David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Author, Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Artist; author, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT

Senior Editor, Newsweek

Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Author, Cosmological Koans

Executive Director, Institute for HyperNetwork Society; Senior Research Fellow & Professor, Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University, Japan

Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial; Author, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz of Physics

Co-Founder, Microsoft; Founder & CEO, Vulcan, Inc.; Owner, Seattle Seahawks; Co-Founder, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics

Partner, Alsop Louie Partners, Contributing editor to InfoWorld

Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, NYU; Author, Irresistible

Freelance print and radio Writer; Editor of the Pathways of Discovery essay series for Science Magazine

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College

Nobel Laureate; Physicist

CEO, 3D Robotics; Founder, DIY Drones

Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks

Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice

Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University

Pulitzer prize winning science writer for The New York Times

Journalist; Editor, Wired Magazine (Italy)

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital; Author, Overcomplicated

James B. Duke ProfessorProfessor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Founding Member, Center for Advanced Hindsight; Author, Predictably Irrational

Historian of ideas; Author, Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

Freelance Technology Journalist

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC; Inaugural Recipient, Lagrange Prize; Author, The Nature of Technology

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford; Author, What is Chemistry?

Anthropologist, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Co-Founder, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, University of Oxford; Author, Talking to the Enemy

Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control

Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan; Author, The Evolution of Cooperation

Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics

Emeritus Reader in Sociology, University of London

Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside

One of the founders of complex systems

American Conceptual Artist

Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Co-author (with Anthony Greenwald), Blind Spot

Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research; Author, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Theoretical physicist; Author, The Janus Point (forthcoming) and The End of Time

Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University; Director, ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab

Co-founder and Co-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Former Journalist

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge; Author, Zero Degrees of Empathy

Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author, Making Sense of People

University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; Research Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, How Emotions Are Made

Neuroethologist, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge; Author, The Book of Universes

Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US

Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life

Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author, Design for a Life (*Deceased)

Research Scientist at the CNRS, Paris and Associate Professor at ENS, Paris, France

Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University; Author, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Founder, Principal Designer of Fuseproject; CCO, Jawbone

Primatologist; Associate Professor, Social Complexity Research Centre (CICS) Gobierno UDD, Santiago de Chile; Visiting Researcher, Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group (SENRG) University of Oxford

Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist, The Berlin Project

Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Author, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

Chairman, Berggruen Institute

Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand; Author, Perv

British Web Scientist and MIT professor; Inventor, the World Wide Web; Director, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Journalist; Author, Us and Them

Anthropologist; Historian

Founder & CEO, Amazon, Owner, Washington Post, Founder, Blue Origin

Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union

Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair; Author, American Kingpin

Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience Researcher, Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD; Coauthor, The Origin of Minds; Creator PBS Science Programs

Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction

Research Director, The Alan Turing Institute

Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Co-author, The Learning Brain

Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford

Science Writer, Co-author, Phantoms in the Brain

Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author, Advice and Dissent

Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neural Science, NYU

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University; Author, Against Empathy

Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify

Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy

Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake

Architect; Professor, Politecnico of Milan; Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD; Editor-in-Chief, Abitare magazine

Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

Co-managing Partner, Data Collective

Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley

Origins Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Neuroscientist, MIT Media Lab; Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, working on optogenetics and other tools

Anthropologist and Psychologist, Washington University in St. Louis; Author, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation, and Revive & Restore; Author, Whole Earth Discipline

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Founder and Managing Principal, Braunschvig LLC

Science-Writer

President of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund and Senior Adviser to Jeff Skoll; Author, Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History

Co-founder, Director of Special Projects for Google

Scientist; Speaker; Technical Consultant; Author, Existence

President, Institute for Science

CEO, Brockman, Inc.

Physicist

Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (1997-2007); Founder, CTO, Robust.AI; Author, Flesh and Machines

Columnist, New York Times; Author, The Second Mountain

Journalist, The Guardian

Director, EMC Corporation; Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors

Ecologist; Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute; Author, Macroecology

Producer, Hairspray

Journalist; Author, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Founder, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, Macworld Expo, New Media and BioWorld

Publisher and Chairman of the Board, Hubert Burda Media

Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin; Author, The Dangerous Passion

Floral and Fragrance Designer; Founder, Eric Buterbaugh Gallery

Internationally renowned artist whose work concentrated on minimal hermetic forms, reduction towards essence and absence, and an acute sense of the ephemeral

Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor

Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus, University of Washington; Author, Global Fever

Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018, he will become Editor-in-Chief of Springer Nature’s portfolio of journals, books and magazines

Writer and faculty at the Graduate College, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Author, The Physicist and the Philosopher

Science Reporter, the New York Times

Software Developer

Author, Utopia is Creepy

Science Editor

Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply Hidden

Director, MacArthur Fellows Program

Digital Commerce/Technology Columnist, the New York Times

Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-founder, AOL; Chairman, The Case Foundation

CEO of the Case Foundation

Italian artist

Senior Investigator, Geisinger Health System; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse, France; Co-author, The Invisible Gorilla

Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri; Author of Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.

Professor, Philosophy & Neural Science; Co-Director, Center for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, NYU; Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National U.

Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University

Journalist, New York Times

Biologist; Senior Science Writer, Bioversity International; Managing Director, Green Ink

Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Investor, Physicist, Author: The Aspirational Investor

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University

Professor of Environmental Engineering, UNIST; Director, Science Walden Center

Linguist, MIT; Political Activist; Media Theorist

Senior Vice President, Product Strategy, Pearson

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University; Co-author, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor in History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths), Algorithms to Live By

Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome Project; Co-author (with Ed Regis), Regenesis

Philosopher and Neuroscientist; Author, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Writer

Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Author, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

John A. Wilson Professor and HHMI Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin

Neuroscientist; Research Fellow, Cambridge; Author, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah; Coauthor (with Henry Harpending), The 10,000 Year Explosion

Founding Partner, Formicio; Chairman & CEO, Cochrane Associates

Executive Producer, TED Media

Physicist, Harvard University

Gmail Project Manager, Google

Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant

Experimental Filmmaker; Musician/Composer

Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT

Artist

Professor of Psychology at UCSB

Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Chair, Physical Chemistry, Director, Centre for Computational Science (CCS), University College London

Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics, George Mason University; Distinguished Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; General Director, Mercatus Center

Particle physicist, Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester; Musician

Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago; Author, Why Evolution is True; Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.

Journalist; Lecturer; Author, If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything

Artist

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics

Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science; Author, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate University; Author, Flow

Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer; Recipient, 2014 Academy Award Oscar for Best Director for Gravity

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School

Senior Researcher, Director, The Oxford Morals Project, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford

Geochronologist Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Co-founder, DLD Conference; Managing Director of DLD Media and co-founder of DLD Conference; Founder, DLDwomen Conference

Representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry in New York City

Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab

Professor of Psychology and Neurology, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, USC Dornsife

Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab; Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center

Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation

Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-Director of BEYOND, Arizona State University; principle investigator, Center for the Convergence of Physical Sciences and Cancer Biology; Author, The Eerie Silence and The Cosmic Jackpot

Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Co-Author, with Yan Wong, The Ancestor’s Tale (Second Edition); Author, The Selfish Gene; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder, Outgrowing God

Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore

Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation; Author, Ending Aging

Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture

Professor Emeritus of Economics and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California

Anthropologist

Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, Consciousness and the Brain

Assistant Professor, Management, Stony Brook University College of Business

Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University

Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, From Bacteria to Bach and Back

Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine

Director, Tate Modern

Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Author, Models.Behaving.Badly

Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University

Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego; Author, The Psychology of Music

Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of Infinity; Recipient, Edge Computation Science Prize

Journalist, Author and Blogger

Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford; Author, Finding Fibonacci

Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation; Co-author, Bold

Professor of Geography, University of California Los Angeles; Author, Upheaval

Open Source and Public Sector, Google

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of Intelligent Systems, Oregon State University

Writer, Journalist, Der Spiegel & Spiegel Online; Author of weekly and widely read column "Der Kritiker"; Former Cultural Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sonntags Zeitung and Die Zeit.

Industrial designer

Social Psychologist; Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine.

