- Roger Breeze
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Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues. - Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. - Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica , the author of A New Kind of Science , and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. His career has been characterized by a sequence of original and significant achievements. Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. - Lee Raymond
Lee R. Raymond (born August 13, 1938) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005. He had previously been the CEO of Exxon since 1993. He joined the company in 1963 and has been president since 1987 and a director since 1984. In 1989, Raymond's tenure as President of Exxon saw the Exxon Valdez disaster which spilled an estimated 30 million gallons of crude oil off the Alaskan coast and killed thousands of wildlife animals and fish. - John Brockman
Mr. John Brockman Editor, Edge Foundation - 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, … - Roger Schank
Dr. Roger C. Schank , FAAAI is one of the world's leading researchers in AI, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is President and CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to to design and implement low-cost story-based learning by doing curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. Socratic Arts works with universities and corporations to develop customized degree and certificate programs. - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - Udi Manber
Udi Manber , Vice President, Engineering - Kenneth Udut
offers Naples Online Marketing, Collier County's Electronic Village at http://free.naplesplus.us also animal trapping company, Excel guru, researcher, composer, fascinated by the interconnected nature of all things, amateur scientist. - Aled Edwards
Aled Edwards, Ph.D., is a noted Canadian structural biologist. He is also the Director and CEO of the international Structural Genomics Consortium and is Banbury Professor at the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Edwards has been a leader in the field of structural genomics since the 1990s. His research group, in collaboration with the groups of University of Toronto biophysicists, Cheryl Arrowsmith and Alexei Savchenko, … - Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, … - John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah. - Kári Stefánsson
Dr. Kári Stefánsson, M.D., Dr.Med. from the University of Iceland, is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of deCODE Genetics and a former professor of neurology, neuropathology and neuroscience at Harvard University (1993-1997). From 1993-1996 he was director of neuropathology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Kári also held faculty positions at the University of Chicago. Kári opened the NASDAQ Stock Market on July 20, 2005, … - Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952) is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless synchronization solutions and LightSurf Technologies the developer of the first camera phone infrastructure. Kahn created the first complete camera phone system in 1997. He is currently the CEO of Fullpower Technologies, … - Fiona Stanley
Professor Stanley is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; and Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. Professor Stanley was also Australian of the Year in 2003. - Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson , Ph. D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Narinder Singh Kapany
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is widely acknowledged as the father of optical fiber. Earlier, Irish physicist John Tyndall had shown that light could travel in curve inside a material (water). In 1952, this earlier work led Kapany to conduct studies that led to the invention of optical fiber. Narinder Singh Kapany is of Sikh Punjabi origin, he was educated in England and has spent over 45 years in the United States. - John Burton
John Burton is a co-founder of the nonprofit environmental organization World Land Trust, and has been its CEO since it was founded as "World Wide Land Conservation Trust" in 1989. He has previously held offices like the Chief Executive Officer of the Fauna and Flora International, and Chairman of the TRAFFIC unit of World Conservation Union (then International Union for the Conservation of Nature) in 1975. - Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet. - Emmanuel de Merode
Dr. Emmanuel de Merode (born May 5, 1970) is Executive Director of WildlifeDirect. Anthropologist, conservationist, pilot, worked to control the bushmeat trade and protect endangered wildlife in Central and Eastern Africa. Belgian, residing in Kenya. His primary interest is to provide support for African wildlife rangers in remote and difficult national parks and reserves. His work was primarily in the parks of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, … - Kenan Sahin
Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish-American scientist and entrepreneur. After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his S.B. (1963) and Ph.D. degrees (1969) from the MIT Sloan School of Management and then taught on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems, a company that grew to employ more than 800 people by 1999. - Jeff Stibel
