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INTELLECTUAL JAZZ DAVID AGUS Dan Ariely KEITH BLACK David Blaine MIKE BLOCK Adam Bly SCOTT BOLTON David Brooks MARK CUBAN ANTONIO DAMASIO JACK DANGERMOND DAVE GALLO FRANK GEHRY MATT GROENING HERBIE HANCOCK DANNY HILLIS BJARKE INGELS QUINCY JONES MARY JORDAN JON KAMEN JEFFREY KATZENBERG NORMAN LEAR YO-YO MA JOHN MAEDA JOHN MAZZIOTTA Nicholas Negroponte TODD OLDHAM CRISTINA PATO Steven Pinker Lisa Randall PETER RAVEN MOSHE SAFDIE MEGAN SMITH BENEDIKT TASCHEN Julie Taymor CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK Craig Venter Geoffrey West William C. K. WILLIAMS EO WILSON DAMIAN WOETZEL Stephen Wolfram WILL WRIGHT JOSHUA WURMAN Richard Saul Wurman EFTA_R1_00553497 EFTA02039071 SCHEDULE TUES18 Mission Inn Hotel and Spa 3649 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501 Tel: [Phone Redacted] www.missioninn.com 5:00 OPENING in the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel at The Mission In Richard Saul Wurman YO-YO MA and wELLem C. K. WILLIAMS AND Steven Pinker 7:20 ' WINE and hors d'oeuvres in the Atrio adjacent to the Chapel 8:30PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn WED19 THURS20 Esri Esri 380 New York Street 380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373 Redlands, CA 92373 Tel. [Phone Redacted] Tel. [Phone Redacted] www.esii.com www.esalcom 7:00AM 'transport from the Mission Inn to Esri Conference Center 7:00AM Transport from the Mission Inn to Esri Conference Center 7:15AM Coffee, Juice / Esri Conference Center 7:15AM Coffee, Juice / Esti Conference Center 8:00AM promptly 81IOAM promptly JEFFREY KATZENBERG and NORMAN LEAR CHARITY T1LLEMANN DICK DAVID AGUS and ANTONIO DAMASIO PETER RAVEN and JACK DANGER MOND HERBIE HANCOCK and %satin MEGAN SMITH and Nicholas Negroponte FRANK GEHRY and JOHN MAZZIOTTA 10:15AM BREAK-Esn Cafe. adjacent to the Conference Center 10:15AM BREAK—Esn Café, adjacent to the Conference Center 11:15AM 11:00AM ED. WILSON and Craig Venter KEITH BLACK and DAVID AGUS BENEDIKT TASCHEN and JON KAMEN YO-YO MA and MIKE BLOCK MARY JORDAN and MOSHE SAFDIE JOSHUA WURMAN and DAVE GALLO 1:15PM LUNCH-Esri CaM, adjacent to the Conference Center 1:00PM WNCH—Esn Cafe, adjacent to the Conference Center 2:45PM 2:15PM DANNY HIWS and Stephen Wolfram David Blaine and JULIE TAYM OR JOHN MAEDA and Adam Bly MATT GROENING and David Brooks TODD OLDHAM and BJARKE INGELS 4:45PM BREAK—Esri Cafe, adjacent to the Conference Center 4:00PM BREAK—Esri Cafe, adjacent to the Conference Center 5:15PM Chinese Telepresence / Esri Executive Briefing Room 420PM Chinese Tslepresence / Esn Executive Briefing Room 800PM 5tOPM YO-YO MA and David Brooks USA FtANDALL and SCOTT BOLTON MARK CUBAN and Di ARIELY CRISTINA PATO OUINCY JONES and DAM VA WOETZEL EO WILSON and WILL WRIGHT 800PM 'transport to The Mission Inn 8:15PM Geoffrey West and Richard Saul Wurman 8:45PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn 7:15PM Wansport to The Mission Inn 800PM FAREWELL DINNER in the Spanish Art Gallery at The Mission Inn EFTA_R1_00553498 EFTA02039072 DAVID AGUS David Agus (born January 29,1965) is an American physician Norris Cancer Center. Agus is co-Director of the newly funded and a co-founder ofNavigenics, a personal genetic testing USC-NC! Physical Sciences in Oncology Center together company, and Oncology.com, the largest online cancer with Danny Hillis. Dr. Agus is an international leader in new resource and virtual community and Applied Proteomics. technologies and approaches for personalized healthcare, He is a Professor ofMedicine and Engineering chairs the Global Agenda Council (CAC) on Genetics for the at the University ofSouthern California. World Economic Forum, and speaks regularly at TEDMED, He graduated cum laude in molecular biology from the Aspen Ideas Festival and the World Economic Forum. Princeton University and received his medical degree from Agus has received many honors and awards, the University ofPennsylvania School ofMedicine in 1991. including the American Cancer Society Physician Research Agus completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Hospital and completed his oncology fellowship training at Institute, a CaP CURE Young Investigator Award and the the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellowship He spent two years at the National Institutes ofHealth as a Award, the HealthNetwork Foundation's Excellence Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar. and the wog Geoffrey Beene Foundation's Rock Stars of Agus has had a long and varied career. At the Science", as seen in GQ In 2009, he was selected to serve Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, as a judge for the first Biotech Humanitarian Award. he was an attending physician in the Department Agus's research has focused on the application ofMedical Oncology and head of the Laboratory of of proteomics and genomics for the study ofcancer Tumor Biology. He was also Assistant Professor of and the development ofnew medications for cancer. Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center. He has published many scientific articles. As director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied He is a member of several scientific and Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, medical societies, including the American Association he led a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated for the Advancement ofScience, American Association to the development and use ofproteomic technologies to for Cancer Research, American College ofPhysicians, guide doctors in making health-care decisions tailored to American Society ofClinical Oncology, American Society individual needs. The center grew out ofearlier clinical ofHematology and the American Medical Association. projects at Cedars-Sinai, where Agus served as an attending Agus was recently named one of the physician in oncology, which showed striking differences "Future Health too" by HealthSpottr. between the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in certain The End ofIllness is Agus's first book, was published patients and their ability to respond to treatment. January, 2012 by the Free Press Division ofSimon and Agus also served as Director of the Louis Warschaw Schuster and is a New York Times #1Bestseller. Prostate Cancer Center, and as an attending physician in the Agus is married to Amy Joyce Povich, actress and Department ofMedicine, Division ofMedical Oncology at daughter ofsyndicated television talk show host Maury Cedars-Sinai. He was also an Associate Professor ofMedicine Povich. Her stepmother, Connie Chung, is a former CBS News at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles (UCLA). anchor. Agus' grandfather, the late Rabbi Jacob B. Agus, was a He currently is a Professor ofMedicine and theologian and the author of several books on Jewish history Engineering at the Keck School ofMedicine ofUSC and the and philosophy. Agus has two children, Sydney and Miles. Viterbi School ofEngineering and is the Director of the USC Agus has one film credit to his name, appearing as Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and the USC Westside "David Agus" in the 2006 documentary "Who Needs Sleep?" EFTA_R1_00553499 EFTA02039073 Dan Ariely Dan Ariely (born April 29,1968) is an Israeli American Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a second doctorate professor ofpsychology and behavioral economics. He in business administration at Duke University at the urging teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The ofNobel economic sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman. Center for Advanced Hindsight. Ariely's talks on TED After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he taught at MIT have been watched z.8 million times. He is the author between 1998 and zoos, before returning to Duke University ofPredictably Irrational and The Upside ofIrrationality, as James B. Duke Professor ofPsychology and Behavioral both of which became New York Times best sellers. Economics. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Dan Ariely was born in New York City while Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School ofManagement. his father was studying for an MBA degree at Columbia Although he is a professor ofmarketing with no formal training University. The family returned to Israel when he was in economics, he is considered one of the leading behavioral three. He grew up in Ramat Hasharon. In his senior year of economists. Ariely is the author of the books Predictably high school, he was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions and The an Israeli youth movement. While preparing a lttovet esh Upside ofIrrationality: The Unexpected Benefits ofDefyingLogic (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the at Work andat Home. When asked whether reading predictably flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could third-degree bums over yo percent ofhis body. make a person's life worse (such as by defeating the benefits of Ariely is married to Sumi, with whom a placebo), Ariely responded that there could be a short-term he has two children, a son and a daughter. cost, but that there would also likely be long-term benefits, Ariely was a physics and mathematics major and that reading his book would not make a person worse off: at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy Ariely's laboratory, the Center ofAdvanced and psychology. However, in his last year he dropped Hindsight at Duke University, pursues research in philosophy and concentrated solely on psychology, in subjects like the psychology ofmoney, decision making which he received his B.A. He also holds an M.A. and a by physicians and patients, cheating, and social justice. Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University ofNorth EFTA_R1_00553500 EFTA02039074 KEITH BLACK Keith L. Black (born September 13,1957) is an American After serving his internship and residency at the neurosurgeon specialising in the treatment of brain tumors University of Michigan, in 1987 he moved to the UCLA and a prolific campaigner for funding ofcancer treatment. Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he later became head He is chairman of the neurosurgery department and ofUCLA's Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program. In 1997, director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at after ro years at UCLA, he moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Center to head the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute. Keith Black was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His He was also on the faculty of the University ofCalifornia, mother, Lillian, was a teacher and his father, Robert, was the Irvine School ofMedicine from 1998 to 2003. In tonhe principal at a racially segregated elementary school in Auburn, opened the new Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Brain Tumor Center Alabama; prohibited by law to integrate the student body, at Cedars-Sinai, a research center named after the famous Black's father instead integrated the faculty, raised standards, lawyer who had been Black's patient and supporter. and brought more challenging subjects to the school. Later in Black has been a frequent subject ofmedia reports his childhood, Black's parents found new jobs and relocated on medical advances in neurosurgery. He was featured the family to Shaker Heights, Ohio. Black attended Shaker in a 1996 episode of the PBS program The New Explorers Heights High School. Already interested in medicine, Black entitled "Outsmarting the Brain". Esquire included him in was admitted to an apprenticeship program for minority its November 1999 "Genius Issue" as one of the "21Most students at Case Western Reserve University, and then became Important People of the zest Century." He has been cited as a teenaged lab assistant for Frederick Cross and Richard an expert in reports about whether mobile phone use affects Jones (inventors of the Cross-Jones artificial heart valve) at the incidence of brain tumors. He is also noted for his very St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland. At 17, he won an award in a busy surgery schedule: a 2004 Discover article noted that he national science competition for research on the damage done performs about 25o brain surgeries per year, and that at age 46 to red blood cells in patients with heart-valve replacements. he had "already performed more than 4,000 brain surgeries, According to Black: "I was working in the lab ofa heart surgeon the medical equivalent ofclosing in on baseball's all-time who had developed his own artificial heart valve, and I had a career hits record." (As of2009, Black's surgery count had risen concept that the heart valve might be damaging red blood cells, to "more than 5,000 operations for resection of brain tumors".) so I asked to do a research project using a scanning electron In 1997, Time magazine featured Black on the microscope at the time. When I was trying to basically learn cover of a special edition called "Heroes of Medicine". The the technique, I took some blood from the heart-lung bypass accompanying article described Black's reputation as a machine from patients undergoing heart-lung bypass, and surgeon who would operate on tumors that other doctors when I incubated the red blood cells overnight, I noticed that would not, as well as aspects ofhis medical research, a certain percentage of these cells change from their normal including his discovery that the peptide bradykinin can discoid shape to one that resembled a porcupine, called an be effective in opening the blood-brain barrier. econocyte. What I did was to describe the discocyte-econocyte In 2009 Black published his autobiography, co- transformation in patients undergoing heart-lung bypass, as authored with Arnold Mann, entitled Brain Surgeon. New an index ofsub-lethal red blood cell damage. The importance York Times reviewer Abigail Zuger described the book as a being that the blood cells could not parachute through the "fascinating, if somewhat stilted, memoir". The Publishers small capillaries." He attended the University ofMichigan in Weekly review commented that the book "examines a program that allowed him to earn both his undergraduate racial hurdles he had to leap to become a neurosurgeon" degree and his medical degree in 6 years. He received his M.D. and "altematjesj incisive writing about incisions with degree from the University ofMichigan Medical School in 1981. his personal memoir, insightful and inspirational." EFTA_R1_00553501 EFTA02039075 3NIVIS aiMO For more than a decade, David Blaine has been attracting revolutionized the way magic is portrayed on television. the world's attention with his high-profile endurance stunts. Penn Jillette ofPenn & Teller called Street Magic "the best Starting his career as a magician who appeared to do the TV magic special ever done" and "the biggest breakthrough impossible with a deck ofcards, he was soon following in the in our lifetime." The New York Times noted that David has footsteps of Houdini—seeking out that which seems physically "taken a craft that's been around for hundreds of years impossible and actually doing it. To that end, he's been buried and done something unique and fresh with it." The New alive in New York City for a week, barely survived being Yorker claimed that "he saved magic." Since then, Blaine encased inside a six-ton block ofice for three days and three has produced nine additional primetime specials. nights, stood atop a too-foot-tall pillar in Bryant Park for 36 Blaine has performed magic privately for U.S. hours without a safety net, survived inside a transparent box in Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Governor London on nothing but water for 44 days, and spent one week Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Mayor submerged in a sphere-shaped aquarium at Lincoln Center, at Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and Muhammad Ali, as the end of which he attempted to break the world record for well as President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and other breath holding. A year later, he succeeded live on the Oprah international leaders. He also performed alongside Michael Winfrey show, holdinghis breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds. Jackson, and during the Super Bowl halftime show. Born in Brooklyn, Blaine discovered his passion for In tom, Blaine performed magic for 72 hours magic at the age of four when he saw a magician perform straight in Times Square, raising nearly $roo,000 for in the subway. His mother encouraged his passion and he reliefefforts following the earthquake in Haiti. began performing professionally at private parties by the age Blaine resides in New York City with his of thirteen. By the age of twenty-three, Blaine had created, fiancee, Alizee Guinochet. The couple welcomed a directed, and produced an original television program titled magical daughter into the world on January 27, 2011. Street Magic, which garnered rave reviews by critics and 4s • --- • 4 * • ors • mrInianas• • Alb ••••••••• 4 ••• • •••.1,41" No g a . 0_1/4 V . • Wpm 0 0 _a • •• a. , EFTA...RI...00553502 EFTA02039076 MICHAEL GLEN BLOCK Michael Glen Block (born May 25,2982) is an American A frequent guest lecturer, Mr. Block has presented cellist, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the at Stanford University, Princeton University, Harvard ideal musician of the twenty-first century" by cultural icon University, New York University, Berklee College ofMusic, Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby Cleveland Institute ofMusic, Belmont University, Southern McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Methodist University, Sam Houston State University, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Triborough Trio—Featuring Mike Block other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the University of Arkansas. In 2006, he received Suzuki method (cello), Hans Holzen (guitar), and Kyle Kegerreis Silk Road Ensemble. He has appeared on Late Night with certification in music education from the New York City- (bass), the trio's mission is to put their personal spin on Conan O'Brian, National Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday, based School for Strings, under Pamela Devenport. traditional and contemporary music from around the Regis and Kelly, VH2, the Disney Channel, WNBC-TV In 2009 Mike founded The Mike Block String world in well-crafted and creative arrangements. with Chuck Scarborough, and the CBS Early Show. Camp, which takes place in multiple locations each summer. Mike is also the Artistic Director and host Block is most famous for playing second cello The camp's goal is to empower musicians of all ages/ of GALA Brooklyn: "Global Art - Local Art:", a Music alongside Yo-Yo Ma. He performed in Mark O'Connor's levels to perform, improvise, compose, and arrange their Festival in Brooklyn featuring a diverse array of Appalachia Waltz trio for three years. His performances own music - all by ear. The first location debuted in 2010 musicians and artists in unique collaborations. have been described as "vital, rich-hued solo playing" in Vero Beach, Florida, followed in 2011 with Fayetteville, Notable guests include Anthony Mcgill (Metropolitan by the New York nines, and "a true artist ... a sight Arkansas, and Saline, Michigan in 2012. The world-class Opera), Aoife O'Donovan (singer for Crooked Still), Aaron to behold" by the Salt Lake City Desert News. faculty has included Darol Anger, Hanneke Cassel, Joe Dugan (guitarist for Matisyahu), Multi-genre violinist/ Mike Block's Cello Concerto, Craven, Rushad Eggleston, Brittany Haas, Natalie Haas, composer Todd Reynolds, Grammy-Nominated classical artists Movement t was completed in zoo9. Jeremy Ritter, Clay Ross, Kimber Ludiker, Jefferson Anastasia Khitruk (violin), and the Enso Quartet, Marcus Mr. Block's classical compositions have Hamer, Victor Lin, Emy Phelps, and Lauren Rioux. Printup from Jazz at Lincoln Center, and jazz saxophonist been performed at the Bremen MusikFest, Tribeca Since 2009, Mike has been the Lead Teaching Artist Seamus Blake, and singer-songwriter Amy Correia. New Music Festival, the Kimmel Center series "Fresh for Silk Road Connect, a partnership between the Silk Road Performed on WNYC's Ink," and the MATA Festival, at which he performed Project and schools in New York City and Boston areas. Soundcheck with John Schaefer. as soloist in his own Cello Concerto in 2009. The Mike Block Band presents an exciting Mike has also worked with director Yawn Zilberman His non-classical writing has been and genre-bending combination ofrock, classical, as a Music Consultant for "A Late Quartet", a tort movie featured at festivals such as Rockygrass, Delfest, jazz, and folk music through original songs and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken. Celtic Connections, and Wintergrass. instrumental compositions, featuring quirky yet On April 4,2009, Mike Block was struck by Mike Block has served as musical director to honest lyrics, and a variety ofmusical influences. a NYC Taxi while walking at the corner of W8gth St. cellist Yo-Yo Ma, singer Bobby McFerrin, ballet star Damien Mike Block has also worked with notable musicians and West End Ave, in Manhattan. Injuries included Woetzel, jookin dancer Lir Buck, actor/comedian Bill Irwin, such as Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall, Zakir Hussain, My broken rib, jaw, check, nose, and he lost nine teeth. His jazz trumpeter Marcus Printup, world-music group The Silk Brightest Diamond, Bon Iver, Tim O'Brien, Marcel Khaliffe, reconstruction required multiple surgeries, and his missing Road Ensemble, and