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| x Wade Davis | Who are we? |
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the...
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| x Louise Leakey | Who are we? |
Louise Leakey (1972-) is a paleontologist from Kenya. She does research and field work related to human fossils in Eastern Africa. Together with her mother, Meave Leakey, she leads the Koobi Fora research project. Her father is Richard Leakey, whose...
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| x Jill Botle Taylor | Who are we? | |||
| x Chris Jordan |
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Who are we? |
Chris Jordan is an artist based in Seattle, Washington who is best known for his large scale works depicting consumerism in the United States.
Jordan was born to artist parents. He attended law school "for all the wrong reasons" and spent ten years...
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| x Patricia Burchart | What is our place in the universe? | |||
| x John Hodgman |
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What is our place in the universe? |
John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American voice actor, author and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, he is known for his personification of a...
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| x Peter Ward | What is our place in the universe? |
Peter Douglas Ward is a paleontologist and professor of Biology and of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has written popular science works for a general audience.
Ward's academic career has included teaching...
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| x Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
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What is our place in the universe? |
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Tamil: ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ ரவிஶங்கர் ; Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ರವಿಶಂಕರ್) is a spiritual and humanitarian leader. He was born on May 13, 1956 in Tamil Nadu, India. He is often referred to by the double-honorific "Sri Sri", Guruji or Gurudeva....
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| x Kaki King |
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What is our place in the universe? |
Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
King was born August 24, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia. While King was still a small child, her father encouraged her...
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| x Craig Venter |
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What is life? |
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American biologist and entrepreneur. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute, now working at the latter to create synthetic biological...
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| x Paul W. K. Rothemund | What is life? |
Paul W.K. Rothemund is a senior research fellow at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. Rothemund is a 2007...
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| x Susan Blackmore |
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What is life? |
Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.
In 1973, Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda's College,...
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| x Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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What is life? |
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born Doris Helen Kearns on January 4, 1943) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S. Presidents, including Lyndon...
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| x Nancy Etcoff | Is beauty truth? | |||
| x Thomas Krens | Is beauty truth? | |||
| x Antony Garrett Lisi |
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Is beauty truth? |
Antony Garrett Lisi (born January 24, 1968; uses the name Garrett by preference) is an American-born theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi has a Ph.D. in physics, but has worked as an independent researcher rather than holding...
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| x John N. Stewart |
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AusCERT 2008 Asia Pacific Information Security Conference |
John N. Stewart is Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Cisco Systems. He provides leadership and direction to multiple corporate security and government teams throughout Cisco, strategically aligning with business units and the IT...
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| FIRST 20th Annual Conference | ||||
| Federal Aviation Administrations IT/ISS Partnership/Training Conference | ||||
| Canadian Privacy and Security Conference | ||||
| x Rebecca J. Jacoby |
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The Digital Living Conference and Showcase |
Rebecca J. Jacoby is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cisco. She has more than 11 years of experience at Cisco in a variety of operations and IT leadership roles.
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| x Ryan Haanstra |
Ryan Haanstra is an internationally recognized event consultant having designed and produced award-winning events throughout the United States and Canada. He has created memorable moments on stage for some of the most demanding clients...
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| x Rob Cottingham | Teh Funny | Northern Voice 2009 | ||
| x Nora Young |
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On Buried Hatchets and Better Tomorrows | Northern Voice 2009 |
Nora Young is a Canadian broadcaster and writer. She was the original host of CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera, and has produced documentaries for CBC shows such as Ideas.
In September 2007, Young, Elizabeth Bowie, Tom Howell, and Dan Misener...
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| x Steve Pratt | Making the Radio Station of the Future on the Web | |||
| x Nate Elliott | The Future of Influence | |||
| x Isabella Mori | Coping Digitally: Breaking Stigma and Healing Mental Illness Through Blogging | |||
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Coping Digitally: Breaking Stigma and Healing Mental Illness Through Blogging |
Tod Maffin is a Canadian social media strategist and keynote speaker. He speaks on a variety of topics, but focuses on Generation Y, social media for business, work-life balance and mental health in the workplace.
Maffin was born and raised in the...
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| x Airdrie Miller | Coping Digitally: Breaking Stigma and Healing Mental Illness Through Blogging | |||
| x Briana Tomkinson | Passionately local - blogging about your own backyard | |||
| x Nadia Mascimento | Who are you? Defining yourself in the online world | |||
| x Jenn Lowther | Who are you? Defining yourself in the online world | |||
| x Linda Bustos | Who are you? Defining yourself in the online world | |||
| x Rebecca Bollwitt | Who are you? Defining yourself in the online world | |||
| x Bill Gates |
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OOPSLA 2002 |
William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
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| x Grady Booch |
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OOPSLA 2005 |
Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is an American software engineer, and Chief Scientist, Software Engineering in IBM Research. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
He earned his...
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| x Prem Rawat |
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Millennium '73 |
Prem Pal Singh Rawat (Hindi: प्रेम पाल सिंह रावत) (born December 10, 1957), also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge. At the age of eight, he succeeded his father...
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| x Richard Gabriel | OOPSLA 2000 |
Richard P. Gabriel (born 1949) is a noted expert on the Lisp programming language (and especially Common Lisp) in computing. He is primarily known for his 1990 essay “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big”, which popularized the phrase Worse is...
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| x Tiran Dagan |
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Tiran Dagan is a Director at NBC Universal's East Coast operations of the Strategic Initiatives & Analysis group.
Tiran's first experience in computer was while visiting with his father at Columbia University during his Ph.D. studies. He enjoyed...
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| x Erica Olsen Firment |
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Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research |
If you're not a librarian, a website called Librarian Avengers might not sound wildly appealing, but don't be fooled. Flint, Michigan's Erica Olsen created the site in 1997 and it's filled with her humor and insight into everything from...
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| x Chris Messina |
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Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, is an open source and open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Messina was formerly employed as an Open Source Advocate at identity company Vidoop and before that was...
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