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THE NEW KNOW SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Anant Agarwal, President edX 11 Cambridge Center, Suite 101, Cambridge, MA 02142 +1 617.324.9749 • [email protected] • @agarwaledu, @edXOnline In addition to his duties at edX, Dr. Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Previously, Dr. Agarwal served as the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. edX is a worldwide, online learning initiative from MIT and Harvard University. Anant taught the first exX course, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He is also a founder of Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor. Anant led the development of Raw, an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle, an early multi-threaded microprocessor, and Alewife, a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works. Anant won the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits. His work on organic computing was selected by Scientific American as one of 10 World Changing Ideas in 2011, and in 2012, he was named one of 12 Bostonians changing the world by Boston Globe magazine. In his spare time, Anant hacks on WebSim, a web-based circuits laboratory. Mr. Nolan Bushnell, Chief Executive Officer BrainRush 710 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Santa Monica, CA 90401 [email protected] • @NolanBushnell Mr. Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist. Often cited as the father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater. Over the past four decades, Nolan also founded Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system to allow customers to order and pay for products from kiosks. Currently, he is devoting his talents to transforming education by taking the science of learning and adding the power of games. The BrainRush team is comprised of professionals with deep experience in education, technology, games, and media. Nolan has garnered many accolades and distinctions: he was inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, and, in 2010, was named one of Newsweek magazine’s “50 Men That Changed America.” He is also highlighted as one of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial icons in “The Revolutionaries” display at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. In 2009, Nolan was honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship Award, the highest accolade the Academy bestows, for his outstanding creative contribution to the video game industry. 741 Tenth Street, Santa Monica, CA 90402 USA • T: +1 310.394.8305 • F: +1 310.451.2104 • ttivanguard.com Dr. William Byers, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University 1455 De Maisonneuve Boulevard West, S-LB 1030, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada +1 514.848.2424 • [email protected] Dr. William Byers recently retired from Concordia University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. While there, Dr. Byers researched dynamical systems, ergodic theory, differential geometry, and mathematics education. Bill is the author of The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty, in which he argues that mathematics is the most creative of all human endeavors and that ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox are essential to creating new mathematics. He also wrote How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics, which was one of the Library Journal’s best science books of 2007. Ms. Mira Calix, Composer 6 Glemham House, Great Glemham, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1 LP, United Kingdom +44 79.5875.2703 • [email protected] • @miracalix Ms. Mira Calix is an award-winning composer, artist, and performer, signed to Warp Records. Ms. Calix has been commissioned to write new works for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Aldeburgh Festival, The British Film Institute, Opera North, and The Manchester International Festival, among others. Her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic in nature; now, she incorporates classical orchestration into her work for installation pieces, film soundtracks, theatre, and opera. Mira regularly collaborates with artists from other disciplines. She is currently working on a permanent installation piece for the city of Bath, followed by a series of live concerts at the Metropolis Music Festival at the Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2012, Mira created her first sculptural work, “Nothing Is Set In Stone,” which was commissioned by The Mayor of London and Oxford Contemporary Music in partnership with The Natural History Museum and Exhibition Road Group. Her collaboration with United Visual Artists on “Chorus,” an installation commissioned by Opera North, received an Award of Distinction in the Interactive Category at Prix Ars Electronica 2010. In 2009, Mira won a British Composer Award for her composition, “My Secret Heart.” Dr. Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science Cornell Tech 111 Eighth Avenue #302, New York, NY 10011 +1 917.675.4954 • [email protected] • @OpenMHealth Dr. Deborah Estrin is a pioneer in networked sensing, which uses mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real-time data about the physical world. Dr. Estrin’s work has shown how the data streaming from networks of such devices as smartphones and cameras can enrich our understanding and management of complex problems—from personal and public health to traffic patterns and civic engagement. Deborah spearheaded a groundbreaking internship program for Los Angeles high school students in mobile technologies and data. She was the first professor hired for Cornell NYC Tech, the new tech campus being developed on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Deborah is also a professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. She also cofounded the nonprofit startup, Open mHealth. Previously, Deborah was on the faculty at UCLA and was the founding director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Brian Kernighan, Professor Department of Computer Science, Princeton University 262 Washington Road, 311 Computer Science, Princeton, NJ 08854 +1 609.258.2089 • [email protected] Before joining Princeton, Dr. Brian Kernighan worked at Bell Labs in the group that created the Unix operating system. Dr. Kernighan is the co-author of several books on computing and programming, including The C Programming Language, written with Dennis Ritchie. Brian is also a co-author of the widely used AWK and AMPL programming languages. His latest book, D is for Digital, explains what a well-informed person should know about computers and communications. Brian is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Matthew Lieberman, Director Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 +1 310.206.4050 • [email protected] • @social_brains Dr. Matthew Lieberman’s Lab uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the neural bases of social cognition and social experience. In particular, Dr. Lieberman examines the neural bases of emotion regulation, persuasion, social rejection, self-knowledge, theory of mind, and fairness. While in graduate school, Matthew co-coined the term “social cognitive neuroscience,” which has become a thriving area of research over the past decade. At UCLA, he holds professorial appointments in the departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Biobehavioral Sciences. Matthew is the founding editor of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and a consulting editor for Culture and Brain. He has published in such journals as Science, Nature Neuroscience, American Psychologist, and Psychological Science. Much of his work has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Matthew