. Csikzentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, the bestselling Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology For The Third Millennium; Creativity;Finding Flow; and Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning. The Wall Street Journal has llisted Flow among the six books "every well-stocked business library should have."

http://www.npb.ucdavis.edu/npbdirectory/chalupa.html

 

PAUL DAVIES is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has held previous academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Adelaide. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Mind of God, Other Worlds, God and the New Physics, The Edge of Infinity, The Cosmic Blueprint, Are We Alone? The Fifth Miracle, The Last Three Minutes, About Time, and How to Build a Time Machine.

Davies’s talent as a communicator of science has been recognized in Australia by an Advance Australia Award and two Eureka Prizes, and in the UK by the 2001 Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Faraday Prize by The Royal Society. For his contributions to the deeper implications of science, Davies received the Templeton Prize in 1995.

Further reading: "The Synthetic Path" in The Third Culture
Time Loops": A Talk with Paul Davies

http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/za-Ch.18.html

 

RICHARD DAWKINS

"It rapidly became clear to me that the most imaginative way of looking at evolution, and the most inspiring way of teaching it, was to say that it's all about the genes. It's the genes that, for their own good, are manipulating the bodies they ride about in. The individual organism is a survival machine for its genes."

Richard Dawkins, elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 2001, is a gifted writer, who is known for his popularization of Darwinian ideas as well as for original thinking on evolutionary theory. He has invented telling metaphors that illuminate the Darwinian debate: His book The Selfish Gene argues that genes-molecules of DNA-are the fundamental units of natural selection, the "replicators." Organisms, including ourselves, are "vehicles," the packaging for "replicators." The success or failure of replicators is based on their ability to build successful vehicles. There is a complementarity in the relationship: vehicles propagate their replicators, not themselves; replicators make vehicles. In The Extended Phenotype, he goes beyond the body to the family, the social group, the architecture, the environment that animals create, and sees these as part of the phenotype-the embodiment of the genes. He also takes a Darwinian view of culture, exemplified in his invention of the "meme," the unit of cultural inheritance; memes are essentially ideas, and they, too, are operated on by natural selection.Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University; Fellow of New College; author of The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden (ScienceMasters Series), Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Devil's Chaplain, and The Ancestor's Tale.In his role as the Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University, Dawkins regularly talks to the public regarding his views on the wonders of science. On November 12th, 1996, he delievered the Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television in England, entitled "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder." (See below).Further reading: "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder: A Talk by Richard Dawkins; "A Survival Machine" in The Third Culture

The World of Richard DawkinsThe Unofficial Richard Dawkins Website with links to articles, papers and reviews (by John Catalano)

http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/index.shtml

 

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STANISLAS DEHAENE -He is a researcher at the Institut National de la Santé, studies cognitive neuropsychology of language and number processing in the human brain; author of The Number Sense: How Mathematical Knowledge Is Embedded In Our Brains.  Further reading: "What Are Numbers, Really? A Cerebral Basis For Number Sense"

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dehaene/index.html

 

TODD E. FEINBERG, M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Chief of the Yarmon Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He is a member of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders and on the Editorial Board of the journal Neurocase. In addition to his numerous scientific publications, he is co-editor of the textbook Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology and author of Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self.

 

DENIS DUTTON, a philosopher, is founder and editor of the highly regarded Web publication, Arts & Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com). He teaches the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, writes widely on aesthetics. and is editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. Check out: Arts & Letters Daily

http://www.aldaily.com/

 

DANIEL C. DENNETT - Daniel C. Dennett's Home Page

He is a philosopher and is perhaps best known in cognitive science for his concept of intentional systems, and his multiple drafts (or “fame in the brain”) model of human consciousness, which sketches a computational architecture for realizing the stream of consciousness (the “Joycean machine”) in the massively parallel cerebral cortex.
His uncompromising computationalism has been opposed by philosophers such as John Searle and Jerry Fodor who maintain that the most important aspects of consciousness — intentionality and subjective quality — can never be computed. He is the philosopher of choice of the AI community.
He is also a major contributor to the understanding of the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology. In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, he argued that the “universal acid” of evolutionary explanation extends well beyond biology to re-conceptualize culture and science itself, and exposed some of the internal conflicts and misconstruals in the contrary claims of Stephen Jay Gould. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Content and Consciousness; Brainstorms; Elbow Room; The Intentional Stance; Consciousness Explained; Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Kinds of Minds; Brainchildren; Freedom Evolves; and Sweet Dreams. He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas Hofstadter and he is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from "Artificial Intelligence" and "Behavioral and Brain Sciences" to "Poetics Today" and the" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism".

Further reading: "Show Me the Science" "The Computational Perspective" "The Evolution of Culture"
"Dennett's Deal"  & "Intuition Pumps" in The Third Culture.

Also check out:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/%7Eddennett.htm

Center for Cognitive Studies
Daniel C. Dennett Bibliography
Curriculum Vitae

 

KEITH DEVLIN, mathematician, is a Senior Researcher at Stanford University, and Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. He is the author of Goodbye, Descartes : The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind; Life by the Numbers; The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible; Mathematics InfoSense, The Math Gene and The Millennium Problems.

"I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has fascinated me for a long time, but it's now ripe for a new synthesis because of recent advances in many fields seemingly remote from history, including molecular biology, plant and animal genetics and biogeography, archaeology, and linguistics."

 

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ESTHER DYSON is editor of the computer-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, a CNET Networks publication, author of the book, Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, and a trustee of the Long Now Foundation. Her PC Forum conference is an annual industry event. Check out: Release 1.0 Esther Dyson on ICANN

http://www.icann.org/biog/dyson.htmm

 

FREEMAN DYSON is professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton. His professional interests are in mathematics and astronomy. Among his many books are Disturbing the Universe, Infinite in All Directions Origins of Life, From Eros to Gaia, Imagined Worlds, and The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet.

Further reading: "Progress in Religion: A Talk by Freeman Dyson"

 

JARED DIAMOND is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of the recently published Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human SocietiesThe Third Chimpanzee, which won The Los Angeles Times Book award for the best science book of 1992 and Britain's 1992 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize; and Why is Sex Fun? (ScienceMasters Series).Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius Award"); research prizes of the American Physiological Society, National Geographic Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been elected a member of all three of the leading national scientific/academic honorary societies (National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society). His field experience includes 17 expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring islands, to study ecology and evolution of birds; rediscovery of New Guinea's long-lost golden fronted bowerbird; other field projects in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As a conservationist he devised a comprehensive plan, almost all of which was subsequently implemented, for Indonesian New Guinea's national park system; numerous field projects for the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund; founding member of the board of the Society of Conservation Biology; member of the Board of Directors of World Wildlife Fund/USA. Further reading: "Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?" [4.23.97]

"Jared Diamond Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction" [4.15.98]

"Laying A Foundation For Human History" Bill Gates on Jared Diamond [4.15.98]
"How to Get Rich" [6.7.99]

"Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?" [4.29.03]

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_index.html

 

GEORGE DYSON

Baidarka: The Kayak; Darwin Among the Machines; and Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship.

Further reading:"Darwin Among the Machines; or, The Origins of Artificial Life"
"CODE - George Dyson & John Brockman: A Dialogue"
"Goldsmith vs. Zimmerman"
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson_election/dyson_index.html

 

CHRISTINE FINN - Christine Finn's Bradford Home Page

She is an archaeologist and journalist; Writer-in-Residence and Honoary Research Fellow in Archaeological Sciences at University of Bradfordd.

She is the author of Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year In Silicon Valley; and Past Poetic: archaeology in the poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney.

 

KENNETH W. FORD is the retired director of the American Institute of Physics. He recently taught high-school physics and served as science director of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. His book, written with John A. Wheeler, won the 1999 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Prize..

"If you asked me should people be studying physics, or chemistry or biology or geology in high school, I would say it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. They should study some topics, of course, but the choice is wide open ó I'm interested in depth, not breadth. I'm not talking about college education; I'm just taking on K to 12. What I want when kids get through a K to 12 education is for them to have a sense of what their society thinks is true, beautiful and good; false, ugly and evil; how to think about it and how to act on the basis of your thoughts."

 

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HOWARD GARDNER - Beyond Edge: Howard Gardner's Home Page
His numerous books include ; Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals; and
Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing our Own And other People's Minds. Further reading on Edge:
"Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: Education for All Human Beings"

http://www.howardgardner.com/

 

DAVID GELERNTER - "A community is not a community of disembodied spoken statements, in part because the most important aspect of the communication that people have is emotional, and one often communicates emotion not in terms of the text but as a subtext. The physical body is not irrelevant to a human community. The emotional subtext of human communication is crucial to human thought. It isn't a footnote. Too many computer scientists don't understand this."

He is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven. He is the author of Mirror Worlds, The Muse in the Machine, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, and Drawiing a Life: Surviving the Unabomber..