Jeff Stibel is currently the President and a member of the Board of Directors of Web.com (NASDAQ: WWW). Mr. Stibel was part of the founding management team at United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), a technology company that owns and operates leading web services, including NetZero, Juno, and Classmates.com. Prior to United Online, Mr. Stibel was founder, Chairman and CEO of Simpli.com, a search and marketing technology company currently owned by ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK). - P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. - Tao Yang
Tao Yang (born 1970) is a computer scientist. He attended Tongji University, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1990 and his Master's degree in 1993. He has invented fuzzy cellular neural networks (FCNN) in 1995, computational verb in 1997, chaotic digital CDMA (with L.O. Chua) in 1997, computational verb theory in 2001, physical linguistics in 2002, and the theory of the Unicogse in 2004. - Cris Kobryn
Cris Kobryn is a technologist, software architect and entrepreneur who specializes in advanced software and systems development. Kobryn is the CEO and Founder of PivotPoint Technology Corporation, a software and systems engineering services company that focuses on model-driven development technologies. Prior to working for PivotPoint, Kobryn held senior technical positions at Telelogic, EDS, MCI Systemhouse, Inference Corporation and SAIC. - Howard Nelson
Howard Nelson, Ph.D. is a Trinidadian ecologist and wildlife biologist. He is currently the CEO and Conservation Manager at the Asa Wright Nature Centre located in the Arima Valley in Trinidad's Northern Range. Nelson earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of the West Indies and his Doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of Stanley Temple. - Greg Whitten
Greg Whitten is a former Microsoft Chief software architect where he worked from 1979 to 1998. Whitten graduated from University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Since 1998, he has been CEO of Numerix. He is also a vintage car enthusiast. Contrary to a popular rumor, the GW-BASIC programming language was not named after him. - Robert B. Hawkins Jr.
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., is president and CEO of the Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS). He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Washington. Hawkins notes, "Large schools tend to create passive and compliant students." - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout (pronounced) was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. While there, he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and its Log-structured file system, LFS. Ousterhout is also the original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program. - Marcos Prado Troyjo
Marcos Prado Troyjo is a Brazilian businessman, writer and diplomat. He is the Publisher of Jornal do Brasil, one of Brazil´s most traditional and influential news dailies, and Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board of Gazeta Mercantil, Brazil's leading economic newspaper. Troyjo holds a PhD in sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo. He headed the Strategic Division of Brazil's foremost merchant bank. - Lori McCreary
Lori McCreary is an American motion picture producer and computer scientist. She is co-founder and CEO of the production company Revelations Entertainment. McCreary grew up in Antioch, a small town in northern California. Her mother, actress Sharon Rich, left the entertainment industry to raise the family. McCreary graduated from UCLA in 1984 with a degree in Computer Science. - Jim K. Omura
Jim Omura is the commitment lead for the California Institute of Technology Commitment. A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years, with stints in Australia and Brazil as a visiting professor, and founder of two Silicon Valley companies, Jim has extensive experience as an educator and also in the business world bringing technical products and services to market. - Michael C. Malin
Michael C. Malin (born 1950) is an American astronomer, space-scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the Exploration of Mars. Malin designed and ran the orbiting Mars camera (part of the larger Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft) which took more than 212,000 high-resolution photos of Mars over a nine year period. - Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen Chief Scientist and Co-founder Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. and the creator of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. Bram is also the co-founder of CodeCon and the co-author of Codeville. Prior to the creation of BitTorrent, Bram worked at MojoNation. - Robert Metcalfe
Bob Metcalfe is an MIT engineer, Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, InfoWorld pundit, and now Polaris partner. In 2005, Bob received the National Medal of Technology for leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet, of which last year there were a quarter billion new switch ports shipped worldwide. His most recent book, INTERNET COLLAPSES, is currently working its way down the long tail at Amazon.com. - Dan Kohn
Dan Kohn Chief Operating Officer and Member Outreach Dan previously worked as a general partner at Skymoon Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto. Dan previously worked as a general partner at Skymoon Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto. He was the CEO of Pedestal Networks, an innovative DSL equipment company that was later acquired by UT Starcom.
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