Dr. Huang Zhiyong, Department Head of Computer Graphics and Interface Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
The Institute for Infocomm Research (I?R pronounced as i-squared-r) is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family. Established in 2002, our mission is to be the globally preferred source of innovations in 'Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere' through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore's economic success. I?R performs R&D in information, communications and media (ICM) technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain. Our research capabilities are in information technology, wireless and optical communication networks, interactive and digital media, signal processing and computing. We seek to be the infocomm and media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead.
The Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Virtual Dance System simulates a night club environment and allows a player to have a natural and intuitive live dance interaction with customizable virtual characters. We have developed the world's first 3D immersive and truly tetherless system that allows for live and face-to-face dancing with a virtual character in three dimensions under fast changing and low lighting conditions that simulates a night club environment. The user does not need to carry/hold any devices or to go through any calibration process.
The system is able to show non-repetitive dance performance each time even if the player performs the same actions. Using a normal webcam, we recognize the user's action in real-time and in contrast with other recent dance game technologies (such as Dance Central which uses Microsoft Kinect), our system provides two-way dance interaction between the user and the virtual character in full three dimensions. Together with other features of the system such as eye contact and emotional connection, the user feels as if he is dancing with a real partner in a real night club. This has been achieved through the advance development of technologies in computer vision, human computer interaction, and human character animation.
Takashi Yabe is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His main research areas include the computational fluid dynamics and laser application. He was engaged in laser fusion at Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University and achieved highest neutron production (awarded in1987). He also proposed a new numerical scheme called CIP method. The citations to this work exceed 1200. Because of this work, he was invited to give a bicentenary memorial lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1999. He is also appointed as an Honorary Fellow in International Society for Computational Fluid Dynamics. Recently he proposed a new energy cycle that combines desalination, solarÐpumped laser and its application to smelting of magnesium used for fuel. He was appointed as ""Heroes of the Environment "" by TIME in 2009. He is a CEO of Electra Co., Ltd. and a Chairman of Pegasos Electra Co., Ltd. founded for this project.
Andrea Weckerle is an attorney licensed to practice law in Washington D.C. and New Jersey. She earned her Juris Doctor at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, where she also served on the Senior Staff of the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, the first exclusively online, student-edited law journal in the U.S. In addition to her law degree, she underwent extensive mediation training, earning certificates in Commercial Mediation, Conflict Resolution Processes, and Healthcare Mediation. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications/Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
After law school, Andrea worked within the Legal Management Services division of the international professional services firm Ernst & Young, where she helped design, develop and implement comprehensive alternative dispute resolution systems for Fortune 500 companies. During her tenure at the firm, she also served on the international team of a high-profile, politically sensitive investigatory review of World War II-era banking records for two international financial institutions and a U.S. state regulatory agency. Prior to founding CiviliNation, she ran her own boutique communications consultancy and worked with national agencies, where her experience included legal and corporate communications, as well as online communications and social media.
Andrea lived in Pakistan, Madagascar, Germany and the United States while growing up and now resides in the United States. She is bilingual in English and German.
Bryan Walsh focuses on environmental issues in addition to covering general interest and national stories and writes the Going Green column for TIME and TIME.COM. A former Tokyo bureau chief for TIME, Walsh was named writer in August 2007 and is now based in New York. Before his stint in Tokyo, Walsh worked as a Hong Kong-based reporter as well as staff writer for TIME Asia, where he covered a wide range of subjects, focusing on public health, science and the environment. He wrote extensively on the SARS outbreak, reporting from the laboratories of the University of Hong Kong and Prince of Wales hospital. Additionally, he wrote numerous cover stories for TIME Asia on topics ranging from the rise in global obesity to the threat of Avian Flu.
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity which operates Wikipedia.org, and as the co-founder of Wikia.com.
Jimmy received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and his Master's in finance from University of Alabama. He was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2005 and in 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.
