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Scott Aaronson David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Author, Quantum Computing Since Democritus	Marina Abramovic Artist; author, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir	Daron Acemoglu Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT	Jerry Adler Senior Editor, Newsweek	Anthony Aguirre Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz	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	Stephon Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz of Physics
Paul Allen Co-Founder, Microsoft; Founder & CEO, Vulcan, Inc.; Owner, Seattle Seahawks; Co-Founder, Allen Institute for Brain Science	Anna Almenberg Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics	Stewart Alsop Partner, Alsop Louie Partners, Contributing editor to InfoWorld	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	Dorsa Amir Evolutionary Anthropologist, Yale	Christopher Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks	Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice
Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University	Chris Anderson CEO, 3D Robotics; Founder, DIY Drones	Philip Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist	Natalie Angier Pulitzer prize winning science writer for The New York Times	Carlo Antonelli Journalist; Editor, Wired Magazine (Italy)	Coren Apicella Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania	Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital; Author, Overcomplicated	Dan Ariely Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Founding Member, Center for Advanced Hindsight; Author, Predictably Irrational
Noga Arikha Historian of ideas; Author, Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours	Charles Arthur Freelance Technology Journalist	W. Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC	Peter Atkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford; Author, What is Chemistry?	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 Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control	Robert Axelrod Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan; Author, Harnessing Complexity	Joscha Bach Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Christopher Badcock Emeritus Reader in Sociology, University of London	John Baez Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside	Per Bak One of the founders of complex systems	John Baldessari American Conceptual Artist	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	Julian Barbour Theoretical physicist; Author, The End of Time	John Bargh Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University; Director, ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab
John Barlow Co-founder and Co-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation	Cliff Barney Former Journalist	Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge; Author, Zero Degrees of Empathy	Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author, Making Sense of People	Lisa Barrett University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; Research Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, How Emotions Are Made	Andrew Barron Neuroethologist, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University	John Barrow Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge; Author, The Book of Universes	Thomas Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US
Patrick Bateson Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author, Design for a Life	Mary Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life	Nicolas Baumard Research Scientist at the CNRS, Paris and Associate Professor at ENS, Paris, France	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	Yves Béhar Founder, Principal Designer of Fuseproject; CCO, Jawbone	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 Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves	Nicolas Berggruen Chairman, Berggruen Institute	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	David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them	Laura Betzig Anthropologist; Historian	Jeff Bezos Founder & CEO, Amazon, Owner, Washington Post, Founder, Blue Origin
Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union	Nick Bilton Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair; Author, American Kingpin	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; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction	Andrew Blake Research Director, The Alan Turing Institute	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	Colin Blakemore Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford	Sandra Blakeslee Science Writer, Co-author, Phantoms in the Brain
Alan Blinder Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author, Advice and Dissent	Ned Block Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neural Science, NYU	Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Author, Against Empathy	Adam Bly Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify	Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy	David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake	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
Zachary Bogue Co-managing Partner, Data Collective	Kirsten Bomblies Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University	Joshua Bongard Veinott Professor of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think	Lera Boroditsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD	Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	Raphael Bousso Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley	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	Hubertus Breuer Science-Writer	Lawrence 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	Sergey Brin Co-founder, Director of Special Projects for Google	David Brin Scientist; Speaker; Technical Consultant; Author, Existence	Terry Bristol President, Institute for Science
