People Contributing to Edge.org
Austin Dacey
Representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry in New York City
David Dalrymple
Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab
Antonio Damasio
Professor of Psychology and Neurology, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, USC Dornsife
Kate Darling
Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab; Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center; Author, The New Breed
Satyajit Das
Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation
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; Author, Books Do Furnish a Life
Luca De Biase
Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore
Aubrey de Grey
Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation; Author, Ending Aging
Derrick De Kerckhove
Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture
Arthur De Vany
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California
Thomas de Zengotita
Anthropologist
Stanislas Dehaene
Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We Learn
Andrew Delton
Assistant Professor, Management, Stony Brook University College of Business
Sarah Demers
Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University
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
Francesco DePretis
Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine
Chris Dercon
Director, Tate Modern
Emanuel Derman
Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Author, Models.Behaving.Badly
David DeSteno
Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University; Author, How God Works
Diana Deutsch
Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego; Author, Musical Illusions and Phantom Words
David Deutsch
Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of Infinity; Recipient, Edge Computation Science Prize
Betsy Devine
Journalist, Author and Blogger
Keith Devlin
Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford; Author, Finding Fibonacci
Peter Diamandis
Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation; Co-author, The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Jared Diamond
Professor of Geography, University of California Los Angeles; Author, Upheaval
Chris DiBona
Open Source and Public Sector, Google
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.
Niels Diffrient
Industrial designer
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.
David R. Ditzel
President, CEO, ThruChip Communications
Carl Djerassi
Organic Chemist and Inventor
Rolf Dobelli
Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of Thinking Clearly
Cory Doctorow
Science fiction novelist; Blogger; Technology activist; Co-editor, Boing Boing
John Doerr
Engineer and marketing manager for micro-computers
Paul Dolan
Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happy Ever After
P. Murali Doraiswamy
Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System
Jennifer A. Doudna
Nobel laureate (2020 - Chemistry); 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
Scott Draves
Software Artist
K. Eric Drexler
Researcher; Policy Advocate; Author, Engines of Creation
Marcus du Sautoy
Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford; Author, The Great Unknown
Dan Dubno
producer and technologist for CBS News in New York
Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation, MIT
Elizabeth Dunn
Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-author, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
David Dunning
Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; Author, Self-Insight
Denis Dutton
Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily; Author, The Art Instinct
John C. Dvorak
Columnist; Broadcaster in areas of technology and computing
Jesse Dylan
Filmmaker; Founder, Wondros
Esther Dyson
Investor; Chairman, EDventure Holdings; Executive Founder, Wellville; Author: Release 2.0
George Dyson
Science Historian; Author, Analogia
Freeman Dyson