Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

male, 64 years old (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic. He is best known for his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (abbreviated as "...
Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

male, 49 years old
Ian Rankin OBE, DL. (born April 28 1960, in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best...
K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

male, 54 years old
Often described as the 'father of nanotechnology', K. Eric Drexler is a researcher whose work focuses on advanced nanotechnologies and directions...

David Hanson

male
David Hanson is an American robotics designer and researcher, resposible for the creation of a series realistic humanoid robots.
Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

male, 42 years old
Max Tegmark (born 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he...
Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum

male (San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States)
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van...
Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves

male
Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in...
Ali Abunimah

Ali Abunimah

male
Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian-American, born of a mother made a refugee in 1948 from the village of Lifta now in Israel, and a father from...
Erich von Däniken

Erich von Däniken

male, 74 years old
Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is a controversial Swiss author best known for his books about extraterrestrial influence on human culture since p...
Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee

male
Stephen Lee is a chemist who won a MacArthur Award in 1994. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.