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Scott
Aaronson
David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Author, Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Izumi
Aizu
Executive Director, Institute for HyperNetwork Society; Senior Research Fellow & Professor, Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University, Japan
Alan
Alda
Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial; Author, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Paul
Allen
Co-Founder, Microsoft; Founder & CEO, Vulcan, Inc.; Owner, Seattle Seahawks; Co-Founder, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Adam
Alter
Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, NYU; Author, Irresistible
Ivan
Amato
Freelance print and radio Writer; Editor of the Pathways of Discovery essay series for Science Magazine
Alun
Anderson
Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice
Samuel
Arbesman
Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital; Author, Overcomplicated
Dan
Ariely
James B. Duke ProfessorProfessor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Founding Member, Center for Advanced Hindsight; Author, Predictably Irrational
W.
Brian
Arthur
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC; Inaugural Recipient, Lagrange Prize; Author, The Nature of Technology
Scott
Atran
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
Robert
Axelrod
Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan; Author, Harnessing Complexity
Mahzarin
Banaji
Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Co-author (with Anthony Greenwald), Blind Spot
Albert-lászló
Barabási
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
John
A.
Bargh
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University; Director, ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab
Simon
Baron-Cohen
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge; Author, Zero Degrees of Empathy
Lisa
Feldman
Barrett
University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; Research Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, How Emotions Are Made
John
D.
Barrow
Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge; Author, The Book of Universes
Thomas
A.
Bass
Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US
Mary
Catherine
Bateson
Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life
Patrick
Bateson*
Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author, Design for a Life (*Deceased)
Roy
Baumeister
Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University; Author, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
Isabel
Behncke Izquierdo
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
Gregory
Benford
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist, The Berlin Project
Yochai
Benkler
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Author, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Benjamin
K.
Bergen
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Jesse
Bering
Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand; Author, Perv
Tim
Berners-Lee
British Web Scientist and MIT professor; Inventor, the World Wide Web; Director, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Jeremy
Bernstein
Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Roger
Bingham
Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience Researcher, Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD; Coauthor, The Origin of Minds; Creator PBS Science Programs
Susan
Blackmore
Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction
Colin
Blakemore
Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
Sarah-Jayne
Blakemore
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Co-author, The Learning Brain
Alan
S.
Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author, Advice and Dissent
Paul
Bloom
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University; Author, Against Empathy
Stefano
Boeri
Architect; Professor, Politecnico of Milan; Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD; Editor-in-Chief, Abitare magazine
Ian
Bogost
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
Kirsten
Bomblies
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Joshua
Bongard
Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
Nick
Bostrom
Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Robert
Boyd
Origins Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Ed
Boyden
Neuroscientist, MIT Media Lab; Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, working on optogenetics and other tools
Pascal
Boyer
Anthropologist and Psychologist, Washington University in St. Louis; Author, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Stewart
Brand
Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation, and Revive & Restore; Author, Whole Earth Discipline
David
Braunschvig
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Founder and Managing Principal, Braunschvig LLC
Lawrence
B.
Brilliant
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
Rodney
A.
Brooks
Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and director of both (1997-2007); Author, Flesh and Machines
James
H.
Brown
Ecologist; Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute; Author, Macroecology
James
Lee
Byars
Internationally renowned artist whose work concentrated on minimal hermetic forms, reduction towards essence and absence, and an acute sense of the ephemeral
William
H.
Calvin
Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus, University of Washington; Author, Global Fever
Philip
Campbell
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
Jimena
Canales
Writer and faculty at the Graduate College, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Author, The Physicist and the Philosopher
Christopher
Chabris
Senior Investigator, Geisinger Health System; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse, France; Co-author, The Invisible Gorilla
Napoleon
Chagnon
Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri; Author of Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.
David
Chalmers
Professor, Philosophy & Neural Science; Co-Director, Center for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, NYU; Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National U.
Leo
M.
Chalupa
Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University
Jeremy
Cherfas
Biologist; Senior Science Writer, Bioversity International; Managing Director, Green Ink
Nicholas
A.
