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. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science,[3] she entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study film and obtain a Bachelor of Arts.[4] In 1997, she received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU).[5] While at NYU, she returned to her family's home in Hunts Point,[6] and later worked for The Point Community Development Corporation.[6] As Associate Director of the Community Development Corporation, Carter developed Hunts Point Riverside Park.[7] Carter was "pulled by her dog into a weedy vacant lot strewn with trash at the dead end of Lafayette Avenue.
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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. Fisher earned a BA in Anthropology and Psychology from New York University in 1968; an MA in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics, and Archeology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1972, and a PhD in Physical Anthropology: Human Evolution, Primatology, Human Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Strategies from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975.
In her book, Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, Fisher proposed that humanity has evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction: Love can start off with any of these three feelings, Fisher maintains. 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] Joy was born in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan to William Joy, a school vice-principal and counselor, and Ruth Joy. Joy received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.[1] Joy's graduate advisor was Bob Fabry. Sun Microsystems[edit] Post-Sun activities[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. Work in progress includes the new Central Library and Music Conservatory for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium;[1] and a 2,643,000-square-foot (245,500 m2) luxury housing complex in the heart of Seoul, Korea. Work[edit] Videos[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Gendall, John (2007-09-19).
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.
"[4] 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. Born in Liverpool to James and Ethel Robinson, Robinson is one of seven children from a working-class background. After an industrial accident, his father became quadriplegic.
From 1985 to 1988, Robinson was Director of The Arts in Schools Project, an initiative to develop the arts education throughout England and Wales. For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick, and is now professor emeritus. 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] Early life[edit] Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH degree (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan, where he worked on the staff of the Gargoyle Humor Magazine, and his M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine.
He moved to California for his internship at the California Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered. Career[edit] Personal life[edit] Film[edit] Speakers Bureau: People: Douglas Van Houweling. President and CEO Internet2 dvh@internet2.edu Douglas E. Van Houweling, the founding President and CEO of Internet2, is also a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
Van Houweling served as a member of the National Academies Panel on the Impact of IT on the Future of the Research University. Dr. Van Houweling has long been active in inter-university initiatives, serving on the EDUCOM Board and playing roles in establishing numerous initiatives to establish cooperative information technology efforts among universities. From 1984 until 1997, Dr. Van Houweling came to Michigan from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he was Vice Provost for Computing and Planning from 1981 until 1984. Dr. Larry Smarr. Professor Larry Lee Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure at the University of California, San Diego.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Education[edit] Smarr received both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975.
Research[edit] After graduating, Smarr did research at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard,[15][16] and then joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979. He is presently a Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the University of California, San Diego. While at Illinois Smarr wrote an ambitious proposal to address the future needs of scientific research. He attended the Beyond Belief symposium on November 2006[citation needed] and presented at the 2010 and 2012 Life Extension Conferences.[22] Awards and honors[edit] 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. Early life and career[edit] Cryptanalysis[edit] 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 Awards and honours Personal life.