Further reading: "The Conservative — David Gelernter" in Digerati; "The Second Coming — A Manifesto

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelernter_index.html

 

NEIL GERSHENFELD - Neil Gershenfeld's Home Page http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Eneilg/

Modern Art and rural Indian villages, the White House/Smithsonian Millennium celebration and automobile safety systems, Las Vegas shows and Sami reindeer herds.
He is the author of numerous technical publications, patents, and the best-selling books When Things Start To Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, and has been featured in media such as The New York Times, The Economist, CNN, and the PBS.

PERSONAL FABRICATION: A Talk with Neil Gershenfeld

STEVE GIDDINGS - Steve Giddings Home Page

He is a theoretical physicist and adventurer residing in Santa Barbara is Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
His fields of focus include elementary particle theory and string theory, black holes, and cosmology. His outdoor pursuits include rock, ice, and mountain climbing, backcountry skiing, and whitewater kayaking.

 

DANIEL GILBERT - Gilbert Lab Homepage

He is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Director of the Social Cognition and Emotion Lab. He is generally considered the world's foremost authority in the fields of affective forecasting and the fundamental attribution error.

He has published numerous scientific articles and chapters, several short works of fiction, and is the editor of The Handbook of Social Psychology. He has been been awarded the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology by the American Psychological Association, fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences.

In 2002, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin listed Gilbert as one of the fifty most influential social psychologists of the decade, and in 2003 one of his research papers was chosen by the editors of Psychological Inquiry as one of four "modern classics" in social psychology.

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/%7Edtg/gilbert.htm

REBECCA GOLDSTEIN - Rebecca Goldstein's Home Page

She is a philosopher and novelist, who has taught at Barnard, Rutgers, and Columbia. Currently she is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College.

The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, The Dark Sister, Mazel, andd Properties of Light—and a collection of stories—Strange Attractors. Her most recent book is Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel.

http://www.trincoll.edu/~rgoldste/

 

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JERRY COYNE

THE CASE AGAINST INTELLIGENT DESIGN [9.1.05]
The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Jerry Coyne

In the end, many Americans may still reject evolution, finding the creationist alternative psychologically more comfortable. But emotion should be distinguished from thought, and a "comfort level" should not affect what is taught in the science classroom. As Judge Overton wrote in his magisterial decision striking down Arkansas Act 590, which mandated equal classroom time for "scientific creationism":

The application and content of First Amendment principles are not determined by public opinion polls or by a majority vote. Whether the proponents of Act 590 constitute the majority or the minority is quite irrelevant under a constitutional system of government. No group, no matter how large or small, may use the organs of government, of which the public schools are the most conspicuous and influential, to foist its religious beliefs on others. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne05/coyne05_index.html

ALISON GOPNIK - Alison Gopnik Bio Page;

She is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and was one of the first cognitive scientists to show how developmental psychology could help solve ancient philosophical problems. She is the coauthor (with Andrew Meltzoff) of Words, Thoughts, and Theories, and (with Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff) of The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn.

Alison Gopnik Memory Lecture.

 

JONATHAN HAIDT - Jonathan Haidt's Home Page;

He is Associate Professor in the Social Psychology area of the  Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he does research on morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures.

The Haidt Lab Group

http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/

 

HAIM HARARI

He is a theoretical physicist, is the Chair, Davidson Institute of Science Education, and Former President, from 1988 to 2001, of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
During his years as President of the Institute, it entered numerous new scientific fields and projects, built 47 new buildings, raised one Billion Dollars in philanthropic money, hired more than half of its current tenured Professors and became one of the highest royalty-earning academic organizations in the world.

Throughout all his adult life, he has made major contributions to three different fields: Particle Physics Research on the international scene, Science Education in the Israeli school system and Science Administration and Policy Making.

The Davidson Institute for Science Education

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JUDITH RICH HARRIS

She is the author of The Nurture Assumption. A former writer of college textbooks, Harris is a recipient of the George A. Miller Award, given to the author of an outstanding article in psychology. She is an independent scholar and theoretician whose interests include evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, and behavioral genetics.

Further reading: "Children Don't Do Things Half Way". A Talk with Judith Rich Harris
Judith Rich Harris Comments on Frank J. Sulloway's Talk "How is Personality Formed?"
The Nurture Assumption
Web Site

 

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SAM HARRIS - Sam Harris' Home Page

he is the author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of spiritual disciplines, for twenty years. Mr. Harris is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His work has been discussed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and many other journals. Mr. Harris makes regular appearances on television and radio. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.

 

MARTI HEARST - Marti Hearst's Home Page

IBM Faculty Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and two student-initiated Excellence in Teaching awards. He is an associate professor in SIMS, the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division.
Her primary research interests are user interfaces and visualization for information retrieval, empirical computational linguistics, and text data mining. She received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.

Prof. Hearst is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was formerly on the boards of Computational Linguistics and IEEE Intelligent Systems, and was the program co-chair of HLT-NAACL '03 and SIGIR '99. She has received an NSF CAREER award.

W. DANIEL (Danny) HILLIS is Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds, Inc., a research and development company creating a range of new products and services in software, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology and mechanical design. The company also provides advanced technology, creative design and consulting services to a variety of clients.
Previously, Hillis was Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a Disney Fellow. He developed new technologies and business strategies for Disney's theme parks, television, motion pictures, Internet and consumer products businesses. He also designed new theme park rides, a full sized walking robot dinosaur and various micro mechanical devices. Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author, and engineer. He pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for most supercomputers, as well as the RAID disk array technology used to store large databases. He holds over 40 U.S. patents, covering parallel computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, and various electronic and mechanical devices. Danny Hillis is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock.

As a student at MIT, Hillis began to study the physical limitations of computation and the possibility of building highly parallel computers. This work culminated in 1985 with the design of a massively parallel computer with 64,000 processors. He named it the Connection Machine, and it became the topic of his Ph.D. He received his doctorate degree in computer science from MIT in 1988. Later he was appointed adjunct professor at the MIT Media Lab.

In 1983, while he was finishing up his degree at MIT Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corp. to produce and market the Connection Machine. The company's customers included American Express, Dow Jones, Schlumberger, Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of Tokyo, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA. He continued to lead Thinking Machines' technical team until 1995 when he left to start a small consulting company, DHSH. One of DHSH's clients was The Walt Disney Company, and in 1996 Hillis joined Disney full time in the newly created role of Disney Fellow.

Thinking Machines Corp. was the leading innovator in massive parallel supercomputers and RAID disk arrays. In addition to conceiving and designing the company's major products, Hillis worked closely with his customers in applying parallel computers to problems in astrophysics, aircraft design, financial analysis, genetics, computer graphics, medical imaging, image understanding, neurobiology, materials science, cryptography and subatomic physics. At Thinking Machines, he built a technical team comprised of scientists and engineers that were widely acknowledged to have been among the best in the industry.

Dr. Hillis has published scientific papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Modern Biology, Communications of the ACM and International Journal of Theoretical Physics and he is an editor of several other scientific journals, including Artificial Life, Complexity, Complex Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems and Applied Mathematics. He has also written extensively on technology and its implications for publications such as Newsweek, Wired, Forbes ASAP and Scientific American. He recently published his second book, ,The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
(ScienceMasters Series), in which he explains the basic ideas that make computers work.

Dr. Hillis has worked as a consultant to many companies developing technology-related business strategies, including AT&T, Xerox, Kodak, Schlumberger, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, as well as smaller companies such as Screaming Media, Ejemoni, Alexa Internet, and Direct Medical Knowledge. He has served on numerous company boards, and was named as part of Upside Magazine's "Dream Team" board of directors. He is also an adviser to the U.S. government, and serves on the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee.

Hillis is co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation, a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, the SETI Institute's Technical Advisory Committee, the Advisory Board of Yale's Institute for Biospheric Studies, the National Academy of Engineering, and the board of the Hertz Foundation. Dr. Hillis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Spirit of American Creativity Award for his inventions, the Hopper Award for his contributions to computer science and the Ramanujan Award for his work in applied mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow in the International Leadership Forum.
 
Besides his professional interests, Hillis is also an enthusiastic student carpenter, skier, hiker, tennis player, scuba diver, surveyor, geologist, perfume-maker and helicopter pilot. He is not particularly skilled at any of these, but he has fun. He and his wife Pati home school their three children, Asa, Noah, and India in Los Angeles, California.

Further reading:
"How We Will Learn"
"The Mountain and the Clock By Stewart Brand
"Danny Hillis Wind $1,000,000 Dan David Prize"
"How Democracy Works (Or Why Perfect Elections Should All End In Ties)"
"Special Relativity: Why Can't You Go Faster Than Light?"
"The Clock of The Long Now" A Talk With Stewart Brand

Close to the Singularity" in The Third Culture (Chapter 23)
"The Genius" in Digerati (Chapter 13)

Essays by Danny Hillis

 

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DONALD D. HOFFMAN - Donald Hoffman's Home Page

He is a Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine and author of Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See and coauthor of Observer Mechanic: A Formal Theory Of Perception.
He received the Troland Research Prize of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Early Career Award of the American Psychological Association.

