- Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, … - Jeff Green
Jeff Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian writer, playwright, producer, and director working in a variety of media including radio, television, computer and DVD-based multimedia, and in live club settings. His work has earned him critical acclaim and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada market during the late 1970s and the 1980s - specifically, … - Lisa Sparxxx
Lisa Sparxxx (born October 6, 1976 in Kentucky) is the pseudonym of an American pornographic film actress. Before she entered the adult entertainment industry, Sparxx was a college student, and later earned a Master of Arts degree in Multimedia with a minor in Business at the University of Kentucky. To pay her way through university, she worked in and managed a hair salon. Her first film was "Dirtier Debutants #4" with Ed Powers. She was also a host for KSEX Radio. - Chris Marker
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. He is best known for directing "La Jetée" (1962), "Sans Soleil" (1983) and "AK" (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. - Andrew Thomas
Andrew Thomas (born in Evansville, Indiana) is an American professional wrestling referee. Thomas is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a referee and multimedia producer. - Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club. - Willie Williams
Willie Williams (born 1959) is an award-winning stage video maker and lighting designer for concerts, theatre, and multimedia projects, most known for his groundbreaking work with the rock band U2. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and raised in Sheffield, England, Williams excelled at mathematics and science in school and planned to study physics at University College, London. The advent of punk rock caused him enter the music scene instead, … - John Franklin
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America and whose last expedition disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation and exposure after Franklin died and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation. - Miller Puckette
Miller Puckette received his B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1980. As an undergraduate he was the top scorer in the 1979-1980 William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition. He was awarded Putnam and NSF fellowships for graduate study at Harvard, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1986. From 1979 through 1986 Puckette also studied computer music at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in real-time techniques for live music performance. - John Porcaro
John Patrick Joseph Porcaro (born John Joseph Porcaro), also known by the pseudonym John St. Patrick, is a Catholic composer and information scientist. Patrick's main work as a composer is typically described as minimalist, a term most minimalist composers, including Patrick, object to. His work is also described as experimental or ambient. He has written musical compositions for a variety of instruments and settings, including tuba and piano duets, … - Hilary Rosen
Hilary B. Rosen was the chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America from 1996 to 2003 and was the senior executive there for 10 years prior to becoming CEO. Under Rosen, the RIAA advanced a legal and PR campaign to limit the swapping of copyrighted music, a practice whose popularity increased dramatically with improved personal computer multimedia capabilities and expanded broadband Internet access. - Leonardo Chiariglione
Leonardo Chiariglione, Telecom Italia, Convener of ISO/IEC MPEG Leonardo Chiariglione was born in Almese (Italy). He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and obtained his Ph. D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1973. Since 1971 he has been with CSELT, the corporate research centre of the Telecom Italia group. He is currently Vice President, Multimedia, at Telecom Italia Lab, the new name of CSELT. - Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright (born September 4, 1971) is a Canadian multimedia artist from Waterloo, Ontario. He is best known for his work with video and large-scale photography. - Richard Mayer
Richard E. Mayer is an American educational psychologist who has made significant contributions to theories of cognition and learning, especially as they relate to problem solving and the design of educational multimedia. He has authored 18 books and over 250 articles and chapters. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan (1973), and is currently a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). - François Roy
François Roy was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the Mayor of Shawinigan, Quebec from 1946 to 1954. He was born in 1896 in Rivière-des-Prairies near Montreal. Roy successfully ran for Mayor in 1946 and was re-elected in 1948 and 1951. The current Shawinigan City Hall (located in downtown Shawinigan at 550 Avenue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville) was constructed in 1948 under his tenure. - Ken Perlin
Ken Perlin a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, and founding director of the Media Research Laboratory, also directed the NYU Center for Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. - Adario Strange
Adario Strange is a New York based film director, writer and artist. He is most well known for his documentary film "The NYU Suicides" detailing a year of strange deaths at the famed university. From 2006 to 2007, he was Editor in Chief of the weekly newspaper "New York Press". Strange was born and raised in the East Village in New York City, NY, United States. - Mark Overmars
Prof. dr. Mark Overmars ("Markus Hendrik Overmars" born 29 September 1958, Zeist) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of games programming known for his game development application Game Maker. He is the head of the "Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments" (GIVE) at the Utrecht University, the Netherlands. This research center concentrates on computational geometry and its application in areas like computer graphics, robotics, … - Alan Smeaton
Professor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering 2002. Currently (2007), Prof. Smeaton also serves on the editorial boards for the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage and the journal Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval. - 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). - Jay Miner
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959. Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker. He moved to Atari in the late 1970s. One of his first successes was to combine an entire breadboard of components into a single chip, known as the TIA. - Jaromil
