Majora Carter. Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an urban revitalization strategist[1] and public radio host, from the South Bronx area of New York City.
Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx[2] before entering the private sector. Early life[edit] Carter attended the Head Start Program and primary schools in the South Bronx.
World thought leaders. Helen Fisher (anthropologist) Helen E.
Fisher (born 1947) is an American anthropologist and human behavior researcher. She is a professor at Rutgers University and has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for over thirty years.[1][2][3] Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Bill Joy. William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer scientist.
Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. Early career[edit] Joshua Prince-Ramus. Joshua Ramus (born August 11, 1969) is an American architect.
Ramus is Principal of REX, an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City. REX recently completed the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas and the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey, both opened to critical acclaim. The Wyly Theatre received the American Institute of Architects' 2010 National Honor Award and the Vakko Fashion Center was presented with the Wallpaper* Design Award 2011 for Best Workspace, ICON Magazine's 2011 One of the World's Coolest Offices and ArchDaily's 2010 Office Building of the Year. Amy B. Smith. Amy Smith is an American inventor, educator, and founder of D-Lab at MIT.
She works to develop technologies and build creative capacity internationally. Early life and education[edit] Amy Smith was born in Lexington, Massachusetts,[1] on 4 November 1962.[2] Smith's father, Arthur Smith, was an electrical engineering professor at MIT.[3] Arthur Smith took his family to India for a year when Amy was growing up while he worked at a university there.[3] "I think that set a lot of things in motion for her. It's very different from growing up in a Boston suburb", he said.[3] Smith says that being exposed to severe poverty as a child made her want to do something to help kids around the world.[4] "Living in India is something that stayed with me—I could put faces on the kids who had so little money. Smith received her Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1984.[3] Smith returned to MIT after the Peace Corps to get her master's degree in mechanical engineering.[3]
Ken Robinson (educationalist) Sir Kenneth Robinson (born 4 March 1950) is an English author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies.
He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001), and was knighted in 2003 for services to education. Originally from a working-class Liverpool family, Robinson now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie-Therese and children James and Kate. Rives (poet) He co-hosted the television special Ironic Iconic America with Tommy Hilfiger, discussing how pop culture has influenced American tastes and styles.[3] Some of his most best-known performances on Def Poetry Jam include a story about poetry in the deaf community,[4] a description of his post-coital bliss[5] and the performance "Dirty Talk" about what people say during sex.[6] His presentations at TED have included the following:[2] "If I controlled the Internet""A mockingbird remix of TED2006""The 4 a.m. mystery""A story of mixed emoticons""Reinventing the encyclopedia game"
Larry Brilliant. Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant is an American physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author, and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org.[1] Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been CEO of two public companies and other venture backed start ups.
From 1973 to 1976, he participated in the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program. In April 2009, he was chosen to oversee the "Skoll Global Threats Fund" established by eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll.[2] Speakers Bureau: People: Douglas Van Houweling. President and CEO Internet2 dvh@internet2.edu Douglas E.
Larry Smarr. Alan Turing. Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ TEWR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, pioneering computer scientist, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[5] During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer.
Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[2] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[3][4][5][6][7] Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[8] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[9] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[10][11] Early life Career Current work.