- Paul Joskow
Paul Joskow Director, MIT - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) pjoskow@mit.edu
- Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web
- Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC).
- Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games .
- Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability
- Walter Bender
Walter Bender , MS is the founder of Sugar Labs , a nonprofit foundation that serves as a support base for the community of educators and software developers who are extending the Sugar user interface. Sugar is designed to enhance the primary educational experience by emphasizing collaboration and expression.
- Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education.
- Errol Morris
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking 1978 film, "Gates of Heaven," Errol Morris has indelibly altered our perception of the non-fiction film, presenting to audiences the mundane, bizarre and history-making with his own distinctive elan. ... Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of the 2002 Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well-known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies.
- Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University.
- Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup from February 2002 through April 2005, where he was also Head of the Public Sector Group from February 2004 to April 2005, Chairman of the Country Risk Committee, and President of Citigroup International.
- Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. Robert Shiller has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980.
- Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, Research Associate/Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), on the board of directors of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis and Development (BREAD). His areas of research are development economics, behavioral economics, corporate finance, and applied microeconomics.
- Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård (born June 13, 1951) is a Swedish actor. Skarsgård was born in Göteborg, Sweden. During his early career most of his work was confined to Sweden. He is particularly associated with director Lars von Trier, having starred in three of the Danish auteur's features, including "The Kingdom", "Breaking the Waves", and "Dogville".
- Rodney A. Brooks
Dr. Rodney Brooks is Director (until June 30, 2007) of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also CTO of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981.
- Frank Moss
Frank Moss is the a technologist and a "serial entrepreneur." Currently, Moss is the director of the MIT Media Laboratory. Prior to heading the lab, Moss served as the CEO and Chairman of Tivoli Systems. Tivoli became a public company in 1995 under Frank's leadership and merged with IBM the next year. Frank continued to work with the Tivoli team within IBM. Additionally, Moss has helped found a number of other companies including Stellar Computer, Inc., Bowstreet, Inc., …
- Judith Donath
Dr. Judith Donath is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Sociable Media research group. Her work focuses on the social side of computing, synthesizing knowledge from fields such as graphic design, urban studies, and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for online communities and virtual identities. Dr. Donath is known internationally for pioneering research in social visualization, interface design, and computer mediated interaction.
- 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.
- Donella Meadows
Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of "Limits to Growth", and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene in a system. She was educated in science, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968. She then became a research fellow at MIT, …
- John Sterman
John David Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System Dynamics school of thought. He is the author of "Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World". He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982.
- Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor Bohdan Wodiczko, he was born in 1943 in Warsaw, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw in 1968 with a degree in industrial design, and taught at the Warsaw Polytechnic until 1977. He emigrated that year to Canada to teach at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
- David H. Koch
David Hamilton Koch (born 1940) is one of the billionaire co-owners (with older brother Charles) and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate with major oil and gas holdings that is the largest privately held company in the United States. He lives in New York City and is that city's wealthiest resident. David Koch was the Libertarian Party's Vice-Presidential candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential election, sharing the party ticket with Ed Clark.
- Janet Murray
Janet H. Murray , Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College
- Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown , a distinguished scholar of chemical engineering and an innovative leader in higher education, became the tenth president of Boston University in September 2005. A Texas native, Dr. Brown, 57, earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he worked under the guidance of Professor L.E. Scriven.
- Joel Moses
Joel Moses (1941 -) is an Israel-born American computer scientist. Joel Moses was born in Israel in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a masters degree in Mathematics, also from Columbia. Under the supervision of Marvin Minsky, Moses received his doctorate in Mathematics at MIT in 1967 with a thesis "Symbolic Integration".
- Joseph Jacobson
Joseph Jacobson, a native and resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is a tenured professor and head of the Molecular Machines group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab. He is the founder of several companies including E Ink, Codon Devices, Inc., and Kovio, is on the scientific board of several more companies (such as Epitome Biosystems), and is one of the most prolific inventors of the day. Jacobson received his bachelors in physics from Brown University, …
- Ivan Sag
Ivan Sag (born November 9, 1949 in Alliance, Ohio) is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. With Carl Pollard, he has written several books that introduce and develop the syntactic theory known as head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG). He was also involved with work on generalized phrase structure grammar, HPSG's immediate intellectual predecessor. In addition, he has written numerous articles on problems of linguistic theory and analysis.
- Mark Horowitz
Mark Horowitz Director of Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University , Yahoo Founder's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Mark Horowitz received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Since 1984 he has been a professor at Stanford working in the area of digital integrated circuit design.
- John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 14, 1996. He is presently an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon, and Schlumberger Ltd. Deutch was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Russian Jewish father.
- Richard Leacock
Richard Leacock (born 18 July 1921, London) is a documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Leacock (known to his friends as "Ricky") grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands (the Leacock family, though English, have long been involved in the production of Madeira wine and bananas in the Spanish and Portuguese islands), until shipped off to School in England. He attended Bedales School, then Dartington Hall School from 1929 to 1938, …
- Leslie Groves
Leslie Richard Groves (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) was a United States Army officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and was the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Descended from French Huguenots who came to America in the 17th century, Leslie Groves was the son of a U.S. Army chaplain.
- Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc.
- Muriel Cooper
Designer, educator, researcher, Muriel Cooper was one of the most influential modern designers of the 20th century. Most known for her 'computational design', Cooper's work was signified by passion for information design and clean, simple lines. Cooper was one of the co-founder's of the MIT Media Lab where she taught interactive media design as the foudner and head of the Visible Language Workshop.
- L. Rafael Reif
L. Rafael Reif is a professor of Electrical Engineering and the current Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reif previous served as the head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science between 2004 and 2005 and the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories. Reif received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, …
- Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner is Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and is the founding director of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center. Dr. Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July 1958. Dr. Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1983 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, both in Mechanical Engineering.
- Kenneth French
Kenneth R. French (born March 10, 1954) is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has previously been a faculty member at MIT, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Along with contributing articles to major journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, …
- Peter H. Diamandis
Dr. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation ( www.xprize.org ), which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE ( www.xprize.org ) for private spaceflight. Diamandis is now focused on building the X PRIZE Foundation into a world-class prize institute whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The X PRIZE is now developing X PRIZEs in fields such as Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas.
- Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Much of Sharp's scientific work has been conducted at MIT's Center for Cancer Research, which he joined in 1974 and directed from 1985 to 1991. He subsequently led the Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. Sharp is co-founder of Biogen, Inc and also co-founder of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
- Lawrence Summers
From 1982 - 1983, he served on the Reagan administration's Council of Economic Advisors. Then in 1993 in the Clinton administration as under-Treasury secretary for international affairs and as Treasury secretary from 1999 - 2001. Earlier from 1991 - 1993, he was chief economist for the World Bank where he authored a controversial memo stating that "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."