- Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003.
- Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo, is the President of Bolivia, and has been declared to be the country's first indigenous head of state since the Spanish Conquest over 470 years ago. This claim has created controversy, however, due to the number of mestizo presidents who came before him.
- Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New York Times" best-sellers. Auletta has written about media empires, the George W. Bush administration, and Microsoft.
- David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.
- Jeff Macnelly
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, the creator of the immensely popular comic strip, "Shoe", and an artist whose fine art paintings, prints and sculptures manage to convey both his superb draftsmanship and his unique view of the world in which he lived. Jeff’s talents generated both admiration and respect. In June 2000, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in the NY Times, “Mr.
- Mukhtaran Bibi
Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural "tehsil" (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai suffered a gang rape as a form of honor-revenge (see honour killing), on the demands of tribesmen - or by some accounts, on the orders of a "panchayat" (tribal council) - of a local clan known as the Mastoi, a clan that was richer and more powerful than Mukhtaran's clan, the Tatla.
- Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams MS'84 has received the 1995 Governor's Award in the Humanities. The award, given by the Utah Humanities Council, was made to Williams in recognition of her work as co-editor of the recently published centennial anthology of Utah literature, Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader.
- Mattie Stepanek
Matthew "Mattie" Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek was an American poet and advocate. At the age of 3, Stepanek started to write poetry to cope with the death of his older brother. His first five books are: "Heartsongs", "Journey Through Heartsongs", "Hope Through Heartsongs", "Celebrate Through Heartsongs" and "Loving Through Heartsongs". All five works made the New York Times' Best Seller list.
- John L. Hess
John L. Hess (December 27, 1917 - January 21, 2005) was a prominent American journalist who worked for many years at "The New York Times". He left the "Times" in 1978 and wrote a memoir about his years there, "My Times: A Memoir of Dissent".
- Sim van der Ryn
Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in "sustainable architecture." He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's driving professional interest has been applying principles of physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design. Van der Ryn distinguished himself among those designers and planners who have pioneered sustainable design at the community scale and the building-specific scale.
- Joseph Petrosino
Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino (August 30, 1860 - March 12, 1909) was an NYPD officer who was a pioneer in the fight against organized crime. The various crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered during his law enforcement career are still practiced by various agencies in the fight against crime.
- John B. Salling
John B. Salling (May 15, 1858 - March 16, 1959) claimed to be the second-oldest surviving Confederate Veteran of the American Civil War, though his claim of being born in 1846 has since been debunked. In 1991, William Marvel examined the claims of Salling and several other "last Civil War veterans" for a piece in the Civil War history magazine "Blue & Gray". Marvel found multiple instances of census data that indicated Salling was born in 1858, not 1846.
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Eric Boehlert
Eric Boehlert is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, where he writes a weekly column. He is also the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush . He spent five years as a senior writer for Salon , and worked for four years as a writer for Rolling Stone . He is currently working on a book about the 2008 presidential campaign that will examine the media coverage of the campaign, as well as the role played by liberal bloggers.
- Bruce Sterling
Author, journalist, editor, and critic, Bruce Sterling is also leader of the Viridians an online ecological design community. He has written eight science fiction novels, and edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), available electronically on the Internet.
- Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. Robert Shiller has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980.
- Roger A. Pielke
Roger Pielke is the former director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (2001-2007). He has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES). His current areas of interest include understanding the politicization of science, decision making under uncertainty, and policy education for scientists.
- Jeff Lackney
Dr. Jeff Lackney has committed his entire 20-year practice as a licensed architect to creating high-quality visionary learning environments for children and youth around the world. Jeff is dedicated to authentic community involvement in school planning, believing that the best solutions come from working in concert with people to identify desires and expectations for the future of education, and building on the creative potential of the surrounding community culture.
- Robert Siciliano
Robert Siciliano Personal Safety Expert He has been certified as an instructor of safety under the guidelines of the Massachusetts Board of Nursing to help save lives of healthcare workers.By training people to become winners, Siciliano has earned much critical praise teaching workshops and giving seminars to people of all ages throughout the country, on how to avoid and escape assaults.
- Paul Nussbaum
Dr. Paul Nussbaum , Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Nussbaum is a clinical neuropsychologist and national leader in Brain Health. He is cited frequently by the media and national press including the NY Times, Wall Street and USA Today. He is the recent winner of the 2007 American Society on Aging "Gloria Cavanaugh Award" for excellence in training and education in the field of aging. Dr. Nussbaum has over 20 years experience working with aging adults and all stages of dementia.