Denis "Jaromil" Rojo (also known as the Rasta Coder) is a free software programmer, a media artist and activist. He has made significant contributions to the development of multimedia and streaming applications on the GNU/Linux platform. He was born in Pescara, Italy, but now lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is author of the dyne:bolic GNU/Linux liveCD, and of various free software projects, including MuSE and FreeJ. - Red Grooms
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, "Ruckus Manhattan", "The City of Chicago", and "Tut's Fever" have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers. - Luc Courchesne
Luc Courchesne (born 1952 in St-Leonard d'Aston, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian artist who works in the field of interactive art. Since the early eighties he has spent his time researching interactivity, and campaigning for the inclusion of multimedia exhibits in museums. He has created artworks with light, photography, film and video. In recent years he has concentrated on the representation of portraits and the coherence of mimicry, gesture and language. - Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, … - Jin Hi Kim
Jin Hi Kim (born Incheon, South Korea, February 6, 1957) is a "geomungo" player and composer. She is known for introducing the "geomungo" (a Korean bass zither, also spelled "komungo") to the wider world through her contemporary chamber and orchestral compositions and large-scale multimedia pieces, as well as her extensive work in avant-garde and cross-cultural free improvisation. - The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000 - Berkus
Berkus (aka "Günther W. Berkus") is an artist and musician from Cork, Ireland. He was born in April 20, 1951 in Münchberg, Germany. As a teenager, he studied pharmacology at the University of Münster but rapidly switched to music and art. During that period, he discovered a love of electronic music and analog synthesizers which led him to playing with such people as Ralf Hütter and the musicians that formed Amon Düül. - Greg van Eekhout
Greg van Eekhout is a science fiction and fantasy writer. He grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where he received a Bachelor's in English. He earned a Master's in Educational Media and Computers at Arizona State, and worked for a time designing multimedia. He currently lives in Tempe, Arizona. He attended the writing workshop Viable Paradise in 1999. - Abdul Malik Mujahid
Abdul Malik Mujahid is an American Muslim religious leader, activist, film producer, and non-profit entrepreneur. Mujahid was born in Pakistan, but emigrated to the U.S. in 1981, and received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is an imam at three Chicago mosques. He is currently president of the Council of the Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC). Mujahid is the founder and the president of the Sound Vision Foundation, … - Julianne Malveaux
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the President of Bennet College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator. Dr. Malveaux's contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts, are shaping public opinion in the 21st century America. - Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir is an Icelandic artist and sculptor. Outside of her contributions in the art world, she is known for her collaboration with the Icelandic musician and superstar Björk. The two have collaborated on Björk's 2002 CD box set "Family Tree" and on the 2005 video for Björk's song "Where is the Line?" from the album "Medúlla". The two also combined their multimedia efforts at the 2005 La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy - Chris Montgomery
Christopher "Chris" Montgomery is the creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and Vorbis audio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph Foundation which promotes public domain multimedia Codecs. He is also known as "Monty". A veteran multimedia programmer, long standing open source advocate and accomplished musician, Monty resides in the Boston area. - Georg Hajdu
Georg Hajdu is a German composer of Hungarian descent. He is considered among the first composers of his generation dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. After studies in Cologne and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His teachers include Georg Kröll, Johannes Fritsch, Krzysztof Meyer, Clarence Barlow, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and David Wessel. - Bob Gill
Bob Gill, American illustrator and graphic designer. For his graphic design work, Gill has won a number of awards, sold illustrations to "Esquire", "Architectural Forum", "Fortune", "Seventeen", and "The Nation" magazines and has illustrated children’s books and designed film titles. He played the piano at summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to pay his school tuition. - Sandy Skoglund
Sandy Skoglund (born 11 September 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, … - Elizabeth Eisenstein
Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein is an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th century France. She was educated at Vassar College where she received her B.A., then went on to Radcliffe College for her M.A. and Ph. D. It was there she studied under Crane Brinton. She is well-known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', … - Don Grady
Don Agrati (born June 8, 1944 in San Francisco, California), better known as Don Grady, is an American composer, musician and actor. He is remembered both as one of Mickey Mouse's Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas, from "My Three Sons". His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their mother was a talent agent, known as Mary Grady. - Brook Andrew
Brook Andrew is a young Australian visual artist of Wiradjuri and Scottish descent. His multimedia artwork is conceptual and political; he comments on global and regional perspectives on race, politics, celebrity and capitalism through a photomedia and text aesthetic. Brook exhibits internationally and has collections in major national galleries. - Electric Brother
Electric Brother is the working pseudonym for Cristian Stefanescu, a composer, musician, disc jockey and advertising and multimedia producer from Bucharest, Romania. He hosts the "Retroelectro" radio show on Radioguerilla.ro, and was winner of the Heineken "Best Romanian DJ" competition in 2004. A member of the bands NSK and Aievea, he has performed in various venues in Europe including the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival.
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