Christakis
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
David
Christian
Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor in History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
George
Church
Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome Project; Co-author (with Ed Regis), Regenesis
Patricia
S.
Churchland
Philosopher and Neuroscientist, UC San Diego; Author, Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
Kathryn
Clancy
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Writer
Andy
Clark
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh; Author, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Julia
Clarke
John A. Wilson Professor and HHMI Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Gregory
Cochran
Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah; Coauthor (with Henry Harpending), The 10,000 Year Explosion
Iain
Couzin
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Peter
Coveney
Chair, Physical Chemistry, Director, Centre for Computational Science (CCS), University College London
Tyler
Cowen
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
Brian
Cox
Particle physicist, Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester; Musician
Jerry
A.
Coyne
Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago; Author, Why Evolution is True; Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.
Molly
Crockett
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
Helena
Cronin
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
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate University; Author, Flow
Alfonso
Cuarón
Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer; Recipient, 2014 Academy Award Oscar for Best Director for Gravity
Amy
J.C.
Cuddy
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School
Oliver
Scott
Curry
Senior Researcher, Director, The Oxford Morals Project, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford
Steffi
Czerny
Co-founder, DLD Conference; Managing Director of DLD Media and co-founder of DLD Conference; Founder, DLDwomen Conference
Antonio
Damasio
Professor of Psychology and Neurology, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, USC Dornsife
Paul
Davies
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
Richard
Dawkins
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
Arthur
De Vany
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California
Daniel
C.
Dennett
Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, From Bacteria to Bach and Back
David
Deutsch
Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of Infinity; Recipient, Edge Computation Science Prize
Diana
Deutsch
Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego; Author, The Psychology of Music
Keith
Devlin
Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford; Author, Finding Fibonacci
Jared
Diamond
Professor of Geography, University of California Los Angeles; Author, The World Until Yesterday
Thomas
G
Dietterich
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of Intelligent Systems, Oregon State University
Georg
Diez
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.
Peter
H.
Ditto
Social Psychologist; Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine.
P.
Murali
Doraiswamy
Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System
Jennifer
A.
Doudna
Geneticist, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Inventor, CRISPR-Cas9; Co-author, A Crack in Creation
Anca
Dragan
Associate Professor, EECS Department; Founder, InterACT Lab; Co-founder, Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, UC Berkeley
Marcus
du Sautoy
Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford; Author, The Great Unknown
Elizabeth
Dunn
Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-author, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
Esther
Dyson
Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure Holdings, Former Chariman,Electronic Frontier Foundation and ICANN; Author: Release 2.1
Naomi
Eisenberger
Professor, Social Psychology; Director, Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, UCLA
Nick
Enfield
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney; Author, How We Talk
Brian
Eno
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Juan
Enriquez
Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (with Steve Gullans), Evolving Ourselves
Nancy
Etcoff
Psychologist and faculty member of the Harvard Medical School and of Harvard University
Daniel
L.
Everett
Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began
J. Doyne
Farmer
Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director, Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Co-founder, Prediction Company
Todd
E.
Feinberg
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
Stuart
Firestein
Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Fellow, AAAS
Helen
Fisher
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Love
W.
Tecumseh
Fitch
Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna; Author, The Evolution of Language
James
Fowler
Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, University of California, San Diego; author, Connected
Steve
Fuller
Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick; Author, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism
Peter
Galison
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
Howard
Gardner
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Azar
Gat
Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University; Author, War in Human Civilization
David
C.
Geary
Curators’ Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
David
Gelernter
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies; Author, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled our Culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats)
Tamar
Gendler
Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and Chair, Department of Philosophy; Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives, Yale University
Asif
A.
