People Contributing to Edge.org
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 |
W. Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC |
Charles Arthur Freelance Technology Journalist |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
James Brown Ecologist; Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute; Author, Macroecology |
Andrew Brown Journalist, The Guardian |
Mike Brown Director, EMC Corporation; Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors |
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 |
Jean Case CEO of the Case Foundation |
Steve Case Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-founder, AOL; Chairman, 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 McKinsey Professor, Sante Fe, Institute, and the co-founder and former co-president of Prediction Compan |
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 |
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 anthropologist and an assistant profesor in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University; co-author, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think |
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 |
Moshe Hoffman Research Scientist, Harvard University; Lecturer, MIT |
Donald Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence |
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 |
David Johnson Chairman of Counsel Connect |
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 |
Caroline Jones Professor of Art History, MIT |
Steve Jones Biologist; Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University College London |
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 |
Bettina Korek Arts Advocate; Founder, ForYourArt |
Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking |
Stephen Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute |
John Krakauer Neurologist and Neuroscientist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Max Krasnow Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime Literature Explorer |
Lawrence 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 |
Coco Krumme Applied Mathematician, UC Berkeley; Founder, Leeward Co. |
Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (PLEEP); Author, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite |
Ray Kurzweil Principal Developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition |
David Laibson Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
George Lakoff Fellow at The Rockridge Institute; Author, The Little Blue Book |
Danielle Lambert former Vice President of Human Resources at Apple Computer |
Eric Lander Professor of Biology, MIT |
Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future? |
Edward Laumann Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago |
Kristin Laurin Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Charles Leadbeater A financial journalist turned innovation consultant |
Mark Leary Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Author, The Curse of the Self |
Leon Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU; Director Emotional Brain Institute; Author, Anxious |
Peter Lee Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research |
Kai-Fu Lee Founder, Sinovation Ventures; Author, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order |
Howard Lee Morgan Vice Chairman of idealab! the Pasadena |
Cristine Legare Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin; Director, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab |
Shane Legg AI Researcher; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies |
Jonah Lehrer Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, A Book About Love |
Rosemary Leith Director of Hilvern Management Limited |
Manuela Lenzen Science Journalist |
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 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 |
Steven Levy Senior Editor for Newsweek |
Daniel Lieberman Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University |
Matthew Lieberman Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect |
Erez Lieberman Aiden fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; visiting faculty member, Google |
Andrew Lih Associate Professor of Journalism, American University; Author, The Wikipedia Revolution |
Andrei Linde Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic Inflation; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize |
Sara Lippincott Freelance editor of books on science |
Antony Lisi Theoretical physicist |
Mario Livio Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious |
Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author, Programming the Universe |
John Lloyd Television Producer and Writer: Not the Nine O'Clock News; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, QI. |
Elizabeth Loftus Psychologist, University of California, Irvine |
Steve Lohr Senior Writer and Technology Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Data-ism |
Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley |
Jonathan 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 |
Derek Lowe Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical Drug Discovery |
David Lykken Behavioral Geneticist and Emeritus Professor, University of Minnesota |
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 |
Paul MacCready Chairman/Founder of AeroVironment Inc. |
Tod Machover Composer; Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab |
Rebecca MacKinnon Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation; Author, Consent of the Networked ; Co-founder, Global Voices |
Sir John Maddox Royal Commissions on environmental pollution and genetic manipulation |
John Maeda Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author |
Pattie Maes Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences |
Benoit Mandelbrot Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM; author, The Fractalist; Memoir of a Scientific Maverick |
Ziyad Marar President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood |
Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language and Music; Author, Guitar Zero |
Lynn Margulis Biologist |
John Markoff Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Machines of Loving Grace |
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 |
Abigail Marsh Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University |
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, Filmmaker’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 |
Chad Meredith Hurley Founder YouTube |
Jane Metcalfe president and cofounder of Wired Ventures |
Hans 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 |
Jerry Michalski Managing Editor of Release 1.0 |
Greg Miller News correspondent, Science magazine |
Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent |
Kenneth Miller Professor of Biology at Brown University |
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 |
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 |
Jay Ogilvy a cofounder of GBN, a Partner in the Monitor Group of Companies |
Steve Omohundro Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for Complex Systems Research |
Toby Ord Philosopher, Oxford University; Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute |
Gloria Origgi Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Author, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters |
Dean Ornish Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute |
Dennis Overbye Deputy Science Editor of The New York Times |
Neri Oxman Architect, Researcher, MIT; Founder, Materialecology |
Mehmet 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 |
Gábor Paál German publisher and journalist at Sudwestrundfunk |
