- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", …
- Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. He lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. He has recently indicated that he is thinking of leaving the Republican Party. He is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown, …
- 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.
- Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005.
- Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (1949 -), Ph.D., is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university. In her inaugural address, she launched the Penn Compact, …
- Ron Dellums
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I wanted to address the Ron Dellums's State of the City address fairly and completely. Below I have noted (in order) every point the Mayor hit during his speech, followed by relevant supplementary information and/or my thoughts on the topic. I considered breaking it up into a few different posts, but then I decided that spreading it out would make it seem like I'm just beating up on Dellums non-stop, and that isn't my intention.
- Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, an esteemed and controversial literary critic, and one of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. A diplomat in the ill-fated Biafran government of 1967-1970, Achebe is primarily interested in African politics, the depiction of Africa and Africans in the West, and the intricacies of pre-colonial African culture and civilization, as well as the effects of colonialization on African societies.
- James Moeser
James Moeser is the current chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a trained concert organist. Moeser began his work as chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill on August 15, 2000. He has since overseen and introduced many historic changes and improvements for the university, including the Carolina Covenant, Carolina First Campaign, Carolina Connects Initiative, expansions of current genome research at the university, …
- Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School.
- Hal Daub
Harold John "Hal" Daub, Jr. (born April 23, 1941 in Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina) is a politician and lawyer affiliated with the Republican Party. Daub was a collection attorney with Standard Chemical Company of Omaha for many years and served in the House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989, representing the 2nd congressional district of Nebraska, and from 1995 to 2001 was mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Daub rejoined Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP in 2005, …
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice".
- Jim Nantz
Serving as lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' college basketball coverage for 12th consecutive season, Jim has called play-by-play on more network broadcasts of Final Four and championship game than any other announcer in history of Tournament. Jim also co-hosted Tournament and hosted Final Four for five years (1986-90) Jim earned 1998's National Sportscaster of the Year Award.
- Jim Naugle
James T. Naugle (born 1954) is an American real estate broker, currently serving as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Although a lifelong Democrat, he has never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and frequently votes for and supports Republican candidates. Elected for the first time in 1991, Naugle is the longest serving Mayor in the history of Fort Lauderdale, serving for six consecutive terms.
- Mark Gearan
Mark Gearan is a politician, lawyer and communications expert. He is the current President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. During the Clinton Administration he served several roles. Gearan was director of the Peace Corps from 1995 to 1999. Prior to his Peace Corps directorship, he was assistant to the President and White House Director of Communications, a position with the title of White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
- Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of Adobe Systems since 2005
- Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek".
- 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, …
- David Westin
As president of ABC News, David Westin oversees all editorial and business aspects of the News Division. This includes all ABC News programs on the ABC Television Network, ABC News Radio -- the #1 radio news network -- ABC News.com and ABC News NOW. Mr. Westin has led ABC News since 1997.
- Joan Acocella
Joan B. Acocella (nee Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a dance critic for "The New Yorker". She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology. Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes.
- Dick Johnson
Dick joined NBC5 in the fall of 2002 after 20 award winning years at ABC 7 Chicago . He is currently a weekday reporter and backup weeknight anchor. For the 5 years prior to that assignment, he was part of the NBC5 morning team, launching Chicago's first streetside studio as co-anchor of NBC5 News Today. In 2007, Dick became a 25-year veteran of Chicago TV news!
- Abner J. Mikva
Abner Joseph Mikva (born January 21, 1926) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman, federal judge and law professor from Chicago. Born in Milwaukee, Mikva graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1951. After clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton, he spent ten years in the Illinois state legislature before serving in the U.S. Congress from 1969 to 1973 and 1975 to 1979.
- David Butler-Jones
Dr. David Butler-Jones is the current (as of September 2004) Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. He is the first person to hold the office. The Chief Public Health Officer is the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
- Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is best known for her work on contemporary American poetry, and, in particular poetry associated with the avant garde.
- Mike Medavoy
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures, former chairman of TriStar Pictures and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures. Born in the Shanghai ghetto to Holocaust survivors, he started out in the Universal Studios mailroom in 1964. He was promoted to casting director at Universal and then became an agent in 1965 at General Artist Corporation, …
- Michael Hauge
Michael Hauge Michael Hauge MICHAEL HAUGE is a script consultant, screenwriter, author and lecturer who works with filmmakers and executives on their screenplays, film projects and development skills. He has coached writers or consulted on projects for Warner Bros. , Paramount, Disney, Columbia, New Line, Joel Silver Prods. , CBS, Lifetime, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lopez, Val Kilmer and Julia Roberts.
- Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (b. 16 October 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program. His first success came with the play "This is Our Youth" (1996), and was followed by "The Waverley Gallery" (1999), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and later "Lobby Hero" (2002).
- Paul Kocher
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research, Inc. Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break online implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie-Hellman under certain circumstances, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, …
- Robert M. Bell
Robert Mack Bell (born July 6, 1943) is an American lawyer and jurist from Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Since 1991 he has been a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in Maryland, and its Chief Judge since 1996. Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, his parents soon moved to Baltimore, Maryland. While attending Dunbar High School there in 1960, Bell had his first experiences with the judicial system.
- Sharan Burrow
Sharan Burrow is the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. She is the second woman to become president of the ACTU. Sharan was born in Warren, NSW in 1954 to a family with strong Trade Union involvement. She became a teacher in the early 1980s. This position allowed her to become involved in the NSW Teachers' Federation. She later became president of the Bathurst Trades and Labor Council.
- Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (BS in Electrical Engineering, 1972) and at Princeton University (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1974 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1976). He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, and UCSD.
- Julian Fantino
Julian Fantino was appointed Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on October 30, 2006 and leads more than 7,000 OPP uniform and civilian members. He is responsible for policing services to diverse communities throughout the province, including front-line delivery, administrative support services and highly specialized and multi-jurisdictional investigations.
- Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough (1941 -) is emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis, a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the content and structure of writings.
- Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. The 2006-2007 season is the first he heads as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal. He is officially the eighth music director of the OSM. In April 2007, he made his first coast-to-coast Canadian tour with the OSM.
- Ellen V. Futter
Ellen V. Futter is President of the American Museum of Natural History. She previously served as President of Barnard College for thirteen years. Ms. Futter was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard in 1971. She earned her J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. She was elected to the Board of Trustees of Barnard as a student representative in 1971 and was subsequently elected to full membership to complete the term of Arthur Goldberg, …
- Mike Duke
Michael T. Duke is a management executive in the U.S.A.. He is currently serving as the "Executive Vice President", "President", and "Chief Executive Officer" of Wal-Mart Stores Division USA. (Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, and the largest company in the world based on revenue.) He has been with Wal-Mart since 1995, serving formerly as Executive Vice President of Administration, Executive Vice President of Logistics, …
- Camran Nezhat
Camran Nezhat, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S., is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility sub-specialist who has been teaching and practicing medicine and surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1993. He is the pioneer and the leading practitioner in the field of laparoscopic surgery, also referred to as minimally invasive surgery. He specializes in laparoscopic treatment of severe endometriosis involving multiple organs, management of infertility,fibroids, …
- Edwin Meese
Mr. Meese served as attorney general of the United States from 1985 to 1988, during which time he championed what he termed the "jurisprudence of original intent." Calling for fidelity to the intentions of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers, he opposed the judicial activism of the modern Supreme Court and helped bring about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal court judges pledged to the philosophy of judicial restraint.
- Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis (born July 7, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". Hartmanis was born in Latvia. He was a son of Martins Hermanis, a general in the Latvian Army. After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, …