Ghazanfar
Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Anthony
Giddens
Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 1997 to 2003
Steve
Giddings
Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gerd
Gigerenzer
Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Author, Risk Savvy
Terry
Gilliam
Screenwriter; Film Director; Animator; Actor; Member, Monty Python Comedy Troupe; Director, Brazil, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; Author, Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir
Marcelo
Gleiser
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College; Author, The Island of Knowledge
Joel
Gold
Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Coauthor (with Ian Gold), Suspicious Minds
Ian
Gold
Neuroscientist; Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University; Coauthor (with Joel Gold), Suspicious Minds
Michael
Goldberg
David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior; Director, Mahoney–Keck Center for Brain and Behavior Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
John
Gottman
Psychologist; Co-founder, The Gottman Relationship Institute; Author, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Jonathan
Gottschall
Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department, Washington & Jefferson College; Author, The Storytelling Animal
Stephen
Jay
Gould
Evolutionary Biologist, Paleontologist, Snail Geneticist; Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
Kurt
Gray
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Co-author (with Daniel Wegner), The Mind Club
A.
C.
Grayling
Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford; Author, War: An Enquiry
Brian
Greene
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
Anthony
Greenwald
Professor of Psychology, University of Washington; Co-author, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Tom
Griffiths
Professor, Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Computational Cognitive Science Lab and Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences; Co-author (with Brian Christian), Algorithms to Live By
Stephen
Grossberg
Principal founders of the fields of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and artificial neural network research
Alan
Guth
Cosmologist; Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize; Author, The Inflationary Universe
Jonathan
Haidt
Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business; Author, The Righteous Mind
David
Haig
George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University; Author, Genomic Imprinting and Kinship
Diane
F.
Halpern
Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president, American Psychological Association; Author, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
Stuart
Hameroff
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology Associate Director, Center for Consciousness Studies The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona
Kiley
Hamlin
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychology, University of British Columbia
Kevin
P.
Hand
Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Haim
Harari
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View from the Eye of the Storm
Quentin
Hardy
Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Times; Former Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley's School of Information
Brian
Hare
Evolutionary Anthropologist, Duke University; Co-author (with Vanessa Woods), The Genius of Dogs
Katerina
Harvati-Papatheodorou
Director Paleoanthropology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Paläoanthropologie
Daniel
Haun
Professor of Early Child Development and Culture, Director, Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Leipzig University
Virginia
Heffernan
Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director, West Studios; Author, Magic and Loss
Joseph
Henrich
Anthropologist, Professor of Psychology and Economics, UBC; Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution; Author, The Secret of Our Success
Roger
Highfield
Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author (with Martin Nowak), SuperCooperators
Hauke
Hillebrandt
Cognitive Neuroscientist; Charlotte and Yule Bogue Research Fellow, Harvard University
W.
Daniel
Hillis
Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied Invention.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone
Alex
Holcombe
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Sydney; Co-director, Centre for Time; Special Associate Editor, Perspectives on Psychological Science
John
H.
Holland
Professor of psychology and a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Gerald
Holton
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
Bruce
Hood
Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol; Author, The Self-Illusion, Founder of Speakezee
Verena
Huber-Dyson
1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy Department. University of Calgary, Alberta Canada
Bernardo
Huberman
HP Fellow and Director of the Systems Research Center at Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Arianna
Huffington
Chair, President, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post Media Group; Nationally Syndicated Columnist; Author
Nicholas
Humphrey
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
Steven
E.
Hyman
Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Marco
Iacoboni
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Author, Mirroring People
Nick
Isaac
Macroecologist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Oxfordshire
Walter
Isaacson
President and CEO of the Aspen Institute; author, Steve Jobs and Einstein: His Life and Universe
Joichi
Ito
Director, MIT Media Lab; Coauthor (with Jeff Howe), Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
Nina
Jablonski
Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University
Xeni
Jardin
Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor, Boing Boing; Executive Producer, host, Boing Boing Video
Kate
Jeffery
Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University College London
Donald
Johanson
Paleoanthropologist at Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University; author of Lucy; The Beginnings of Humankind
Dominic
Johnson
Alistair Buchan Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford; Author, Failing to Win
George
Johnson
Author; The Cancer Chronicles, The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments; Columnist, The New York Times
John
Jost
Professor of Psychology, New York University; Co-Editor, Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification
Bill
Joy
Co-Founder, Former Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems; Partner Emeritus, Greentech Venture Group, KPCB
Lee
Jussim
Professor and Chair, Rutgers Psychology, Author, Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias
Daniel
Kahneman
Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton; Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow
David
Kaiser
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Professor of Physics, MIT
Arya
Kamangar
Doctoral Candidate, Middlebury College; Instructor, Alliance Française of San Francisco
Eric
R.
