- Chico Science
Chico Science (March 13, 1966 - February 2, 1997) was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Bit cultural movement. He was killed in a car accident in 1997 in Recife, Pernambuco, at the age of 30. Born in the Rio Doce neighbourhood of Olinda in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil's Northeast, as a little boy he would sell crabs that he caught himself in the city's mangrove swamps.
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", …
- David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (October 6, 1950) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in southern California.
- Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer , as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life. ...
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Ron Wyden
Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is Oregon 's senior United States Senator . He is a member of the Democratic Party . He was born in Wichita, Kansas . Before his election to the Senate in 1996, he served 15 years in the U.S. House of Representatives . Wyden attended the University of California, Santa Barbara on a basketball scholarship before receiving his B.A. with distinction from Stanford University.
- Shirley Jackson
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to July 1999 and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society.
- Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica , the author of A New Kind of Science , and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. His career has been characterized by a sequence of original and significant achievements. Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech.
- Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan (1964 in Belfast -) is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded "Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy", and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999.
- John Brockman
Mr. John Brockman Editor, Edge Foundation
- Eugenie Scott
Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) since 1987. She is a leading critic of creationism and its offshoot, intelligent design.
- Steve Spangler
Steve Spangler is the guy at 9NEWS who makes things fizz, pop, smoke, erupt and startle his co-hosts all in the name of making science fun. Steve's eye-catching science experiments are featured weekly on the 4 O'Clock Show and the Morning Show. Steve Spangler joined 9NEWS in 2000 to teach viewers creative ways to make learning fun.
- 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.
- William A. Dembski
William Dembski Researcher, Writer A mathematician and philosopher, William Dembski is a senior fellow with Seattle's Discovery Institute. Dr. Dembski has published articles in mathematics, philosophy, and theology journals and is the author/editor of more than ten books.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, …
- Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain.
- Jan Eliasson
Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat with connections to the Social Democratic party. He is the former President of the United Nations General Assembly and was Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 24, 2006 until October 6 2006. He is currently the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy to Darfur, Sudan.
- Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic (b. 1938) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of the Decision Research group. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1964. Slovic has studied psychological heuristics with frequent coauthors Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich, and first theorized the affect heuristic.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author primarily known for a single novel, "A Canticle for Leibowitz", the only novel he published in his lifetime.
- 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
- Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn Named One of Worldâs Top Young Innovators: Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist
- 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.
- 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, …
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris (born 1944) is an American social psychologist and author. She received a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and has taught psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the New School for Social Research. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Center for Inquiry and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, …
- Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), GCMG, KCVO, is a British diplomat, environmentalist and academic. After secondary education at Westminster School as a King's Scholar, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History. He did his national service in the Coldstream Guards. As a diplomat he was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), …
- Michael Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich is a neuroscientist from UCSF. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard, and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus, …
- Theo Colborn
Dr. Theo Colborn is one of the world's leading authorities on endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment. She received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin. She was senior scientist and director of the Wildlife and Contaminants project at the World Wildlife Fund. Along with Dianne Dumanowski and John Peterson Myers, she developed the Endocrine Disruptor Hypothesis, …
- Cory Doctorow
A former EFF staff member and recipient of EFF's 2007 Pioneer Award , Cory Doctorow is now an EFF fellow. In addition to being an award-winning author of both science fiction and nonfiction works, he is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing . His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother ; and Eastern Standard Tribe . He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.
- Vernon L. Smith
Professor Vernon L. Smith pioneered the field of experimental economics nearly 50 years ago. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his contributions to the economic sciences. Before 1956, when Dr. Smith completed his first experiment, economic theory assumed markets are efficient only with a large number of buyers and sellers. Experimental methods were the first to test such theories.
- Carole Goble
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the my Grid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK .
- Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.
- Maria Klawe
Dr. Maria Klawe became fifth president of Harvey Mudd College in July, 2006. Prior to joining HMC, Maria served as Dean of Engineering and a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and in several positions at the University of British Columbia including Dean of Science, Vice-President of Student and Academic Services, and Head of Computer Science. Maria has also worked at IBM Research in California, and at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc.
- Forrest Mims
Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist and magazine columnist and the author of the popular "Engineer's Mini-Notebook"-series of instructional books originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 (major in government with minors in English and history) then became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. Mims has no formal academic training in science but has a career as a science author, …
- Hermann Bondi
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919-10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important contributions to the theory of general relativity.
- Frank Hampson
Frank Hampson (21 December 1918 - July 1985) was an illustrator and is best known for being the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the British boys' comic, the "Eagle", to which he contributed between 1950 and 1959. He was born at 488 Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw, near to Manchester (now Tameside). His brother Eric was killed in the Second World War. In April 2006, his sister Margaret was still living in Southport, …
- Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor.
- Peg Kerr
Peg Kerr (born 28 April of undisclosed year) is a US fantasy author. She was born in a suburb of Chicago and moved to Minnesota to attend St. Olaf College. She received an M.A. in English Literature in 1990, specializing in speculative fiction. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Minneapolis; she and her daughters are students of the martial arts.
- Harold Williams
Dr. Harold Williams, M.Sc, Ph.D, FRSC (born March 14, 1934) is one of the premier field geologists in the history of geology and the foremost expert on the Appalachian Mountains of North America. An expert on the evolution and tectonic development of mountain belts, Williams advanced the theory of colliding super-continents in the 1960's and 1970’s by helping to transform the notion of Continental Drift into the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
- Thomas Easton
I have been teaching Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Life Science courses at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine, since 1983. A list of current and recent courses is available at http://www2.thomas.edu/faculty/easton/. Despite a doctorate in theoretical biology, I am clearly a generalist.