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Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body Pat Colgan, joined the Special EU Programmes Body in September 2004 from the Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning and Regional Development where he was Head of the INTERACT Secretariat – an EU … Continue reading →

Executive Director, TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM) Executive Director, Envision Excellence in STEM Education (501(c)3) As the Executive Director of TIES and Envision Excellence in STEM and a recognized leader in STEM education, Jan provides vital support to … Continue reading →

I am a PhD student of Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics and Biological Chemistry in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot , Israel 76100. I am part of the Laboratory for Biomolecular Computers: Laboratory’s … Continue reading →

In the early 1970s Adrian Bowyer read for a first degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London, and then researched a PhD in tribology there.  In 1977 he moved to Bath University’s Maths Department to do research in stochastic … Continue reading →

Vicente Guallart is director of Guallart Architect and The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. He have been pioneer in the interaction of architecture and new technologies. His work have been featured at NY MOMA and Venize Binealle among others. … Continue reading →

Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things, and a founder of NYCResistor, a … Continue reading →

My research focuses on programming new cellular behaviors by designing and embedding synthetic gene networks that perform desired functions in single cells and multi-cellular environments.  We genetically engineer a variety of cell types including bacteria, yeast, and mammalian stem cells.  … Continue reading →

Joseph Porter Jackson III is a philosopher and social entrepreneur. A graduate of Harvard College AB (Government 2004) and the London School of Economics Msc (Philosophy of Science 2005), he has been studying Open Source and user innovation as a … Continue reading →

Director of Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor, Dept of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley Adam Arkin, 43, a leading authority on the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and … Continue reading →

Matthias Kohler and Fabio Gramazio are joint partners in the architects’ office Gramazio & Kohler in Zurich. Their recent works include the sWISH* Pavilion at Expo.02 (for IBM and Swiss Re), the new Christmas illuminations in the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse as … Continue reading →

Dr. Kamau Gachigi is the Chairman and Coordinator of the University of Nairobi Science and Technology Park. He is also a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (since 1999), … Continue reading →

Tim Lynch retired for the United States Marine Corps after 22 years of active service. He joined the United States Navy in 1979, spending six years as a hospital corpsman. Tim completed the requirements for a B.S. in business administration … Continue reading →

End of the eighties I learned my first profession (toolmaker) in a Mercedes-Benz factory. In the early nineties, I changed into a creative environment. I began working as a photojournalist for a newspaper (taz). Parallel I studied art. First with … Continue reading →

To see Jonathan Ward’s presentation.

In 2001 Hod Lipson joined the departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and the faculty of Computing & Information Science of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He is also a member of the Computer Science and Computational Biology graduate fields … Continue reading →

Larry Sass is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT, where he conducts advanced research and teaching in the field of Digital Fabrication. He began his studies in the early 1990s, working with hyper-realistic rendering and animation … Continue reading →

I am an independent researcher at the intersection of business administration, society and technology. My interest and expertise are in management systems, such as quality and knowledge management, in the application of technologies, particularly Internet and Web 2.0 technology, to … Continue reading →

Bas van Abel is Creative Director of Waag Society. With a background in interaction design and a personal interest in prototyping technologies and electronics Bas has been working on many Waag projects both as a designer and technical engineer. As … Continue reading →

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld directs the Center for Bits and Atoms, leds the Things That Think industrial consortium,
and runs the Physics and Media research group.

His books include FAB, When Things Start To Think,
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling,
and The Physics of Information Technology Continue reading →