In January of 2001, Jimmy started Wikipedia.org, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and today Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the top-five most visited sites on the web. In mid-2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia.org. The Foundation, now based in downtown San Francisco, boasts a staff of close to thirty focusing on fundraising, technology, and programming relating to the expansion of Wikipedia. Jimmy now sits on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, and as founder continues to act as a key spokesperson.
In 2004, Jimmy co-founded Wikia.com, a completely separate company that enables groups of people to share information and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Wikia's community-created wikis range from video games and movies to finance and environmental issues. Wikia's network is now ranked in the top 75 of all websites according to Quantcast.com, and strong growth continues.
In 2007, The World Economic Forum recognized Jimmy as one of the ""Young Global Leaders."" This prestigious award acknowledges the top 250 young leaders for their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. In addition, Jimmy received the ""Time 100 Award"" in 2006, as he was named one of the world's most influential people in the ""Scientists & Thinkers"" category.
The Global Science Institute is a non-profit organization in northern Wisconsin dedicated to the sustainable expansion of humanity's frontiers. GSI supports agricultural projects in urban areas, science literacy projects in rural areas, and the scientific exploration of life throughout the universe. Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems is a $10 billion business whose 24,000 employess comprse a premier provider of manned and unmanned aircraft, space systems, missile systems and advanced technologies critical to our nation's security.
Albert H. Teich is director of Science & Policy Programs at AAAS, a position he has held since 1990. He is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy and serves as a key spokesman on science policy issues. Dr. Teich also serves as director of the AAAS Archives. Dr. Teich received a B.S. degree in physics and a Ph.D. in political science, both from M.I.T. Prior to joining the AAAS staff in 1980, he held positions at George Washington University, the State University of New York, and Syracuse University. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely used textbook on technology and society, the eleventh edition of which was published by Wadsworth Cengage Learning in 2008. More on Dr. Teich's career can be found at www.alteich.com/al
Stuart Schulzke narrowly avoided a legal career with a timely turn into new media. He holds two graduate degrees from the University of Oxford, worked on the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and has consulted on efforts to consolidate the rule of law in post-communist states. He has also written some tedious academic articles which have been published in three different languages but probably weren't read in any. He views the FORA.tv mission somewhat religiously and aims to convert the world.
Stanley Schmidt was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He began selling stories while a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. He continued freelancing while an assistant professor at Heidelberg College in Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, science fiction, and other oddities. (He was introduced to his wife, Joyce, by a serpent while teaching field biology in a place vaguely resembling that well-known garden.) He has contributed numerous stories and articles to original anthologies and magazines including Analog, Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Rigel, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, American Journal of Physics, Camping Journal, Writer's Digest, and The Writer. He has edited or coedited about a dozen anthologies.
Since 1978, as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, he has been nominated 31 times for the Hugo award for Best Professional Editor. He is or has been a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and has been an invited speaker at national meetings of those organizations, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers, as well as numerous museums and universities. In his writing and editing he draws on a varied background including extensive experience as a musician, photographer, traveler, naturalist, outdoorsman, pilot, and linguist. Most of these influences have left traces in his five novels and short fiction. His nonfiction includes the book Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating Extraterrestrial Life-Forms, and The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future and hundreds of Analog editorials, some of them collected in Which Way to the Future?. He was Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, and has been a Nebula and Hugo award nominee for his fiction.
Anna Rosling Ronnlund is a co-founder in 2005, along with Hans Rosling and Ola Rosling of the Gapminder Foundation. Gapminder is a non-profit venture Ð a modern ""museum"" on the Internet Ð promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
The initial activity was to pursue the development of the Trendalyzer software. Trendalyzer sought to unveil the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.
In March 2007, Google acquired Trendalyzer from the Gapminder Foundation and the team of developers who formerly worked for Gapminder joined Google in California in April 2007. (History of Gapminder)
To fulfill our aim, we at Gapminder are currently working on:
Keeping our tools' statistical content up-to-date and making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries. Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics. All with the intention of being a ""fact tank"" that promotes a fact based world view.
Marc Raibert was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1986 through 1995. He is co-founder and President of Boston Dynamics Inc, (BDI), which is located near MIT in Cambridge.
Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the capabilities of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams take projects from initial concept to proof-of-principle prototyping to build-test-build engineering, to field testing and low-rate production. Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to Sony Corporation turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and for help creating the most advanced robots on Earth.
Raibert's research is devoted to the study of systems that move dynamically, including physical robots and animated creatures. Raibert's laboratory at MIT, the Leg Lab, is well known for its work on systems that move dynamically, including legged robots, simulated mechanisms, and animated figures. The Leg Lab created a series of laboratory robots including one-legged hoppers, biped runners, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots. Taken collectively, these robots travel along simple paths, balance themselves actively, climb a simple stairway, run fast (13.1 mph), run with several gaits, and do rudimentary gymnastic maneuvers. A couple of years ago two robots (and 3 students) appeared in Rising Sun with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. The Leg Lab also created On The Run, a computer generated cartoon in which all the characters were animated using simulation and control. Work at Boston Dynamics on automated characters and physics-based dynamic simulation are outgrowths of research done by Raibert's group at MIT.
Raibert received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1973, and a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. His Ph.D thesis, entitled 'Motor control and learning by the state space model', used robotics techniques to model biological beahvior. He worked on robot sensing and control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech from 1977 through 1980. He was on the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department and the Robotics Institute from 1981-1986. He is author of Legged Robots That Balance published by MIT Press, is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Robotics Research, was guest editor of two issues of IJRR devoted to legged systems, and is a fellow of the AAAI.
David Post is a visionary and serial entreprenuer with two of his startups Page America and Cellular Systems Inc. evolving into industry changers and leaders. He believes that Next Island has these qualities.
Post started Next Island nearly three years ago to be the first 3D virtual world for the mass market. It is the first with time travel and a real cash economy. It is positioned to attract the 200 million casual gamers who are looking for entertainment that is more challenging.
As Editor in Chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning magazine, Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com, published by MIT. Mr. Pontin also took on the role of publisher in September 2005, overseeing all aspects of the companyÕs business, which includes: a rapidly expanding website; e-newsletters; international editions; and events such as EmTech, the annual emerging technologies conference at MIT.
From 1996-2002, Pontin was editor of Red Herring. He served as Editor in Chief of The Acumen Journal from 2002-2004, covering business, economic, and policy implications of discoveries in biotechnology and the life sciences. In 2006-2007, he wrote a regular column for The Sunday New York Times, ÒSlipstream,Ó about new ideas in technology.
He has written for national and international publications, including The Economist, The Financial Times, Wired, and The Believer, and is a frequent guest on television and radio, including ABC News, CNN, and NPR
As a writer, David Pogue mixes technology reporting with a healthy dose of entertainment and humor. He believes that it's not the average person's fault that technology often seems overwhelming (and, frequently, badly designed).
David reports on technology through his NY Times column, a weekly email column, a daily blog, daily Twitter tweets, and a weekly video that airs on CNBC and then goes to YouTube, iTunes, Tivo, JetBlue, and the like. I'm not aware of any other tech critics who have quite such a wide reach.
Jonathan Peachey is the Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Management USA, the regional headquarters of Virgin Group in North America. He joined Virgin in 1998 from Coopers & Lybrand in London and has held a variety of corporate development and investment management positions within Virgin Group. He moved to the U.S. in 2006 to support the development and launch of Virgin America, a new U.S. domestic airline that seeks to make flying good again.
Jonathan is a senior member of the Virgin Aviation Team, serving on the boards of Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays. He was one of the founding members of the team developing Virgin's commercial space endeavor, Virgin Galactic, and serves on its board of directors. He is also a Trustee of Virgin Unite USA, the U.S. arm of Virgin's charitable foundation.
Jonathan is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and holds a bachelors degree with Honors in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics from the University of Warwick, England. He currently lives in New York City.
Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, introducing the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002. Previously Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first ""sustainability"" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He has served as an advisor to multilateral agencies and major corporations.