Philip Brockman Physicist	Max Brockman CEO, Brockman, Inc.	David Brooks Columnist, New York Times; Author, The Social Animal	Rodney Brooks Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) , MIT; Founder, Chairman & CTO, Rethink Robotics; Author, Flesh and Machines	Andrew Brown Journalist, The Guardian	Mike Brown Director, EMC Corporation; Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors	James Brown Ecologist; Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute; Author, Macroecology	Stanley Buchthal Producer, Hairspray
Stephen Budiansky Journalist; Author, Code Warriors	David Bunnell Founder, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, Macworld Expo, New Media and BioWorld	Hubert Burda Publisher and Chairman of the Board, Hubert Burda Media	David Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin; Author, The Dangerous Passion	Eric Buterbaugh Floral and Fragrance Designer; Founder, Eric Buterbaugh Gallery	James Byars Internationally renowned artist whose work concentrated on minimal hermetic forms, reduction towards essence and absence, and an acute sense of the ephemeral	Jason Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor	William 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	Benedict Carey Science Reporter, the New York Times	Doug Carlston Software Developer	Nicholas Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy	Geoffrey Carr Science Editor	Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Big Picture	Marlies Carruth Director, MacArthur Fellows Program
Denise Caruso Digital Commerce/Technology Columnist, the New York Times	Steve Case Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-founder, AOL; Chairman, The Case Foundation	Jean Case CEO of the Case Foundation	Maurizio Cattelan Italian artist	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 Chalupa Neurobiologist; Vice President of Research, George Washington University
Laura Chang Journalist, New York Times	Jeremy Cherfas Biologist; Senior Science Writer, Bioversity International; Managing Director, Green Ink	Raj Chetty Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Harvard University	Ashvin Chhabra Investor, Physicist, Author: The Aspirational Investor	Joan Chiao Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University	Jaeweon Cho Professor of Environmental Engineering, UNIST; Director, Science Walden Center	Noam Chomsky Linguist, MIT; Political Activist; Media Theorist	Luyen Chou Senior Vice President, Product Strategy, Pearson
Nicholas Christakis Physician and Social Scientist, 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	Brian Christian Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths), Algorithms to Live By	George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome Project; Co-author (with Ed Regis), Regenesis	Patricia 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
John Coates Neuroscientist; Research Fellow, Cambridge; Author, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf	Gregory Cochran Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah; Coauthor (with Henry Harpending), The 10,000 Year Explosion	Peter Cochrane Founding Partner, Formicio; Chairman & CEO, Cochrane Associates	June Cohen Executive Producer, TED Media	Keith Coleman Gmail Project Manager, Google	Sidney Coleman Physicist, Harvard University	Alana Conner Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant	Tony Conrad Experimental Filmmaker; Musician/Composer
Sam Cooke Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT	Ron Cooper Artist	Leda Cosmides Professor of Psychology at UCSB	Douglas Coupland Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence	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 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.	Ann Crittenden Journalist; Lecturer; Author, If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything	James Croak Artist	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 Cuddy Associate Professor of Business Administration, Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School
Oliver Curry Senior Researcher, Director, The Oxford Morals Project, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford	Garniss Curtis Geochronologist Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley	Fiery Cushman Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University	Steffi Czerny Co-founder, DLD Conference; Managing Director of DLD Media and co-founder of DLD Conference; Founder, DLDwomen Conference	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
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; Co-Author, with Yan Wong, The Ancestor’s Tale (Second Edition); Author, The Selfish Gene; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder	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, Consciousness and the Brain	Andrew Delton Assistant Professor, Management, Stony Brook University College of Business	Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University	Daniel 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
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	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, Bold	Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, University of California Los Angeles; Author, The World Until Yesterday	Chris DiBona Open Source and Public Sector, Google	Thomas 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 Ditto Social Psychologist; Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine.	David 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, Happiness by Design	P. Doraiswamy Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System	Jennifer Doudna Geneticist, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Inventor, CRISPR-Cas9; Co-author, A Crack in Creation	Scott Draves Software Artist	K. 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 Dvorak Columnist; Broadcaster in areas of technology and computing	Jesse Dylan Filmmaker; Founder, Wondros	George Dyson Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin Among the Machines	Esther Dyson Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure Holdings, Former Chariman,Electronic Frontier Foundation and ICANN; Author: Release 2.1	Freeman Dyson Physicist
