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Leonard Adleman, Professor, Computer
Science and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer
Center
Adam Bly, Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-chief,
Seed Media Group
Richard Carmona, M.D., The 17th
Surgeon General of The United States
Daniel Clancy, Director, Information
Sciences and Technology, NASA Ames Research Center
Siddhartha Dalal, Visiting Scholar,
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University
David Dehenauw, Manager, Oceanographic
Meteorological Office Zeebrugge, Royal Meteorological Institute
of Belgium
John Donoghue, Professor of Neuroscience,
Brown University and Founder, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems
Daniel Durda, Senior Research Scientist,
Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute
Murray Gell-Mann, Distinguished Fellow,
Santa Fe Institute, and Nobel Laureate in Physics
Stuart Harshbarger, Principal Professional
Staff Member, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Stuart Hassard, Head Biologist, DeltaDOT
Chih-Ming Ho, Director, Institute
for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE), UCLA
Allan Jones, Chief Scientific Officer,
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Jennifer Lalli, Director of Nanocomposites,
Nanosonic
Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., Director, National Library of Medicine
Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
Richard Lenski, Professor of Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Terry Lohrenz, Research Fellow, Human
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine
Dan Masys, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Marvin Minsky, Professor, Computer
Science, MIT
Craig Nevill-Manning, Senior Research
Scientist, Google
Mor Naaman, Research Scientist,
Yahoo!
Steven Novack, Scientist, Idaho
National Laboratory
Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate and Former
Chief Scientist, Lucent Technologies
Steen Rasmussen, Team Leader, Self-organizing
Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Schulam, M.D., Co-director,
Center for Advanced Surgical & Interventional
Technology, UCLA
Larry Smarr, Founding Director, California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist, WebFountain
Adrian Travis, Co-founder
and Chief Scientist, Deep Light
Richard Turco, Founding Director,
UCLA Institute of the Environment
David M. Virshup, M.D., Co-director,
Huntsman Cancer Institute Center for Children, University of
Utah
Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist,
Amazon.com
Carl Williams, Chief, Atomic Physics
Division, NIST
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Genevieve Bell, Director, User
Experience, Intel
Stewart Brand, Co-Founder,
Global Business Network and Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation
Nicholas Carr, Author, The Big Switch
Denise Caruso, Founder and Executive
Director, Hybrid Vigor Institute
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive
Director, Eyebeam
Esther Dyson, Chairman,
EDventure Holdings
Hasan Elahi, Assistant Professor,
Visual Art Department, Rutgers University
Joichi Ito, CEO, Neotony
Natalie Jeremijenko, Assistant
Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California
San Diego
Richard Klomp, Behavioral Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cédric Laurant, Policy
Counsel and Director of the International Privacy Project, Electronic
Privacy Information Center
Larry Lessig, Professor
of Law, Stanford University and Author, The Future of Ideas
Barry C. Lynn, Senior
Fellow, New America Foundation
Isaac Mao, VP, UCI
Investment Group; Director and Founder, Social Brain Foundation/CNBlog.org
Alex McDowell, Production
Designer, Minority Report
Michael Naimark, Media
Artist
Joseph Tainter, Project
Leader, Cultural Heritage Research Project, Rocky Mountain Research
Station
James Randi, Founder, James Randi
Educational Foundation
Leisa Reichelt, User Experience Consultant,
Disambiguity.com
Clifford Ross, Photographer
Lorna Ross, Lead
Research Scientist, WellBeing Group, Media Lab Europe
Marc Rotenberg, Executive
Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Clay Shirky, Writer
and Consultant
Tiffany Shlain, Founder
and Creative Director, The Webby Awards
Solveig Singleton, Senior
Adjunct Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation
Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor,
Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social
Sciences
Barry Steinhardt, Director, Technology & Liberty
Program, ACLU
Katrin Verclas, Co-founder and Editor,
Mobileactive.org
David Weinberger, Consultant
and Author, Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Daniel Weitzner, Co-director, MIT
CSAIL Decentralized Information Group
Dave Winer, CEO,
UserLand Software
Richard Saul Wurman, Architect
and Founder, TED
Ethan Zuckerman, CEO & Co-founder,
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Noubar Afeyan, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Flagship Ventures
Alan Baratz, CEO, Zaplet
Mark Bergee, Chief Technology Officer, Broadstar Wind
Systems
David Berry, Partner, Flagship Ventures
Brent Bilger, Vice President, Destiny Networks
Ian Black, Managing Director, Autonomy
Ron Bloom, Co-founder and CEO, PodShow
Eric Bonabeau, Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer,
Icosystem
Vanu Bose, President and CEO, Vanu
Jack Casazza, President, American Education Institute
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Principal, Monitor Group
Tom Cohen, Co-founder, Squidoo
John Colgan, CEO, Orygen Group
George Colony, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Forrester
Research
Manus Cooney, Vice President, Corporate and Policy
Development, Napster
Steve Crocker, CEO and Co-founder, Shinkuro
Shalom Daskal, CEO, Power Paper
John Deal, CEO, Hyperion Power Generation
Walter De Brouwer, Chairman, Turing Industries
Phil Derry, Chairman, Trackaphone
James Ding, Chairman, UITV
Thomas Donohue, Former President and CEO, US Chamber
of Commerce
Doug Duimering, Vice President, Vestas Canadian Wind
Technology
David Eichinger, Manager, General Motors Fuel Cell
Activities
John Ellenby, Co-founder,GeoVector
Steve Else, President and CEO, Broadstar Wind Systems
Juan Enriquez, Chairman and CEO, Biotechonomy
Roy Freeland, CEO, Perpetuum, Ltd.