 

JOHN HORGAN - John Horgan's Home Page

He is a science writer, oversees the science writings program at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He was a senior writer at Scientific American from 1986 to 1997. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Slate, London Times, Times Literary Supplement among other publications.

"My claim is that science is a bounded enterprise, limited by social, economic, physical and cognitive factors. Science is being threatened, literally, in some cases, by technophobes like the Unabomber, by animal-rights activists, by creationists and other religious fundamentalists, by post-modern philosophers and, most important of all, by stingy politicians. "

He is the author of The End of Science;The Undiscovered Mind;and Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality.

Further reading: "Why I Think Science Is Ending" A Talk With John Horgan;
"The End of Horgan?"  & "In Defense of Common Sense"

 

VERENA HUBER-DYSON

She is a emeritus professor of the Philosophy department of the University of Calgary, Alberta Canada, where she taught graduate courses on the Foundations of Mathematics, the Philosophy and Methodology of the sciences.  Before the Vietnam war she was an associate professor in the Mathematics department of the University of Illinois. She taught in the Mathematics department at the University of California in Berkeley, and was part of Tarski's Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science.  Her research, in interface between Algebra and Logic, (Tarski and Novosibirsk Style) is concerned with undecidability in Group theory.
She is the author or a monograph, Gödel's theorems: a workbook on formalization, which is based on her experience of teaching graduate courses and seminars on mathematical logic, formalization and its limitations to mathematics, philosophy and interdisciplinary students at the Universities of Calgary, Zürich and Monash. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Further Reading: "On The Nature of Mathematical Concepts: Why and How do Mathematic ians Jump to Conclusions?" by Verena Huber-Dyson   &  "The Nature of Mathematical Truth II": A Talk with Verena Huber-Dyson

 

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY.- home page - www.humphrey.org.uk

He is a  Professor at the London School of Economics and Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research is a theoretical psychologist, internationally known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging: He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda; was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight" after brain damage in monkeys; proposed the now celebrated theory of the "social function of intellect"; and is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta.

His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, and The Mind Made Flesh. He has been the recipient of several honours, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, and the British Psychological Society‚s book award.

Further Reading:: "The Thick Moment" in The Third Culture & "What Shall We Tell the Children?" (Amnesty Lecture, Oxford, 21st February 1997) & "Scientific Shakespeare"

 

PIET HUT - Piet Hut's Home Page,

He is a  professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton. He is involved in the project of building GRAPEs, the world's fastest special-purpose computers, at Tokyo University, and he is also a founding member of the Kira Institute and of the B612 Foundation.

GRAPEs; Kira Institute; & B612 Foundation

 

STUART A. KAUFFMAN

He is a emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is a theoretical biologist who studies the origin of life and the origins of molecular organization. He is a MacArthur Fellow and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Thirty-five years ago, he developed the Kauffman models, which are random networks exhibiting a kind of self-organization that he terms "order for free." Dr. Kauffman was the founding general partner and chief scientific officer of The Bios Group, a company (acquired in 2003 by NuTech Solutions) that applies the science of complexity to business management problems. He is the author of The Origins of Order, Investigations, and At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization.

Further Reading:: Chapter 20:"Order for Free" in The Third Culture;

A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum Cosmology By Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin  & "THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE" A Talk with Stewart Kauffman

 

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DR. ALAN KAY

His is President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc., and Senior Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs and is best known for the ideas of personal computing, the intimate laptop computer, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented programming. His deep interests in children and education were the catalysts for these ideas, and they continue to be a source of inspiration to him.

One of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, (PARC) he led one of the several groups that together developed modern workstations (and the forerunners of the Macintosh), Smalltalk, the overlapping window interface, Desktop Publishing, the Ethernet, Laser printing, and network "client-servers."

Prior to his work at Xerox, Dr. Kay was a member of the University of Utah ARPA research team that developed 3-D graphics. There he earned a doctorate (with distinction) in 1969 for the development of the first graphical object-oriented personal computer. He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Colorado. Kay also participated in the original design of the ARPANet, which later became the Internet.

After Xerox PARC, Kay was Chief Scientist of Atari, a Fellow of Apple Computer for 12 years, and then for 5 years Vice President of Research and Development at The Walt Disney Company. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization located in Glendale, CA., and in 2002 he joined the Hewlett-Packard Co. as a Senior Fellow.

Dr. Kay has received numerous honors, including the ACM Software Systems Award, the ACM Outstanding Educator Award, the J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique and the NEC 2001 C&C Prize. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Computer Museum History Center. He is a recipient of the ZeroOne Award from the University of Berlin, and recently received an honorary doctorate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He was inducted into the Utah Information Technology Association (UITA) as a "Hall of Fame Member, November 2003. He was awarded the Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering in May 2004 and has recently been given an appointment as Sr. Scientist with the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In June of 2004 He was accorded the Turing award from the Association for Computing Machinery; Also in June of 2004 he was declared a Kyoto Prize Laureate in advanced technology by the Inamori Foundation.

A former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer, he is now an amateur classical pipe organist. Viewpoints Research Institute

KEVIN KELLY -  Official Kevin Kelly Website;

He has helped launch Wired magazine in 1993. Wired is a widely available magazine that reports on the culture of technology. Kelly served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is now Editor-At-Large for Wired. In 1994 and 1997, during Kelly's tenure, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (the industry's equivalent of two Oscars).
Previously, Kelly was editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review, an small-circulation magazine reporting on unorthodox technical and cultural news. He is the author of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World; New Rules for the New Economy;and Asia Grace.
Kelly's writing has appeared in many national and international publications such as the New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire.

Instead of going to college he went to Asia as a photographer. His photographs have appeared in Life and other national magazines. He has no college or university degrees.

He is passionate about: All Species Inventory; & he is currently involved in: Long Bets; & Asia Grace Website

STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN - I think, ... there ... 4am!"

He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has published over 200 papers on the nature of visual mental imagery. He has received numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award and the Prix Jean-Louis Signoret, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. His books include Image and Mind; Ghosts in the Mind's Machine; Elements of Graph Design; Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience; Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate; and Psychology: The Brain, the Person, the World.
Kosslyn is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has served on several National Research Council committees to advise the government on new technologies. He is also co-founder of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Kosslyn Laboratory

 

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JARON LANIER - The Jaron Lanier Home Page

He is a computer scientist and musician, is a pioneer of virtual reality, and founder and former CEO of VPL. He is currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, and visiting scientist, SGI.  Further reading:: Chapter 17, "The Prodigy," in Digerati "ONE HALF A MANISFESTO"   & "WHY GORDIAN SOFTWARE HAS CONVINCED ME TO BELIEVE IN THE REALITY OF CATS AND APPLES"
The National Tele-Immersion Initiative

 

KAI KRAUSE

He has a doctorate in philosophy, a masters in image processing, a patent for interface concepts, a Clio for the first StarTrek movie and a Davis Medal by the Royal British Photographical Society.  Time magazine selected him as one of the 50 most influential thinkers of the next decade.  

Born 1957 in Germany, he studied languages and math at a Gymnasium and the music conservatory for classical piano. In 1976 he left for California, consulted on synthesizers and vocoders on about 30 records and movies. He sold his entire machinery to Neil Young in 1982 and over the next 20 years started several software companies to build computer graphics tools. Over 20 products from Kai's Power Tools for Photoshop to Bryce (and many more like Poser, Raydream, InfiniD, Painter, LivePicture, Convolver) came out of MetaTools and MetaCreations, the effects being ubiquitous everywhere on CD covers, MTV videos, the Oscars and the Mars Mission, Issey Myake clothing or his Absolut Kai ads.

The real success of the software was in pioneering revolutionary interfaces, deeper concepts of realtime interaction, and aethetic designs of organic shapes, rounded edges, soft shadows and layers which are now many years later standard parts of OSX and XP.

Meta went to Nasdaq in 1995 for several hundred million in value, but Kai left Santa Barbara for his next idea: he acquired a 1000-year-old castle on the Rhein river, dubbed Byteburg, where he and a small team are developing his next generation software project, code-named "TimeDoubler", for release later in 2004. He also founded an incubator for small Startups with space for about 200 people in a second water-castle near Cologne.

He is still maintaining a "press embargo" (but its not that hard to find him;)

Edge readers know him as a TED Fellow, DEMO God and Billionaire Dinner guest.

 

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS - Lawrence Krauss Home Page

He is a  Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and chairman of the Physics Department of Case Western Reserve University, is the author of The Fifth Essence, Quintessence, Fear of Physics, The Physics of Star Trek, Beyond Star Trek, & Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earthand Beyond.