Kandel
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
Gordon
Kane
Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan; Author, Supersymmetry and Beyond
Raphael
Kasper
physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at Columbia University and was Associate Director of the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Stuart
A.
Kauffman
Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy, University of Calgary; Author, Reinventing the Sacred
Brian
G.
Keating
Atrophysicist, University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics; Author, Losing the Nobel Prize
Douglas
T.
Kenrick
Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life; Editor, Evolution and Social Psychology
Christian
Keysers
Neuroscientist; Director, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience; Author, The Empathic Brain
Marcel
Kinsbourne
Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Co-author, Children's Learning and Attention Problems
Katherine
D.
Kinzler
Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Human Development, Cornell University
Gary
Klein
Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
Art
Kleiner
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
Bart
Kosko
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking
Max
Krasnow
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lawrence
M.
Krauss
Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, ASU; Author, The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far
Andrian
Kreye
Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
Robert
Kurzban
Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (PLEEP); Author, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite
Mark
R.
Leary
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Author, The Curse of the Self
Joseph
LeDoux
Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU; Director Emotional Brain Institute; Author, Anxious
Kai-Fu
Lee
Founder, Sinovation Ventures; Author, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Cristine
H.
Legare
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin; Director, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab
Ted
Leonsis
Founder, Chairman, CEO, Monumental Sports & Entertainment; Co-Founder, Revolution Growth
Martin
Lercher
Professor of Computational Cell Biology at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; Co-author (with Itai Yanai), The Society of Genes
Armand
Marie
Leroi
Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College; Author, The Lagoon
Margaret
Levi
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
Janna
Levin
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University; Author, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Matthew
D.
Lieberman
Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Andrei
Linde
Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic Inflation; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize
John
Lloyd
Television Producer and Writer: Not the Nine O'Clock News; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, QI.
Bjorn
Lomborg
President, Copenhagen Consensus Center; Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School; Author, Cool It
Jonathan
B.
Losos
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
Greg
Lynn
Owner, Greg Lynn FORM office; Ordentlicher University Professor of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Studio Professor, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
Rebecca
MacKinnon
Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation; Author, Consent of the Networked ; Co-founder, Global Voices
Benoit
Mandelbrot
Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM; author, The Fractalist; Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Gary
Marcus
Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language and Music; Author, Guitar Zero
Chiara
Marletto
Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch
Barnaby
Marsh
Evolutionary dynamics scholar; Program in Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
John
C.
Mather
Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate; Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Sarah
Mathew
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University
Katinka
Matson
Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.; Author: Short Lives
Ernst
Mayr
20th Century Leading Biologist; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard University; author, What Evolution Is
Annalena
McAfee
Journalist; Founding Editor of The Guardian's literary supplement, the Guardian Review; Author, Hame
Pamela
McCorduck
Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation
Michael
McCullough
Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Miami; Author, Beyond Revenge.