President, CEO, ThruChip Communications

Organic Chemist and Inventor

Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of Thinking Clearly

Science fiction novelist; Blogger; Technology activist; Co-editor, Boing Boing

Engineer and marketing manager for micro-computers

Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happiness by Design

Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System

Geneticist, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Inventor, CRISPR-Cas9; Co-author, A Crack in Creation

Associate Professor, EECS Department; Founder, InterACT Lab; Co-founder, Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, UC Berkeley

Software Artist

Researcher; Policy Advocate; Author, Engines of Creation

Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford; Author, The Great Unknown

producer and technologist for CBS News in New York

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation, MIT

Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-author, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; Author, Self-Insight

Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily; Author, The Art Instinct

Columnist; Broadcaster in areas of technology and computing

Filmmaker; Founder, Wondros

Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin Among the Machines

Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure Holdings, Former Chariman,Electronic Frontier Foundation and ICANN; Author: Release 2.1

Physicist

Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Incognito, Sum, The Brain

Neuroscientist; Guest Investigator, Dartmouth College

Professor, Social Psychology; Director, Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, UCLA

Paleontologist; Author, Darwin

Artist

Journalist

Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli

Writer, Editor, Fortune

Talent Agent; Co-Founder of Endeavor Talent Agency

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University

Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney; Author, How We Talk

Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist

Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (with Steve Gullans), Evolving Ourselves

Psychologist and faculty member of the Harvard Medical School and of Harvard University

Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia Experiment

Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began

Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time

Computer Engineer, Founder & CEO of Nest

Co-founder, Hunch, Flickr

Writer, Co-founder OF Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and the shop in Beijing, China

Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission

Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director, Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Co-founder, Prediction Company

Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown University

M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Chief of the Yarmon Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City

Professor Emeritus, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic

Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Fellow, AAAS

Mathematical Engineer; President Ciencia y Evolucion Foundation

Visual Artists

Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Love

Eugene Higgins Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University

Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna; Author, The Evolution of Language

Professor, Director of the Collective Computation Group, Santa Fe Institute

Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University

Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University

Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics

Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater

Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, University of California, San Diego; author, Connected

Assistant Professor, Psychology, Berkeley

Economist, Harvard

Chief Technology Officer, Digital Operations, The New York Times Company

Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick; Author, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism

Martin J. Gruber Professor of Finance, New York University

Musician

Philosopher; Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Bonn

Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University; Author, Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time; Filmmaker, Secrecy

Senior Fellow, Princeton University School of Architecture

Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

Principal, The Garreau Group

Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University; Author, War in Human Civilization

Co-founder and Former CEO, Microsoft Corporation

Neuroscientist, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

Curators’ Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia

Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard; Author, Wit's End

Physics writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn

Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies; Author, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled our Culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats)

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park; Author, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

Theoretical Physicist

Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and Chair, Department of Philosophy; Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives, Yale University

Journalist

Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Co-author, Designing Reality

Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Internet Activist; Co-Founder, Parlio.com; Author, Revolution 2.0

Scholar of Science and Religion

Art Photographer

Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 1997 to 2003

Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Author, Risk Savvy

Professor of Psychology at Harvard University

Screenwriter; Film Director; Animator; Actor; Member, Monty Python Comedy Troupe; Director, Brazil, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; Author, Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir

Professor of Psychology at Harvard University

Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry Psychiatry , NYU School of Medicine

Activist

Assistant Professor of Psychology, The New School for Social Research

Author, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Evolution

European Director and Global Curator, TED

Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College; Author, The Island of Knowledge

Contributing Editor at Reason

Philosopher, Durham University, UK; Author, Galileo's Error

Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Coauthor (with Ian Gold), Suspicious Minds

Neuroscientist; Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University; Coauthor (with Joel Gold), Suspicious Minds

David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior; Director, Mahoney–Keck Center for Brain and Behavior Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits

Professor of Medicine at UCSD

Film projections, photography and spatial installations,

Founder and Editor of Prospect magazine

Professor of Biology at Schumacher College

Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter

Visual Artists

Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society

Psychologist; Co-founder, The Gottman Relationship Institute; Author, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department, Washington & Jefferson College; Author, The Storytelling Animal

Evolutionary Biologist, Paleontologist, Snail Geneticist; Professor of Zoology, Harvard University

Founder, Cyberlife Research; author, Creation: Life and How to Make It

Interdisciplinary Scholar; Author, The New Sciences of Religion

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Co-author (with Daniel Wegner), The Mind Club

Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford; Author, War: An Enquiry

Cognitive Neuroscientist and Philosopher, Harvard University

Co-founder of the World Science Festival and Chairman, Science Festival Foundation; Professor of Mathematics & Physics, Columbia University; author, The Hidden Reality, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Elegant Universe

Professor of Psychology, University of Washington; Co-author, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Bristol

Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture, Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab, Princeton University; Co-author (with Brian Christian), Algorithms to Live By