classical orchestra The Knights. Goran Bregovic, Kayhan Kalhor and Bruce Molsky. teeth were eventually restored on February 15, 2012. EFTA_R1_00553503 EFTA02039077 Adam Bly SCOTT BOLTON Adam Bly (born 1981in Montreal, Canada) is founder Dr. Scott Bolton is the Director of the Space Sciences and CEO ofSeed. He is the editor of "Science is Culture: Department at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Conversations at the New Intersection ofScience + Antonio, Texas. Dr. Bolton is also the Principal Investigator Society" (published by HarperCollins) and the creator for the Juno project, a project within NASA's New Frontiers of the data visualization platform Visualizing.org. Program. Prior to being Director at SwRI, Dr. Bolton was a He began his career at the age of16 as the youngest senior scientist and manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher at the National Research Council ofCanada, where (JPL) for over zs years. During his tenure as Director ofSpace he spent three years studying the biochemistry ofcancer, Science at SwRI, Dr. Bolton oversaw the launches ofNew specifically the role ofcell adhesion in metastasis. Out of the Horizons and IBEX, the selection of Juno, the confirmation lab, he founded Seed—tag-lined "Science is Culture"'"—and of MMS, and the delivery ofhardware for a number ofnon- served as its Editor-in-Chief. "The best comparison for Seed," NASA programs related to national security. As director of wrote a media critic at the time of the magazine's launch in SwRI's Space Science Department, Dr. Bolton is responsible 2001, "is the early years ofRollingStone, when music was less a for the approximately iso engineers and scientists working on subject than a lens for viewing culture." Under his leadership, over a dozen programs including new proposals, instrument the magazine earned critical acclaim for modernizing development, mission operations and scientific data analysis. scientific publishing and for bridging long-standing divides As Principal Investigator of Juno, Dr. Bolton is between science and society—from art and design to politics responsible for all aspects of the Juno program including and religion. Together with Paola Antonelli he co-founded a project management by JPL, spacecraft development monthly gathering of scientists, architects, and designers at Lockheed Martin, all science instruments, launch that laid the foundation for Design and the ElasticMind, vehicle development and operation, and the resulting an exhibition about science and design at The Museum scientific analysis throughout the life of the project. Dr. ofModem Art. Bolton has more than 30 years experience in the field of In 2007, Sly was named a Young Global Leader aerospace and space science. Dr. Bolton received his B.S. by the World Economic Forum. He is a recipient of the in Aerospace Engineering from U. Michigan in 1980, and Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Qpeen Elizabeth II a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from U.C. Berkeley in 1990. and his achievements have been highlighted by Canadian Dr. Bolton is a Co-Investigator on a number of NASA Prime Minister Jean Chretien, "for showing people the missions including experiments on the Cassini mission. Dr. creation of science and math curriculum driving new national scope and power of science not just as an object of study Bolton chaired the Titan science group for the Cassini-Huygens standards for elementary level education (an age bracket but as a key to understanding the world around us." mission and was responsible for the formulation of the known to be underserved in this area). Dr. Bolton has worked Sly has lectured around the world on the future of scientific investigation ofSaturn's moon Titan. Dr. Bolton has with a number ofcorporate sponsors dedicated to space science and its role in society, including at the World Economic been a Principal Investigator with NASA on various research science educational programs, including Lego, Universal, Forum, the National Academies ofScience, the Royal Society, programs since 1988. His research includes the modeling of the Sony, and Time-Warner. Dr. Bolton helped develope an the National Institutes ofHealth, the State Department, Jovian and Saturnian radiation belts, atmospheric dynamics innovative educational program, in partnership with the NASA, the Chinese Ministry ofScience and Technology, The and composition, and the formation and evolution of the Lewis Center for Educational Excellence, that provides an Museum ofModem Art, and The Academy ofSciences for the solar system. He has authored over 150 scientific papers, five opportunity for elementary to high school level children to Developing World, before the National Science Board and the book chapters, and consulted/appeared in five space science experience the scientific and engineering process directly. U.S. House of Representatives, and at universities including documentaries. He received the NASA Outstanding Leadership This program trains teachers on science and math education Harvard, MIT, and Beijing. He has served on the nominating Medal in wiz, Exceptional Achievement Medal in zooz; the and provides access to NASA research facilities and scientists committees and juries of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in1994. He for hundreds ofschools around the country. Through his the Earth Award, and the TED Prize, and sits on the Science also received