Nicholas earned a BA Hons. in Technology Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA (City University, London), and has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He served as Chairman of E+Co, a public purpose investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries, and is on several boards, including: Government of Singapore Cleantech Advisory Board, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the X PRIZE Energy & Environment Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Nicholas has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and currently resides with his two children in Toronto.
David Orrell is Head of Modelling and Simulation at the Oxford-based biotech consultancy firm Physiomics. His work in applied mathematics has taken him to diverse areas including weather forecasting, economics, and cancer biology. His book ""The Future of Everything"" was a national bestseller in Canada, and he also writes research papers on topics ranging from systems biology to systems economics, and articles for publications including World Finance, Adbusters, and Literary Review of Canada. His scientific work has been featured in New Scientist, the Financial Times, and CBC TV. His next book in the US is ""Economyths"".
Ben Neill is a composer, performer, producer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. NeillÕs music blends electronica, jazz and ambient, blurring the lines between DJ culture and acoustic instrument performance. Neill has recorded seven CDs of his music. His music has been featured on numerous compilations including Wired MagazineÕs ÒMusic Futurists. Ò In NeillÕs live performance, laptop computers merge his three-belled, digitally interfaced mutantrumpet with live MIDI controlled digital audio and video. In addition to controlling digital audio in real time, Neill literally plays the moving pictures, making the images an extension of his electrified horn. Neill also performs with XIX, a band with vocalist Mimi Goese (Moby, Mimi, Hugo Largo), John Conte on bass, Jim Mussen on drums, and Neill on mutantrumpet, and has collaborated with numerous other composers and musicians including HelmetÕs Page Hamilton, Rhys Chatham, Nicolas Collins, David Behrman, John Cale, John Cage, Coil, DJ Spooky and DJ Olive.
Ehsan Moghaddasi received his MA(2008, with honors) from the University of Tehran, in dramatic literature and criticism. His dissertation focused on a comparative study of Mikhail Bakhtin theories about literature and society, especially Dialogism and carnivalesque forms of performing arts. He is now a PhD candidate in social anthropology at the Boston University focusing on ""Social Movements and New Media"" from an interdisciplinary perspective. In July 2009, he gave a presentation on Iranian nationalism at the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies' Conference hosted by the University of Manchester, UK, where he focused on the emergence of nationalism and its influence on escalating ethnic conflicts in Iran from an historical perspective. He made more than six presentations at conferences organized by the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies which were hosted by the University of Exeter, UK; University of Virginia, University of Ottawa and so forth.
Dr. John Mendlein is executive chairman of four privately held biotech companies in San Diego: Fate Therapeutics, aTyr Pharm, Chimeros and Alevium. Prior to his involvement in these enterprises, he served as CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics from June 2005 until October 2007, at which time the privately-held, Boston based biotechnology company was purchased by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in a transaction valued at more than $505 million. Previously, Mendlein served as chairman and CEO at Affinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and served in a variety of roles, including board member, general counsel and chief knowledge officer, at Aurora Biosciences (acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals). He is currently an advisory board member of Genesys Capital, a venture capital firm in Canada, a founder and board member of Homes for Sudan, a non-profit in Boston, and a scientific advisory board member for Ocean Discovery Institute, a non-profit in San Diego.
Lily Mazahery is an Iranian-American lawyer, feminist, human rights defender, and social and political activist. Founder and president of the Legal Rights Institute, Mazahery represents some of the most high profile political dissidents, human rights activists and victims of human rights violations around the world. She has directed a substantial portion of her work towards assisting individual victims of human rights violations and political dissidents, particularly in Iran. As a member of various international rights organizations, groups, and campaigns, Mazahery has been a strong advocate of equal rights for women in Islamic countries, which include the abolishment of stoning executions and honor killings.
"Dr. Paul Levinson, Author; Former President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Paul Levinson appears on ""The O'Reilly Factor"" (Fox News), ""The CBS Evening News,"" ""NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"" (PBS), ""Nightline"" (ABC), and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009, and will be re-issued in a vinyl re-pressing by Sound of Salvation/Whiplash Records in November 2010. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's ""Top 10 Academic Twitterers"" in 2009."
