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Person, Film writer, Author, Influence Node, Notable author of a literary movement' Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as for his reclusive nature. The Catcher in the Rye was first published in serial form in 1945-46. He has not published a new work...
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Person, Author, Board Member, Tool contributor, Influence NodeThis article refers to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine. For others by this name, see Kevin Kelly. Kevin Kelly (b. 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been a...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Influence NodeJean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. Jean Baudrillard was born to a peasant...
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Person, Computer Designer, Author, Computer Scientist, Musical Artist, Board Member, Company Founder, Influence Node, Inventor, Lyricist, ComposerWilliam Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis...
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Person, Author, Film actor, Influence Node, Board MemberStewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. Brand is best known for the Whole Earth Catalog (a compendium of tools, texts and information). The Catalog sought to...
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Person, Author, Fictional Character Creator, Award Winner, Award Nominee, Influence Node, Thought RankerNeal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Poet, Influence Node, Book Subject, Fictional Character Creator, Notable author of a literary movementJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial...
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Person, Author, Influence Node, Award Winner, Award NomineeDan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He spans genres such as science fiction,...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Book Subject, Influence Node, Notable author of a literary movement, Award Winneris a popular contemporary Japan writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex." Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe. His father was the son of a...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Influence NodeHenry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880, Baltimore – January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland), was an American journalist, essay, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of...
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Person, Author, Computer ScientistDonald Ervin Knuth ( ka-NOOTH) (b. 10 January 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been...
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Person, AuthorKage Baker (born June 10, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She was born in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Fictional Character Creator, Film story contributor, Influence Node, Award Nominee, Award WinnerPhilip Kindred Dick (December 16 1928 – March 2 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological and political themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporation and authoritarian governments. In his later works,...
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Person, Computer Designer, Author, Deceased PersonJef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970. Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964) and...
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Person, Architect, AuthorChristopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world. Reasoning that users know more about the buildings they need...
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Person, Architect, Author, Poet, Influence NodeMurray Silverstein co-author the book A Pattern Language. At that time, he taught architecture courses at the University of California, and subsequently taught at the University of Washington. He had also written several articles on pattern language. As a young...
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Person, Author, Comic Strip CreatorAlison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home. ...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, TV Actor, Award WinnerStephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career...
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Person, Author, Physicist, Deceased Person, Film writer, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, Book Subject, Award WinnerRichard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988; ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum...
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Person, Author, Fictional Character Creator, TV Program Creator, Influence NodeTerence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is a British fantasy, science fiction and children's author. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in...
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Musical Artist, Person, Author, Deceased Person, Film story contributor, Fictional Character Creator, Book Subject, Film writer, Influence Node, Award WinnerJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (IPA: ) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was Rawlinson and...
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Person, AuthorTracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945, in New York City) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data...
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Author, Person, Thought RankerPeter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Film writer, Award WinnerJames Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. In the late 1930's to the early...
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Person, AuthorSir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE (born 15 May, 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare as well as...
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Person, Author, Influence Node, Award WinnerVernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.) is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A...
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Person, AuthorBurton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 9th edition, 2007). He is a leading proponent of the efficient market hypothesis, which contends that...
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Person, Author, Award WinnerConstance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an America science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. She has won, among other awards, nine Hugo Award and six Nebula Award. Willis most recently...