JPL Individual Awards for Exceptional Excellence private company, Artistic Sciences, Inc, Dr. Bolton's has Advisory Committee of the World Economic Forum, the in Leadership in zooz, zooz, and 1996, and Excellence in produced a number ofmusical concerts, art exhibits, scientific External Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Risk Management in z000; and has received sixteen NASA Group documentaries and videos aimed at inspiring and motivating Science Center, the American Committee of the Weizmann Achievement Awards. Dr. Bolton maintains a relationship children in academic studies. He has worked with a number Institute ofScience, the Communications Advisory Board with JPL and the California Institute of Technology through ofmusical artists developing both educational and musical of the National Academy ofSciences, and as an advisor to a special appointment as a Senior StaffScientist. programs. He is one of the founding members of the Vangelis OECD's Global Project on Measuring the Progress ofSocieties. Dr. Bolton also leads a number ofeducational Foundation in Athens, Greece dedicated to the combined Bly was recently named Vice Chair of the World programs aimed at developing science, math and art skills for study ofScience, Math, Art, Music and Philosophy. Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design children from elementary to high school and college level. Innovation and Partner to the Executive Coordination As part of the NASA Juno educational Outreach Program, Office for the Rio+zo United Nations Conference Dr. Bolton has dedicated developed educational programs on Sustainable Development. involving both formal and informal education including the EFTA_R1_00553504 EFTA02039078 David Brooks David Brooks (born August 141960 is a political and cultural Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Brooks argued a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good commentator who writes for The New York Times. He worked as forcefully for American military intervention, echoing the president." Two days after Obama's second autobiography, an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times; beliefof commentators and political figures that American The Audacity ofHope, hit bookstores, Brooks published a a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; and British forces would be welcomed as liberators. In the column in The New York Times, titled "Run, Barack, Run", a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a spring ofzoo4, some ofhis opinion pieces suggested that urging the Chicago politician to run for president. However as contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthb, he had tempered his earlier optimism about the war. ofDecember 2011in a CSPAN interview, Brook's opinion of and as a commentator on National Public Radio. He is Brooks' public writing about the U.S. wars in Obama's presidency was more tempered, giving Obama only now a columnist for The New York Times and commentator Afghanistan and Iraq is similar to those by neoconservatives, a "B-" rating, and said that Obama's chances ofreelection on PBS NewsHour. according to a Salon article by Glenn Greenwald, that labels would be less than so-so if elections were held at that time. Brooks, who is Jewish, was born in Toronto, Brooks as a neoconservative. His angry dismissal of the In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Canada—his father was a U.S. citizen living in Canada at the conviction ofScooter Libby as being "a farce" and having "no Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story". time—and grew up in New York City in Stuyvesant Town. He significance" was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan. He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," graduated from Grace Church School in New York City, Radnor On August 10, zoo6, Brooks wrote a column for The who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the High School (located in a Main Line suburb of Philadelphia) New York Times titled "Party No.3". The column proposed Middle Ages... have been living off their wits ever since". In in 1979 and from the University ofChicago, with a degree the idea of the McCain-Lieberman Party, or the fictional Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition in history, in 1983. representation of the fictional moderate majority in America. of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray Brooks edited a 1996 anthology of writings by Ottawa Citizen commentator David Warren has settlers could sit among thousands ofangry Palestinians new conservative writers, Backward and Upward: Tlw New identified Brooks as the sort ofconservative pundit that in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place Conservative Writing. He wrote a book of cultural commentary liberals like, someone who is "sophisticated" and "engages to come together and create things for the world." titled Hobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They with" the liberal agenda, in contrast to a real conservative like Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive Got There, published in woo, and followed it four years later Charles Krauthammer. Brooks has long been a supporter of behavior, such as teenage sex and divorce. His view is that with On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) John McCain; however, he did not show a liking for McCain's "sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life. As