 

LEON M. LEDERMAM -  Leon M. Lederman Science Information Center

He is the director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has received the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982), and the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988). In 1993 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize by President Clinton. He is the author of several books, including (with David Schramm) From Quarks to the Cosmos : Tools of Discovery, and (with Dick Teresi) The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

The Story of Leon;

 

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RAY KURZWEIL -  http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=2

He was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded, developed, and sold four AI businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, and reading technology. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray Kurzweil received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the world's largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received ten honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards.
He is the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines; The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence; The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; and coauthor (with Terry Grossman, M.D.) of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever.

Further reading: "ONE HALF OF AN ARGUMENT; "THE SINGULARITY "   & "The Intelligent Universe" & "The Singularity"

 

JANNA LEVIN - Beyond Edge: Janna Levin's Website

She is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She received a BA in physics and astronomy with a concentration in philosophy from Barnard, a PhD from MIT in the Center for Theoretical Physics, and subsequently worked at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to England. There she held an Advanced Fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). Just prior to returning to the states she was awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts to be a scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing in Oxford. She has worked on theories of the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. She is the author of How The Universe Got Its Spots: Diary Of A Finite Time In A Finite Space.

We have to put emotion back into the brain and integrate it with cognitive systems. We shouldn't study emotion or cognition in isolation, but should study both as aspects of the mind in its brain.

 

JOSEPH LEDOUX - LeDoux Lab: Center for Neural Science Home Page

He is a neuroscientist and Professor at the Center for Neural Science, New York University, seeks a biological rather than psychological understanding of our emotions. He explores the differences between emotional memories (implicit--unconscious--memories) processed in pathways that take information into the amygdala, and memories of emotion (explicit--conscious--memories) processed at the level of the hippocampus and neocortex. Joseph LeDoux has written the most comprehensive examination to date of how systems in the brain work in response to emotions, particularly fear. Among his fascinating findings is the work of amygdala structure within the brain. He is the author of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, & Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are; coauthor (with Michael Gazzaniga) of The Integrated Mind, and editor with W. Hirst of Mind and Brain: Dialogues in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Further reading: "Parallel Memories: Putting Emotions Back Into The Brain" — A Talk With Joseph LeDoux 

SETH LLOYD - Seth Lloyd's Home Page

He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He is also adjunct assistant professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He works on problems having to do with information and complex systems from the very small—how do atoms process information, how can you make them compute, to the very large — how does society process information? And how can we understand society in terms of its ability to process information?

His seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications — including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's noisy channel theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction — has gained him a reputation as an innovator and leader in the field of quantum computing. Lloyd has been featured widely in the mainstream media including the front page of The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Wired, The Dallas Morning News, and The Times (London), among others. His name also frequently appears (both as writer and subject) in the pages of Nature, New Scientist, Science and Scientific American.

Further reading: "SETH LLOYD: How Fast, How Small, and How Powerful? Moore's Law and the Ultimat Laptop"  &  "The Computational Universe"  & "The Universe Is A Computer" in Nature

 

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BENOIT MANDELBROT- Benoit Mandelbrot's Home Page

He is the Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
He is best known as the founder of fractal geometry which impacts mathematics, diverse sciences, and arts, and is best appreciated as being the first broad attempt to investigate quantitatively the ubiquitous notion of roughness. He is the author of The Fractal Geometry of Nature; Fractals and Scaling In Finance; and (with Richard L. Hudson) The Misbehavior of Markets.

Further Reading: "A Theory of Roughness: A Talk with Benoit Mandelbrot"

 

GARY F. MARCUS - Gary Marcus' Home Page

He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at New York University and Director of the NYU Infant Language Center. His research on language acquisition and computational modeling has been published in journals such as Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology. He is the author of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science and The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought.

 Further readinge:"Language, Biology, and the Mind: a Talk with Gary Marcus"

 

LYNN MARGULIS - Lynn Margulis' home page

She is a  Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Symbiotic Planet, The Origin of Eukaryotic Cells, Early Life, and Symbiosis in Cell Evolution. She is also the coauthor, with Karlene V. Schwartz, of Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth and with Dorion Sagan of Acquiring Genomes, Microcosmos, Origins Of Sex, and Mystery Dance.

 

JOHN McCARTHY - John McCarthy's Home Page

He is a  Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. A pioneer in artificial intelligence, McCarthy invented LISP, the preeminent AI programming language, and frst proposed general-purpose time sharing of computers. He identifies common-sense rules that determine the consequences of events and codifies these rules, along with other information, as sentences in the symbolic languages of AI databases.

 

PAMELA McCORDUCK -

She is the author or coauthor of seven published books, among them the classic Machines Who Think, which has recently been reissued in a 25th Anniversary edition; The Fifth Generation, Aaron's Code, The Universla Machine, and coauthor with Nancy Ramsey of The Futures Of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century.

 

IAN McEWAN - The Official Ian McEwan Website (IanMcEwan.com )

He is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Among them are the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been short-listed for the Book Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the

W.H. Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).McEwan currently lives in London. His latest novel, Saturday, is based on a day in the life of a brain surgeon.

 

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JOHN MCWHORTER-

He is a linguist, cultural commentator, is a Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. He is the author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care. He was widely consulted by the media during the Oakland Ebonics controversy of 1997, and has written a book on dialects and Black English, The Word on the Street. He is also the author of Authentically Black, The Power of Babel, and Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America and has written two books on creoles. He has also taught on the history of black musical theatre. He has written on race issues for City Journal, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and appeared on Dateline NBC, Politically Incorrect, Talk of the Nation, and Good Morning America. Further reading: "The Demise of Affimative Action at Berkeley": An Essay by John McWhorter

 

THOMAS METZINGER - Thomas Metzinger's Home Page

He is a Professor of Philosophy and director of the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Widely considered to be the foremost European philosopher of mind, he is the author of three books, most recently Being No One: the Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, and the editor of a number of collections of essays and papers, including Conscious Experience; and Neural Correlates of Consciousness. In addition to cognition and selfhood, his research interests include ethics, particularly the conceptual connections between applied ethics, the philosophy of mind, and anthropology.)

 

OLIVER MORTON -

He is a freelance writer, and a contributing editor at Wired and Newsweek International. He used to edit Wired UK, and previously worked at The Economist, spending almost five years as Science and Technology Editor. He is the author of Mapping Mars.

 

DAVID G. MYERS -  David G. Myers Home Page.

He is the John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College and author of The Pusuit of Happiness, & The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty; &  Intuition: It's Powers and Perils. Further reading: "What Questions are on Psychologists' Minds Today?" David G. Myers.

 

RANDOLPH NESSE, M.D. - Randolph Nesse's Home Page

He is Professor of Psychiatry, Director, ISR Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, The University of Michigan and coauthor (with George C. Williams) of Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. LINKS: Is the Market on Prozac?

 

MARTIN NOWAK -

He is a Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard University. He is Director of the newly founded Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, for which Harvard obtained a donation of $30 million. Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna where he received his Ph-D in 1989. Afterwards, he went to Oxford to work with Robert May. Nowak became Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford at the age of 32. In 1998 he moved to Princeton to establish the first research program in Theoretical Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study. In July 2003, Nowak was recruited by Harvard University. Nowak is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has won several prizes including the Weldon Memorial Prize. Nowak has made important discoveries in a number of fields related to evolutionary biology. He has studied evolutionary dynamics of virus infections and cancer progression. He has pioneered the mathematical approach for the evolution of human language. Nowak invented spatial reciprocity and stochastic game dynamics of finite populations. Nowak and Sigmund have cooperated for many years. Their work led to concepts like Generous Tit-for-tat, Win-stay, lose-shift and indirect reciprocity. They are co-authors of numerous papers in Nature, Science and Scientific American. Nowak has published more than 200 papers. His first book, Virus Dynamics (together with Robert May) is a technical monograph describing the mathematical analysis of virus infection and immunology.

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JAMES J. O'DONNELL -  The James J. O'Donnell Website.

He is the Provost of Georgetown University. From 1981-2002, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace.
He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. In 1990, he co-founded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second on-line scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. In 1994, he taught an Internet-based seminar on the work of Augustine of Hippo that reached 500 students.

 

ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND - Sandy Pentland's MIT Home Page

He is a pioneer in wearable computers, health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world.
He is a co-founder of the Wearable Computing research community, the Autonomous Mental Development research community, the Center for Future Health,  the international Digital Nations Consortium, and was the founding director of the Media Lab Asia.     He was formerly the Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. 
He has won numerous international awards in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering. He was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the next century.
He currently directs the Human Dynamics research group at the MIT Media Lab.


IRENE PEPPERBERG - Irene Pepperberg's Media Lab page

She studies Grey parrots. The main focus of her work is to determine the cognitive and communicative abilities of these birds, and compare their abilities with those of great apes, marine mammals, and young children. She is studying the mechanisms of their learning as well as the outcomes. Dr. Pepperberg is a a research scientist at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brandeis University. Links: "That Damn Bird: A Talk with Irene Pepperberg"   & The Alex Foundation

 

STEVE PETRANEK is the editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine. -  Discover


CLIFFORD PICKOVER - Clifford Pickover Home Page

He is a research staff member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He is the holder of more than a dozen patents dealing with computer interfaces, and he has written some twenty books on a broad range of topics, including Time : A Traveler's Guide, Surfing Through Hyperspace : Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons, Black Holes : A Traveler's Guide, Future Health : Computers and Medicine in the 21st Century, Keys to Infinity, The Science of Aliens, The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience; Calculus and Pizza: A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind. Pickover's primary interest is in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor. His Internet Web site has attracted nearly two hundred thousand visitors.  