"Ray Kurzweil, Inventor & Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Ray Kurzweil has been described as Òthe restless geniusÓ by the Wall Street Journal, and Òthe ultimate thinking machineÓ by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the Òrightful heir to Thomas Edison,Ó and PBS included Ray as one of 16 Òrevolutionaries who made America.Ó As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers. RayÕs latest book, ÒThe Singularity is Near,Ó was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy."
"Pen Hadow, Director, Geo Mission Ltd.
In 2003, Pen Hadow entered the record books when he became the first and only person, to trek solo, and without outside support, from Canada to the Geographic North Pole.
His first polar experience dates back to 1989, when, while working for a sports agency, he partnered a polar explorer photographing polar bears on the edge of the Arctic Ocean.
Since then, Pen has clocked up more than 15 years of polar experience and has watched with dismay the changes taking place in the Arctic. In 1997 Pen organised, inspired and secured most of the funding for the first all-women's relay to the North Pole, thereby enabling 20 women, with no previous polar experience, from all backgrounds and age groups, to reach the Pole.
In 2009 Pen led the first Catlin Arctic Survey. For his role in the expedition, Pen became one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment along with colleagues Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley. He established Geo Mission later that year."
"Dr. Moira Gunn, Host, NPR's Tech Nation.Also a professor where she focuses on Global Information Systems and Biotechnology
Dr. Moira Gunn is Host of Tech Nation and BioTech Nation, which air on such venues as National Public Radio's SIRIUS Satellite Radio channels NPR Now and NPR Talk and on over 200 domestic public stations. Tech Nation is the sole national weekly radio program on the impact of technology, and its weekly BioTech Nation segment enjoys the same status in the area of biotech issues. The story of the building the BioTech Nation segment and the leading issues facing us all in the arena is described in Dr. Gunn's book ""Welcome to BioTech Nation ... My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas."" Tech Nation programs seeks to educate the public on the issues of science and technology, demonstrating that all aspects of our lives are affected. Guests come from every walk of life: politicians and businesspeople, scientists and futurists, novelists and educators, members of the media and more. In Dr. Gunn's words: ""Everyone is essential. Everyone is a piece of the puzzle."""
"Adam Gopnik , Author, Angels & Ages
This award-winning journalist speaks with singular wit, eloquence and insight on modern life and culture. Adam writes long essays on big thinkers for The New Yorker magazine and he has a genius for bringing these people and their ideas to life in his presentations, for communicating the emotions behind ideas, and the feelings that ideas evoke in us, and their relevance to modern life. His most recent book embodies this gift for using historical biography to explore the way we live today. ÒAngels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern LifeÓ looks at the birth of the modern era through the lives of two extraordinary people born within hours of each other exactly 200 years ago this year. Adam also writes in another genre, what he calls Ôcomic-personal essaysÕÑfunny and touching stories about the 'domestic pleasures'Ñhow families live (especially his own family) in the storied cities of Paris and New York. His previous book, Through the Children's Gate, is a meditation on hope, as his family, his city and his country live through and past the events of 9/ll.."
DR. ANITA GOEL, MD, PHD: Chairman, & Scientific Director NANOBIOSYM Chairman, & CEO NANOBIOSYM DIAGNOSTICS
As Chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym¨ and Nanobiosym¨ Diagnostics, Dr. Goel is focused on delivering new game-changing technologies to address the greatest unmet needs in global health, energy, and the environment.
A Harvard-MIT-trained Physicist-Physician, Dr. Anita Goel is a globally recognized leader in the emerging field of nanobiophysicsÑa new science at the convergence of physics, nanotechnology, and biomedicine. Nanobiophysics integrates these three fields to reveal new scientific solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
Her pioneering contributions to nanotechnology and nanobiophysics have been recognized globally by prestigious honors and awards including multiple awards from US Government agencies such as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
She established Nanobiosym¨ Diagnostics to commercialize the Gene-RADAR¨ technology platform to empower people worldwide with portable, rapid and accurate information about their own health. Employing the latest advances in nanotechnology, Gene-RADAR¨ is a fully portable, chip-based diagnostic that can recognize any disease with a genetic fingerprint from a single drop of blood or saliva without the need for lab infrastructure, trained health care personnel, electricity or running water.
