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x Cory Doctorow Cory.jpg     USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Cory Doctorow (pronounced /ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent...
x Harold Bloom Harold Bloom     Yale University
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of controversial theories of...
x Frank Newby       Architectural Association School of Architecture
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
x Karl Gustav Cassel Cassel   Gunnar Myrdal  
Karl Gustav Cassel (20 October 1866 – 14 January 1945) was a Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University. Cassel's perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism...
x Karen Ramey Burns        
Karen Ramey Burns is an American forensic anthropologist known for her work in international human rights and her specialty is the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related...
x Henning Nuissl       Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ  
x Dieter Rink       Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ  
x Chan Heng Chee Lee Kuan Yew Cohen      
Professor Chan Heng Chee simplified Chinese: 陈庆珠; pinyin: Chén Qìngzhū) is Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the United States. She received this appointment in July 1996. During her tenure as ambassador to the U.S., bilateral relationship...
x Chee Soon Juan Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP)      
Dr. Chee Soon Juan (simplified Chinese: 徐顺全; traditional Chinese: 徐順全; pinyin: Xú Shùnquán, born 1962) is the Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Chee is a neuropsychologist and received his Ph.D. from the University of...
x Chua Beng Huat        
Chua Beng Huat, a Singaporean, is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and Cluster Leader of Cultural Studies in Asia research cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of...
x Naa Govindasamy        
Naa Govindasamy (14 April 1946 – 26 May 1999) was one of the pioneers of the Tamil on the Internet. Naa Govindasamy, a lecturer at the National Institute of Education, worked to develop the Singapore 16 bit Unicode system which uses Tamilnet and...
x Yaacob Ibrahim Yaacob      
Yaacob Ibrahim (born 3 October 1955, Singapore) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and Minister-in-charge of Muslim...
x Shanmugam Jayakumar Professor S Jayakumar      
Professor Shunmugam Jayakumar (often known as "S. Jayakumar") is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently a Senior Minister in the Cabinet and the Co-ordinating Minister for National...
x Philip Jeyaretnam        
Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is a Senior Counsel in Singapore, and President of the Singapore Law Society. He is also well known as a fiction writer. He is the younger son of the late veteran Singaporean...
x Koh Buck Song Koh Buck Song.jpg      
Koh Buck Song is a writer and communications consultant in Singapore. He was born in 1963. He has taught a Master in Public Management course in leadership as an Adjunct Associate Professor of leadership at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,...
x Tommy Koh        
Tommy Koh, (Tommy Thong-Bee Koh or Tommy Koh Thong Bee) was born in Singapore on 12 November 1937. He is an international lawyer, professor and Ambassador-At-Large for the Government of Singapore. He is Professor of Law at the National University of...
x Lee Kok Cheong        
Associate Professor Lee Kok Cheong (1939 – December 14, 1993) was the Head of the English Proficiency Unit at the National University of Singapore. He was murdered on December 14, 1993; the identities of his killers remained unknown to Singapore...
x Liang Wern Fook Liang Wern Fook, NTU      
Dr Liang Wern Fook (simplified Chinese: 梁文福; pinyin: Liáng Wénfú; born 1964 in Singapore) is a Singaporean writer, musician, and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in the xinyao (Singaporean Chinese folk...
x Ong Soh Khim        
Associate Professor Ong Soh Khim (Chinese: 王素琴; pinyin: Wáng Sùqín) was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) in Singapore from January 2005 to April 2006. She was appointed by Singapore’s President S R Nathan in December 2004. Born and raised in a...
x Andrew Phang        
Judge of Appeal Justice Andrew Phang Boon Leong is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Born in Singapore in 1957, he received his LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the University of Singapore in 1982, before earning his LL.M. and S.J.D. from...
x K.K. Seet        
Dr Seet Khiam Keong, better known as "K.K. Seet", is an academic, writer and theatre director from Singapore. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He...
x Benjamin Henry Sheares Benjamin Henry Sheares      
Benjamin Henry Sheares (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981) was the second President of Singapore. Benjamin was born the second child of six children in Singapore to a Eurasian family with an English lineage. His father Edwin H Sheares, a technical...
x Shih Choon Fong Shih Choon Fong      
Professor Shih Choon Fong (施春风; born 1945) is President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST) and a world renowned fracture mechanics expert. Before that he has been the president of National University of Singapore (NUS)...
x Su Guaning Prof Su Guaning      
Su Guaning (Chinese: 徐冠林) is President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. A President's Scholar, Su graduated with BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, California Institute of...
x Tan Cheng Han        
Professor Tan Cheng Han, Senior Counsel, is the current dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches Contract law and Corporations law. Professor Tan is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation. Tan...
x Tan Teck Meng Tan Teck Meng      
Tan Teck Meng is a Professor of Accounting from Singapore Management University (SMU), member of the Board of Directors of four public companies in Singapore, serving as chairman of the audit committees of two of the companies, and honorary...
x Wang Gungwu        
Wang Gungwu, CBE (simplified Chinese: 王赓武; ; pinyin: Wáng Gēngwǔ) (born 9 October 1930) is an academic who has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, although he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of...
