- Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. He is best known for his book "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste", in which he tried to connect aesthetic judgments to positions in social space. The most notable aspect of Bourdieu's theory is the development of methodologies, …
- Gary King
Gary King is the David Florence Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
- Claudia Imhoff
Claudia Imhoff is a consultant in the Business Intelligence service. She has co-authored several books and many articles on the subject. Imhoff is also co-author of the "Corporate Information Factory" a methodology for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Claudia is also a Business Intelligence Network partner. An industry expert and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., …
- Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20 1916 - May 5, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. He made contributions in a wide range of disciplines like psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and philosophy. He taught at Lehigh University, which established the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes.
- Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is a computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection of computer science and social science. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000. Born and raised in Glasgow, Dourish received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. While at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, …
- John Aldrich
John Aldrich (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties, and on formal theory and methodology in political science. Aldrich graduated with a B.A. in political science from Allegheny College in 1969. He attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, completing an M.A. in 1971 and a PhD degree in 1975.
- Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara, a Hindu philsospher of the Advaita Vedanta school, wrote many works in his life-time of thirty two years; however, many works thought to be of his authorship are debated and questioned as to their authorship today. His works deal with logically establishing the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta as he saw it in the Upanishads.
- Robert Stoller
Robert J. Stoller, M.D. (December 15, 1925 - September 6, 1991), was an American psychoanalyst. Stoller was a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA Medical School and a researcher at the UCLA Gender Identity Clinic. He was born in Crestwood, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He had psychoanalytic training at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute from 1953 to 1961 with analysis by Hanna Fenichel.
- Steven N. S. Cheung
Steven N. S. Cheung, a Hong Kong born economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights. He is also the most expensive columnist in Hong Kong. Known for his work on private property rights and transaction costs, he achieved his fame with an economic analysis on China open-door policy after 1980s. He is also the first to introduce concepts from the Chicago School of Economics into China. He obtained his PhD in economics from UCLA, …
- Marc de Vries
Prof. dr. M.J. (Marc) de Vries (born 1958) studied Physics at the Free University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and graduated in 1982 on the subject: dissolving problems in physical education. In 1988 he got his promotion at the Eindhoven University of Technology on the subject: technology in physical education. He was a teacher in Physics at a school in Papendrecht (1982-1983). In 1983-1984 he was a teacher in Physics, …
- Jean Seznec
Jean Seznec (March 19, 1905 - November 22, 1983) was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, has been "The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art," published in 1953. Expanding in a "tour de force" the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western Art.
- Jonathan Huebner
Jonathan Huebner is a physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center, in China Lake, California. He argues on the basis of both U.S. patents and world technological breakthroughs, per population, that the rate of human technological innovation peaked in 1873 and has been slowing ever since. According to his projections we are heading towards a "new Dark Age" of very low innovation rates by sometime around 2024.
- Cushing Dolbeare
Cushing Dolbeare (died March 17, 2005) was one of the leading experts on federal housing policy and low income housing in the United States. She designed the methodology for "Out of Reach", the widely cited annual report of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) on the gap between housing costs and wages of low income people. She was also known for her analysis of federal housing subsidies, …
- Toni Packer
Toni Packer was born 1927 in Germany to a German father and Jewish mother. Her status as half-Jewish in Germany during the war years had a profound impact on her outlook. What her eventual fate might have been is hard to say as she and other members of her family were on the death list. It was only through the intervention of a colleague of her father's with the Gestapo that a respite was granted. The family moved to Switzerland after the war where she met Kyle Packer, …
- Stanley Edgar Hyman
Stanley Edgar Hyman was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts. Though most likely to be remembered today as the husband of writer Shirley Jackson, he was influential for the development of literary theory in the 1940s and '50s. Equally skeptical of every major critical methodology of his time, he worked out an early instance of a critical theory, …
- Ishwar Modi
Ishwar Modi is an Indian Sociologist and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. His work in this field has been widely reviewed in both, the country and abroad. He did his Masters in Sociology and Ph.D. from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He also worked for his Ph.D. under the title ‘"Leisure, Mass Media and Social Structure"’ (1985) at the Centre for the Study of Social Sytems, [Jawaharlal Nehru University, …
- Nigel Benson
Nigel C. Benson (born January 15, 1955) is a British author and illustrator. Nigel Benson was born in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, son of Ralph H. Benson, a fine artist specializing in oils and pastels, and Heather M. Benson. He grew up in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and was educated at Dunstable Grammar School (where film star Gary Cooper and other notables were taught).
- Mahmood Sariolghalam
Dr. Mahmood Sariolghalam is the Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and Political Science in Shahid Beheshti University (formerly Iran National University) since 1987. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1959. He received his B.A. degree in Political Science/Management from California State University, Northridge in 1980 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1982 and 87, …
- Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality.
- Joseph Ibn Verga
Joseph ibn Verga was a Turkish rabbi and historian who lived at Adrianople at the beginning of the 16th century. He was the son of Solomon ibn Verga, author of "Shebeṭ Yehudah," who emigrated from Spain to Turkey as a Marrano. Joseph was a pupil of Joseph Fasi, a contemporary of Tam ibn Yaḥya and of the physician Moses Hamon, and belonged to the college of rabbis of Adrianople.