- Bud Goode
Bud Goode Bud Goode has been analyzing sports stats since 1959. His work has been honored by the American Statistical Association as the pioneering work in Statistics in Sports. His statistical model of the NFL has been used by 21 of the 31 (now 32) NFL teams and over 40 coaches. In a recent year, both Super Bowl teams were clients. Bud Goode 's syndicated column has appeared in 36 metro newspapers, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc.
- Steve Hall
Steve Hall is Managing Director at Vulcan Capital where he heads up Vulcan's investments in technology venture capital. His investment areas include next-generation Internet, semantic Web, data intelligence, and embedded networks. Steve's current investments include Ember Corporation, Zoominfo, Radar Networks, Imperium Renewables, and two stealth-mode, seed stage companies. Steve began venture investing with Prospect Street Ventures where his investment activity included About.com . . .
- David B. Fogel
David Fogel is chief executive officer of Natural Selection, Inc., La Jolla, CA. He has been applying computational intelligence methods to real problems for 16 years. Dr. Fogel is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and is the author of over 200 publications in computational intelligence, including six books. Most recently, he published "How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics," co-authored by Z. Michalewicz (Springer, 2001).
- By Brannon Howse
Brannon is a trained tenor soloist and has preformed in hundreds of American churches including that of Dr. D. James Kennedy and Dr. Chuck Swindoll as well as performing at the Anaheim Convention Center for the 10,000 delegates of the Association of Christian Schools International. Brannon is the host of the Worldview Weekend Family Reunion which is held in Branson, Missouri each spring and is attended by more than two thousand people.
- Liz Bywater
Liz Bywater Liz Bywater , PhD, is president of Bywater Consulting Group, LLC, an organizational consulting firm in the Philadelphia area. Dr. Bywater helps her clients dramatically improve individual, group, and organizational performance, resulting in enhanced job satisfaction, maximized productivity, and heightened profitability for the organization. Dr. Bywater is a specialist in human behavior and behavioral change.
- Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers (rogers@1to1.com) is a partner in the Stamford, Connecticut-based Peppers and Rogers Group, a consulting firm that specializes in customer-relationship management. Rogers works mostly from her office in Bowling Green, Ohio.
- Marc Prensky
I'm a writer, speaker and learning game designer. I strongly support the learning that goes on in all video and computer games. Through my speaking and writing (www.marcprensky.com/writing/) I try to help educators understand this and honor kids' game learning in their teaching.
- Charles Brennan
Charlie Brennan (12/14/07): U.S. Cong. Lacy Clay on Steroid Use in Baseball Charlie talks with U.S. Congressman Lacy Clay of Missouri about his Committee's reconvening next Tuesday, 12/18/07, for a hearing on the Mitchell report on steroid use in Major League Baseball. Charlie Brennan (i12/14/07): Bob Costas on Steroid Use in Baseball Charlie talks with Award-Winning Broadcaster Bob Costas about the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Major League Baseball.
- Billy Torres
I never really know what's next. I just know it will end up being fun.
- Jonathan Kiefer
I think you should enter this.
- Sonny
Me is spelt m...e. It describes the self. Or the objective pronoun relative to self.
- Barbara L. Heller
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of relationships and personal growth. For the past 25 years, she has reached millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives.
- Kathleen
Single Mom to a Beautiful Daughter! =) One of my many goals is to save up as much money as I can. My favorite color is black and blue b/c it reminds me of bruises, my favorite singer is Madonna, my favorite actor is Bruce Willis, and my favorite actress is Julia Roberts. My family includes a daughter, sister, mother, & father.
- Read Barbara Heller
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of relationships and personal growth. For the past 25 years, she has reached millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives.
- Ron McMillan
Ron McMillan , NY Times Bestselling Author – Chicago 2006 » Home | CIO Executive Summit | CIO Invitational | CIO Institute » Attendee Criteria: CIO Executive Summit | CIO Invitational | CIO Institute
- Ria
everything happens for a reason.. my heart belongs to dave.
- Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons, Future Republican Candidate? Russell Simmons recently said that the actions of Maryland's Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich have made "every Republican [candidate] open for discussion" by black voters. Read the article to find out why but recognize that this move has been a long time coming. The Republican Party, though really brutal towards poor people of all races and ethnicities, has put more black people in higher office than have the Democrats.
- Krugman
Ok-So this really isn't Paul. I admit it. First name: Krugman Last name: Paul.
- Christopher Hart
And oh yeah reading is fun..... Destination : INDIA.
- Emma Walton Hamilton
Emma Walton Hamilton Author, Editor, Educator, Theater Professional EMMA WALTON HAMILTON is a best-selling children’s book author, editor, educator and theatre arts professional. She has co-authored and published 17 books for children and young adults with her mother, Julie Andrews, four of which have been on the NY Times Bestseller list, and has written numerous articles, editorials and essays for newspapers, magazines and the internet.