David Eagleman Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Incognito, Sum, The Brain	David Edelman Neuroscientist; Guest Investigator, Dartmouth College	Naomi Eisenberger Professor, Social Psychology; Director, Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, UCLA	Niles Eldredge Paleontologist; Author, Darwin	Olafur Eliasson Artist	Alain Elkann Journalist	Ginevra Elkann Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli	Philip Elmer DeWitt Writer, Editor, Fortune
Ari Emanuel Talent Agent; Co-Founder of Endeavor Talent Agency	Drew Endy Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University	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	Jeffrey Epstein Financier and Science Philanthropist	Nancy Etcoff Psychologist and faculty member of the Harvard Medical School and of Harvard University	Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia Experiment
Daniel Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began	Paul Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time	Tony Fadell Computer Engineer, Founder & CEO of Nest	Caterina Fake Co-founder, Hunch, Flickr	Hu Fang Writer, Co-founder OF Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and the shop in Beijing, China	David Farber Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission	J. Farmer Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director, Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Co-founder, Prediction Company	Anne Fausto-Sterling Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown University
Todd 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	David Finkelstein Professor Emeritus, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology	Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic	Stuart Firestein Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Fellow, AAAS	Alvaro Fischer Mathematical Engineer; President Ciencia y Evolucion Foundation	Eric Fischl Visual Artists	Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Love	Susan Fiske Eugene Higgins Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
W. Fitch Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna; Author, The Evolution of Language	Jessica Flack Professor, Director of the Collective Computation Group, Santa Fe Institute	Patrick Forber Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University	Ken Forbus Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University	Kenneth Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics	Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater	James Fowler Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, University of California, San Diego; author, Connected	Darlene Francis Assistant Professor, Psychology, Berkeley
Richard Freeman Economist, Harvard	Marc Frons Chief Technology Officer, Digital Operations, The New York Times Company	Steve Fuller Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick; Author, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism	Xavier Gabaix Martin J. Gruber Professor of Finance, New York University	Peter Gabriel Musician	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	Fabrizio Gallanti Senior Fellow, Princeton University School of Architecture	Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Joel Garreau Principal, The Garreau Group	Azar Gat Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University; Author, War in Human Civilization	Bill Gates Co-founder and Former CEO, Microsoft Corporation	Michael Gazzaniga Neuroscientist, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain	James Geary Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard; Author, I Is an Other	David Geary Curators’ Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia	Amanda Gefter Physics writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn	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)
Murray Gell-mann Theoretical Physicist	Tamar Gendler Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and Chair, Department of Philosophy; Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives, Yale University	Ana Gerschenfeld Journalist	Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Co-author, Designing Reality	Asif Ghazanfar Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University	Wael Ghonim Internet Activist; Co-Founder, Parlio.com; Author, Revolution 2.0	Karl Giberson Scholar of Science and Religion	Ralph Gibson Art Photographer
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	Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University	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	James Gilligan Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry Psychiatry , NYU School of Medicine	Carol Gilligan Professor of Psychology at Harvard University	John Gilmore Activist
Jeremy Ginges Assistant Professor of Psychology, The New School for Social Research	Herbert Gintis Author, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Evolution	Bruno Giussani European Director and Global Curator, TED	Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College; Author, The Island of Knowledge	Mike Godwin Contributing Editor at Reason	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
Nigel Goldenfeld Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits	Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD	Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Film projections, photography and spatial installations,	David Goodhart Founder and Editor of Prospect magazine	Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College	Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter	April Gornik Visual Artists
Linda Gottfredson Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society	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 Gould Evolutionary Biologist, Paleontologist, Snail Geneticist; Professor of Zoology, Harvard University	Steve Grand Founder, Cyberlife Research; author, Creation: Life and How to Make It	William Grassie Interdisciplinary Scholar; Author, The New Sciences of Religion	Kurt Gray Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Co-author (with Daniel Wegner), The Mind Club	A. 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	Joshua Greene Cognitive Neuroscientist and Philosopher, Harvard University	Anthony Greenwald Professor of Psychology, University of Washington; Co-author, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People	Richard Gregory Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Bristol	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	June Gruber Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder	Alan Guth Cosmologist; Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize; Author, The Inflationary Universe
