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19764704? ago

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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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 C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, From Bacteria to Bach and Back

Francesco DePretis Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine

Chris Dercon Director, Tate Modern

Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Author, Models.Behaving.Badly

David DeSteno Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University

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, Upheaval

Chris DiBona Open Source and Public Sector, Google

Thomas G Dietterich Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of Intelligent Systems, Oregon State University

Georg Diez Writer, Journalist, Der Spiegel & Spiegel Online; Author of weekly and widely read column "Der Kritiker"; Former Cultural Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sonntags Zeitung and Die Zeit.

Niels Diffrient Industrial designer

Peter H. Ditto Social Psychologist; Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine.

David R. Ditzel President, CEO, ThruChip Communications

Carl Djerassi Organic Chemist and Inventor

Rolf Dobelli Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of Thinking Clearly

Cory Doctorow Science fiction novelist; Blogger; Technology activist; Co-editor, Boing Boing

John Doerr Engineer and marketing manager for micro-computers

Paul Dolan Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happiness by Design

P. Murali Doraiswamy Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System

Jennifer A. Doudna Geneticist, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Inventor, CRISPR-Cas9; Co-author, A Crack in Creation

Anca Dragan Associate Professor, EECS Department; Founder, InterACT Lab; Co-founder, Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, UC Berkeley

Scott Draves Software Artist

K. Eric Drexler Researcher; Policy Advocate; Author, Engines of Creation

Marcus du Sautoy Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford; Author, The Great Unknown

Dan Dubno producer and technologist for CBS News in New York

Esther Duflo Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation, MIT

Elizabeth Dunn Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-author, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

David Dunning Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; Author, Self-Insight

Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily; Author, The Art Instinct

John C. Dvorak Columnist; Broadcaster in areas of technology and computing

Jesse Dylan Filmmaker; Founder, Wondros

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 M. 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 L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began

Paul W. 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. Doyne Farmer Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director, Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Co-founder, Prediction Company

Anne Fausto-Sterling Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown University

Todd E. Feinberg M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Chief of the Yarmon Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City

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. Tecumseh 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 W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics

Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater

James Fowler Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, University of California, San Diego; author, Connected

Darlene Francis Assistant Professor, Psychology, Berkeley

Richard Freeman Economist, Harvard

Marc Frons Chief Technology Officer, Digital Operations, The New York Times Company

Steve Fuller Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick; Author, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism

Xavier Gabaix Martin J. Gruber Professor of Finance, New York University

Peter Gabriel Musician

Peter Galison Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University; Author, Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time; Filmmaker, Secrecy

Fabrizio Gallanti Senior Fellow, Princeton University School of Architecture

Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

Joel Garreau Principal, The Garreau Group

Azar Gat Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University; Author, War in Human Civilization

Bill Gates Co-founder and Former CEO, Microsoft Corporation

Michael Gazzaniga Neuroscientist, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

James Geary Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard; Author, Wit's End

David C. 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)

Michele Gelfand Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park; Author, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

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

19765402? ago

Are all these people contributors? I only recognize Alan Alda....funny he play a Cabal member on The Blacklist.