STEVEN PINKER -  Steven Pinker's Home Page

He is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of six books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, and The Blank Slate. Pinker serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, including the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary and the scientific advisory board for "The Decade of Behavior." He has won many prizes for his books (including the William James Book Prize three times, the Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize, and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize), his research (including the Troland Research Prize from the National Academy of Sciences and the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association), and his graduate and undergraduate teaching. He is also a Humanist Laureate and the recipient of three honorary doctorates.
"A Biological Understanding of Human Nature" & "The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate Opening Comments
"The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate Opening Comments
"The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate

Further reading: "Language Is a Human Instinct" in The Third Culture [1995] 
"Organs of Computation": A Talk with Steven Pinker
"The Two Steves: A Debate": Steven Rose vs. Steven Pinker  & "A Biological Understanding of Human Nature: A Talk with Steven Pinker"  & "The Science of Gender and Science"

 

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JORDAN POLLACK - Jordan Pollack's home page

He is a computer science and complex systems professor at Brandeis University. His laboratory's work on AI, Artificial Life, Neural Networks, Evolution, Dynamical Systems, Games, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Educational Technology has been reported on by the New York Times, Time, Science, NPR, Slashdot.org and many other media sources worldwide. Jordan is a prolific inventor, advises several startup companies and incubators, and in his spare time runs Thin Mail, an Internet based service designed to increase the usefulness of wireless email.  

Further reading: "Software As a Cultural Solvent"
Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization (DEMO) Laboratory, Brandeis University

 

ROBERT R. PROVINE -

He is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he studies the development and evolution of the nervous system. The walkie-talkie theory is presented in his book Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.There are two types of cosmologists active today: those who seek the physical principles driving the global properties of the Universe, and those who concentrate on the details of astrophysical objects, like galaxies, quasars, and black holes, that give complementary information about structure at smaller distances. Martin Rees is one of the few cosmologists exploring both venues, giving him a unique perspective from which to develop scientific ideas, and to synthesize known ideas for a broader audience.

 

DR. CAROLYN C. PORCO - http://ciclops.org/index.php?flash=1

She received her PhD degree in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, having completed her doctoral dissertation on Voyager discoveries in the rings of Saturn. In the fall of 1983, she joined the faculty in the Department of Planetary Sciences within the University of Arizona; the same year she was made a member of the Voyager Imaging Team. In the latter capacity, she participated heavily in the Voyager encounters with Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, leading the Rings Working Group within the Voyager Imaging Team during the latter encounter. In November 1990, she was selected as the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission to Saturn, an international mission that has successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, and deployed an atmospheric probe to Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. She is also an imaging scientist on the Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission, New Horizons, which will launch to Pluto in 2006.She is currently a Sr. Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has taught both graduates and undergraduates and was one of 5 finalists for the University of Arizona Honors Center `Five Star Faculty Award', a campus-wide student-nominated, student-judged award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.She has been an active participant in guiding the American planetary exploration program through membership on several important NASA advisory committees, including the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, the Mars Observer Recovery Study Team, and the Solar System Road Map Development Team. She served as the chaiperson for a small NASA advisory working group to study and develop future outer solar system missions and she recently served as the Vice Chair of the Steering Group for the Solar System Decadal Survey, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and NASA.

Dr. Porco, currently a regular CNN guest analyst and consultant on astronomy, has made many radio and television appearances explaining science to the layman, including appearances on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, CBS' 60 Minutes, and TV documentaries on planetary exploration such as "Cosmic Journey: The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message" on A&E, and "The Planets" on The Discovery Channel. She was a strong and visible defendant of the usage of radioactive materials on the Cassini spacecraft. She is currently a regular CNN on-camera guest analyst and consultant on astronomy .Dr. Porco has also given many newspaper and magazine interviews, and has been profiled eight times in print, beginning in 1989 (Boston Globe, October, 1989), in the New York Times (August 1999), in the Tucson Citizen (2001 ), and most recently in Newsday (June 2004). She was a member of a committee chaired by Carl Sagan in 1994 entitled "Public Communication of NASA's Science." Her popular scientific writings have been published in the London Sunday Times, the Guardian, Astronomy Magazine and the Arizona Daily Star. She continues to be active in the presentation of science to the public as the leader of the Cassini Imaging team. She is the creator/editor of the team's CICLOPS website (ciclops.org) where Cassini images are posted, and writes the site's home page opening greeting to the public.She is also the CEO of Diamond Sky Productions, a small company devoted to the scientific, as well as artful, use of planetary images and computer graphics for the presentation of science to the public.Dr. Porco was responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist, Eugene Shoemaker, by sending his cremains to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1998.In late 1999, she was selected by the Sunday London Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of "50 Stars to Watch".Her contributions to the exploration of the outer solar system were recently recognized with the naming of Asteroid (7231) Porco: "Named in honor of Carolyn C. Porco, a pioneer in the study of planetary ring systems...and a leader in spacecraft exploration of the outer solar system."

 

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SIR MARTIN REES -

He is a Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of King's College, the UK's Astronomer Royal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of about 500 research papers, and widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading astronomers and cosmologists.SIR MARTIN REES is Royal Society Professor at Kings College, Cambridge and the UK Astronomer Royal. He was previously Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, having been elected to this chair at the age of thirty, succeeding Fred Hoyle. He has originated many key cosmological ideas: for example, he was the first to suggest that the fantastically energetic cores of quasars may be powered by giant black holes. For the last twenty years, he has directed a wide-ranging research program at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. He is the author of several books, including Gravity's Fatal Attraction (with Mitchell Begelman); New Perspectives in Astrophysical Astronomy; Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others; Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe; Our Cosmic Habitat; and Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in this Century—on Earth and Beyond (published in the UK as Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival). Martin Rees: The Bruce Medalist
LINKS:  "Living In a Multiverse"  &  "The Ultra Early Universe"   & "An Ensemble of Universes," Ch.15 in The Third Culture

 

HOWARD RHEINGOLD - Howard Rheingold's Home Page

He fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged his computer into his telephone and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, his interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity, written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech and The Cognitive Connections with Howard Levine Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes ), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming , with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and phrases.
"I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology, via the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers, and wrote Tools for Thought . Next, Virtual Reality chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France. "In 1985, I became involved in the WELL, a computer conferencing system. I started writing about life in my virtual community and ended up with a book about the cultural and political implications of a new communications medium, The Virtual Community. In 1993 I had the privilege of being the editor of The Whole Earth Review and editor in chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched "Electric Minds". I've become a professional virtual community builder, as well. My new book is Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

"You can see my painted shoes, if you'd like."

Further reading: "Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs"  & "The Citizen" in Digerati

 

CARLO ROVELLI - Carlo Rovelli's Home Page

He is a theoretical physicist, working on quantum gravity and on foundations of spacetime physics. He is professor of physics at the University of the Mediterraneum in Marseille, France and member of the Intitut Universitaire de France. He is the author of Quantum Gravity and (in Italian) Cos'e' il tempo? Cos'e' lo Spazio?

 

RUDY RUCKER - Rudy Rucker's Home Page

He is a mathematician, computer scientist; CyberPunk pioneer; and novelist. His books include Infinity and the Mind, Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, Freeware, & White Light.

 

KARL SABBAGH -

He is a writer and television producer with 25 years of experience describing complex events and subjects for a nonspecialist audience. His programs for the BBC and PBS have encompassed physics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, technology, and anthropology. Two of his television projects have been accompanied by best-selling books: The Living Body and Skyscraper. Sabbagh has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, New Scientist, The Listener, and Punch. He has also hosted a regular BBC radio series called Science Now. His other books include 21st Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777; A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud; & The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics.

 

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DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF - Doulgas Ruskoff 's Home Page

He analyzes the way people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it. Rushkoff is the author of eight best-selling books on new media and popular culture, that have been translated into over 20 languages, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say, Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism, and the novels Ecstasy Club, and Exit Strategy.
His writes essays and commentaries for NPR's All Things Considered, Time Magazine, and CBS Sunday Morning. Rushkoff lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He hosts and writes documentaries for PBS, Channel Four, and the BBC. Rushkoff's award-winning Frontline documentary "The Merchants of Cool" was one of the most watched and most talked about documentaries of the year.