won the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize in 2011, and he is a fellow of both the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. Dr. Andrew McAfee, Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management 5 Cambridge Center, NE 25, Cambridge, MA 02142 +1 617.715.4155 • [email protected] • @amcafee Dr. Andrew McAfee studies the ways that IT affects businesses as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. Dr. McAfee’s work also investigates how computerization affects competition, society, the economy, and the workforce. Andrew is the co-author of Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by business. Andrew is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, case studies, and other materials for students and teachers of technology. He has written columns for the Washington Post, The Financial Times, and Canadian Manager, and has been a guest on The Charlie Rose Show. Previously, Andrew was a professor at the Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Dr. Vivienne Ming, Chief Scientist Gild 221 Main Street, Suite 970, San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 510.275.4040 • [email protected] • @neuraltheory Dr. Vivienne Ming joined Gild in 2012, where she oversees R&D and IP development. Dr. Ming solves problems in data mining, text analysis, cognitive modeling, and algorithm development. Gild provides tech-recruiting solutions and evaluates the work of millions of developers so organizations using Gild’s talent acquisition tools can target the right candidates. Before Gild, Vivienne founded three companies which focused on unstructured data mining and cognitive modeling, including Socos, an educational technology and data mining company. She was a research scientist at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, where she remains a visiting scholar, and was a junior fellow at Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation. Vivienne has developed novel and influential models of human perception and attention, and has been published in numerous scientific journals, including Nature and Neural Computation. Dr. David Rothschild, Economist Microsoft Research 102 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10016 +1 973.818.8997 • [email protected] • @DavMicRot Dr. David Rothschild’s primary body of work is on forecasting and understanding public interest and sentiment. In addition, Dr. Rothschild examines how the public absorbs information. David has written extensively, in both the academic and popular press, on polling, prediction markets, and predictions of upcoming events; most of his popular work has focused on predicting elections and an economic perspective on public policy. After joining Microsoft in 2012, he has been building prediction and sentiment models, and organizing novel/experimental polling and prediction games; this work has appeared on both Bing and Xbox. David is also a fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, and was previously a post-doctoral economist at Yahoo! Research. He is also the founder, manager, and author of the website and online laboratory, The Signal at Yahoo!, which is dedicated to prediction, interest, and sentiment models. In February, 2012, David correctly predicted 50 of 51 Electoral College outcomes in the U.S. Presidential election. Mr. Marco Tempest, Virtual Magician Newmagic Communications 636 Broadway, Suite 1002, New York, NY 10012 +1 212.625.1205 • [email protected] • @virtualmagician Mr. Marco Tempest, a Swiss magician based in New York City, is known for his use of multimedia magic, interactive technology, and computer graphics in his illusions and presentations. Mr. Tempest’s combination of computer-generated imagery, quick-cut video, and enthusiastic stage presence has earned him a place in the pantheon of great illusionists. At 22, Marco won the New York World Cup of Magic, launching him into international prominence. His award-winning television series, The Virtual Magician, airs in dozens of countries worldwide. Marco’s company, Newmagic Communications, is a television and multimedia production company specializing in high-end creative production services and live entertainment events for Fortune 100 companies. He is the winner of the 2009 World Magic Award for Best Contemporary Magic. Marco was a visionary presenter to the 2009 Seoul Digital Forum and presented the keynote to the X.Days 09 Leadership Conference in Switzerland. Mr. Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, Founder Wikipedia @jimmy_wales Mr. Jimbo Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and a wiki enthusiast. Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia. In 2003, Mr. Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikipedia and its younger sister projects. Jimbo also founded the for-profit company Wikia, which hosts various wikis and manages the Wikicites project. As part of his work at Wikia, he is developing a human-powered search engine, Search Wikia, which will be based on the same open, transparent, community-driven principles of Wikia and Wikipedia. Jimbo is a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and he serves on the board of directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses and the nonprofit organization Creative Commons. In the mid-1990s, he founded the search portal Bomis, which sold original content, and in 2000, he founded the peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia Nupedia.com. Jimbo was previously a futures and options trader and taught at Auburn University and the University of Alabama. Ms. Pooja Warier, Co-Founder and Director UnLtd India 26 St. John Baptist Road, 4th Floor, Candelar Building, Mumbai 400 050, India +91 98.6794.9306 • [email protected] • @poojawarier Ms. Pooja Warier is a social entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded three ventures in India. One of these, UnLtd India, is a launchpad for early-stage social entrepreneurs tackling some of India’s greatest social challenges. It provides seed funding, hands-on support and high-value connections. Ms. Warier also helped found Bombay Connect, the first collaborative co-working space in India for individuals with ideas for change. Pooja also founded Jouneys for Change, which takes leaders and companies on transformative journeys to help them create greater positive impact in the world. She was recently nominated as a 2013 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Maryanne Wolf, Director Center for Reading and Language Research, Tufts University 105 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 +1 617.627.3828 • [email protected] Dr. Maryanne Wolf is a scholar and author who studies the origins of reading and languagelearning. Dr. Wolf’s research interests include reading development and intervention, early prediction, fluency and naming speed, cross-linguistic studies of reading, the relationship between entrepreneurial talents and dyslexia, the relationships between components of music and reading, the role of African-American English dialect use in reading disabilities, the uses of brain imaging in understanding dyslexia, and most recently, the role of technology in literacy development for children with no access to schools or teachers around the world. At Tufts, Maryanne is also a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service. She is the author of Proust and the Squid and is the editor of Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain. Among her awards for teaching and research are the Distinguished Professor of the Year award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Researcher Award from Tufts University, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship award for research on dyslexia in Germany.