- Pamela Fusco
Pamela Fusco has accumulated over 20 years of substantial experience as an Information Security and Risk Management Professional. Her extensive background and expertise expand globally encompassing numerous facets of enterprise security inclusive of logical, physical, personal, facilities, systems, networks, wireless, compliance and auditing, risk management and forensic investigations.
- Eva Vinson
Eva Vinson Vice President of Delivery Management and Methodology evinson@edgewater.com As Vice President of Delivery Management and Methodology, Eva Vinson is responsible for defining Edgewater’s project management and software development methodologies and for overseeing the corporate Program Management Office.
- Georgiy Levchuk
Levchuk, G.M., Chopra, K., Levchuk, Y. and Paley, M. (2005). Model-based Organization Manning, Strategy, and Structure Design via Team Optimal Design (TOD) Methodology . To appear in Proceedings of the 10th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium , McLean, VA, June, 2005. Levchuk, G.M., Paley, M., Levchuk, Y., and Clark, D. (2005). Modeling, Simulation, and Experimentation for the E-10 Command and Control Aircraft .
- Trevillore Raghunathan
Dr. Trevillore Raghunathan Trevillore Raghunathan is a Professor of Biostatistics and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He also teaches in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland.
- Rosalyn M. King
Rosalyn M. King , is Professor of Psychology and Chair, Center for Teaching Excellence. King has been Chair of the Center for approximately 10 years. She is an educational and research psychologist, with training in teaching and learning, with a special focus on creating effective learning environments throughout the lifespan.
- Tiffiany Howard
Tiffiany Howard received her doctorate in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Howard’s fields of specialization include international relations, economic development, immigration and refugee policies, and quantitative methodology. Howard’s research is specifically focused on analyzing the effect state failure has on forced migration in the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Afro-Caribbean.
- Bob van der Kloot
- Marta Marzenta
- John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) British philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism, the ethical theory that was systemized by his godfather, Jeremy Bentham, but adapted to German romanticism. It is usually suggested that Mill is an advocate of negative liberty. However, this has been contested by many academics, notably Dr.
- John Ramsay McCulloch
John Ramsey McCulloch (1 March 1789 - 11 November 1864) was widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823, was appointed the first professor of political economy at London University in 1828. He wrote extensively on economic policy, and was a pioneer in the collection, statistical analysis and publication of economic data.
- Mark Blaug
Mark Blaug (April 3,1927, the Hague, Netherlands -) is a British economist, who has covered a broad range of topics over his long career. In 1955 he got his PhD at Columbia University in New York. Besides shorter periods in public service and in international organisations he has held academic appointments in - among others - Yale University, the University of London, the London School of Economics and the University of Buckingham.
- Stephen Resnick
Stephen A. Resnick (born October 24, 1938) is a North American economist. He is well-known for his work (with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis. Steve Resnick received his Ph.D. in 1964, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation was an econometric analysis of European Common Market.
- Terence Wilmot Hutchison
Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912-) was born in Bournemouth and took his BA at the University of Cambridge in 1934. After World War II he began teaching at the London School of Economics, but he moved to the University of Birmingham in the 1950s to serve as Mitsui Professor of Economics from 1956 until his retirement in 1978.
- Peter Coad
In 1986, Peter Coad founded Object International, a software consulting firm where he served as President. During the 1990s Coad co-authored six books on the analysis, design, and programming of object-oriented software. During this time Coad became famous through his work on the Coad/Yourdon method for Object-oriented analysis (OOA) which he had developed together with Edward Yourdon.
- Jim Highsmith
James A. Highsmith III, commonly, Jim Highsmith (born 1945) is an author of multiple books in the field of software development methodology. He is the creator of a lightweight methodology known as Adaptive Software Development, described in his 1999 book "Adaptive Software Development" (Dorset House Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-932633-40-4), winner of the 2000 Jolt Award. Working as a principal of Information Architects, Inc., …
- Jeff de Luca
Jeff De Luca is a global information technology strategist and an author in the field of software development methodology. He is considered the primary architect of "Feature Driven Development" (FDD) circa 1999 [^JDLBIO], a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money. In 1999, Jeff De Luca co-authored "Java Modeling In Color With UML" (1999, ISBN 0-13-011510-X), …
- Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn (his last name is pronounced "Co-burn" in the Scottish way, with a long 'O' and no 'ck', making it homophonous with that of the actor James Coburn) is one of the initiators of the Agile movement in software development. He was one of more than 15 co-authors, in 2001, of the Agile software development manifesto. In 2005, he helped co-author the agile PM Declaration of Interdependence. Cockburn received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2003.
- Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff (born Youngstown, Ohio, April 1942) is a North American economist who is well-known for his work (with Stephen Resnick) on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis. Wolff received his Ph.D. in 1969, from Yale University. He is married to, and sometimes co-author with, psychoanalyst Harriet Fraad. Wolff taught at the City College of New York from 1969-1973, …
- Phil Carspecken
Phil Francis Carspecken is an instructor of research methodology, social theory, and social philosophy at Indiana Unversity - Bloomington.
- Ron Jeffries
Ron Jeffries is one of the founders of the extreme programming (or 'XP') software development methodology. He was from 1996 an XP coach on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project, which was where XP was invented. He is an author of "Extreme Programming Installed", the second book published on XP. He has also written "Extreme Programming Adventures in C#". He is one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.