x Woon Cheong Ming Walter        
Professor Walter Woon Cheong Ming (Chinese: 温长明; born September 12, 1956) is the Attorney-General of Singapore. Born in Singapore, Professor Woon (who was educated at Raffles Institution) earned his LL.B. degree from the National University of...
x Miranda Yap        
Miranda Yap is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the National University of Singapore, and the Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of...
x David R. Karger   Rajeev Motwani David François Huynh    
x David François Huynh david-huynh-portrait.jpg David R. Karger      
x Rajeev Motwani Rajeev.jpg   David R. Karger  
Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी; March 26, 1962 – June 5, 2009) was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including...
x Nigel Shadbolt Professor Nigel Shadbolt     University of Southampton
Nigel Richard Shadbolt is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in southern England. Nigel Shadbolt was born in London. He studied for an undergraduate degree in philosophy and psychology at Newcastle University. His PhD...
x Nick Jennings Professor Nicholas Jennings     University of Southampton  
x Jerry Welkenhuysen-Gybels   Jaak Billiet      
x Jaak Billiet     Jerry Welkenhuysen-Gybels    
Marc Swyngedouw
Geert Loosveldt
x Geert Van Hootegem   Jan Bundervoet      
x Jan Bundervoet     Geert Van Hootegem    
x Marc Swyngedouw   Jaak Billiet      
x Geert Loosveldt   Jaak Billiet      
x J. Roger Hindley          
x Bjorn Poonen       Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bjorn Poonen is a mathematician and is currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at MIT. His research is primarily in number theory and algebraic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and...
University of California, Berkeley
x Francisco J. Ayala Francisco J. Ayala      
Francisco José Ayala (born 1934 in Madrid, Spain) is an eminent Spanish American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest (ordained in 1960). After graduating from the University of Salamanca...
x Raymond Yee RY1.jpg      
Raymond Yee is a data architect, consultant, trainer, and author of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). He is currently a lecturer at the School of Information, UC Berkeley, where he teaches the course "Mixing and...
x Marco Casagrande Sixty Minute Man, 2000     Tamkang University
Marco Casagrande, (born May 7, 1971 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish architect, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture (2001). Casagrande was born to a well-off Finnish...
x Donald Knuth Donald Knuth Marshall Hall Vaughan Ronald Pratt  
Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 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...
Robert Sedgewick
Scott Kim
Leonidas J. Guibas
Jeffrey Vitter
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x Marshall Hall Marshalhalljr Øystein Ore Donald Knuth Emory University
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri – 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics. He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at...
E. T. Parker Ohio State University
California Institute of Technology
x Øystein Ore Øystein Ore Thoralf Skolem Marshall Hall  
Øystein Ore (7 October 1899 in Oslo, Norway – 13 August 1968 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician. Ore was graduated from the University of Oslo in 1922, with a Cand.Scient. degree in mathematics. In 1924, the University of Oslo awarded him the Ph...
x Thoralf Skolem   Axel Thue Øystein Ore  
Thoralf Albert Skolem (23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963) (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtuːɾɑlf ˈskuːləm]) was a Norwegian mathematician known mainly for his work on mathematical logic and set theory. Although Skolem's father was a primary school teacher,...
x Axel Thue Axel Thue Elling Bolt Holst Thoralf Skolem  
Axel Thue (19 February 1863 – 7 March 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called Word problem or Thue problem, closely related to the halting...
x Elling Bolt Holst   Sophus Lie Axel Thue    
x Sophus Lie Sophus Lie Carl Anton Bjerknes Elling Bolt Holst  
Marius Sophus Lie (Norwegian pronunciation: [liː] "Lee") (17 December 1842 - 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian-born mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry, and applied it to the study of geometry and differential...
x Carl Anton Bjerknes   Bernt Michael Holmboe Sophus Lie  
Carl Anton Bjerknes (* October 24, 1825 in Kristiania; † March 20, 1903 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. His father was Abraham Isaksen Bjerknes and his mother Elen Birgitte Holmen. Bjerknes studied mining at the University of...
x Bernt Michael Holmboe Bernt Michael Holmboe Søren Rasmussen Carl Anton Bjerknes  
Bernt Michael Holmboe (23 March 1795 – 28 March 1850) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was home-tutored from an early age, and was not enrolled in school until 1810. Following a short period at the Royal Frederick University, which included a stint...
x Søren Rasmussen   Søren Rasmussen Bernt Michael Holmboe    
Søren Rasmussen
x Vaughan Ronald Pratt VaughanPratt Donald Knuth    
Vaughan Ronald Pratt (born 1944), a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of computer science. Publishing since 1969, Pratt has made innumerable contributions to foundational areas such as search...
x Robert Sedgewick   Donald Knuth    
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is a computer science professor at Princeton University and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems. Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was...
x Scott Kim   Donald Knuth    
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for...
x Leonidas J. Guibas   Donald Knuth    
Leonidas John Guibas is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories. Guibas was a student of Donald Knuth at...
x Jeffrey Vitter   Donald Knuth    
Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M; University. From 2008 to 2009, he was the provost and executive vice president for academics at Texas A&M; University. He...
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