Viviana Guzman Flutist	Katie Hafner Technology Correspondent, New York Times; Author, Mother Daughter Me	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	Eric Hall CFO of rightscenter.com, Inc	Diane Halpern Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president, American Psychological Association; Author, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities	Hans Halvorson Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University	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 Hand Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci Foo Camp	Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View from the Eye of the Storm	Yuval Harari Professor, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Author, Sapiens	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	Jonathan Harris Artist, Storyteller
Annaka Harris Co-Founder of Project Reason and a freelance editor of scientific, non-fiction books	Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Waking Up	Paul Harris Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard University	Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou Director Paleoanthropology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Paläoanthropologie	Martie Haselton Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Hormonal	Demis Hassabis Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies	Daniel Haun Professor of Early Child Development and Culture, Director, Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Leipzig University	Marc Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author, Moral Minds
Michael Hawley Musician, Scientist, Educator	Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information; Author, Search User Interfaces	Virginia Heffernan Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director, West Studios; Author, Magic and Loss	Antony Hegarty Singer, Composer, and Visual Artist	Steven Heine Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Author, DNA Is Not Destiny	Werner Heisenberg Doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Munich	Dirk Helbing Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU Delft, The Netherlands	Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; Author, The Greek Manifesto
Joseph Henrich Anthropologist, Professor of Psychology and Economics, UBC; Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution; Author, The Secret of Our Success	Reuben Hersh Professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico	J.C. Herz Author, Learning to Breathe Fire	César Hidalgo Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Author, Why Information Grows	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. Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied Invention.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone	Michael Hochberg Evolutionist, CNRS, Santa Fe Institute, Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse
Donald Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence	Moshe Hoffman Research Scientist, Harvard University; Lecturer, MIT	Maja Hoffmann Kunstalle Zurich Foundation	Alex Holcombe Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Sydney; Co-director, Centre for Time; Special Associate Editor, Perspectives on Psychological Science	John Holland Professor of psychology and a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor	Jim Holt Author and Essayist, New York Times. New Yorker, Slate; Author, Why Does the World Exist?	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	Mike Holtzclaw Columnist, Daily Press
Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol; Author, The Self-Illusion, Founder of Speakezee	Daniel Hook CEO, Digital Science	Carole Hooven Anthropologist, Harvard University	John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology	Sabine Hossenfelder Research Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies	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	Bryan Hunt American modernist sculptor	Mark Hurst Founder of Internet consulting firm Creative Good	Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton	Steven 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	Eiko Ikegami Sociology Professor, New School for Social Research	Bjarke Ingels Founding Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group
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	Matthew Jackson Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, CIFAR	Jennifer Jacquet Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author, Is Shame Necessary?	Dale Jamieson Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, NYU	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	Koo Jeong - A Artist	Alok Jha Journalist; Science correspondent for The Guardian	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	Steven Johnson Editor-In-Chief and co-founder of Feed	David Johnson Chairman of Counsel Connect
Steve Jones Biologist; Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University College London	Caroline Jones Professor of Art History, MIT	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	Steve Jurvetson Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson	Lee Jussim Professor and Chair, Rutgers Psychology, Author, Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias	Marcy Kahan Screenwriter and Stage Dramatist	Brewster Kahle Digital librarian of the internet
Daniel Kahneman Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton; Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow	Salar Kamangar Google, Former CEO, YouTube, Founding member, Google’s Product Team	Arya Kamangar Doctoral Candidate, Middlebury College; Instructor, Alliance Française of San Francisco	Dean Kamen Inventor, Entrepreneur	Eric 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	Daniela Kaufer Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Director of Kaufer Laboratory, Berkeley