Dave
McKean
English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician
Terence
McKenna
Philosopher; Explorer; Enthnobotanist; Lecturer; and Author, The Invisible Landscape, True Hallucinations
John
McWhorter
Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia University; Cultural Commentator; Author, Words on the Move
Raqs
Media Collective
Artists, Media Practitioners, Curators, Editors and Catalysts of Cultural Processes
Jonas
Mekas
Film-Maker, Critic; Co-founder, Film-Makers' Cooperative, Filmmaker’s Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives
Martin
Menzies
Professor, Volcanologist-geochemist, Royal Holloway, University of London & NERC RESET Consortium
Hugo
Mercier
Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific Research; Co-author (with Dan Sperber) of The Enigma of Reason
Hans
Joachim
Metzger
Co-editor and translator of the German edition of the writings and lectures of Jacques Lacan
Thomas
Metzinger
Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study; Author, The Ego Tunnel
Geoffrey
Miller
Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent
Marvin
Minsky
Mathematician; computer scientist; Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; cofounder, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; author, The Emotion Machine
Walter
Mischel
Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters, Department of Psychology, Columbia University; Author, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Read
Montague
Neuroscientist; Director, Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; Author, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions
Simona
Morini
Philosopher; Dipartimento delle Arti e del Disegno Industriale, IUAV University Venice
Lisa
Mosconi
Director, Women's Brain Initiative; Associate Director, Alzhiemer's Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Medical College; Author, Brain Food
Sendhil
Mullainathan
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
Elon
Musk
Engineer & Entrepreneur; CEO, Chief Designer, SpaceX; CEO, Head of Product Design, Tesla Motors; Chairman, SolarCity
Nathan
Myhrvold
CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author (with Bill Gates), The Road Ahead; Author, Modernist Cuisine
Nathalie
Nahai
Web Psychologist, Speaker; Author, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion
Priyamvada
Natarajan
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
John
Naughton
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
Nicholas
Negroponte
Architect; Founder & Chairman Emeritus, MIT's Media Lab; Founder, One Laptop per Child
Randolph
Nesse
Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University; Co-author (with George C. Williams), Why We Get Sick
Rebecca
Newberger Goldstein
Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities Medal; Author, Plato at the Googleplex; 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
Richard
Nisbett
Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author, Mindware
Ara
Norenzayan
Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Author, Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Michael
I.
Norton
Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research, Harvard Business School; Co-author (with Elizabeth Dunn), Happy Money
Peter
Norvig
Director of Research, Google Inc.; Fellow of the AAAI and the ACM; co-author, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Tim
O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
Hans Ulrich
Obrist
Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief History of Curating; Formulas for Now; Co-author (with Rem Koolhas), Project Japan: Metabolism Talks
Gloria
Origgi
Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Author, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters
Mehmet
C.
Oz
Irving Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Svante
Pääbo
Founder of the field of ancient DNA; Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Mark
Pagel
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK; Fellow, Royal Society; Author, Wired for Culture
Elaine
Pagels
Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University; Author, Why Religion?
Zoe-vonna
Palmrose
Professor of Auditing and Professor of Accounting in the Marshall School of Business
Bruce
Parker
Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters
Josef
Penninger
Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna; Genetics Professor, University of Vienna
Alex
"Sandy"
Pentland
Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs; Author, Social Physics
Irene
Pepperberg
Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct Associate Professor, Brandeis; Author, Alex & Me
Elizabeth
Phelps
Neuroscientist; Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University
Stuart
Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University; Author, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth
Steven
Pinker
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, Enlightenment Now
Tomaso
Poggio
Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director of NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT
Ernst
Pöppel
Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; Guest Professor, Peking University, China
Carolyn
Porco
Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Corey
S.
Powell
Senior Editor, Discover Magazine; Adjunct Professor, Science Journalism, NYU; Author: God in the Equation: How Einstein Transformed Religion
William
H.
Press
Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Chair in Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Michael
E.
Price
Lecturer in Psychology & co-director of the Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology, Brunel University
Robert
Provine
Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Author, Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
Richard
Prum
Evolutionary Ornithologist, Director of Franke Program, Yale University; Author, The Evolution of Beauty
Stanley
Prusiner
Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco
Zenon
Pylyshyn
Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science, Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Vilayanur
Ramachandran
Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC, San Diego; Author, The Tell-Tale Brain
Venki
Ramakrishnan
President, Royal Society; Recipient, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Ada Yonath & Tom Steitz); Group Leader & Former Deputy Director, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Author, Gene Machine
David
Rand
Associate Professor of psychology, economics, and management, Yale University; Director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory
Syed
Tasnim
Raza
Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery Step-Down Unit at Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital
Martin
Rees
Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College; Author, From Here to Infinity
Colin
Renfrew
COLIN RENFREW has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge since 1981, and more recently Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He is Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Life Peer. Among Lord Ren
Judith
Rich Harris
Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The Nurture Assumption; No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
Peter
Richerson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis; Visiting Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Matt
Ridley
Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences; Author,The Evolution of Everything
Siobhan
Roberts
Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Author, Genius at Play and King of Infinite Space
James
Robinson
David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University; faculty associate, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Daniel
Rockmore
Professor of Mathematics, William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College
Jonathan
Rodden
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Author, Hamilton's Paradox
Steven
Rose
neurobiologist, is Professor of Biology and Director, Brain and Behaviour Research Group
Hazel
Rose Markus
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Co-author, Clash! How to Thrive in a Multicultural World, and Co-founder, Stanford SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions).