He has served as an professor of virtual culture at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program for the past four years, as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association and the Center for Cognitive Liberties and Ethics, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He is a Senior Fellow of the Markle Foundation, and a Center for Global Communications Fellow of the International University of Japan.He regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Frontline to Larry King and Politically Incorrect. Rushkoff writes for magazines and newspapers including Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, GQ and The Silicon Alley Reporter, and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. Further reading: "The Thing That I Call Doug"

 

ROBERT SAPOLSKY - Robert Sapolsky Home Page

He is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and of neurology at Stanford's School of Medicine. He is also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. While his primary research, on stress and neurological disease, is in the laboratory, for twenty-three years he has made annual trips to the Serengeti of East Africa to study a population of wild baboons and the relationship between personality and patterns of stress-related disease in these animals. His latest book, A Primate's Memoir, grew out of the years spent in Africa. He is also the author of Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death, and two books for nonscientists, The Trouble With Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping.

LINKS: A BOZO OF A BABOON: A Talk with Robert Sapolsky

 

JEAN PAUL SCHMETZ -

He is the Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH, a subsidiary of the Burda Media Group and a Member of the Executive Board of Burda New Media GmbH.

 

STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER - Stephen H. Schneider's Home Page

He is a climatologist, is Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Stanford University and the Former Department Director and Head of Advanced Study Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder. He is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading experts in atmospheric research and its implications for environment and society. Dr. Schneider's books include The Genesis Strategy: Climate Change and Global Survival; The Coevolution Of Climate and Life and Global Warming: Are We Entering The Greenhouse Century?; and Laboratory Earth

 

ROGER SCHANK -
Roger Schank, is currently Distinguished Career Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Chief Education Officer, Carnegie Mellon West. He is the former Chairman and Chief Technology Officer for Cognitive Arts and was the founding Director of the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University since its founding in 1989. He held three faculty appointments at Northwestern University as John Evans Professor of Computer Science, Education, and Psychology. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Yale University and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project.ÝHe was also a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, a faculty member at Stanford University, and research fellow at the Institute for Semantics and Cognition in Switzerland. In addition, Dr. Schank is a fellow of the AAAI, the founder of the Cognitive Science Society, and co-founder of the Journal of Cognitive Science. One of the world's leading Artificial Intelligence researchers, Dr. Schank is the author of more than 125 articles and publications.Ý His books include: Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Learning in Computers and People , Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory, The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind, and Engines for Education. His newest book is Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce.

Further reading:"Information is Surprises" — in The Third Culture
"The Disrespected Student — or — The Need for the Virtual University": A Talk with Roger Schank.


 

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GINO SEGRE  - Gino Segre's Home Page

He is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. HE was born in Florence, Italy and raised in Florence and New York City.He has been a visiting professor at M.I.T. and Oxford, chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 until 1992 and Director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation in 1995. He is the author of A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe. 

 

MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN, Ph.D - Martin Seligman Upenn Home Page

Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., works on learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author.
His bibliography includes twenty books and 200 articles on motivation and personality. Among his better-known works are Learned Optimism; The Optimistic Child; Helplessness; Abnormal Psychology, Authentic Happiness, and coauthor of The Classification of Strengths and Virtues.
Dr. Seligman's research and writing has been broadly supported by a number of institutions including The National Institute of Mental Health  (continuously since 1969), the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His research on preventing depression received the MERIT Award of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1991. He is the network director of the Positive Psychology Network and Scientific Director of the Telos Project of the Mayerson Foundation.
In 1996 Dr. Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association.

LINKS: "EUDAEMONIA, THE GOOD LIFE": A Talk with Martin Seligman  & Authentic Happiness Coaching  & The Authentic Happiness Website  & The Martin Seligman Research Alliance

 

TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI - Terrence Sejnowksi Home Page;

He is a pioneer in Computational Neurobiology, is regarded by many as one of the world's most foremost theoretical brain scientists. He is Professor, Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Professor of Biology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego,
He is coauthor of The Computational Brain;Thalamocortical Assemblies: How Ion Channels, Single Neurons and Large-Scale Networks Organize Sleep Oscillations; and most recently coauthor (with Steven Quartz) of Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are. Compututional Neurobiology Lab (CNL)

 

RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Rupert Sheldrake Online

He is a biologist and author of The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind; Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals; The Rebirth of Nature; and Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, as well as many technical papers in scientific journals. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He lives in London.

 

MICHAEL SHERMER -

He s the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Fox Family television series, Exploring the Unknown. Shermer is the author of How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, Why People Believe Weird Things, Teach Your Child Science, and The Borderlands of Science : Where Sense Meets Nonsense. He is the co-author of Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?; Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics; and In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History; and Science Friction.He has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Sally, Lezza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows, as well as on documentaries aired on A & E, Discovery, and The Learning Channel. The Skeptics Society

 

CHARLES SIMONYI -

He is a Cofounder of Intentional Software Corporation, a software engineering company dedicated to assisting software developers in capturing the tremendous latent value that is usually lost in the design and development process. Simonyi formerly worked as Director of Application Development, Chief Architect, and most recently, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. He joined Microsoft in 1981 to start the development of microcomputer application programs and hired and managed teams who developed Microsoft Excel, Multiplan, Word, and other applications. In 1991, he moved on to Microsoft Research where he focused on Intentional Programming, an ecology for abstractions which strives for maximal reuse of components by separating high level intentions from implementation detail. Before coming to Microsoft, Simonyi worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center developing Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Simonyi holds a BS degree in engineering mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford. Further Reading: Intentional Programming: A Talk with Charles Simonyi  & CODE II — Farmer & Simonyi: A Reality Club Dialogue

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Dr. JOHN R. SKOYLES -

He is a Graduate, London School of Economics;Postgraduate, University College London; and Former MRC funded neuroscience researcher who is a researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain.
His projects and papers include Origins of modern cognition;The alphabet and the origins of Western Civilization; Phones are a vocal imitation code; Left to right of history; Popper studies; Consciousness; Autism; Data-archiving; Self-sustaining situations and money; Greek Art; Memory headers; Brain size IQ and human evolution; Religion and mind viruses; Humanistic morality; Reading and neural networks; Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. While a first-year student at LSE, published a theory of the origins of Western Civilization in Nature. He is the author (with Dorion Sagan) of Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence. Up From Dragons Website

 

LEE SMOLIN -

He is a theoretical physicist, is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo Canada. He is the author of The Life of The Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. "What is space and what is time? This is what the problem of quantum gravity is about. In general relativity, Einstein gave us not only a theory of gravity but a theory of what space and time are--a theory that overthrew the previous Newtonian conception of space and time. The problem of quantum gravity is how to combine the understanding of space and time we have from relativity theory with the quantum theory, which also tells us something essential and deep about nature."
Further reading: "A Theory of the Whole Universe" in The Third Culture
"A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum Cosmology" by Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin "Loop Quantum Gravity: Lee Smolin" Perimeter Institute

 

ELIZABETH SPELKE - Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard University

She teaches at Harvard University, where she is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.  She studies the origins and nature of knowledge of objects, persons, space, and number, by assessing behavior and brain function in human infants, children, human adults and non-human animals. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and cited by Time Magazine as one of America's Best in Science and Medicine, her honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the William James Award of the American Psychological Society.

Further reading: "The Science of Gender and Science" 

 

MARIA SPIROPULU - Maria Spiropulu's Home Page  & The Official Maria Spiropulu Appreciation Page

She is a physicist, is currently at CERN. She has been working at the Tevatron with UCSB and was an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the EFI/University of Chicago. Spiropulu finished her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard working at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) onsupersymmetric searches. Previously she worked at CERN's DELPHI and in Berlin's BESSY. Among other research topics she is interested in collider signatures of supersymmetry and extra dimensions.

 

TOM STANDAGE -

was born in London and studied engineering and computer science at Oxford University. He has covered science and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Wired and Prospect, and is now Technology Editor at The Economist. He is the author of three books, The Victorian Internet, The Neptune File and The Turk, and takes a particular interest in the social and cultural impact of technology.

 

PAUL STEINHARDT - Paul Steinhardt's Home Page

He is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and on the faculty of both the Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He is one of the leading theorists responsible for inflationary theory. He constructed the first workable model of inflation and the theory of how inflation could produce seeds for galaxy formation. He was also among the first to show evidence for dark energy and cosmic acceleration, introducing the term "quintessence" to refer to dynamical forms of dark energy. With Neil Turok, he has pioneered mathematical and computational techniques which decisively disproved rival theories of structure formation such as cosmic strings. He made leading contributions to inflationary theory and to our understanding of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. Hence, the authors not only witnessed but also led firsthand the revolutionary developments in the standard cosmological model caused by the fusion of particle physics and cosmology in the last 20 years. Further reading: The Cyclic Universe: Paul Steinhardt

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BRUCE STERLING - The Bruce Sterling Online Index — a guide to every Bruce Sterling work on the web

He was born in 1954 in Brownsville, Texas. His grandfather was a rancher, his father an engineer. Sterling, purportedly a novelist by trade, actually spends most of his time aimlessly messing with computers, modems, and fax machines. He and his wife Nancy have a daughter Amy, born in 1987. They live in Austin, Texas. 