Stuart Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy, University of Calgary; Author, Reinventing the Sacred	Alan Kay Founding member of Xerox PARC; President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc	Brian Keating Atrophysicist, University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics; Author, Losing the Nobel Prize	Paul Kedrosky Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures	Andrew Keen Commentator	Stephen Kellert Social Ecologist, Yale	Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable	Douglas Kenrick Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life; Editor, Evolution and Social Psychology
Ken Kesey Author	Christian Keysers Neuroscientist; Director, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience; Author, The Empathic Brain	Vinod Khosla co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems	Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Co-author, Children's Learning and Attention Problems	Katherine 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	Jon Kleinberg Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University	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
Alexander Kluge Author and Filmmaker	Joshua Knobe Experimental Philosopher, Yale	Lance Knobel Independent Writer and Strategist	Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford University	Aaron Koblin artist specializing in data visualization	Terence Koh Artist	Andrea Köhler Cultural Correspondent, Neue Zurcher Zeitung	Marek Kohn Journalist
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Chiara Marletto Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch	Abigail Marsh Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University	Barnaby Marsh Evolutionary dynamics scholar; Program in Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	Ursula Martin Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford	Rodrigo Martinez Life Sciences Chief Strategist at IDEO in Boston, Massachusetts	John 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
Tim Maudlin Professor of Philosophy, NYU	Marissa Mayer CEO, Yahoo	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	John Mccarthy Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University	Tom McCarthy Artist & Writer; Author: Remainder, Men in Space	Samuel McClure Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University	Pamela McCorduck Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation
John McCrea Web pioneer; Director of Marketing for the Cosmo Software division of Silicon Graphics	Michael McCullough Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Miami; Author, Beyond Revenge.	Ian McEwan Novelist; Author, Sweet Tooth; Solar; On Chesil Beach; Nutshell	William McEwan Postdoctoral researcher, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K.	Ryan McKay Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of London	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	Scott Mcnealy cofounder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Daniel McNeill author of The Face, and principal author of the best-selling Fuzzy Logic	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	Jordan Mejias correspondent of the German daily	Jonas Mekas Film-Maker, Critic; Co-founder, Film-Makers' Cooperative, Filmmakerâ€™s Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives	Barbara Mellers George Heyman University Professor, University of Pennsylvania	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
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Kate Mills Doctoral student, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Yuri Milner Physicist; Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist; Science Philanthropist	Julia Milner Digital Artist	Marvin Minsky Mathematician; computer scientist; Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; cofounder, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; author, The Emotion Machine	Mark Mirsky writer and founder and editor of Fiction Magazine	Walter Mischel Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters, Department of Psychology, Columbia University; Author, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control	Dan Moerman William E Stirton Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan-Dearborn	Maryam Mohit Vice-President of Site Development at amazon.com
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	Hans Moravec Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University	Brit Morin Founder & CEO, Brit + Co.; Author, Homemakers	Dave Morin Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor	Simona Morini Philosopher; Dipartimento delle Arti e del Disegno Industriale, IUAV University Venice	Evgeny Morozov Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist; Author, The Net Delusion	Marney Morris Professor of Interaction Design, Engineering Department, Stanford University	Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor
Lisa Mosconi Founder and Director, Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab, NYU School of Medicine; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU; 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	Richard Muller Physicist, UC Berkeley; Author, Now: The Physics of Time	Kary Mullis Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry 1993; author, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field	Craig Mundie Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation	Toby Mundy Managing Director and Publisher of Atlantic Books	Elon Musk Engineer & Entrepreneur; CEO, Chief Designer, SpaceX; CEO, Head of Product Design, Tesla Motors; Chairman, SolarCity	P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris
David Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author, Psychology, 11th Edition	Nathan Myhrvold CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author (with Bill Gates), The Road Ahead; Author, Modernist Cuisine	Steve Nadis Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine and a freelance writer	Nathalie Nahai Web Psychologist, Speaker; Author, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion	Monica Narula Artist, New Dehli; Member, Raqs Media Collective; Co-Initiator, Sarai.net	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