Michael Furdyk, Co-founder and Director of Technology,
TakingITGlobal.org
Pat Gambaro, Vice President, Information Technology
and Floor Operations, New York Board of Trade
Alan Ganek, Vice President, Autonomic Computing, IBM
Prabhu Goel, Chairman and CEO, iPolicy Networks
Larry Gordon, Professor of Managerial Accounting
and Information Assurance, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University
of Maryland
Tom Grant, Chairman, ThingMagic
Jeff Greason, Co-founder and CEO, Xcor Aerospace
Richard Green, President and Chief Executive Officer,
CableLabs
Saul Griffith, Co-founder, Squid Labs
Matthew Growney, Managing Director, Motorola Ventures
Richard Harriman, Managing Partner, Synectics
David Isenberg, Principal Prosultant, Isen.com
Tony Jewitt, CEO, The Hive Group
Chris Jones, CEO, Informatrix
Nazim Kareemi, President and CEO, Canesta
David Kelley, Founder and CEO, IDEO
Dan Kiang, Vice President, TVG Capital Partners
John Kim, Vice President, Strategy, The Gale Company
Tom Kiser, Chairman, CEO, and Founder, Professional
Supply
James Kowalick, Founder, Renaissance Leadership Institute
Jason Krikorian, Co-founder, Sling Media
Tero Kuittinen, Vice President, Wireless Telecommunications,
Halsey Advisory and Management
Doug Laney, Founder and Chief Research Officer, Evalubase
Research
Tan Le, Co-founder and President, Emotiv Systems
Mark Leiter, Managing Director and Chairman, Leiter & Company
Jo Lernout, Co-chairman, Co-founder and Managing Director,
Lernout & Hauspie
Robert Lessin, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Company,
Inc.
Robert Levin, CEO,
Transclick
Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair, Burton Group
Scarlett Li, President, R2G
Erkki Liikanen, Commissioner, Enterprise and Information
Society, European Commission
Richard Lindheim, Executive Director, Institute for
Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Mike Lubin, Chairman and CEO, Global Music Network
Justin Lyon, CEO, Simudyne
Rod MacGregor, President & CEO, NanoMuscle
Eric Mayes, CEO, Nanomagnetics
Robert Metcalfe, General Partner,
Polaris Venture Partners
Mike Milinkovich, Executive
Director, The Eclipse Foundation
Geoffrey Moore, Chairman and Founder, The Chasm Group
John Morgridge, Chairman, Cisco Systems
George Mueller, Chairman and CEO, Color Kinetics
Chunka Mui, Author, Unleashing the Killer App
David Neilson, Senior Director, Global Information
Solutions, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
Tom Nicholas, Associate, The Brattle Group
Don Norman, Co-founder, Nielsen Norman Group
Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly
Media
Ralph Osterhout, Founder, Osterhout Design Group
David Overskei, President & Chief Executive Officer,
Polexis
Robert Pepper, Chief, Policy Development, Federal
Communications Commission
Kim Polese, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Marimba
Michael Raynor, Deloitte Research Distinguished
Fellow, Deloitte Consulting
Patricia Roberts, Senior Vice President, Jones Lang
LaSalle
Joseph Romm, Founder and Executive Director, Center
for Energy and Climate Solutions
Robert S. Rosenschein, Founder, Chairman, and CEO,
GuruNet
Richard Rutkowski, President & Chief Executive
Officer, Microvision, Inc.
Joseph Santucci, Founder, President, and CEO, Pixlogic,
LLC
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google, Inc.