Carl Page Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder, eGroups |
Larry Page Google's founding CEO |
Lucy Page Southworth |
Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK; Fellow, Royal Society; Author, Wired for Culture |
Heinz Pagels Author |
Elaine Pagels Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University; Author, Revelations |
Zoe-vonna Palmrose Professor of Auditing and Professor of Accounting in the Marshall School of Business |
Salvador Pániker engineer, philosopher and Spanish writer |
Seymour Papert coauthor |
Kip Parent Founding Webmaster of EDGE |
Lori Park Software engineer at Google. |
Sean Parker Co-founder, Napster; Founding President, Facebook; Founder, the Parker Foundation |
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 |
Roger Penrose Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford |
Alex 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 |
Mark Pesce Inventor, Writer, Entrepreneur, Educator and Broadcaster |
David Pescovitz Co-editor, BoingBoing.net |
David Pesetsky Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT |
Steve Petranek Editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine |
Thomas Petzinger editor, reporter |
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 |
David Post Professor of Law at Temple University |
Richard Potts Director of The Human Origins Program |
William Poundstone Journalist; Author, Head in the Cloud; Nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize |
Corey Powell Senior Editor, Discover Magazine; Adjunct Professor, Science Journalism, NYU; Author: God in the Equation: How Einstein Transformed Religion |
William Press Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Chair in Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin |
Michael Price Lecturer in Psychology & co-director of the Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology, Brunel University |
Jesse Prinz Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy |
Gaetano Prisciantelli Freelance Journalist |
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 |
S. Raza Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com |
Syed Raza Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery Step-Down Unit at Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital |
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 |
Gianluigi Ricuperati Writer; Essayist; Curator |
Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences; Author,The Evolution of Everything |
Matthew Ritchie Artist |
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 |
Andrés Roemer Co-creator, Ideas City; Author, Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't |
Paul Romer Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research |
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 |
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 |
David Rowan Editor, WIRED UK |
Doug Rowan CEO of Corbis Corporation |
Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer; Novelist, Infinity and the Mind, Postsingular, and (with Bruce Sterling) Transreal Cyberpunk. |
Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus |
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 Sacktor Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center |
Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University |
Jacob Safra Swiss investor, is the Chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica, and owner of Spring Mountain Vineyards |
Dorion Sagan writer and sleight-of-hand magician |
Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc. |
Maria Salinas former National Sales Director, TV Azteca, Mexico |
Ricardo Salinas Pliego President and CEO of Grupo Salinas and Grupo Elektra |
Buddhini Samarasinghe Molecular Biologist |
Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia; Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author, How To Raise A Wild Child |
Larry Sanger Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium |
Laurie R. Santos Professor of Psychology, Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center, Yale University |
Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave |
Dimitar Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; Author, The Life of Super-Earths |
Raul Saucedo Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder |
Rebecca Saxe Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT |
Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University; Author, Make School Meaningful-And Fun! |
René Scheu Editor-in-chief, Feuilleton of Neue Zürcher Zeitung |
Maximilian Schich Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas |
Frank Schirrmacher Influential German journalist, essayist, best-selling author |
Gavin Schmidt Climatologist; Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
Simone Schnall Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge |
Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences |
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 |
Kathryn Schulz journalist |
Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com; Author, Inevitable Surprises |
Adrian Scott Founder, Rayz |
Paul Seabright Economics Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse; Author, The War of the Sexes |
Al Seckel Cognitive neuroscientist; Author, Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception |
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 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 |
David Sengeh Doctoral student, MIT Media Lab; Researcher; President, Global Minimum Inc. |
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, Embodiment and the Inner Life |
Robert Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research Scientist, New York University; Author, Planetary Dreams |
Rupert Sheldrake biologist and author |
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 |
Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute; Author, Confessions of an Alien Hunter |
Neil Shubin As a paleontologist and Associate Dean of a major medical school |
Olivier Sibony Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School; Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris; Guest Lecturer, London Business School |
Ludwig Siegele Technology Editor, The Economist |
Karl Sigmund Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vienna |
Todd Siler Founder and director of Psi-Phi Communications |
Lee Silver professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology |
Karoly Simonyi Scholar-Educator; Physicist |
Charles Simonyi Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist |
Jeff Skoll Founder of Participant Media; Producer, "Lincoln" |
John Skoyles researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain |
Kevin Slavin Assistant Professor and Founder, Playful Systems, MIT Media Lab |
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 |
John Smart chairman of the Institute for Accelerating Change |
Laurence Smith Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA; Author, The World in 2050 |
Monica Smith Professor of Anthropology, UCLA |
Barry Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of Advanced Study University of London |
Richard Smith "perhaps the nation's most vocal authority on data privacy" |
Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn |
George Smoot experimental astrophysics and observational cosmology |
Allan Snyder Director of The Centre for the Minds |
Alan Sokal Mathematics Professor, University College London; Physics Professor, NYU |
Galia Solomonoff Architect; Solomonoff Architecture Studio |
Michael Specter Staff writer at The New Yorker |
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 |
Mark Stahlman Newmedia Laboratory |
