People Contributing to Edge.org
Paul MacCready
Chairman/Founder of AeroVironment Inc.
Tod Machover
Composer; Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab
Rebecca MacKinnon
Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation; Author, Consent of the Networked ; Co-founder, Global Voices
Sir John Maddox
Editor (Emeritus), Nature; Royal Commissions on environmental pollution and genetic manipulation
John Maeda
Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author
Pattie Maes
Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Benoit Mandelbrot
Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) at the IBM; author, The Fractalist; Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Ziyad Marar
President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood
Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language and Music; Author, Guitar Zero
Lynn Margulis
Biologist
John Markoff
Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Whole Earth
Chiara Marletto
Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Author, The Science of Can and Can't
Abigail Marsh
Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
Barnaby Marsh
Evolutionary dynamics scholar; Program in Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Ursula Martin
Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Rodrigo Martinez
Life Sciences Chief Strategist at IDEO in Boston, Massachusetts
John C. Mather
Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Coauthor (with John Boslough), The Very First Light
Sarah Mathew
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University
Katinka Matson
Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.; Author: Short Lives
Tim Maudlin
Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Marissa Mayer
CEO, Yahoo
Ernst Mayr
20th Century Leading Biologist; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard University; author, What Evolution Is
Annalena McAfee
Journalist; Founding Editor of The Guardian's literary supplement, the Guardian Review; Author, Hame
Tom McCarthy
Artist & Writer; Author: Remainder, Men in Space
John Mccarthy
Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Samuel McClure
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Pamela McCorduck
Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation
John McCrea
Web pioneer; Director of Marketing for the Cosmo Software division of Silicon Graphics
Michael McCullough
Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Miami; Author, The Kindness of Strangers
William McEwan
Investigator Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K.
Ian McEwan
Novelist; Recipient, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction; Author, Sweet Tooth; Solar; On Chesil Beach; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; The Cockroach
Ryan McKay
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of London
Dave McKean
English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician
Terence McKenna
Philosopher; Explorer; Enthnobotanist; Lecturer; and Author, The Invisible Landscape, True Hallucinations
Scott Mcnealy
cofounder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Daniel McNeill
author of The Face, and principal author of the best-selling Fuzzy Logic
John McWhorter
Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia University; Cultural Commentator; Author, Words on the Move
Raqs Media Collective
Artists, Media Practitioners, Curators, Editors and Catalysts of Cultural Processes
Jordan Mejias
correspondent of the German daily
Jonas Mekas
Film-Maker, Critic; Co-founder, Film-Makers' Cooperative, Filmmaker’s Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives
Barbara Mellers
George Heyman University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Martin Menzies
Professor, Volcanologist-geochemist, Royal Holloway, University of London & NERC RESET Consortium
Hugo Mercier
Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific Research; Author, Not Born Yesterday
Chad Meredith Hurley
Founder YouTube
Jane Metcalfe
president and cofounder of Wired Ventures
Hans Joachim Metzger
Co-editor and translator of the German edition of the writings and lectures of Jacques Lacan
Thomas Metzinger
Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study; Author, The Ego Tunnel
Jerry Michalski
Managing Editor of Release 1.0
Greg Miller
News correspondent, Science magazine
Geoffrey Miller
Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent
Kenneth R. Miller
Professor of Biology at Brown University
Kate Mills
Doctoral student, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Yuri Milner
Physicist; Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist; Science Philanthropist
Julia Milner
Digital Artist
Marvin Minsky
Mathematician; computer scientist; Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; cofounder, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; author, The Emotion Machine
Mark Jay Mirsky
writer and founder and editor of Fiction Magazine
Walter Mischel
Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters, Department of Psychology, Columbia University; Author, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Dan Moerman
William E Stirton Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan-Dearborn
Maryam Mohit
Vice-President of Site Development at amazon.com
Read Montague
Neuroscientist; Director, Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; Author, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions
Hans Moravec
Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University
Brit Morin
Founder & CEO, Brit + Co.; Author, Homemakers
Dave Morin
Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor
Simona Morini
Philosopher; Dipartimento delle Arti e del Disegno Industriale, IUAV University Venice
Evgeny Morozov
Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist; Author, The Net Delusion
Marney Morris
Professor of Interaction Design, Engineering Department, Stanford University
Oliver Morton
Chief News and Features Editor
Lisa Mosconi
Director, Women's Brain Initiative; Associate Director, Alzhiemer's Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Medical College; Author, The XX Brain
Sendhil Mullainathan
Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Richard Muller
Physicist, UC Berkeley; Author, Now: The Physics of Time
Kary Mullis
Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry 1993; author, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Toby Mundy
Managing Director and Publisher of Atlantic Books
Elon Musk
Engineer & Entrepreneur; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; CEO, Head of Product Design, Tesla, Inc.
David G. Myers
Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author, Psychology, 11th Edition
P Z Myers
Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris
Nathan Myhrvold