Sean Scott, President, ALS Therapy Development Institute
John Sculley, Former Chairman, Apple Computer and
Partner, Sculley Partners
Greg Shea, President and Managing Director, USITO
Paul Shen, CEO, TVU Networks Corporation
Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group
Nova Spivack, Founder and CEO, Radar Networks
Jack Valenti, President & CEO, Motion Picture
Association of America
Douglas Van Houweling, President and CEO, University
Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
Ben Wang, Founder and CEO, Beyondsoft
Yulun Wang, CEO, InTouch Health
Rob Welton, Executive VP Marketing, Knowledge Vector
Walter Wriston, Former CEO, Citicorp and Citibank
Sara Yun, Economic Officer, US Embassy
Niklas Zennström, CEO and Co-founder, The Skype
Group
Charles Zhang, Founder and CEO, Sohu.com
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Dan Adler, Founder,
Fanista
Jonathan Attwood, CEO, SwapitShop
Richard Bennett, CEO,
Tarian Technology
Phillip Bevis, Founder
and CEO, Arundel Books
Ronald Blum, Founder
and President, The Egg Factory
Nolan Bushnell, CEO & Founder,
uWink, Inc., and Founder, Atari
Johnann Butting, President, Atlantic
Interactive
Liesl Capper, Co-founder, MyCyberTwin.com
Dinesh Dhamija, CEO & Chairman,
ebookers.com
Fred Graver, Founder, Remixamerica.org
Jim Griffin, Co-chairman,
EvoLab and CEO, Cherry Lane Digital
Katherine Hammer, President
and CEO, Evolutionary Technologies.
Jeff Hawkins, Executive
Director and Chairman, Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Michael Henry, Co-founder,
ThirdString Productions
Aden Holt, Founder, Buzz-Oven
Dave Hughes, Partner,
Old Colorado City Communications
William Hurley, Founder,
Symbiot
Michael Iron, CEO,
WebMap Technologies
Vinod Khosla, Partner,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Linh Tang, CEO,
fix8.com
Dan Nachbar, Principal
Designer, Skyacht Aircraft
Ike Nassi, Entrepreneur
in Residence, Allegis Capital
Kazuhiko Nishi, Founder,
ASCII Corporation
Max Oshman, Partner,
pLot Multimedia Developers
Pengkai Pan, CEO
and Founder, Saybot
Lars Perkins, CEO,
Lifescape Solutions
Laurie Racine, President, dotSUB
Michael Robinson, Founder,
Pool Entertainment
David Rose, President,
Ambient Devices
Stan Rosenschein, CEO
and Founder, Quindi
Zvi Schreiber, Founder
and CEO, Unicorn Solutions
Leon Silverman, President,
Laser Pacific Media Corporation
Michael Smolens, Co-founder, dotSUB
Josh Spear, Co-founder, Undercurrent
Stefan Surzycki, Co-founder, Jooce.com
Jon Taplin, CEO,
Intertainer.
Astro Teller, CEO & Co-founder,
BodyMedia
Charlie Trimble, President,
U.S. GPS Industry Council and Founder, Trimble Navigation
Joseph Vardi, Principal,
International Technology Ventures
Stan Winston, President
and CEO, Stan Winston Studio, Stan Winston Productions and
Stan Winston Creatures
Mike Ziemer, Co-founder, ThirdString
Productions
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David Ackley, Professor of Computer
Science, University of New Mexico
Paul Anastas, Director, Center for
Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
Brian Arthur, Citibank Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Ravin Balakrishnan, Professor of Computer Science,
University of Toronto
Yochai Benkler, Co-director,
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Peter Bentley, Author, Digital
Biology, and Honorary
Research Fellow, University College London
David Blaauw, Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, University
of Michigan
Frederick Brooks, Professor, University of North Carolina,
and Author, The Mythical Man-Month
Yet-Ming Chiang, Professor of Materials Science, MIT
Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard University,
and Author, The Innovators Dilemma
Pamela Clark, Professor of Physics, Catholic
University
John Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for
Internet & Society, Harvard
Law Schoo
Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for Communication
Policy, UCLA
Chris Diorio, Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Rudi Dornbusch, Ford Professor of Economics and International
Management, MIT Department of Economics
John Doyle, Professor,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Electrical Engineering and Bio-Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Janet Efstathiou, University Lecturer, Engineering
Science, Oxford University
Alan H. Epstein, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
MIT
Edward Felten, Director, Secure Internet Programming
Laboratory, Princeton University
Scott Fisher, Chair, Interactive Media Division, USC
School of Cinema-Television
Nikolaus Franke, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration
Merrick Furst, Distinguished Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Urs Gasser, Director, Research Center for Information
Law, University of St.