Andrew
M.
Rosenfield
Senior Lecturer in Law, U. Chicago Law School; Managing Partner, The Greatest Good (TGG).
Phil
Rosenzweig
Professor of Strategy and International Business at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland; Author, Left Brain, Right Stuff
Don
Ross
Head, School of Sociology, Philosophy, Criminology, Government, and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland; Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Program Director, Methodology, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Louis
Rossetto
Editor and publisher of Wired and HotWired, and cofounder and CEO of Wired Ventures, Inc
Marc
Rotenberg
President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , Washington, DC; Co-author, Information Privacy Law
Carlo
Rovelli
Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France; Author, Reality Is Not What It Seems
Rudy
Rucker
Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer; Novelist, Infinity and the Mind, Postsingular, and (with Bruce Sterling) Transreal Cyberpunk.
Stuart
Russell
Professor of Computer Science, Director, Center for Intelligent Systems, Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley; Author (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Karl
Sabbagh
Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us
Todd
C.
Sacktor
Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Jacob
E.
Safra
Swiss investor, is the Chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica, and owner of Spring Mountain Vineyards
Scott
Sampson
President & CEO, Science World British Columbia; Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author, How To Raise A Wild Child
Laurie R.
Santos
Professor of Psychology, Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center, Yale University
Dimitar
D.
Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; Author, The Life of Super-Earths
Roger
Schank
CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University; Author, Make School Meaningful-And Fun!
Simone
Schnall
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Susan
Schneider
Director, AI, Mind and Society Group, The University of Connecticut; Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
Bruce
Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Jonathan
Schooler
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter
Schwartz
Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com; Author, Inevitable Surprises
Paul
Seabright
Economics Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse; Author, The War of the Sexes
Gino
Segre
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Author, The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Charles
Seife
Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former Journalist, Science Magazine; Author, Virtual Unreality
Terrence
J.
Sejnowski
Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-author (with Patricia Churchland), The Computational Brain
Martin
Seligman
Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Flourish
Eldar
Shafir
William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Ph.D., Princeton University; Co-author, Scarcity
Murray
Shanahan
Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London; Author, The Technological Singularity
Robert
Shapiro
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research Scientist, New York University; Author, Planetary Dreams
Michael
Shermer
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific American; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University; Author, Heavens on Earth
Clay
Shirky
Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate School of Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP); Author, Cognitive Surplus
Olivier
Sibony
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School; Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris; Guest Lecturer, London Business School
Karl
Sigmund
Professor of Mathematics, University of Vienna; Author, Exact Thinking in Demented Times
John
R.
Skoyles
researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain
Edward
Slingerland
Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition, University of British Columbia; Author, Trying Not to Try
Gerald
Smallberg
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off Broadway Productions, Charter Members; The Gold Ring
Laurence
C.
Smith
Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA; Author, The World in 2050
Barry
C.
Smith
Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of Advanced Study University of London
Elizabeth
Spelke
Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative
Dan
Sperber
Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris; Co-author (with Deirdre Wilson), Meaning and Relevance; and (with Hugo Mercier), The Enigma of Reason
Maria
Spiropulu
Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology; Founder, AQT/INQNET
Paul
J.
