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

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 Second Mountain

Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (1997-2007); Founder, Chairman, CTO, Rethink Robotics; Author, Flesh and Machines

James H. 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, Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Eric Buterbaugh Floral and Fragrance Designer; Founder, Eric Buterbaugh Gallery

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

Jason Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor

William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus, University of Washington; Author, Global Fever

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

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

Benedict Carey Science Reporter, the New York Times

Doug Carlston Software Developer

Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy

Geoffrey Carr Science Editor

Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Big Picture

Marlies A. 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 M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, 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 A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University; Co-author, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

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

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 S. Churchland Philosopher and Neuroscientist, UC San Diego; Author, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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

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

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

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

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 J.C. Cuddy Associate Professor of Business Administration, Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School

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

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, Outgrowing God

Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore

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

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

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 O. Jackson Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, CIFAR

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

Dale W 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 R. 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 A. Jones Professor of Art History, MIT; Author, The Global Work of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stuart A. 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 G. 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 R. Kellert Social Ecologist, Yale

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

Douglas T. 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 D. Kinzler Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Human Development, Cornell University

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

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 M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute

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

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

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 O. 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 R. Leary Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Author, The Curse of the Self

Leon M. 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 H. 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

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