GLOBAL & INITIATIVES
Dr. Goel created the Nanobiosym Global Initiative to bring emerging technologies into emerging economies by forming innovative public-private partnerships with governments, NGOs, industries, academia and global thought leaders across the world. Dr. Goel believes that the most pressing global challenges in water, food security, energy and the environment necessitate a highly collaborative effort between governments, non-profit institutions and the private sector. She has a special interest in bringing disruptive technologies like Gene-RADAR¨ to address the critical unmet needs of people at the bottom of the pyramid in both the developed and developing world.
Dr. Goel has been invited by Senator John Kerry to give expert testimony before the US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation to support the reauthorization of the $1.5 billion U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. Dr. Goel was invited to advise President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and help build the roadmap for harnessing nanotechnology to stimulate the US economy. Dr. Goel was invited to chair a roundtable on ""Using Science and Technology as a Tool for International Diplomacy"" at the 2009 Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto, Japan. While at Stanford, she envisioned building new hi-tech bridges between developed and developing world economies and founded and chaired an international conference and think tank (SETUÑSanskrit for 'bridge'), comprised of world leaders from academic, business, socio-political, and humanitarian arenas. Dr. Goel has been a featured keynote speaker at many major international conferences, symposia, and university colloquia and often gives Guest Faculty Lectures at Harvard and MIT. She was recently a featured speaker at the 2010 TEDMED Conference, 2010 TedxAmsterdam and 2010 INK Conference in India.
AWARDS & EDUCATION
Dr. Goel was named as one of the world's ""Top 35 Science and Technology Innovators under the age of 35"" by MIT Technology Review. Among other awards and prizes, she received the ""Global Indus Technovator Award"" from MIT, an honor recognizing the contributions of top leaders working at the forefront of science, technology, and entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Physics from Harvard University, an MD from the Harvard-MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), and a BS in Physics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Goel has a deep passion for fundamental science, especially elucidating the physics of living systems at the nanoscale. Her work in applied science harnesses these fundamental insights to develop next-generation nanotechnology platforms like Gene-RADAR¨ for portable disease detection and nanosystems for novel energy harvesting and biocomputing applications. Some of her recent publications include ""Molecular Evolution: a role for quantum mechanics in the dynamics of molecular machines that read DNA,"" in the book Quantum Aspects of Life and ""Tuning DNA Strings: Precision Control of Nanomotors"" in Scientific American, India edition and ""Harnessing Biological Motors to Engineer Systems for Nanoscale Transport and Assembly"" in Nature Nanotechnology.
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Dr. Goel is a Member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science and a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs, a global organization of successful entrepreneurs engaged in the cycle of wealth creation and giving back to society). Dr. Goel is also a Fellow of the World Technology Network, a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa Fe Institute, an Associate of the Harvard Physics Department and an Adjunct Professor of the BEYOND Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. She also serves on the National Board of the Museum of Science and Industry, the International Advisory Board of the Victoria Institute of Science and Technology, Founding Member. Global Council for the (CHI) Center for Health care Innovation, and on the Nanotechnology Advisory Board of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
"Jesse Gilbert, Dark Matter Media llc, Sound and software designer
Jesse Gilbert, composer, digital artist, software and sound designer, works in sound and software design creating flexible tools that are activated in live performance via network interaction, or in installation settings. His work has recently focused on multi-channel immersive environments, composing for the moving image, and real-time electronic music performance using custom sampling software.
Gilbert has created a visual instrument (SpectralGL) that employs his interactive software system to generate real-time 3D animation in response to live or recorded sound. SpectralGL reveals the structure of sound in a visual language. The SpectralGL performer thereby may generate dynamic 3D images that places the observer in a visual relationship to the process of listening.