Sterling sold his first science fiction story in 1976. His solo novels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). In 1986 he edited Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. His two collections of short stories are Crystal Express (1989) and Globalhead (1992). In 1990 he and William Gibson published their collaborative 'steampunk' novel The Difference Engine

1992 saw the appearance of Sterling's first nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier, a work of investigative journalism exploring issues in computer crime and civil liberties. Sterling released the entire text of the book on the Internet as non-commercial "literary freeware," and maintains a long-term interest in electronic user rights and free expression. Other nonfiction work by Sterling has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, Whole Earth Review, Details, Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, and Wired

He has also written SF criticism for Science Fiction Eye and Monad, and regular columns for Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has been a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ever since Salman Rushdie was condemned by religious fanatics. 

His latest book is entitled Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years.  (adapted from the press bio in Globalhead, with other sources)

 

LEONARD SUSSKIND - Leonard Susskind Home Page

He has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for my Scientific American article on black holes.
His contributions to physics include the discovery of string theory, the theory of quark confinement, the development of Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory, the theory of scaling violations in deep inelastic electroproduction, the theory of symmetry breaking sometimes known as "Technicolor theory", the first theories of cosmological baryogenisis apart from Sakharov's work which was unknown in the west, the string theory of black hole entropy, the principle of "black hole complementarity", the holographic principle, the matrix description of M-theory, the introduction of holographic entropy bounds in cosmology, the idea of a string theory "landscape".
He has written numerous articles for the non-specialist including an award winning article on black holes in the Scientific American, a recent rather long "cover story" article on the "Anthropic Landscape of String theory" in the New Scientist and an article on the status of String theory in Physics World.
Further reading:THE LANDSCAPE: A Talk with Leonard Susskind

 

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page

He is an essayist and mathematical trader. He is interested in the epistemology of randomness and the multidisciplinary problems of uncertainty and knowledge, particularly in the large-impact hard-to-predict rare events ("Black Swans"). Taleb is Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Chairman, Empirica LLC. Taleb held senior trading positions with trading houses in New York and London and operated as a floor trader before founding Empirica LLC. His degrees include an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is the author of Dynamic Hedging and Fooled by Randomness (2nd Ediition, published April 9th). He considers himself an Edge Activist — a member of the "literary and empirical community of scientists-philosophers".

Links: "LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED"

 

TIMOTHY TAYLOR -

He teaches in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK, and conducts research on the later prehistoric societies of southeastern Europe. He regularly publishes in international journals, including Scientific American, Nature, The American Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity, World Archaeology, and Current Anthropology. He is the author of The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture, and The Buried Soul. He has been instrumental in popularizing archaeology on television, acting as a researcher on several BBC programs including "The Blood of the British" and presenting his work on "Down to Earth" in an episode that won the British Archaeological Award for best popular archaeology on TV. He is currently conducting the excavation of a Bronze Age burial site — Barney's Hole — in a newly discovered cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

 

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ARNOLD TREHUB -

He is adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been the director of a laboratory devoted to psychological and neurophysiological research and is the author of The Cognitive Brain.

 

ROBERT TRIVERS' - Robert Trivers' Home Page

His scientific work has concentrated on two areas, social theory based on natural selection (of which a theory of self-deception is one part) and the biology of selfish genetic elements (which leads to certain kinds of internal genetic conflicts). His early work—offering unifying theories on reciprocal altruism, parental investment, sexual selection, parent-offspring conflict, the sex ratio, and deceit and self-deception—has now been cited more than 7000 times in the scientific literature. His work on selfish genetic elements has appeared in several articles.
He is the author of Social Evolution, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers.Trivers is a frequent, featured speaker at international academic meetings (e.g. "Selfish genetic elements and social behavior", 1st William Hamilton Memorial Lecture, 9th International Conference of Behavioral Ecologists, McGill University, Montreal, CA, July 10, 2002, audience of 750) or as University guest (e.g. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, U of Texas, Austin, April, 2003). He was cited in a special Time issue as one of the 100 greatest thinkers and scientists of the 20th Century. Further reading: Robert Trivers: A FULL-FORCE STORM WITH GALE WINDS BLOWING

 

J. CRAIG VENTER- Beyond Edge: The J. Craig Venter Institute

He is one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his visionary contributions in genomic research. He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation. The Venter Institute conducts basic research that advances the science of genomics; specializes in high volume genome sequencing, and explores the ethical and policy implications of genomic discoveries and advances. The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation supports both the Venter Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), an affiliated research organization led by Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D. Venter founded TIGR in 1992.

Key Accomplishments:

• While on faculty at the National Institutes of Health, Venter developed expressed sequence tags or EST’s, a revolutionary new strategy for discovering genes.
• In 1992, he founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). There, he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, pioneering the new whole genome shotgun technique.
• In 1998, Venter became the first president of Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using the whole genome shotgun technique, new mathematical algorithms, and new automated DNA sequencing machines.
• The completed sequence of the human genome was published in February 2001 in the journal, Science. In addition to the human genome, Venter and his team at Celera sequenced the fruit fly, mouse, and rat genomes.
• In 2003, Venter launched a global expedition to obtain and study microbes from environments ranging from the world’s oceans to urban centers. This mission, now in progress, is yielding insights into genes that make up the vast realm of microbial life.

Research at the Venter Institute reflects Venter’s interests in advancing the science of genomics and in applying genomic advances to some of the world’s most vexing public health and environmental challenges. Major research foci include human genomic medicine, environmental and evolutionary genomics (which includes the Venter Institute Global Sampling Mission), biological energy production, synthetic biology, and the intersection between genomics and environmental and energy policy.

 

ALEXANDER VILENKIN - He is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the universe from nothing. He received his undergraduate degree in physics in 1971 in the former Soviet Union but was prevented from getting into graduate school because he was blacklisted by the KGB for refusing to cooperate. He emmigrated to the US in 1976, received his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo in 1977, and joined the faculty at Tufts in 1978. His work has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles in US, Europe, Russia, and Japan, and in many popular books.

 

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MARGARET WERTHEIM - She  is a science writer and commentator who has written extensively for magazines, television and radio. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Sciences, New Scientist, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, LA Weekly and Salon. She is the senior science reviewer for The Australian's Review of Books and writes a monthly column on science and society for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Wertheim is the author of Pythagoras‚ Trousers and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. She was the writer and host of "Faith and Reason", a 1998 PBS documentary special about science and religion. She is a Research Associate to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
Wertheim lectures widely about science and society at universities and colleges across America. In 1998 she was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's official spokeswoman for Science Week. She has been a guest on the PBS programs "Think Tank" and "Between the Lines," on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Sunday Morning Live", on ZD-TV's "Silicon Spin," and on ABC Australia's "Two Shot" and "Nightline."

 

DONALD I. WILLIAMSON - He is a biologist at the Port Erin Marine Station of the University of Liverpool (UK); Author, The Origins of Larvae.

 

IAN WILMUT - Roslyn Institute, Edinburgh

He is a professor and Head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, is uniquely qualified both as a pioneer in the science of cloning and as a participant in the public discussions of its possible social and ethical consequences. He is the leader of the team that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Since Dolly's birth, he has become something of an international figure as an expert on cloning techniques, and his laboratory continues to play a leading role in the development of methods for the cloning and genetic modification of animals. Dr. Wilmut's own research centers on the cloning of human embryos to provide stem cells for treatment of degenerative disorders such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease. He has been a frequent advocate of the medical benefits to be derived from this new technology, giving many public lectures on the subject and participating in numerous panel discussions on the potential uses and misuses of cloning. He has also testified in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States before parliamentary and congressional committees considering the legislative regulation of cloning. Dr. Wilmut has a distinguished record of ground-breaking biological research. He obtained a B.Sc. in Agricultural Science at the University of Nottingham before studying at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1971. His subsequent research in Cambridge led to the birth of the first calf from a frozen embryo — "Frosty" — in 1973. He moved to Edinburgh that year and has worked there ever since. Besides heading a department at the Roslin Institute, he serves as scientific advisor to Geron Bio-Med, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Geron Corp of Menlo Park, California. The objectives of current research are to develop biomedical applications of the nuclear-transfer procedure: these include the provision of modified animal organs and human stem cells for therapy. Ian Wilmut's work has been recognized by many awards and honorary degrees. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the highest Scottish society of learning, and in the previous year was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Other awards include a fellowship in the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize, the Sir John Hammond Memorial Prize of the Society for the Study of Fertility, the Sir William Young Award of the Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland, and the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. In addition to his many research papers, Dr. Wilmut has written a large number of popular articles on the subject of cloning, including pieces for Time, New Scientist, and Scientific American. In 2000, with coauthors Colin Tudge and Keith Campbell, he published The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, which describes the research leading to the birth of Dolly and initial impressions of the value of cloning techniques. Publicity for the book was shared among the authors; Dr. Wilmut spoke at book publicity events in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Munich, and gave many interviews to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. He plans to publicize the book in his public lectures and articles as well as participate in tours to promote After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Cloning.