Principal founders of the fields of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and artificial neural network research

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Cosmologist; Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize; Author, The Inflationary Universe

Flutist

Technology Correspondent, New York Times; Author, Mother Daughter Me

Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business; Author, The Righteous Mind

George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University; Author, Genomic Imprinting and Kinship

CFO of rightscenter.com, Inc

Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president, American Psychological Association; Author, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities

Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology Associate Director, Center for Consciousness Studies The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychology, University of British Columbia

Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci Foo Camp

Professor, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Author, Sapiens

Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View from the Eye of the Storm

Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Times; Former Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley's School of Information

Evolutionary Anthropologist, Duke University; Co-author (with Vanessa Woods), The Genius of Dogs

Co-Founder of Project Reason and a freelance editor of scientific, non-fiction books

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard University

Artist, Storyteller

Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Waking Up

Director Paleoanthropology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Paläoanthropologie

Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Hormonal

Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies

Professor of Early Child Development and Culture, Director, Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Leipzig University

Musician, Scientist, Educator

Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information; Author, Search User Interfaces

Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director, West Studios; Author, Magic and Loss

Singer, Composer, and Visual Artist

Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Author, DNA Is Not Destiny

Doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Munich

Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU Delft, The Netherlands

Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; Author, The Greek Manifesto

Anthropologist, Professor of Psychology and Economics, UBC; Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution; Author, The Secret of Our Success

Professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico

Author, Learning to Breathe Fire

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Author, Why Information Grows

Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author (with Martin Nowak), SuperCooperators

Cognitive Neuroscientist; Charlotte and Yule Bogue Research Fellow, Harvard University

Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied Invention.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone

Evolutionist, CNRS, Santa Fe Institute, Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse

Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence

Research Scientist, Harvard University; Lecturer, MIT

Kunstalle Zurich Foundation

Professor of psychology and a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Author and Essayist, New York Times. New Yorker, Slate; Author, Why Does the World Exist?

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University; Author, Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture

Columnist, Daily Press

Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol; Author, The Self-Illusion, Founder of Speakezee

CEO, Digital Science

Anthropologist, Harvard University

Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology

Research Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy Department. University of Calgary, Alberta Canada

HP Fellow and Director of the Systems Research Center at Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Chair, President, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post Media Group; Nationally Syndicated Columnist; Author

Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics; Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities; Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge; Author, Soul Dust

American modernist sculptor

Founder of Internet consulting firm Creative Good

professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton

Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Author, Mirroring People

Sociology Professor, New School for Social Research

Founding Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group

Macroecologist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Oxfordshire

President and CEO of the Aspen Institute; author, Steve Jobs and Einstein: His Life and Universe

Director, MIT Media Lab; Coauthor (with Jeff Howe), Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University

Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, CIFAR

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author, Is Shame Necessary?

Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, NYU

Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor, Boing Boing; Executive Producer, host, Boing Boing Video

Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University College London

Artist

Journalist; Science correspondent for The Guardian

Paleoanthropologist at Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University; author of Lucy; The Beginnings of Humankind

Chairman of Counsel Connect

Alistair Buchan Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford; Author, Failing to Win

Editor-In-Chief and co-founder of Feed

Author; The Cancer Chronicles, The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments; Columnist, The New York Times

Biologist; Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University College London

Professor of Art History, MIT; Author, The Global Work of Art

Professor of Psychology, New York University; Co-Editor, Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Co-Founder, Former Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems; Partner Emeritus, Greentech Venture Group, KPCB

Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Professor and Chair, Rutgers Psychology, Author, Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias

Screenwriter and Stage Dramatist

Digital librarian of the internet

Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton; Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Professor of Physics, MIT

Google, Former CEO, YouTube, Founding member, Google’s Product Team

Doctoral Candidate, Middlebury College; Instructor, Alliance Française of San Francisco

Inventor, Entrepreneur

Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University; Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures

Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan; Author, Supersymmetry and Beyond

physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at Columbia University and was Associate Director of the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Director of Kaufer Laboratory, Berkeley

Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy, University of Calgary; Author, Reinventing the Sacred

Founding member of Xerox PARC; President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc

Atrophysicist, University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics; Author, Losing the Nobel Prize

Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures

Commentator

Social Ecologist, Yale

Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable

Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life; Editor, Evolution and Social Psychology