Gilbert's engagement with the software design process centers on the deconstruction of rational processes, usually resulting in variable interfaces that emphasize the intuitive, the recursive, and the fluidity of human/computer interaction.
Gilbert's work has been shown widely in the US and abroad; venues include Färgfabriken (Stockholm), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón), the Whitney Museum, New Museum (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art and CEAIT Festival (Los Angeles), net.congestion (Amsterdam), Ars Electronica, and Kunstradio's Recycling the Future (Austria), PORT (MIT, Boston) and in www. streaming video performances. His work is part of a permanent installation developed by Mode Studios for Microsoft at the Redmond, WA campus."
"Dr David Hartwell, Three-time winner, Hugo Award
David G. Hartwell is a PhD in Comparative Medieval Literature who has been nominated for the Hugo Award thirty-seven times. Last year he won for the third time (Hugo as Best Editor) He has edited a number of anthologies, including an annual Year's Best SF paperback series now in its fifteenth year and co-edits a Year's Best Fantasy pb, not in its tenth year, both with Kathryn Cramer, and has won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology. He has taught at Harvard University, Clarion West, and New York University, among others, and has edited a couple of thousand SF books since 1970. He is the author of Age of Wonders, the publisher of The New York Review of Science Fiction, and is presently a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books in New York."
"Gary Flake, Founder & CEO, Systems Complex
Dr. Flake was most recently a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he was responsible for bridging Microsoft Research and MSN. He is also the founder and director of Live Labs, which represented Microsoft's greatest investment in applied research focused on Internet technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Flake founded Yahoo! Research Labs, ran Yahoo!'s corporate R&D activities and company-wide innovation effort, and was Overture's Chief Science Officer. Dr. Flake earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, and wrote the award-winning book, The Computational Beauty of Nature, which is used in college courses worldwide."
"Peter Eisenberger, Managing Directors, Global Thermostat
Co-Founder & Managing Director Peter Eisenberger has studied and worked in the applied sciences field for more than four decades. He started his career at Bell Laboratories in 1968 where from 1974-1981 he was a department head and his research interests involved using X-ray produced by Synchrotron radiation to study the structural properties of complex solids and surfaces. In 1981, Eisenberger joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company as Director of their Physical Sciences laboratory, where he remained until 1989. In 1989, Dr. Eisenberger was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Princeton
Materials Institute at Princeton University that he founded. From 1996-1999, he was appointed Vice Provost of the Earth Institute and Director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and today is a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia, currently on sabbatical leave. Eisenberger also was a director at Cross Border Exchange from 2000-2003. Throughout his work career, Eisenberger has remained active in various academic roles and scientific associations. He was a consulting professor at Stanford University's Applied Physics Department from 1981-1987, chair of the Advanced Photon Steering Committee and a participant in National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Department of Energy (DOE) studies. Eisenberger is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association of the Advancement of Science.
He was one of the authors of the National Action Plan for Materials Science and Engineering and was a member of the Commission of the Future of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was chair of the Advisory Committee in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division of the NSF. Additional affiliations include Chairman of the Board of the Invention Factory Science Center, Member of the Board of Trustees for New Jersey's Inventors Hall of Fame, Director of Associated Institutions for Materials Science, and organizer of several NSF/DOE Conferences. He was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology and is a member of the GEO2000 Task Force of the NSF. Peter Eisenberger attended Princeton University from 1959-1963, where he received a B.A. in Physics with honors. He received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for his first year at Harvard University and a Harvard Fellowship for his second year. He graduated in 1967 from Harvard University with Ph.D. in Applied Physics and remained at Harvard for one year as a Post Doctoral Fellow, where he did research in both biophysics and on the polaron problem."
"Brian Dumaine, Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune
Brian Dumaine, Sr. oversees Fortune magazine's international coverage and its European and Asian editions. He also directs Fortune's green technology and environmental policy stories. He is the author of the The Plot To Save The Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions To Global Warming.