 

ELLEN WINNER - Ellen Winner's Home Page

She is a psychologist at Boston College. Her research focuses on two areas of research on cognition in the arts. (1) The study of the creative process in the visual arts, including what broad thinking dispositions are acquired by studying the arts, how students make sense of the arts, the role of arts in their lives and how students learn by reflecting on their portfolios; (2) The study of the effects of music training on children's brain growth (through brain imaging) and on their cognition (musical, spatial, and verbal) and motoric development. This research is based on a view of the arts as cognitive as well as affective, and on the assumption that the arts are a central aspect of human behavior which must be incoporated into our understading of human development and education. She is the author of Gifted Children: Myths and Reality; The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony; Invented Worlds. Ellen Winner's Boston College Web Page;

 

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ANTON ZEILINGER - Anton Zeilinger's Group Home Page at University of Vienna

He is a physicist who has held teaching and research positions at M.I.T., the Universities of Innsbruck and Oxford, at the Technical Universities of Vienna and Munich, at the College de France in Paris. Presently he is a Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna.
His work has received world-wide attention, most notably his first realization of quantum teleportation and most recently our quantum interference experiments with buckyball molecules, the largest objects ever to have demonstrated quantum phenomena. In terms of research his next goal is to extend the validity of quantum phenomena experimentally to the realm of even larger objects and perhaps even to life itself. He has written a number of articles on quantum physics for a general audience in journals like Scientific American, Nature, Science, Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"Quantum Teleportation", cover story, Scientific American,

 

IAN McEWAN
Novelist; Author, Saturday

ROBERT TRIVERS
Evolutionary biologist, Rutgers University; Author, Natural Selection and Social Theory

RANDOLPH NESSE, M.D.

OLIVER MORTON
Writer; Contributing Editor, Wired, Newsweek International; Author, Mapping Mars.
TOR NØRRETRANDERS
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The User Illusion
CAROLYN PORCO
Planetary Scientist; Leader, Cassini Imaging Team; Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute, Boulder

RUDY RUCKER
Mathematician, Computer Scientist; CyberPunk Pioneer; Novelist; Author, Infinity and the Mind
CHRISTINE FINN
Archaeologist; Journalist; Writer-in-Residence, University of Bradford; Author, Past Poetic
JONATHAN HAIDT
Psychologist, University of Virginia

SETH LLOYD
Quantum Mechanical Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARGARET WERTHEIM
Science writer and Commentator; Author, Pythagoras' Trousers
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN
Philosopher and Novelist, Trinity College; Author, Incompleteness
DAVID MYERS
Psychologist, Hope College; Author, Intuition

MARIA SPIROPULU
Physicist, currently at CERN

LEON LEDERMAN
Physicist and Nobel Laureate; Director Emeritus, Fermilab; Coauthor, The God Particle
MICHAEL SHERMER
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Columnist, Scientific American; Author Science Friction
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate University; Author, Flow

JEAN PAUL SCHMETZ
Economist; Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH (Burda Media Group

ALAN KAY
Computer Scientist; Personal Computer Visionary, Senior Fellow, HP Labs
ROGER SCHANK
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Author, Designing World-Class E-Learning
SAM HARRIS
Neuroscience Graduate Student, UCLA; Author, The End of Faith

GREGORY BENFORD
Physicist, UC Irvine; Author, Deep Time

GINO SEGRE
Physicist, University of Pennsylvania; Author, A Matter of Degrees
PIET HUT
Astrophysicist, Institute of Advanced Study
SCOTT ATRAN
Anthropologist, University of Michigan; Author, In God's We Trust

 

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KAI KRAUSE
Software: Concepts, Artwork & Interface Design; Byteburg Research Lab above the Rhein River
KEITH DEVLIN
Mathematician, Stanford University; Author, The Millennium Problems

ROBERT SAPOLSKY
Neuroscientist, Stanford University, Author, A Primate's Memoir

PHILIP W. ANDERSON
Physicist and Nobel laureate, Princeton University

JANNA LEVIN
Physicist, Columbia University; Author, How The Universe Got Its Spots

STEPHEN KOSSLYN
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Wet Mind
HAIM HARARI
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science

DONALD HOFFMAN
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
BRIAN GOODWIN
Biologist, Schumacher College, Devon, UK; Author,
How The Leopard Changed Its Spots

ANTON ZEILINGER
ALEXANDER VILENKIN
Physicist; Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University

PAUL STEINHARDT
Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, Princeton University.

CARLO ROVELLI
Physicist; Institut Universitaire de France & University of the Mediterraneum; Author, Quantum Gravity
DANIEL GOLEMAN
Psychologist; Author,
Emotional Intelligence

TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI
Computational Neuroscientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Coauthor, The Computational Brain

ELLEN WINNER
Psychologist, Boston College; Author, Gifted Children
STANISLAS DEHAENE
Cognitive Neuropsychology Researcher, Institut National de la Santé, Paris; Author, The Number Sense
HOWARD RHEINGOLD
Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
PAMELA McCORDUCK
Writer; Author, Machines Who Think

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Media Virus

NED BLOCK
Philosopher and Psychologist, New York University

VERENA HUBER-DYSON
Mathematician, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Philosophy, University of
Calgary; Author, Gödel's Theorems

W. DANIEL HILLIS
Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone

ROBERT R. PROVINE
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter

PAUL BLOOM
Psychologist, Yale University; Author, Descartes' Baby

DAVID BUSS
Psychologist, University of Texas, Austin; Author, The Evolution of Desire

JORDAN POLLACK
Computer Scientist, Brandeis University

 

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PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Psychologist, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University; Author, Shyness
ALUN ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist

ESTHER DYSON
Editor of Release 1.0; Trustee, Long Now Foundation; Author, Release 2.0

J. CRAIG VENTER
Genomics Researcher; Founder & President, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation

SIMON BARON-COHEN
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University; Author, The Essential Difference
STEPHEN PETRANEK
Editor-in-Chief, Discover Magazine

JOHN BARROW
Cosmologist, Cambridge University; Author, The Infinite Book

JOHN R. SKOYLES
Neuroscience researcher; Coauthor, Up From Dragons
THOMAS METZINGER
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Author, Being No One
ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND
Computer Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory

JARON LANIER
Computer Scientist and Musician

RAY KURZWEIL
Inventor and Technologist; Author, The Age of Spiritual Machines

STEWART KAUFFMAN
Biologist, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Investigations

JESSE BERING
Psychologist, University of Arkansas

IRENE PEPPERBERG
Research Scientist, MIT School of Architecture and Planning; Author, The Alex Studies

CLIFFORD PICKOVER
Computer scientist, IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center; Author, Calculus and Pizza
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Mathematical trader; Author, Fooled By Randomness

ELIZABETH SPELKE
Psychologist, Harvard University
SUSAN BLACKMORE
Psychologist, Visiting Lecturer, University of the West of England, Bristol; Author The Meme Machine

FREEMAN DYSON
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study, Author, Disturbing the Universe

DANIEL GILBERT
Psychologist, Harvard University
MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN
Psychologist, University of Pennsylvania, Author, Authentic Happiness

PAUL DAVIES
Physicist, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, How to Build a Time Machine

ALISON GOPNIK
Psychologist, UC-Berkeley; Coauthor, The Scientist In the Crib

STEVEN PINKER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, The Blank Slate

JOSEPH LEDOUX
Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, The Synaptic Self

LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Physicist, Case Western Reserve University; Author, Atom
MARC D. HAUSER
Psychologist, Harvard University: Author, Wild Minds
WILLIAM CALVIN
Neurobiologist, University of Washington; Author, A Brief History of the Mind
DANIEL C. DENNETT
Philosopher, Tufts University Author, Freedom Evolves
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Psychologist, London School of Economics; Author, The Mind Made Flesh
HOWARD GARDNER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Changing Minds
LEE SMOLIN
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Biologist, London; Author of The Presence of the Past

DR. JEFFREY MISHLOVE

 

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Archimedes - The Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments - BBC Radio 4 discussion from In Our Time, broadcast 25 January 2007 (requires RealPlayer)

Archimedes' Book of Lemmas at cut-the-knot

Archimedes and the Rhombicuboctahedron by Antonio Gutierrez from Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas

Archimedes Home Page

O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Archimedes". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

The Archimedes Palimpsest web pages at the Walters Art Museum

NOVA program on Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest project at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland

Archimedes - The Golden Crown points out that in reality Archimedes may well have used a more subtle method than the one in the classic version of the story

Archimedes' Quadrature Of The Parabola Translated by Thomas Heath.

Archimedes' On The Measurement Of The Circle Translated by Thomas Heath

The Works Of Archimedes by Thomas Heath

Works by Archimedes at Project Gutenberg

Archimedes and his Burning Mirrors, Reality or Fantasy?

Biography of Archimedes

Squaring the circle History Topic at MacTutor

Archimedes - The Greatest Scientist Ever

 

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