- Michael Scott
Michael "Scotty" Scott (born 1943) was the first CEO of Apple from February 1977 to March 1981. Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Mike Markkula convinced Scott to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were neither seen as fit for the job at the time. Attempting to set an example for all businesses, in 1979 Scott declared there would be no typewriters at Apple.
- Frank Luntz
Frank I. Luntz is an American corporate and political consultant and pollster who has worked most notably with the Republican Party in the United States. Luntz's specialty is testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate.” Luntz formed The Luntz Research Companies in 1992, and maintains an office in Alexandria, Virginia.
- Peter Suber
Peter Suber Professor of Philosophy Earlham College
- Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie Image Gallery: A collection of images of Microsoft Chief … A collection of images of Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie . … Angeles: Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie …
- Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials.
- Lorcan Dempsey
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team. Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, founding Director of the Resource Discovery Network, and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource. Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information.
- Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad Stevan Harnad ( http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad ) did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Québec/Montréal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition.
- Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , and is an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.
- Mike Lazaridis
Mike Lazaridis President and Co-Chief Executive Officer Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work to his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, where his love of science and fascination with electronics were nurtured in supportive family and school environments.
- Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report (previously The Mackay Report). He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He is a regular columnist in The Age and regularly commentator appearing on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. He is one of the founders of the St James Ethics Centre.
- Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. His work broke away from the purely positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, giving weight to subjective experience as the source of all of our knowledge of objective phenomena. Husserl was a pupil of Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf; his philosophical work influenced, among others, Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Eugen Fink, Max Scheler, …
- T. Ryan Gregory
Dr. T. Ryan Gregory (b. May 16 1975) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gregory completed his B.Sc. (Hons) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1997 and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and zoology at the University of Guelph in 2002.
- Paul Goodman
Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman (born November 17, 1959) British politician and journalist He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wycombe. Paul Goodman was born in London and raised in East Sheen, and was educated at the Cranleigh School, Surrey before attending the University of York where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1981. In 1977 he worked for a year as a researcher to the Conservative MP at Petersfield Michael Mates.
- Marc Davis
Marc Davis is founding director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and leads Garage Cinema Research. Davis received his Bachelor's degree in 1984 from Wesleyan University, his Masters in Literary Science and Philosophy from University of Konstanz in 1987 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. Davis was also Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Amova from 1999-2002. He is currently the Social Media Guru at Yahoo! Inc.
- Philip Zimbardo
Hi my name is Philip Zimbardo and i teach Psychology at Stanford Univerity.
- Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon (June 20 1954 - February 1 2003;) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of "Columbia", where he and the other crew were killed in a re-entry accident over Texas. Ramon is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
- Frank Kelly
Professor Frank Kelly, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. His research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization, especially in very large-scale systems such as telecommunication or transportation networks.
- 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.
- Nick Yee
Nick Yee is an American researcher who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments. The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of MMORPGs, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players. The research that has resulted from these interviews has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media. Yee's research has appeared in "The New York Times", …
- Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture.
- Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen is the founder and President of Jensen Learning Corporation Inc. (formerly known as Turning Point for Education) in San Diego, California - an international professional training organization which aims to synthesize brain research information with implications and applications for education and learning. A former teacher at all levels, from elementary to university, …
- Frederic Mishkin
Frederic S. Mishkin (born January 11 1951) is an economist and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. He took office on September 5, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014.
- Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene.
- Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 - April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge.
- Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American biochemist, and the recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Carmen de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended school through high school.
- Michael Horton
Michael Scott Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, editor-in-chief of "Modern Reformation" magazine, and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, "The White Horse Inn." He was formerly the president of Christians United for Reformation (CURE), which later merged to become the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE). From 2001 to 2004 Horton served as the president of the Alliance, …
- Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone.
- Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is currently the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She was the Official Spokesperson for the Palestinian movement during the Madrid peace negotiations (1991-1993), and continues to be active in the efforts towards peace in the region. She was also a member of the Task Force on Higher Education convened by UNESCO and the World Bank.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born in 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence. Yudkowsky is a co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). Yudkowsky is the author of the SIAI publications "Creating Friendly AI" (2001) and "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence" (2002).
- Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well-known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions he implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional programming language ML and he defined the concept of typeful programming. Recently, he helped develop the Polyphonic C# experimental programming language.
- Jerry Adams
Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS (born 17 June, 1940) is an American molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian genes.
- Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Broder's research centers around the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA, while working for AltaVista.
- Tony Hey
As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corp. He leads the company's efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners.
- Ian Shaw
Dr. Ian Shaw is an Egyptologist and senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His field work was largely focused in el-Amarna, but in recent times, he has done extensive excavations of mining and quarrying sites from many different Ancient Egyptian periods. He primarily focuses his recent work on methods and mechanics of Egyptian craftmen and laborers.
- C. Lee Giles
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He has been associated with Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Pisa, …
- Peter R. de Vries
Peter Rudolf de Vries (born 14 november 1956 in Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland) is a Dutch crime reporter with his own television program, and also a politician. De Vries tracked down the Heineken-kidnapper Frans Meijer in Paraguay, worked on behalf of the Two from Putten and revealed that Mabel Wisse Smit knew the criminal Klaas Bruinsma better than she had previously admitted. Another important issue in his show was a found floppy-disk.
- John Heron
John Heron (b. 1928) is a pioneer in the creation of a participatory research method in the social sciences, called co-operative inquiry, originally based on his experiences and training in Re-evaluation Counselling, which has been applied by practitioners in many fields of professional and personal development. He is committed to the process of co-operative inquiry, in whatever field it is applied, as a basic form of relational and participative spiritual practice.
- Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language that meshes well with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics).
- Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield (born September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad), is an American novelist and author of screenplays, principally of military historical fiction set in classical antiquity. His historical fiction is well-researched, but for the sake of dramatic flow, Pressfield may alter some details, like the sequence of events, or make use of jarring contemporary terms and place names, his stated aim being an attempt to capture the spirit of the times.
- Irving Stone
Irving Stone was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities. Some of Stone's important works in this category include: *"Lust for Life" (1934) - based on the life of Vincent van Gogh *"They Also Ran (1944, updated 1966) A fascinating if opinionated study of the candidates who were defeated for US President. *"Adversary in the House" (1947) - based on the life of Eugene V. Debs and his wife Kate, …