- Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series.
- Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications.
- Vijay Pande
Vijay S. Pande is currently an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at Stanford University. Pande’s current research centers on the development and application of novel grid computing simulation techniques to address problems in chemical biology. In particular, he has pioneered novel distributed computing methodology to break fundamental barriers in the simulation of kinetics and thermodynamics of proteins and nucleic acids.
- Ross McKitrick
Ross McKitrick is a Canadian environmental economist and global warming skeptic, best known for his statistical reviews of temperature record reconstructions that purport to show dramatic recent global warming relative to history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario (since 2001) and, since 2002, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, a Canadian free-market policy think tank that opposes the Kyoto Protocol.
- David Cooper
David Cooper holds the Foundation Chair of Disaster Response and Preparedness in the Menzies Institute of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Royal Darwin Hospital. Prior to his current position Cooper was the Director of the NSW Health Counter Disaster Unit and was responsible for the development of the Australian Mass Casualty Burn Disaster Plan (AUSBURNPLAN).
- Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology.
- Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. (b. 12 April 1951) is the 15th and current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. His accomplishments at the NIH have included the establishment of a research program into the problem of widespread obesity, and supporting the reduction of healthcare disparities. In April 2006, he told a Congressional subcommittee, …
- Romano Prodi
Prime Minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998. After winning the 2006 General Elections with his coalition of center-left parties "L'Unione", he again has been Prime Minister since 17 May 2006. President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Professor of industrial organization and industrial policy
- Chris de Freitas
Dr Chris de Freitas , climate scientist, Associate Professor, The University of Auckland.
- Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president. Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968.
- James Moody
James Moody is an American sociologist
- Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University.
- John McWhorter
John H. McWhorter (1965-), was associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley until 2003, and is now a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank and a columnist for the "New York Sun". He is the author of several books on language and race relations. McWhorter attended Friends Select School (a Quaker high school in Philadelphia) and was accepted to Simon's Rock College after tenth grade.
- Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express and The Nation (of Pakistan) and serves as chairman of Communications Research Strategies, a Pakistani consulting company. Mr. Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review .
- Mark S. Wrighton
Mark Stephen Wrighton Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis Mark S. Wrighton , Ph.D., was elected the 14 th Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis in 1995, and serves as its chief executive officer. In the years following his appointment, the University has made significant progress in student quality, campus improvements, resource development, curriculum, and international reputation.
- Nancy Baym
Nancy Baym, Ph.D. is an American academic, currently an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She is a co-founder and former president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and serves on the board of several academic journals covering new media and communication. She is the author of "Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community" (2000), a book which performs an ethnographic analysis on soap opera fans, …
- Yun Wang
Yun Wang is a poet and professor of astrophysics specializing in cosmology. She is originally from Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China. Her poetry books include "The Carp" from Bull Thistle Press, and "The Book of Jade" (ISBN 1-58654-023-8) from Story Line Press.
- Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg is a computer scientist with a reputation for tackling important, practical problems and, in the process, deriving deep mathematical insights. His research spans diverse topics ranging from computer networking analysis and routing, to data mining, to comparative genomics and protein structure. He is best known for his contributions to two aspects of network theory: "small worlds" and searching the World Wide Web.
- Margaret Hedstrom
Margaret Hedstrom is an information science researcher and a pioneer of research into the area of longevity of digital materials including electronic records. Since 1995 she has been a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan’s School of Information and faculty coordinator of the Archives and Records Management specialization within the Master of Science in Information program. She holds a BA from Grinnell College, and MS in Library Science and MA in History, …
- Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds (born March 1, 1938) is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians.
- Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark (born 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he belongs to the scientific directorate of the "Foundational Questions Institute". As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey team, he has worked on data analysis, extracting the parameters of the Lambda-CDM model from observational large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background data.
- Erik Demaine
Erik Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14. His Ph.D., …
- Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is best known for her work on contemporary American poetry, and, in particular poetry associated with the avant garde.
- Ebrahim Moosa
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University. Moosa earned his `alimiyya degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Uloom Nadwatul `Ulama, one of India's foremost Islamic seminaries in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He also has a BA degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London.
- Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) is notable for his leadership of the Black Muslims, African-Americans, and the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He also was an early important teacher and mentor to Malcolm X.
- Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis D. Spinellis is a Greek computer science academic and author of the book Code Reading. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and refactoring browser, …
- Janet Jones
Janet Jones is a Canadian artist, art historian and associate professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her Ph.D thesis was "Clement Greenberg and the Artist/Critic Relationship", which focused on Greenbergian Modernist criticism in relation to painting and the internal structure of the 'Greenberg Group'. In 2002 she received the Faculty of Fine Arts Dean's Teaching Award for outstanding teaching and contribution to the life and vibrancy of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
- Denis Dutton
Prof. Denis Dutton , associate professor of philosophy, University of Canterbury
- Scott Minnich
Scott A. Minnich is an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Idaho, and a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Minnich's research interests are temperature regulation of "Yestis enterocolitca" gene expression and coordinate reciprocal expression of flagellar and virulence genes.
- Erich Jarvis
When he was eighteen years old, Erich Jarvis stood at a crossroads: should he be a professional dancer or a scientist? Very different directions, clearly, and Jarvis' choice - to go to college and pursue a scientific education - led him on the path towards becoming one of today's brightest young stars in the field of neurobiology. Not only is Erich Jarvis ' personal story compelling, but his dedication, perseverance, and enthusiasm for his field of science is also truly inspiring.
- Arthur Butz
Arthur R. Butz (born 1933 in New York City) is an American Holocaust denier and an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University, where has been tenured since 1974. Butz attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he received both his Bachelor of Science and, in 1956, his Master of Science degrees. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
- Nir Shaviv
Nir Shaviv is an Israeli associate professor of physics, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is currently an associate professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is most well-known for his solar and cosmic rays hypothesis of climate change.
- Janet Afary
Janet Afary is an Iranian author, feminist activist and researcher in history, political sciences and women studies. Her research field includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender and sexuality in modern Iran. She is known for her writings and research on the Persian Constitutional Revolution. Afary is an associate professor of Middle East Studies & Women's Studies at Purdue University.
- Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth A. Grosz is a feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.
- Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar, professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society. He is very active in several social and legal issues and is also an author.
- Nikhil Dhurandhar
Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar is a university professor who found the first human virus to be associated with human obesity. He has published details about the human adenovirus AD-36, the "obesity virus". He has since coined the term infectobesity. Dhurandhar works at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
- Brian Weatherson
Brian Weatherson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy. As of January 2008 he will move to Rutgers University. Australian born, he received his PhD from Monash University in 1998, with a dissertation on formal models for reasoning under uncertainty, titled "On Uncertainty." He has held previous appointments at Syracuse and Brown. His areas of expertise are Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, and Decision Theory.
- David Graeber
David Graeber is an anarchist and anthropologist. He is an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale has controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there ended in June 2007. On June 15, 2007, Graeber accepted the offer of a senior lectureship in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He will begin teaching there in September 2007.
- Ellen Cohn
See the PLAY! concert space: at http://www.myspace.com/playsymphony.