The Green Room

Mondays 6PM - 8PM, with Dorian

Guests from November, 1998

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".
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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