Author

Neuroscientist; Director, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience; Author, The Empathic Brain

co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems

Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Co-author, Children's Learning and Attention Problems

Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Human Development, Cornell University

Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

co-author (with Pete Senge et al.) of the best-selling Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools That Learn; and author of Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Priviledge, and Success

Author and Filmmaker

Experimental Philosopher, Yale

Independent Writer and Strategist

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford University

artist specializing in data visualization

Artist

Cultural Correspondent, Neue Zurcher Zeitung

Journalist

Arts Advocate; Founder, ForYourArt

Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking

Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute

Neurologist and Neuroscientist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime Literature Explorer

Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, ASU; Author, The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far

Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

Applied Mathematician, UC Berkeley; Founder, Leeward Co.

Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (PLEEP); Author, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite

Principal Developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition

Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Fellow at The Rockridge Institute; Author, The Little Blue Book

former Vice President of Human Resources at Apple Computer

Professor of Biology, MIT

Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?

Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business

A financial journalist turned innovation consultant

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Author, The Curse of the Self

Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU; Director Emotional Brain Institute; Author, Anxious

Founder, Sinovation Ventures; Author, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

Vice Chairman of idealab! the Pasadena

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin; Director, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab

AI Researcher; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies

Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, A Book About Love

Director of Hilvern Management Limited

Science Journalist

Founder, Chairman, CEO, Monumental Sports & Entertainment; Co-Founder, Revolution Growth

Professor of Computational Cell Biology at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; Co-author (with Itai Yanai), The Society of Genes

Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College; Author, The Lagoon

Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, professor, Stanford University; Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, University of Washington

Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University; Author, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space; Director of Sciences, Pioneer Works

Senior Editor for Newsweek

Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; visiting faculty member, Google

Associate Professor of Journalism, American University; Author, The Wikipedia Revolution

Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic Inflation; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize

Freelance editor of books on science

Theoretical physicist

Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious

Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author, Programming the Universe

Television Producer and Writer: Not the Nine O'Clock News; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, QI.

Psychologist, University of California, Irvine

Senior Writer and Technology Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Data-ism

President, Copenhagen Consensus Center; Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School; Author, Cool It

Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Curator in Herpetology, Museum of Comparative Zoology; Author, Improbable Destinies

Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical Drug Discovery

Behavioral Geneticist and Emeritus Professor, University of Minnesota

Owner, Greg Lynn FORM office; Ordentlicher University Professor of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Studio Professor, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

Chairman/Founder of AeroVironment Inc.

Composer; Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab

Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation; Author, Consent of the Networked ; Co-founder, Global Voices

Royal Commissions on environmental pollution and genetic manipulation

Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author

Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM; author, The Fractalist; Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood

Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language and Music; Author, Guitar Zero

Biologist

Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Machines of Loving Grace

Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch

Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University

Evolutionary dynamics scholar; Program in Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford

Life Sciences Chief Strategist at IDEO in Boston, Massachusetts

Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate; Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University

Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.; Author: Short Lives

Professor of Philosophy, NYU

CEO, Yahoo

20th Century Leading Biologist; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard University; author, What Evolution Is

Journalist; Founding Editor of The Guardian's literary supplement, the Guardian Review; Author, Hame

Artist & Writer; Author: Remainder, Men in Space

Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation

Web pioneer; Director of Marketing for the Cosmo Software division of Silicon Graphics

Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Miami; Author, Beyond Revenge.

Investigator Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K.

Novelist; Recipient, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction; Author, Sweet Tooth; Solar; On Chesil Beach; Nutshell; Machines Like Me

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of London

English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician

Philosopher; Explorer; Enthnobotanist; Lecturer; and Author, The Invisible Landscape, True Hallucinations

cofounder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

author of The Face, and principal author of the best-selling Fuzzy Logic

Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia University; Cultural Commentator; Author, Words on the Move

Artists, Media Practitioners, Curators, Editors and Catalysts of Cultural Processes

correspondent of the German daily

Film-Maker, Critic; Co-founder, Film-Makers' Cooperative, Filmmaker’s Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives

George Heyman University Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Professor, Volcanologist-geochemist, Royal Holloway, University of London & NERC RESET Consortium

Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific Research; Co-author (with Dan Sperber) of The Enigma of Reason

Founder YouTube

president and cofounder of Wired Ventures

Co-editor and translator of the German edition of the writings and lectures of Jacques Lacan

