- Arden L. Bement Jr.
Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr. (born May 22, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American engineer and scientist, and is currently Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Bement was confirmed as NSF Director on November 24, 2004, after having served as Acting Director since February 22 of that year. He joined NSF from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he had been Director since December 7, 2001.
- Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.
- Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.
- Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998. Dr. Colwell has an undergraduate degree in bacteriology and an M.S. in genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington. In 2004, she received an honorary Sc.D. from Bates College.
- Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of the VAX.
- Michael Turner
Michael S. Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, who coined the term "dark energy". He is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation. His book "The Early Universe", co-written with fellow Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb, is the standard text on the subject.
- Gene Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.
- William Sims Bainbridge
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an innovative American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He is also the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
- Erich Bloch
Erich Bloch (born 1925) is an American (German-born) electrical engineer and administrator. He served as director of National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990. Bloch studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Buffalo. Bloch joined IBM in 1952. He was engineering manager of lBM's STRETCH supercomputer system and director of several research sites during his career.
- Charlie Catlett
Charlie Catlett is Chief Information Officer at Argonne National Laboratory, director of the Computing and Information Systems Division, and a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. From 2004-2007 he was Director of the TeraGrid Project. Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Catlett was Chief Technology Officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
- Michael Davis
Michael Davis (born 11 April 1990 in Merseyside, England) is a philosopher of law, ethics, and political philosophy, author, and Professor of Philosophy, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, at Illinois State, and at Case Western Reserve. Davis is perhaps best known among philosophers for his position in the theory of criminal justice, which can be seen as a form of retributive justice.
- Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick's research group has developed a variety of educational tools that engage people in new types of design activities and learning experiences, including the "programmable bricks" that were the basis for the award-winning LEGO Mindstorms and StarLogo software.
- Zvi Griliches
Zvi Griliches and aggregation. He was particularly interested in the measurements of hidden variables. Griliches served as the President of the Econometric Society in 1975, and as the President of the American Economic Association in 1993. From 1969 to 1977 he was one of editors of the journal "Econometrica". He served on the Stigler Commission in 1961 and the Boskin Commission in 1996, …
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- Paul Werbos
Paul Werbos is a scientist best known for his 1974 Harvard University Ph.D. thesis, which first described the process of training artificial neural networks through backpropagation of errors. The thesis, and some supplementary information, can be found his book, "The Roots of Backpropagation" (ISBN 0-471-59897-6). He currently works for the National Science Foundation.
- Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague.
- Kathie L. Olsen
Kathie L. Olsen is an American neuroscientist who is noted for her work in scientific policy. Since August 2005, she has been the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation.
- Maria Zemankova
Maria Zemankova is a Computer Scientist who is known for the theory and implementation of the first Fuzzy Relational Database System. This research has become important for the handling of approximate queries in databases. She is currently a Program Officer in the Intelligent Information Systems Division at the National Science Foundation.
- Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. She then went to the University of California, Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics. In 1973 she joined the faculty of Mills College where in 1974 she founded the Mathematics and Computer Science Department (serving as its Head or co-Head for 13 years).
- Kent Norman
Kent L. Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on Computer Rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Iowa in 1973. In 1983, Norman co-founded the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes (LAPDP) as an affiliate of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
- David Laibson
David Laibson is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. His research focuses on macroeconomics, intertemporal choice, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics. Laibson was born 26 June 1966, the son of Ruth and Peter Laibson; and grew up in Haverford, PA. He received an A.B. ("summa") from Harvard in 1988 and went on to study at the London School of Economics (MSc.
- Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year.
- 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, …
- Bernard Chazelle
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, most of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, …
- Walter E. Massey
Dr. Walter E. Massey, an American educator, physicist, and business leader, was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi April 5 1938. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 and received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007. Massey has served as the director of the National Science Foundation under George H. W. Bush and Senior Provost of the University of California System.
- Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (born March 9,1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of the density functional theory, …
- Guillermo Gonzalez
Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is an astrophysicist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University. He is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, considered the hub of the intelligent design movement, and a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which also promotes intelligent design.
- Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer. He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education. After studying at home and covering crime stories as a newspaper reporter, Shapley returned to complete a six-year highschool program in only two years, graduating as class valedictorian. In 1907, at the age of 22, Harlow Shapley went to study journalism at University of Missouri.
- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Freeman A. Hrabowski is president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a position he has held since 1992. He joined the university in 1987, serving first as vice provost and then as executive vice president. Hrabowski is also a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education and universities and school systems nationally.
- Richard Herman
Richard Herman began serving as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, having previously served there since 1998 as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Before coming to Illinois, he served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Thomas A. Defanti
Tom DeFanti is a computer graphics researcher and pioneer. DeFanti did his PhD work in the early 1970s at Ohio State University, under Charles Csuri in the Computer Graphics Research Group. For his dissertation, he created the GRASS programming language. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago. With Dan Sandin, he founded the Circle Graphics Habitat, now known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL).
- Guyford Stever
Horton Guyford Stever (1916 - 1977) was an American administrator, physicist, educator, and engineer. Stever graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1941 with a Ph.D. in physics. He then joined the staff of the radiation lab at MIT. In 1942 he served the military as a scientific liaison officer based in London, England until the end of World War II. He returned to MIT, serving as associated dean of engineering there from 1956-1959.
- 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.
- Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), …
- David Goodstein
David L. Goodstein (born 1939) is a U.S. physicist and educator. Since 1988, he has served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon distinguished teaching and service professor. Goodstein was educated at Brooklyn College (BS, 1960) and at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1965).
- David A. Bader
David A. Bader (born May 4, 1969) is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of High-Performance Computing in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. In addition, Bader was selected as the director of the first Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker.
- Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics. These books include "Pythagoras' Trousers", a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet".
- Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering. Levoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under Donald Greenberg at Cornell University. He received his B.Arch. in 1976 and M.S. in Architecture in 1978. He developed a 2D computer animation system as part of his studies, …
- James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 - February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1893 and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in Boston in 1910. He went on to study chemistry at Harvard (B.A., 1914; Ph.D., 1917). At Harvard he studied under Charles Loring Jackson, and became acquainted with Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore and James B. Sumner.
- Henry Liu
Henry Liu is a retired American civil engineer and the president of Freight Pipeline Company (FPC). During Liu's earlier career he was a professor of civil engineering and the director of Capsule Pipeline Research Center, a state/industry university cooperative research center at University of Missouri–Columbia. After retirement, Liu founded FPC, the company which developed fly ash brick, a new type of building brick made from a waste by-product of coal power plants.