- Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines. - Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after him after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999. In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, … - Roy Fielding
Roy T. Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on computer network architecture. Fielding was born in Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Fielding's doctoral dissertation, … - Mark Levine
Mark LeVine is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He's also a religious scholar and a musician. He received his B.A. in comparative religion and biblical studies from Hunter College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, as well as Italian, French and German. - Michael V. Drake
Chancellor Drake, left, shared his views with the UC Staff Diversity Council Oct. 24. MORE » GREETINGS FROM CHANCELLOR DRAKE - Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is a computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection of computer science and social science. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000. Born and raised in Glasgow, Dourish received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. While at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, … - Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco Jose Ayala (born 1934) is a Spanish American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Madrid and moved to the US in 1961 to study at Columbia University. There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964. He became a US citizen in 1971. He has been President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - James McGaugh
James L. McGaugh, Ph.D., is an American neurobiologist working in the field of learning and memory. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Irvine. McGaugh received his B.A. from San Jose State University in 1953 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959. He was briefly a professor at San Jose State and then became a professor at the University of Oregon from 1961-1964. - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. - David Eppstein
David Eppstein (born 1963) is a computer scientist at the Computer Science Department, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. He is best known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics. - Bernard Grofman
Bernard Norman Grofman (born December 2, 1944) is a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. From the University of Chicago he received a B.S. (1966) in mathematics and an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science. He began teaching at the University of California, Irvine, in 1976, becoming a full professor in 1980. His works include "Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990" (with Chandler Davidson, … - Ralph Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone became president of The National Academy of Sciences in 2005. His research in atmospheric chemistry and climate science has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels, nationally and internationally. - Tom Boellstorff
Tom Boellstorff is an anthropologist currently based at the University of California, Irvine. In his career to date, his interests have included the anthropology of sexuality, the anthropology of globalization, the anthropology of virtual worlds, Southeast Asian studies, the anthropology of HIV/AIDS, and linguistic anthropology. He is the winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize given by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. - Irwin Rose
Irwin A. Rose (born 16 July 1926 in NY) is an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Rose attended Washington State University for one year prior to serving in the Navy during WWII. Upon returning from the war he received his B.S. in 1948 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1952, both from the University of Chicago. - Douglas R. White
Douglas R. White (1942) is an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine. Born in Minneapolis in 1942, White attended the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.A. in 1964, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D. degree in 1969, all under advisor E. Adamson Hoebel and the CIC: Travelling Scholars Program. - Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi is best known as the lead author of "Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart", Nardi & O'Day, (MIT Press, 1998). She is widely known among librarians - especially research, reference and digital librarians - for Chapter 7 of Information Ecologies, which focused on librarians as keystone species in information ecologies. - David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg, PhD was born and raised in South Africa, where he later received degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Capetown. He also holds a PhD in philosophy from City University of New York. Formerly Director and Professor of the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University, Goldberg was appointed Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) in July of 2000, … - Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a regular visiting member of the philosophy department at Stanford University. He has worked on problems in the philosophy of science, causation, decision theory, game theory, and the foundations of probability. Most recently, his work has focused on the evolution of social norms using evolutionary game theory. - Murray Krieger
Murray Krieger (November 271923-August 52000) was an American literary critic and theorist. He was a professor at the University of Iowa from 1963, and then the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the University of Chicago, and Ohio State University as a doctoral student. - Mark Warschauer
Mark Warschauer is an associate professor in the Department of Education and Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is well known for his contributions on the Digital Divide, specially in the approach of access to Information and Communications Technology and digital literacy. He currently teaches an undergraduate class titled "Technology and Literacy" at the University of California, Irvine. - Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble is an astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy. Trimble received her B.A. from UCLA in 1964 and her Ph.D from the California Institute of Technology in 1968. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1971, where she is presently Professor of astronomy. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. - R. Duncan Luce
R. Duncan Luce is the Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. He was awarded a PhD in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. He received the 2003 National Medal of Science in behavioral and social science for his contributions to the field of mathematical psychology. - George Sperling
George Sperling studies cognitive psychology. He documented the existence of iconic memory (one of the sensory memory subtypes). These experiments took place in 1960. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of both Cognitive Science and Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. For a description of his experiments, see iconic memory. - Kenneth Pomeranz
Kenneth Pomeranz is a professor in the history department at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988. Most of his research focuses on China and its economy. - 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. - Van Tran
Van Thai Tran is a U.S. politician, currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo are the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history; Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. - Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990. He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing. - William Sears
William Sears (born c. 1940) is an American pediatrician, the author or co-author of more than 30 parenting books, most notably several in the "Sears Parenting Library." He is a frequent guest on television talkshows, where he goes by the name Dr. Bill. He and his wife Martha Sears, R.N., are among the leading proponents of the attachment parenting philosophy. - A. Kimball Romney
A. Kimball Romney is one of the founders of cognitive anthropology. He spent most of his career at the University of California, Irvine. - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - Nancy Leveson
Prof. Nancy G. Leveson is a leading American expert in system and software safety. She is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, USA. Nancy Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA, including her PhD in 1980. Previously she was based at University of California, Irvine and the University of Washington as a faculty member. - Penelope Maddy
Penelope Maddy is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. She is well-known for her influential work in the philosophy of mathematics where she has worked on realism and naturalism. Maddy received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979. Her early work, culminating in "Realism in Mathematics", … - Barry Siegel
Barry Siegel is a former national correspondent for the "Los Angeles Times" who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach". He is an expert on literary journalism and was recruited by the University of California, Irvine to chair that school's new English program in Literary Journalism. Siegel is the author of the influential true crime novel "A Death in White Bear Lake", … - Daniel Stokols
Daniel Stokols is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Stokols received his B.A. degree at the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His recent research has examined factors that influence the success of transdisciplinary research and training programs. Additional areas of Dr. - Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, … - Bruce J. Tromberg
Bruce J. Tromberg is an American photochemist. He is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine and at the The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at Irvine. He is also the Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at Irvine. - Oakley Hall
Oakley Maxwell Hall (born July 1, 1920) is an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M. Hall" and "Jason Manor." His books focus primarily on the historical American West. His most famous book, "Warlock", was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. - Jill Beck
Jill Beck (born 1949) is an American dancer, scholar, administrator and educator. She is the 15th and current president of Lawrence University. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Jill Beck received her B.A. in philosophy and art history from Clark University, an M.A. in history and music from McGill University, and the Ph.D. in theatre history and criticism from the City University of New York. As dean of the School of the Arts at the University of California, … - Walter M. Fitch
Walter M. Fitch is professor of molecular evolution at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society (London). He is the co-founder of the journal "Molecular Biology and Evolution", together with Masatoshi Nei, …
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