| Peter Hilton 11-30-98 |
SUNY Binghamton Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and cryptoanalyst
on the Enigma team which worked to decipher high-grade German analog
mechanical cryptography code during WWII.
http://www.secretsofwar.com/text_only_html/body_peter_hilton.html |
| Alan Sokal 11-30-98 |
NYU Professor of Physics, SocialText prankster, and author with Jean
Bricmont, of "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of
Science".
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal.html |
| Daniel Hillis 11-23-98 |
Founder of Thinking Machines Corp., inventor of parallel computing, and
author of "The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers
Work" .
http://www.edge.org/digerati/hillis/ http://www.longnow.org/foundation/DannyH.html |
| Edward Larson 11-23-98 |
Professor of History and Law at UGA and author of Pulitzer prize-winning,
"Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over
Science and Religion".
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| William Dement 11-16-98 |
Director of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Professor of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford U. School of Medicine; author of
"The Sleepwatchers" and others.
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/ http://www.go2sleep.com |
| Jeff Welser 11-16-98 |
Electrical Engineer and Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson research
Center working on quantum dot flash memory and nanocrystals.
http://www.research.ibm.com |
| Joseph LeDoux 11-9-98 |
Professor of Science in the Center for Neural Science at NYU and author of
"The Emotional Brain".
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/ledoux |
| Stephen Adler 11-9-98 |
NJ Albert Einstein Professor at the School of Natural Sciences, Institute
for Advanced Study, and winner of the 1998 Dirac Medal from the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~adler/ |
| Darcy Kelley 11-2-98 |
The Co-Director of the Doctoral Program on Neurobiology and Behavior at the
College of Physicians and Surgeon, Columbia University; research specialty
on frog songs.
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/frogs0216.html http://www.columbia.edu./cu/biology/faculty/kelley/> |
| Lawrence Weschler 11-2-98 |
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of
Wonder", "Calamities of Exile", and "A Wanderer in the Perfect City:
Selected Passion Pieces".
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