- 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.
- Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability
- Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, Research Associate/Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), on the board of directors of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis and Development (BREAD). His areas of research are development economics, behavioral economics, corporate finance, and applied microeconomics.
- Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion .
- Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", …
- Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Morrison grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from its public schools. He earned his B.S. in 1936 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and in 1940 he earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, …
- Richard Boyd
Richard Boyd (Ph.D. MIT 1970) is a philosopher currently at Cornell University. He is well known in philosophy of science circles as a realist. His book "The Philosophy of Science" (ISBN 0-262-52156-3) is widely used in undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses. He has also made important contributions to the development of Cornell realism, a distinctly naturalistic position in moral philosophy.
- Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle (born November 10, 1942 in Syracuse, New York) received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)". He graduated from Williams College with a BS in physics. He got his M.S. in physics and his Ph.D. in Economics, both from Cornell University in 1966 and 1969 respectively, and was a MIT Professor of Economics from 1969 to 1977.
- William Higinbotham
William (Willy) A. Higinbotham (October 25, 1910 - November 10, 1994), an American physicist, is credited with creating one of the first computer games, "Tennis for Two". Like "Pong", its a portrait of a game of tennis or ping-pong, but featured very different game mechanics that have no resemblance to the later game. As the Head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he created it on an oscilloscope in 1958, …
- Paul Horwich
Paul Horwich (born 1947) is a British analytic philosopher at New York University, whose work includes writings on causality, truth, and meaning. Horwich earned his PhD from Cornell University; his thesis advisor was Arthur Fine. He has previously taught at MIT, University College London, and CUNY Graduate Center. His works include "Truth" (1990), which presented a detailed defense of the "minimalistic" variant of the deflationary theory of truth.
- Harry C. Katz
Harry Charles Katz (born 1951) is the Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and his A.B. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. After teaching at MIT he came to the New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1985.
- Karl Shell
Karl Shell (born May 10, 1938) is a prominent American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Shell received a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1965 at Stanford University, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Arrow and Hirofumi Uzawa.
- Paul McEuen
Paul McEuen (born 1963 in Oklahoma) is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985), and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990-1991), he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to Cornell University in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of Physics. He is one of the world experts on carbon nanotubes.
- Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2006 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Dr. McIlroy is best known for having originally developed the Unix pipeline implementation, software componentry and several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Dr. McIlroy earned his Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1954, …
- Gerard O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring.
- James L. Elliot
James L. Elliot is a Professor of Physics; Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Director, George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory at MIT. Elliot was a part of a team which re-discovered the rings around the planet Uranus. Elliot was a part of a team that observed global warming on Triton, the largest moon of Neptune. Elliot uses the techniques of planetary astronomy, particularly stellar occultations, …
- Roman Jackiw
Roman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Poland, Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson. He has been a professor at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics since 1969. Jackiw is famous for the discovery of the so-called axial anomaly, also known as Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly, also known as the Chiral anomaly. In 1969, Roman Jackiw and John Stewart Bell published their explanation, …
- Mark Jarzombek
Mark Jarzombek (1954-) is a US-born architectural historian, author and critic. Since 1995 he has served as Director of the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. Jarzombek received his architectural training at the ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at Cornell University until 1994. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, …
- Irwin M. Jacobs
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs , Founder and Chairman of Qualcomm Inc. USA is visiting Amity Campus on thursday, 8th January 2004 to receive the Platinum Award for Technology Innovation. Dr. Jacobs has made a $ 3 Billion Telecom Empire and holds many patents which are part of Qualcomms extensive portfolio of more than 2,300 US patents. Amity Institute of Telecom Technology is the partner of Qualcomm Inc to impart CDMA training in India .
- Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.
- Hsien Wu
Hsien Wu (24 November 1893 - 8 August 1959) was an early protein scientist who was the first to propose that protein denaturation was a purely conformational change, i.e., corresponded to protein unfolding and not to some chemical alteration of the protein. This crucial idea was popularized later by Linus Pauling and Alfred Mirsky. Wu was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, China and trained at MIT (undergraduate) then at Harvard University (graduate) under Otto Folin.
- Tarleton Gillespie
Tarleton Gillespie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, with affiliations in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Information Science program. He is also a fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford School of Law. His first book, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture , will be published by MIT Press in April 2007 -- see more at http://www.wiredshut.org/ .
- Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols (June 1, 1869- April 29, 1924) was a U.S. educator and physicist. He was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas, and received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1888. After working for a year in the Chemistry Department at Kansas State, he matriculated to graduate school at Cornell University, where he received degrees in 1893 and 1897. He also studied at the University of Berlin and Cambridge University.
- Manson Benedict
Manson Benedict (9 October 1907 in Lake Linden, Michigan - 18 September 2006 in Naples, Florida) was a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Prof. Benedict received a B.S. from Cornell University in chemistry, and a Ph.D. from MIT in physical chemistry. It was at MIT where he met his wife Marjorie, who also received a PhD in chemistry. Dr.
- Wilson Greatbatch
Wilson Greatbatch (born September 6 1919) is an inventor who advanced the development of early implantable cardiac pacemakers. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University at Buffalo. Greatbatch is often miscredited as the inventor of the pacemaker as a whole.
- Benjamin S. Graham
Benjamin S. Graham, Sr. was a pioneer in the development and application of scientific management and industrial engineering techniques to office and factory clerical work. He is recognized as the founder of paperwork simplification. He saw a growing need for improvement in information processing back in the 1940’s (when the professional and clerical segments of the workforce were still in the minority).
- Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, …
- Bill Gossman
Bill Gossman is founder of Retoku Capital, and most recently served as CEO of Revenue Science. He is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of hands-on experience building and leading high-growth organizations primarily in digital media and mobility, and is a pioneer in behavioral targeting and enabling media delivery to cell phones.
- Levy N. Rivers
Levy has 35 years of experiences in sales, marketing, training and planning, concentrating in the areas of leadership, business and civic development. Levy is the Master Coach and Principal Consultant of Phronêsis Inc consulting and its coaching network.
- Susan Marqusee
Susan Marqusee , Ph.D. UC Berkeley Associate Director Susan Marqusee , MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She received her A.B. in Physics and Chemistry from Cornell University in 1982, and her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1990.
- Jeffrey Hoffstein
- Eric Clemons
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- Edward M. Scolnick
Edward Scolnick works closely with principal investigator Pamela Sklar towards identifying risk genes for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. From 1982-2003, Ed served as president of Merck Research Laboratories; executive vice president for science and technology at Merck & Company, Inc; executive director and vice president in the department of virus and cell biology and senior vice president for basic research at Merck Research Laboratories.
- David Stone
Engineering Psychologist with a consulting practice focused on helping corporations improve the performance of their workforce world-wide. Over 20 years of experience in industry and related academic research at Cornell, Harvard and MIT. I am the founder and chair of the ELC (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethics), an industry group that includes companies such as Symantec, Microsoft, UPS, General Electric, Wyeth Biopharma and many more. Licensed Psychotherapist (1980 - Present) focused on . . .
- Mark Kon
Dr. Mark Kon is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, with a affiliation with the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems. He has previously had appointments at Columbia University as an Assistant and Associate professor, Tufts University as an Assistant Professor, and at MIT as a graduate instructor. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Psychology from Cornell University and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT.
- Thomas A. Kochan
Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT�s Sloan School of Management. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. His recent books include: Working in America, After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry (1997) and The Mutual Gains Enterprise (1994).
- M. Jeffrey Hoffman
M. Jeffrey Hoffman , Founder and CEO M. Jeffrey Hoffman founded Basho Strategies, Inc. in 2002 as a revolutionary approach to sales and sales management training based on activity, sales efficiency and pipeline management principles. Based on a 20 year record of achievement at industry leaders like The MathWorks and Akamai Technologies, Jeff's innovative and dynamic approach to the sales process has inspired incredible success within a variety of organizations.
- Harry C. Katz
Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining and director of the Institute of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University’s ILR School. He was named dean of the School and began his 5-year term on July 1, 2005. Katz’s major fields of interest are industrial relations and labor economics. He joined Cornell in 1985 as an associate professor in the ILR School and in 1989 was named director of Cornell’s Institute of Collective Bargaining.
- Lisa Alison Prosser
Lisa Prosser Lisa Prosser , Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (DACP) at the Harvard Medical School and a core member of the Center for Child Health Care Studies.
- Ethan Gordon
Ethan Gordon : Editor Ethan has been working as a freelance photojournalist in the diving, fishing and travel industries since 1995.