William Gibson

William Gibson

male, 61 years old
William Ford Gibson (born, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk...
Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier

male, 49 years old
Jaron Lanier (born 1960) is a virtual reality developer. He was a pioneer in, and popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) in the early 1980s....
Brenda Laurel

Brenda Laurel

female, 58 years old (Los Gatos, California, United States)
I am a researcher, teacher, writer and performer. I chair the Graduate Program in Design at California College of Art in San Francisco. I chaired...
Mark Pesce

Mark Pesce

male, 46 years old
Mark Pesce, (December 8, 1962, in Everett, Massachusetts) (pronounced) one of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality is a writer, researcher and...
Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

male
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an...
Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland

male, 71 years old
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for...
Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun

male
Maurice Benayoun (AKA MoBen) is a pioneering new-media artist whose work has been seen, and honored, around the globe. Born in Mascara, Algeria, in...

Scott Fisher

male
Scott Fisher is Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California,...
Susumu Tachi

Susumu Tachi

male
Susumu Tachi (born January 1, 1946) is currently a professor at the Department of Information Physics and Computing of the University of Tokyo. Dr....

Morton Heilig

male
Morton Heilig was a thought-leader in Virtual Reality (VR). He applied his cinematographer experience with the help of his partner developed the...