- Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Ken Blanchard
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard . A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - 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", … - Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work "A Natural History of the Senses." Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals. - 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 - James Welch
James Welch (1940-August 4 2003), born in Browning, Montana, was an award-winning U.S. author and poet. His father was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother a member of the Gros Ventre tribe. Welch was given the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and full knighthood, by France in recognition of his contributions to French culture. - John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (born John Gatto) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. - Theodore J. Lowi
Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research is the American government and public policy. Lowi obtained a BA from Michigan State University in 1954, and an M.A. and PhD from Yale University in 1955 and 1961, respectively. He is a past President of the American Political Science Association and was voted one of the most influential political scholars of the modern era. - Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry. Defying convention, not easily categorized, and employing a postmodern poetics that admits artifice, … - Jack Turner
Jack Turner was educated at the University of Colorado and Cornell University and taught philosophy at the University of Illinois. Since 1975, he has traveled in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, Bhutan, and Peru, leading more than forty treks and expeditions. He has lived in Grand Teton National Park for over twenty years and teaches mountaineering during the summers. He is the author of several books and essays. - Milton Osborne
Milton Osborne is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia. He graduated from the University of Sydney and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Osborne held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore. Osborne's main historical contribution has been to synthesise the history of the region as a whole, rather than concentrate on the histories of the present-day nations. - Ally Carter
Carter was born in the Midwest in 1974 and grew up in a small town. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics in 1997, and from Cornell University in 1999, with a master's degree in Agricultural Resource and Applied Economics. She lives in Kansas where she worked as an agricultural economist and in human resource management. She quit her job and became a full-time writer at the beginning of November. - George Lincoln Burr
George Lincoln Burr (January 30 1857 - 1938) was a U.S. historian, diplomat, author, and educator, best known as a Professor of History and Librarian at Cornell University, and as the closest collaborator of Andrew Dickson White, the first President of Cornell. Burr was born in Oramel, New York and entered the Cortland Academy in 1869, where he first met Andrew Dickson White, who was guest speaker for its 50th anniversary. - Martin Shefter
Martin Shefter (born 1943) is an American political scientist and author, noted for his research on New York City politics and on how changes in the international system shape political institutions and the conduct of politics in the United States. Shefter graduated with a B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1964 and completed his PhD degree at Harvard University in 1970. - Srinivasan Keshav
Srinivasan Keshav is the author of the much celebrated book on computer networks titled "An Engineering approach to Computer Networks". He used to be a professor at Cornell University. He left Cornell in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, and returned to academia in 2003 as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. - Annie Fox
Annie Fox is a book author. She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Human Development. She then completed her Master's in Education from the State University of New York at Cortland and became a teacher. Her first book was "People Are Like Lollipops" (1971, Holiday House). With her husband game programmer David Fox, she opened the world's first public access microcomputer facility (Marin Computer Center) in 1977. - Adam C. Engst
Brief Bio Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and most-respected Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to tens of thousands of readers. He has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. - Jonathan Rosenberg
Jonathan Rosenberg (November 27,1973-) is the webcomic artist responsible for "Goats" and "megaGAMERZ 3133T". Rosenberg has been producing webcomics since 1997, making him one of the original webcomic artists. Because he was living in Manhattan at the time, Rosenberg's early work also tended to occur predominantly in this location. Later works branched off into real and imagined locations vastly disjointed from his previous comics. - Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman, a software engineer, writes with the energy of Boswell, the clarity of Orwell, and the warmth of Montaigne. You may wonder: how could a software engineer write so well? But you shouldn't wonder, you should read. Ullman is a wonderful writer and 'Close To The Machine' is a wonderful book. - Jean Liedloff
Jean Liedloff is an American author, best known for her 1975 book "The Continuum Concept". She was born in New York. As a teenager, she accomplished the "Drew Seminary for Young Women" and began studying at the Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate. During a diamond hunting expedition to Venezuela, she came into contact with an indigenous people named the Yequana. Over time, she became fascinated with the Yequana, … - Pete Pfitzinger
