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Economist and computer scientist and pioneer in complexity sciences and innovation; visiting researcher, PARC; external professor, Santa Fe Institute; fellow, Econometric Society, World Economic Forum; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, and The Nature of Technology

Douglas Engelbart

Inventor and pioneer in personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing; founder, The Bootstrap Institute; author, Boosting Our Collective IQ

John Gage

Computer scientist; venture capitalist focused on green technologies, formerly with Kleiner Perkins; cofounder and former director of the science office, Sun Microsystems

Saul Griffith

Inventor, materials scientist and engineer; founder of Squid Labs, Potenco, Makani Power; columnist, Make magazine; co-author, HowToons comic book for young inventors

Daniel Hillis

Inventor and computer scientist; cofounder, Applied Minds and The Long Now Foundation; former Disney fellow and vice president, R&D; founder, Thinking Machines; author, The Pattern in the Stone

William Joy

Venture partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byer, concentrating on green technlogy; cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"

Jaron Lanier

Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence, UC Berkeley; author, You Are Not a Gadget

David Liddle

Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; former computer science professor at Stanford University and chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees

Joseph Traub

Pioneer in complexity research; professor of computer science, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute; author, Complexity and Information

Vernor Vinge

Science fiction writer and Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Rainbow’s End;retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University

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