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study; Author, The Ego Tunnel

Managing Editor of Release 1.0

Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent

News correspondent, Science magazine

Professor of Biology at Brown University

Doctoral student, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Physicist; Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist; Science Philanthropist

Digital Artist

Mathematician; computer scientist; Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; cofounder, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; author, The Emotion Machine

writer and founder and editor of Fiction Magazine

Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters, Department of Psychology, Columbia University; Author, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

William E Stirton Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan-Dearborn

Vice-President of Site Development at amazon.com

Neuroscientist; Director, Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; Author, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions

Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University

Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor

Founder & CEO, Brit + Co.; Author, Homemakers

Philosopher; Dipartimento delle Arti e del Disegno Industriale, IUAV University Venice

Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist; Author, The Net Delusion

Professor of Interaction Design, Engineering Department, Stanford University

Chief News and Features Editor

Director, Women's Brain Initiative; Associate Director, Alzhiemer's Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Medical College; Author, Brain Food

Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Physicist, UC Berkeley; Author, Now: The Physics of Time

Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry 1993; author, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation

Managing Director and Publisher of Atlantic Books

Engineer & Entrepreneur; CEO, Chief Designer, SpaceX; CEO, Head of Product Design, Tesla Motors; Chairman, SolarCity

Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris

Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author, Psychology, 11th Edition

CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author (with Bill Gates), The Road Ahead; Author, Modernist Cuisine

Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine and a freelance writer

Web Psychologist, Speaker; Author, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion

Artist, New Dehli; Member, Raqs Media Collective; Co-Initiator, Sarai.net

Professor in Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, focusing on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes; Author, Mapping the Heavens

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge; Director, Wolfson College Press Fellowship Programme; Columnist, the Observer; Author, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

Architect; Founder & Chairman Emeritus, MIT's Media Lab; Founder, One Laptop per Child

Science Journalist; Co-author, Why Good Things Happen To Good People

Existence is Non-Time, Non-Sequential, and Non-Objective

Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University; Co-author (with George C. Williams), Why We Get Sick

Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities Medal; Author, Plato at the Googleplex; 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

doctorate in philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1981

Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author, Mindware

Professor of Philosophy at the University of California; Author, Out of Our Heads

Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Author, Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

Virologist; Former Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research, Harvard Business School; Co-author (with Elizabeth Dunn), Happy Money

Director of Research, Google Inc.; Fellow of the AAAI and the ACM; co-author, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Founder & CEO, Acumen

Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University; Co-author, SuperCooperators

Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark

Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us

Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief History of Curating; Formulas for Now; Co-author (with Rem Koolhas), Project Japan: Metabolism Talks

a cofounder of GBN, a Partner in the Monitor Group of Companies

Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for Complex Systems Research

Philosopher, Oxford University; Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute

Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Author, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters

Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Evolutionary Geneticist, University of Rochester

Deputy Science Editor of The New York Times

Architect, Researcher, MIT; Founder, Materialecology

Irving Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Founder of the field of ancient DNA; Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

German publisher and journalist at Sudwestrundfunk

Google's founding CEO

Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder, eGroups

Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK; Fellow, Royal Society; Author, Wired for Culture

Author

Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University; Author, Why Religion?

Professor of Auditing and Professor of Accounting in the Marshall School of Business

engineer, philosopher and Spanish writer

coauthor

Founding Webmaster of EDGE

Software engineer at Google.

Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

Co-founder, Napster; Founding President, Facebook; Founder, the Parker Foundation

French artist and filmmaker, of Algerian heritage.

Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide of Dinosaurs

Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH

founder of Gracenet

professor of mathematics at Temple University

Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna; Genetics Professor, University of Vienna

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford

Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs; Author, Social Physics

Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct Associate Professor, Brandeis; Author, Alex & Me

Inventor, Writer, Entrepreneur, Educator and Broadcaster

Co-editor, BoingBoing.net

Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT

Editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine

editor, reporter

Executive Director, Revive and Restore

Neuroscientist; Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University

Author, Socrates Cafe

Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book trilogy

Investor, art collector, philanthropist, photographer

Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University; Author, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth

Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, To Sell is Human

Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, Enlightenment Now

Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University

Professor of Behavioral Genetics, King's College London; Author, Blueprint

Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director of NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT

Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Biologist, Columbia University; Author, The Course of Nature

Artistic Director and CEO, The Shed

Writer, BrainPickings.org