Tom Standage Business Affairs Editor, The Economist; Author, The Edible History of the Humanity |
Nina Stegeman Associate Editor, EDGE |
Bob Stein Computer scientist; Multi-media pioneer; Founder of The Voyager Company |
Paul Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Coauthor, Endless Universe |
Bruce Sterling Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades |
Gerd Stern Media artist and cheese maven and the author |
Stephen Stich Board of Governors Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University |
Victoria Stodden Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Cliff Stoll Astrophysicist and the author of Silicon Snake Oil (1995) and The Cuckoo's Egg (1989). |
Linda Stone Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple Computer and Microsoft Corporation |
Tom Stoppard Playwright |
Barbara Strauch Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain; The Primal Teen |
Christopher Stringer Paleoanthropologist; Author, Lone Survivors |
Steven Strogatz Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University; Author, The Joy of x |
Mustafa Suleyman Head of Applied AI, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies |
Frank Sulloway the author of Freud, Biologist of the Mind |
Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London |
Cass 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 |
Rory Sutherland Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, the Spectator |
John Swain physicist at Northeastern |
Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social Research |
Kara Swisher Co-Executive Editor |
Christopher Sykes TV documentary producer |
Gerard T'Hooft Nobel Laureate; Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Untrecht |
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 |
Hong-Shu Teng Assistant Professor, Department of English, National Taitung University, Taiwan |
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 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 |
Sebastian Thrun Computer Scientist; Founder and President, Udacity |
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 |
Fred Tomaselli Artist |
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 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 |
Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author, The Cognitive Brain |
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 |
Lew Tucker Director of JavaSoft's Corporate and ISV Relations for Sun Microsystems, Inc |
Colin Tudge Biologist; Author, Six Steps Back to the Land |
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 |
Neil Turok Director, Niels Bohr Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute |
Barbara Tversky Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University |
Antony Valentini Pilot-wave theory |
Robert Van Valin Professor of Linguistics at the Uniersity at Buffalo |
Joseph "Yossi" Vardi chairman of International Technologies |
Francisco Varela biologist; director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and professor of cognitive science |
Michael Vassar Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research |
J. 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 |
Fernanda Viegas research focuses on the social side of visualization |
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 |
Jimmy Wales ounder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation |
D.A. Wallach Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify |
Felix Warneken Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University |
Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist |
Aalam Wassef Artist |
Martin Wattenberg Group Manager and researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab |
Adam Waytz Psychologist; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University |
Russell Weinberger Associate Publisher, EDGE |
Mike Weiner CEO of Biophan Technologies, Inc. |
Bret Weinstein Theoretical Evolutionary Biologist |
Eric Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel Capital |
Deena Weisberg title |
Ai Weiwei Artist; Curator; Architectural Designer (The Bird's Nest); Cultural And Social Commentator; Activist |
Albert Wenger Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures |
Richard Wentworth Artist, Curator |
Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator |
Geoffrey West Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Scale |
Thalia Wheatley Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College |
Tim White Paleoanthropologist; Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley |
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 |
Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, A Beautiful Question |
Jason Wilkes Graduate student in Psychology, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Burn Math Class |
Evan Williams CEO, Medium |
George Williams was an evolutionary biologist; professor emeritus of ecology |
Donald Williamson biologist at the Port Erin Marine Station of the University of Liverpool (UK); Author, The Origins of Larvae |
Delta Willis Paleontologist; Author, Hominid Gang |
Ian Wilmut Chair of Reproductive Biology, Director Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Author, After Dolly |
David Wilson SUNY distinguished professor of biology and anthropology, Binghamton University; Editor-in-Chief of Evolution: This View of Life |
E. Wilson Biologist, Harvard University; author, The Social Conquest of Earth and The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth |
Timothy Wilson Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia; Co-author, Social Psychology; Author, Strangers to Ourselves; Redirect |
Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News Weblog |
David Winer The Lover |
Ellen Winner psychologist at Boston College |
Jason Wishnow Film Director; Director of Film and Video at TED, 2006-2012 |
Alexander Wissner-Gross Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor |
Eva Wisten Journalist |
Peter Woit Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not Even Wrong |
Anne Wojcicki Co-founder of 23andMe, a biotech company based on the concept of genetic mapping |
Naomi Wolf CEO, DailyClout.com; author, The Beauty Myth |
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 |
Lewis Wolpert Professor of Biology |
Milford 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 |
Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Apple Computer |
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 Wurman Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences; Architect, Cartographer; Author, Information Architects |
Victoria Wyatt Associate Professor of History in Art, University of Victoria |
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 |
Shing-Tung Yau Mathematician, Harvard; Co-author, The Shape of Inner Space |
Dustin Yellin Artist; Founder, Pioneer Works |
Yong Yeol Ahn postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex |
Liane Young MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences |
Eliezer Yudkowsky Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Intelligence Research Institute |
Jamil Zaki Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University |
Eberhard Zangger Managing director of science communications |
Juan 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 |
Carl Zimmer Journalist: Author, A Planet of Viruses; Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed |
Phil Zuckerman Author, Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, Du Bois on Religion, Sex and Religion, and Society Without God |
Alexandra Zukerman Reader, The Paris Review |
Jason Zweig Journalist; Personal Finance Columnist, The Wall Street Journal; Author, Your Money and Your Brain |