Jill Neimark Science Journalist; Co-author, Why Good Things Happen To Good People	Michael Nesmith Existence is Non-Time, Non-Sequential, and Non-Objective	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	Natika Newton doctorate in philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1981	Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author, Mindware	Alva Noë Professor of Philosophy at the University of California; Author, Out of Our Heads	Ara Norenzayan Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Author, Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Erling Norrby Virologist; Former Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences	Michael 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	Jacqueline Novogratz Founder & CEO, Acumen	Martin Nowak Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University; Co-author, SuperCooperators	Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego	Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	James O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
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Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters	Philippe Parreno French artist and filmmaker, of Algerian heritage.	Gregory Paul Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide of Dinosaurs	Jean Paul Schmetz Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH	Sylvia Paull founder of Gracenet	John Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University	Judea Pearl Professor of Computer Science, UCLA	Josef Penninger Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna; Genetics Professor, University of Vienna
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Ryan Phelan Executive Director, Revive and Restore	Elizabeth Phelps Neuroscientist; Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University	Christopher Phillips Author, Socrates Cafe	Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book trilogy	Jean Pigozzi Italian businessman	Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University; Author, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth	Daniel Pink Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, To Sell is Human	Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, Enlightenment Now
David Pizarro Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University	Robert Plomin Professor of Behavioral Genetics, King's College London	Tomaso Poggio Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director of NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT	Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis University	Alex Poots Artistic Director and CEO, The Shed	Maria Popova Writer, BrainPickings.org	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
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Nicholas Pritzker Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation	Emily Pronin Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton 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	Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The Happiness Trip	Matthew Putman Applied Physicist; Chairman of the Board, Pioneer Works; CEO, Nanotronics	Zenon Pylyshyn Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science, Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Tracy Quan Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel.	Steven Quartz Neuroscientist; Professor of Philosophy, Caltech; Co-author, Cool	David Queller Evolutionary Biologist, Washington University in St. Louis	Richard Rabkin Psychiatrist	Tim Radford Freelance Journalist	Sheizaf Rafaeli Professor, Director, The Center for Internet Research, University of Haifa, Israel	Bob Rafelson Film director and writer-producer	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	David Rand Associate Professor of psychology, economics, and management, Yale University; Director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory	Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs	Carlo Ratti Architect and Engineer	Alvy Ray Smith Co-founder, Pixar; Digital Imagery Pioneer & Visionary	Eric Raymond Observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture	Syed Raza Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery Step-Down Unit at Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital	S. Raza Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com
Azra Raza, M.D. Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center	Lawrence Reed Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Skidmore College	Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College; Author, From Here to Infinity	Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	David Reich Geneticist, Harvard Medical School; Author, Who We Are and How We Got Here	Spencer Reiss contributing editor, Wired Magazine, specializing in energy issues	Diana Reiss Professor, Department of Psychology Hunter College; Author, The Dolphin in the Mirror	Nikolai Renedo Student of Biology, Philosophy, Tufts University
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	John Rennie Editor-In-Chief, Scientific American	Stephen Reucroft Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University.	Andrew Revkin Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University's Academy	Howard Rheingold Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs	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	Jennifer Richeson Professor of Psychology, Yale University
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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).	Jay Rosen Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University	Robin Rosenberg Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with Batman	Andrew Rosenfield Senior Lecturer in Law, U. Chicago Law School; Managing Partner, The Greatest Good (TGG).	Pamela Rosenkranz Artist	Phil Rosenzweig Professor of Strategy and International Business at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland; Author, Left Brain, Right Stuff	Louis Rossetto Editor and publisher of Wired and HotWired, and cofounder and CEO of Wired Ventures, Inc
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