People Contributing to Edge.org
Joscha Bach
Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Christopher Badcock
Emeritus Reader in Sociology, University of London
John Baez
Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside
Per Bak
One of the founders of complex systems
John Baldessari
American Conceptual Artist
Mahzarin Banaji
Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Co-author (with Anthony Greenwald), Blind Spot
Albert-lászló Barabási
Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research; Author, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
Julian Barbour
Theoretical physicist; Author, The Janus Point
John A. Bargh
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University; Director, ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab
John Perry Barlow
Co-founder and Co-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cliff Barney
Former Journalist
Simon Baron-Cohen
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge; Author, The Pattern Seekers
Samuel Barondes
Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author, Making Sense of People
Lisa Feldman Barrett
University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; Research Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Andrew Barron
Neuroethologist, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
John D. Barrow
Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge; Author, The Book of Universes
Thomas A. Bass
Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US
Mary Catherine Bateson
Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life
Patrick Bateson*
Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author, Design for a Life (*Deceased)
Nicolas Baumard
Research Scientist at the CNRS, Paris and Associate Professor at ENS, Paris, France
Roy Baumeister
Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University; Author, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
Yves Béhar
Founder, Principal Designer of Fuseproject; CCO, Jawbone
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo
Primatologist; Associate Professor, Social Complexity Research Centre (CICS) Gobierno UDD, Santiago de Chile; Visiting Researcher, Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group (SENRG) University of Oxford
Gregory Benford
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist, The Berlin Project
Yochai Benkler
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Author, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Benjamin K. Bergen
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Nicolas Berggruen
Chairman, Berggruen Institute
Jesse Bering
Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand; Author, Perv
Tim Berners-Lee
British Web Scientist and MIT professor; Inventor, the World Wide Web; Director, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Jeremy Bernstein
Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former Staff Writer, The New Yorker
David Berreby
Journalist; Author, Us and Them
Laura Betzig
Anthropologist; Historian
Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO, Amazon, Owner, Washington Post, Founder, Blue Origin
Jamshed Bharucha
Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union
Nick Bilton
Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair; Author, American Kingpin
Roger Bingham
Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience Researcher, Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD; Coauthor, The Origin of Minds; Creator PBS Science Programs
Susan Blackmore
Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction
Andrew Blake
Research Director, The Alan Turing Institute
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Psychology Professor, University of Cambridge; Author, Inventing Ourselves
Colin Blakemore
Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
Sandra Blakeslee
Science Writer, Co-author, Phantoms in the Brain
Alan S. Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author, Advice and Dissent
Ned Block
Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neural Science, NYU
Paul Bloom
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University; Author, Against Empathy
Adam Bly
Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify
Giulio Boccaletti
Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author, Water: A Biography
David Bodanis
Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake
Stefano Boeri
Architect; Professor, Politecnico of Milan; Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD; Editor-in-Chief, Abitare magazine
Ian Bogost
Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Zachary Bogue
Co-managing Partner, Data Collective
Kirsten Bomblies
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Joshua Bongard
Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
Lera Boroditsky
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD
Nick Bostrom
Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Raphael Bousso
Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley
Robert Boyd
Origins Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Ed Boyden
Neuroscientist, MIT Media Lab; Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, working on optogenetics and other tools
Pascal Boyer
Anthropologist and Psychologist, Washington University in St. Louis; Author, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Stewart Brand
Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation, and Revive & Restore; Author, Whole Earth Discipline
David Braunschvig
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Founder and Managing Principal, Braunschvig LLC
Hubertus Breuer
Science-Writer
Larry Brilliant, MD
Pandemics researcher; Chairman of the Advisory Board for "Ending Pandemics"; Fmr. Professor of Epidemiology, U. Michigan
Sergey Brin
Co-founder, Director of Special Projects for Google
David Brin
Scientist; Speaker; Technical Consultant; Author, Existence
Terry Bristol
President, Institute for Science
Max Brockman
CEO, Brockman, Inc.
Philip Brockman
Physicist
Rodney A. Brooks
Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (1997-2007); Founder, CTO, Robust.AI; Author, Flesh and Machines
David Brooks
Columnist, New York Times; Author, The Second Mountain
Mike Brown
Director, EMC Corporation; Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors
James H. Brown
Ecologist; Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute; Author, Macroecology
Andrew Brown
Journalist, The Guardian
Stanley Buchthal
Producer, Hairspray
Stephen Budiansky
Journalist; Author, Journey to the Edge of Reason
David Bunnell
Founder, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, Macworld Expo, New Media and BioWorld
Hubert Burda
Publisher and Chairman of the Board, Hubert Burda Media
David M. Buss
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin; Author, When Men Behave Badly
Eric Buterbaugh
Floral and Fragrance Designer; Founder, Eric Buterbaugh Gallery
James Lee Byars