Steinhardt
Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Coauthor, Endless Universe
Victoria
Stodden
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linda
Stone
Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple Computer and Microsoft Corporation
Barbara
Strauch
Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain; The Primal Teen
Cass
R.
Sunstein
Legal Scholar; Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard; Fmr, Administrator of White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Author, Why Nudge?
Leonard
Susskind
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford; Author, The Theoretical Minimum series
Jaan
Tallinn
Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute; Founding Engineer, Skype, Kazaa
Don
Tapscott
Chairman of the think tank nGenera Insight and an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Timothy
Taylor
Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of Vienna; Author, The Artificial Ape
Max
Tegmark
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute; President, Future of Life Institute; Author, Life 3.0
Philip
Tetlock
Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, Psychology and Political Science; Author, Expert Political Judgment; (with Dan Gardner) Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (forthcoming, Sept. 2015)
Richard
H.
Thaler
Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science; Director, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Author, Misbehaving
Lionel
Tiger
Charles Darwin Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Co-Research Director, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; Author, Men in Groups
Frank
Tipler
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Author, The Physics of Christianity
John
Tooby
Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
Eric
Topol
Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science Institute; Author, The Patient Will See You Now
Jessica
L.
Tracy
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Author, Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success
Joseph
Traub
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University; coauthor, Complexity and Information
Anne
Treisman
Emeritus James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Princeton University
Robert
Trivers
Evolutionary Biologist; Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University; Author, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
Peter
Turchin
Evolutionary Scientist, University of Connecticut; Author, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth.
Sherry
Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT; Internet Culture Researcher; Author, Reclaiming Conversation
Fred
Turner
Assistant Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford University
Francisco
Varela
biologist; director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and professor of cognitive science
J.
Craig
Venter
A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic Sciences; Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
Alexander
Vilenkin
Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University
Vernor
Vinge
Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Hugo Award-winning Novelist, A Fire Upon The Deep, Rainbow's End
Athena
Vouloumanos
Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, NYU Infant Cognition and Communication Lab, New York University
Adam
Waytz
Psychologist; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Ai
Weiwei
Artist; Curator; Architectural Designer (The Bird's Nest); Cultural And Social Commentator; Activist
Geoffrey
West
Theoretical Physcicist; Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Scale
Harvey
Whitehouse
Anthropologist; University Professor; Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford; Author, Arguments and Icons
Linda
Wilbrecht
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Donald
I.
Williamson
biologist at the Port Erin Marine Station of the University of Liverpool (UK); Author, The Origins of Larvae
Ian
Wilmut
Chair of Reproductive Biology, Director Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Author, After Dolly
Timothy
D.
Wilson
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia; Co-author, Social Psychology; Author, Strangers to Ourselves; Redirect
David
Sloan
Wilson
SUNY distinguished professor of biology and anthropology, Binghamton University; Editor-in-Chief of Evolution: This View of Life
E.
O.
Wilson
Biologist, Harvard University; author, The Social Conquest of Earth and The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Nathan
Wolfe
Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology, Stanford University; Director, The Global Viral Forecasting; author, The Viral Storm
Michael
Wolff
Author, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House; Columnist and contributor, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, British GQ
Stephen
Wolfram
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research; author, Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
Milford
H.
Wolpoff
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology
Vanessa
Woods
Journalist; Author, Bonobo Handshake, Co-Author, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
Richard
Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology at Harvard University; Author, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Elizabeth
Wrigley-Field
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Faculty Member, Minnesota Population Center
Richard
Saul
Wurman
Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences; Architect, Cartographer; Author, Information Architects
Itai
Yanai
Director, Institute for Computational Medicine; Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine; Co-author (with Martin Lercher), The Society of Genes
Juan
C.
Zarate
Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism; Author, Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Anton
Zeilinger
Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information; President, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Author, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
Philip
Zimbardo
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University; Author, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Phil
Zuckerman
Author, Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, Du Bois on Religion, Sex and Religion, and Society Without God
Jason
Zweig
Journalist; Personal Finance Columnist, The Wall Street Journal; Author, Your Money and Your Brain