Gallen
Neil Gershenfeld, Associate Professor, MIT Media Laboratory
Seth Goldstein, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
Eszter Hargittai, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy
Research, Northwestern
University
Thomas Harmon, Associate Professor, School of Engineering,
University of California
Merced
Volker Hartkopf, Director, Center for Building Performance
and Diagnostics, Carnegie
Mellon University
Adam Heller, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University
of Texas, Austin
James Hendler, Senior Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
David Hillis, Professor, Integrative Biology, University
of Texas, Austin
Joe Jacobson, Leader, MIT Media Lab NanoMedia Group
and Co-founder, E Ink
David Jensen, Director, Knowledge Discovery Laboratory,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Head of the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
M. Frans Kaashoek, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, MIT
Sabir Kahn, Associate Professor of Architecture, Georgia
Tech
Kan Kaili, Dean,
School of Business Management, Beijing University of
Posts & Telecommunications
Gail Kaiser, Director, Programming Systems Lab, Columbia
University
S. Keshav, Associate Professor, Computer Science,
University of Waterloo
Michael R. Ladisch, Director of the Laboratory of
Renewable Resources Engineering and Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Department, Purdue University
Steve Lerman, Director, MIT Center for Educational
Computing Initiatives
Steven Low, Associate Professor, Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering, Caltech
Dianne Lynch, Dean, School
of Communications, Ithaca College
Hideo Mabuchi, Associate
Professor, Physics and Control & Dynamical
Systems, California Institute of Technology
John Maeda, Associate Professor of Design and Computation,
MIT
Gloria Mark, Associate Professor,
Interactive and Collaborative Technologies, UC Irvine
Michael Mateas, Assistant Professor, Literature, Communication
and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor,
Business Administration, Harvard Business School
George Metakides, Professor of Mathematics, University
of Patras
William
Mitchell, Director, MIT Design Laboratory
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology,
Newcastle University
Richard Murray, Professor of Control and Dynamical
Systems, California Institute of Technology
Jay Neitz, Professor, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
Charles Nesson, Director,
Berkman Center for Internet & Society,
Harvard University
A. Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley
Sile O’Modhrain, Lecturer, Sonic Arts Research
Centre
Rafail Ostrovsky, Director, Center for Information
and Computation Security,
UCLA
Toribio Fernández Otero, Professor of Physical
Chemistry, Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor of Media Arts
and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Kris Pister, Professor, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Steven M. Potter, Assistant Professor, Laboratory
for NeuroEngineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karthik Ramani, Professor, Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University
Tom Ray, Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
Jeffrey Rayport, Associate Professor, Harvard Business
School
Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics,
Carnegie Mellon University
Dennis Roberson, Vice Provost and Executive Director,
Institute of Business and Interprofessional Programs, Illinois Institute
of Technology
Avi Rubin, Technical Director, Information Security
Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Funda Sahin, Assistant Professor of Logistics, University
of Tennessee
Michael Sailor, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego
Lanny Schmidt, Professor of Chemical Engineering,
University of Minnesota
Steven Seitz, Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering,
University of Washington
Ehud Shapiro, Professor, Computer Science and Applied
Math, Weizmann Institute of Science
Push Singh, Researcher, Commonsense Computing, MIT
Media Lab
Stefano Soatto, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology
and Self
Andries van Dam, Professor of Technology and Education,
Brown University
Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
Xinyuan Wang, Professor, Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University
Duncan Watts, Professor, Department
of Sociology, Columbia University
Phil Williams, Professor, International Security,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering
and Professor, Computer Science, University of Virginia
Xue Lan, Executive Associate
Dean, School of Public
Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Eli Yablonovitch, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
UCLA
Yu-Chong Tai, Director, Micromachining Laboratory,
Caltech
Zha Daojiong, Professor of Energy Politics, Chinese
People's University
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Douglas Adams, Author, Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy
Chris Alexander, Architect
and Author, The Nature of Order
Dan Ariely, Author, Predictably
Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Nathaniel Branden, Author, The Psychology
of Self-Esteem
David Brin, Scientist and Author,
The Transparent Society
Hugh Courtney, Author, 20/20 Foresight:
Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World
David Crystal, Author, Language and
the Internet
Tom Gardner, Founder, The Motley Fool
James Gleick, Author, FASTER
Nigel Holmes, Information Architect,
Explanation Graphics
Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor,
Wired Magazine
Joel Kotkin, Author, The New Geography
Christopher Locke, Author, Gonzo Marketing:
Winning Through Worst Practices
James Lovelock, Author, The Revenge of GAIA
Rafe Needleman, Technology Columnist,
Business 2.0
Charles Perrow, Author, Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies
Stephen Petranek, Editor in Chief, Discover
Yossi Sheffi, Author, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
Bruce Sterling, Author, The Hacker
Crackdown: Law and Disorder On The Electronic Frontier
Paul Strassmann, Author, Information
Productivity
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