Peter ("Pete") Dickson Pfitzinger (born August 29, 1957) is a former American distance runner, who later became an author and exercise physiologist. He is best known for his accomplishments in the marathon, an event in which he represented the United States in two Summer Olympic Games: the Los Angeles Olympics (where Pfitzinger finished 11th) and the 1988 Seoul Olympics (where he placed 14th). In the 1984 Olympic Marathon Team Trials in Buffalo, New York, … - Ethan Phillips
yea my name is Ethan im 16 a junior at sodus im pretty crazy ill do ne thing that somebody tells me i like to do everything and try ne thing but if you want to know more im me wrestlerdogep. - Leonard Lipton
Leonard (Lenny) Lipton (born May 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is a well known author, filmmaker and stereoscopic vision system inventor. Lipton wrote the lyrics to "Puff the Magic Dragon" as a 19-year-old at Cornell University. Two of Lipton's books, "The Super 8 Book" (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books. 1975) and "Independent Film Making" (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972) have become known as classics in the world of independent filmmaking. - Cary Sherman
Cary Sherman is the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The trade group's member companies are responsible for creating, manufacturing, or distributing 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. As the president, Mr. Sherman represents the interests of the $11.5 billion U.S. sound recording industry -- the largest market for prerecorded music in the world. - Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. - Ronald Sukenick
Ronald Sukenick was an American writer and literary theorist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Cornell University, and wrote a doctorate on English literature at Brandeis University. He was founder and publisher of "American Book Review", and a founder of The Fiction Collective. After Roland Barthes announced the "death of the author", Sukenick carried the metaphor even further in "the death of the novel". - Wendy M. Grossman
Wendy M. Grossman is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. She graduated from Cornell University in 1975. She was a full-time folksinger from 1975–83 and her folk album "Roseville Fair" was released in 1980. In 1987, she founded the magazine "The Skeptic" in the United Kingdom. Her credits since 1990 include work for "Scientific American" and the "Daily Telegraph", as well as "New Scientist", "Wired" and "Wired News", … - Jeremy Schaap
Jeremy Schaap (b. August 23 1969, New York City) is an American sportswriter, television reporter, and author. Schaap is an Emmy award winner for his work as the host of "Outside the Lines", a sports news and interviews program, on ESPN. He is a regular contributor to "Nightline" and "ABC World News Tonight" and has been published in "Sports Illustrated", "ESPN The Magazine", "Time", "Parade", and the "New York Times". - Timothy Hemion
Timothy Hemion (b. 1961, England) is a British author of detective fiction set in Okayama, Japan, featuring Inspector Morimoto and his sidekick Officer Suzuki. Hemion is also a mathematics professor in an Atlanta, Georgia university, but frequently travels to Okayama to prepare for the next Morimoto adventure. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1982 with a degree in mathematics, and earned a doctorate in probability and statistics at Cornell University. - Ernest J. Sternglass
Ernest Sternglass , Ph.D., is Director, Cofounder, President, and Chief Technical Officer of the Radiation and Public Health Project. In 1963, Dr. Sternglass was invited to testify before the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as to how the exponential increase in strontium-90 in baby teeth caused by bomb-test fallout was associated with increased childhood leukemia. - Harold Wethey
Harold Edwin Wethey (Port Byron, New York 1902 - Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 22, 1984) was a prominent art historian. Wethey received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his doctorate from Harvard. He taught at Bryn Mawr and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1940, where he taught until his retirement in 1972. - Toni Morrison
Hello my name is Toni. I am a hardworking, fun-loving African American. I live in Northern Maine. - Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden was first elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for York Centre in June 2004. He currently serves as Minister of Social Development. Mr. Dryden is the author of four best-selling books: The Game, HomeGame, The Moved and the Shaken, and In School. In 1984, he was appointed Ontario’s first Youth Commissioner. Before entering federal politics, Mr. Dryden served as President of the Toronto Maple Leafs. - Judd Hoekstra
JUDD HOEKSTRA Author, Consultant Judd Hoekstra is one of Blanchard's experts in organizational change and is coauthor of its Leading People through Change program and consulting methodology. He is also a coauthor of Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations with Ken Blanchard and the founding associates and consulting partners of The Ken Blanchard Companies ® . - Jean Dermine
Jean Dermine Docteur es Sciences Economiques from the Catholic University of Louvain and Master of Business Administration from Cornell University, Jean Dermine is Professor of Banking and Finance at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. - Roni Avissar
Dr. Avissar received a B.S. (1980), a M.S. (1872) awarded Summa Cum Laude and a Ph.D. (1987) in Soil and Water Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. - Lewis Perdue
- Robert A. Jarrow
Robert A. Jarrow 7 th Most Prolific Credit Author in Default Risk . com 10 th Most Popular Author in Default Risk . com - Mark Klempner
When I was in my teens and twenties, I played the guitar ALOT, wrote two or three songs a week, sometimes a day, and made copious entries in my journal to try to express all that was going on inside me. Though it's actually about Holocaust rescuers, I explore those days a little bit in the preface to my book.
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