Dumaine has worked at Fortune for 28 years in various writing and editing positions including assistant managing editor. He has won numerous journalism awards and written more than 100 feature stories for the magazine, including covers such as ""America's Toughest Bosses,"" ""The Innovation Gap,"" and ""America's Smartest Young Entrepreneurs."" Throughout his career, he has produced investigative pieces as well as articles on marketing, investing, technology, and corporate crime."
"Alex B. Cone, CEO / Alpha Geek, CodeFab LLC; consultant, Apple
Alex Cone been working with Cocoa and related technologies since their infancy - when it was still called NeXTstep. In 1991 he founded a company (Objective Technologies) that built NeXTstep developer tools and financial applications using NeXT technology. When NeXT was bought by Apple, he started a new company named CodeFab that built large web based applications using the NeXT-Apple WebObjects toolkit and Mac desktop apps using Cocoa. Alex has done several years of direct consulting for Apple in Cupertino coding and managing developers on the Apple Online Store..
When the iPhone SDK came out Alex pulled all of CodeFab's developers in from around the country for an in-house 'kitchen' on iPhone development. They spent most of a week around the big conference table building small apps until everyone was comfortable with the development tools. CodeFab has been focussed on doing iPhone and other mobile solution consulting ever since and has more than more than a dozen applications available in the App Store. Additionally, in 2008, Cone and CodeFab spent 6 months creating the software and internet infrastructure for Medialets, a mobile ad network specifically targeting the iPhone.
Since the end of 2008 Alex Cone has travelled widely doing lectures and training on iPhone application development, training over a hundred students for the iPhone Boot Camp. He and a team of developers from CodeFab have been working with Barnes & Noble to develop the Nook for the iPad and iPhone and the just finished Kids Nook for iPad"
"David Clinch, former Senior International Editor and Social Media expert, CNN; Editorial Director, Storyful.com; Founder, Clinch Media
I worked until April 2010 as part of the management team on the CNN International Desk in Atlanta and pioneered the use of Social Media for International Newsgathering at CNN. I played a leading part in training CNN staff in using Twitter, Facebook, Skype and other online services for finding breaking news, guests and content.
I left CNN in April 2010 to set up my own business - Clinch Media.
I am working with Mark Little launching ""Storyful"" (www.storyful.com) which supplies curated real-time streams of news and content to major news organizations.
I am also working as a consultant for Skype helping all of their TV news and media clients implement Skype for broadcast solutions."
"Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, Architect of the Carbon Market for the Kyoto Protocol; Managing Director, Global Thermostat Inc. and Director of Columbia University's Consortium for Risk Management
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, and is the architect of the carbon market that became international law in 2005. Working closely for several years with negotiators of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the organization in charge of deciding world policy with respect to global warming, Chichilnisky acted as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Prize for their work in this area. In 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was signed by 163 nations, Chichilnisky authored the Protocol language that led to the creation of the carbon market.
Chichilnisky is the creator of the formal theory of sustainable development. A special adviser to several UN organizations and heads of state, her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services. The author of fourteen books and 250 scientific articles published in the preeminent academic journals covering economics, finance and mathematics, Chichilnisky is an active researcher and writes and speaks extensively on globalization and the global environment, is professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics Director and a University Senator at Columbia University in New York, and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University in Australia. She is also Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM) and Managing Director of Global Thermostat Inc.www.chichilnisky.com."
Chairman, The World Technology Network
Michael Elliot, Deputy Managing Editor, TIME; Editor, TIME International James Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
Jesse Jenkins, Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute
Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives
Nicholas Moore Eisenberger, Strategy Advisor to Management Team, Global Thermostat
Bill Holmberg, Chairman, Biomass Coordinating Council, ACORE
Karl Galwell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association
Richard M. Taylor, Executive Director, International Hydropower Association
Volker Thomsen, Treasurer World Wind Energy Association; Executive Chair of Windenergy Conference 2008
Dr. David Renné, President, International Solar Energy Society
James Clark
Chairman, The World Technology Network
Michael Elliot
Deputy Managing Editor, TIME; Editor, Time International
Brendan Ripp
Vice President Advertising Sales, TIME
James Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
