Student

Person

Description or website

Biologist Steve Jones

Charts the course of human evolution with help from some of Earth's slowest, smallest creatures.

Physicist Michio Kaku

Explains the secrets of the universe 

Engineer and scientist Dr. Rodney Brooks

Discusses what's next for A.I. and biology's crucial role in the future of robotics.

Composer Tod Machover

Melds traditional music with modern technology.

General Manager Tom Kelley

Expound the famous design firm's methods.

Ed Schlossberg

Explains how he transformed a history lesson into an interactive experience.

Scott Adams

The 'Dilbert' creator waxes philosophic on God, the universe, and the intense cruelty of the cubicle.

Lawrence Lessig

Legal and privacy expert describes the privacy and copyright crisis facing the Internet.

David Gelernter

Woody Norris *

College dropout holds more than 40 U.S. patents, including the design for a personal flying machine.

Kurt Przybilla *

Daniel C. Dennett

To cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett, there's nothing artificial about the intelligence of computers.

Neil Spiller

Design visionary Neil Spiller wants architecture to catch up to the groundbreaking discoveries in science and technology.

Ian Wilmut

Cloning pioneer talks about his revolutionary research and why cloning is essential to curing some of the most devastating diseases.

Alvin Toffler

Stewart Brand

Brand plans to construct a tremendous analog clock designed to tick for 10,000 years

Sherry Turkle

Probes the mind of the Internet user and examines life on the screen

Jaron Lanier

 is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.

Robert Langer

His work is at the interface of biotechnology and materials science. A major focus is the study and development of polymers to deliver drugs, particularly genetically engineered proteins and DNA, continuously at controlled rates for prolonged periods of time.

Ralph Merkle

 is a pioneer in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics.

James Lovelock

 is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism

Douglas Adams

was the creator of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a whimsical science fiction novel published in 1979. The Hitchhiker's Guide was originally a BBC radio program first broadcast in 1978; later the book and its sequels became cult favorites with college students and sci-fi fans around the world.

Jack Horner

 is one of the world's foremost paleontologists, credited with finding the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, the first dinosaur embryos, and serving as the inspiration for Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

Dean Kamen

 is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined -- his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology’s virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States. His vast knowledge of the physical sciences, combined with his ability to integrate the fundamental laws of physics with the most modern technologies, has led to the development of breakthrough processes and products