the in the Future Tense. zoo8 running mate, Sarah Patin, calling her a "cancer" on entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, He also authored The Social Animal: The Hidden the Republican Party. He has referred to her as a "joke," American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious" Sources ofLove, Character and Achievement. The book was unlikely to ever win the Republican nomination. But he later by "waiting longer to have sex...jandj having fewer partners." excerpted in The New Yorker magazine in January 2011 admitted during a CSPAN interview that he had gone too far He sees the culture war as nearly over, because "today's and received mixed reviews upon its full publication, by in his previous "cancer" comments about Patin, which he young people...seem happy with the frankness of the left Random House, in March of that year. The book has been a regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan ofher values. and the wholesomeness of the right." As a result, he commercial success, reaching the #3 spot on the Publishers In a March 2007 article published in The New is optimistic about the United States' social stability, Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2O1L York Times titled "No U-Turns", Brooks explained that the which he considers to be "in the middle ofan Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal- amazing moment ofimprovement and repair." Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy, and government conservative principles that had arisen Brooks also broke with many in the conservative he taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of2006. during the Abraham Lincoln, Barry Goldwater, Ronald movement when, in late 2003, he came out in favor of same- He and his wife live in the Cleveland Park Reagan and Calvin Coolidge eras. He claims that these sex marriage in his New York Times column. He equated neighborhood ofNorthwest Washington, DC. core concepts had served their purposes and should the idea with traditional conservative values: "We should Brooks describes himself as being originally a liberal no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous before "coming to my senses." In t983, he wrote a parody elections, which he considers the most important purpose that two people could claim to love each other and not ofconservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr., which said of a political party designed to serve the political class. want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.... "In the afternoons he is in the habit ofgoing into crowded Brooks has been a frequent admirer ofPresident It's going to be up to conservatives to make the important, rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings Barack Obama. In an August zoo9 profile ofBrooks, The moral case for marriage, including gay marriage." are reserved for extended bouts ofname-dropping." New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama, in the Regarding abortion, Brooks has advocated for Buckley admired the parody and offered Brooks spring ofzoos: "Usually when I talk to senators, while they pro-choice government regulations: abortion should be a job with National Review. A turning point in Brooks's may know a policy area better than me, they generally don't legal, with parental consent for minors, during the first four thinking came later that year in a televised debate with know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he or five months, and illegal afterward, except in extremely Milton Friedman, which, as Brooks describes it, "was knew both better than me. 1.4 I remember distinctly an image rare circumstances. (New York Times, April 22, 2002.) essentially me making a point, and he making a two- of—we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point." pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, EFTA_R1_00553505 EFTA02039079 MARK CUBAN When Mark Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks on January 14, z000, the face of the organization began to change immediately. Once again Mavericks games had a party atmosphere as Reunion Arena rocked with the return of the "Reunion Rowdies." Mavericks games became more than just ordinary NBA games— they were a total entertainment experience. Cuban was not only successful at instilling a sense ofpride and passion into Mavericks fans by presenting himself as the ultimate role model by cheering from the same seats he had in years past, but he also became the first owner in team sports to encourage fan interaction through e-mail on his personal computer. It was through this personal touch that fans throughout the Metroplex, and around the world, began to notice Cuban's energetic personality and take notice of the Mavericks. He has personally responded to thousands ofemails, and several suggestions from fans have led to innovative changes such as a new three-sided shot clock, which allows line ofsite to the 24-second clock from anywhere in the arena. Cuban's whatever-it-takes attitude and commitment to winning has everyone's attention. From his first introduction to the team to the end ofhis first season as owner, the players responded with a 31-19 record, including a 9-1mark in April z000.In addition to hiring special coaches for offense, defense and shooting, Cuban has promised to do everything in his power to improve the team. This goal was achieved as the club finished the 2000-01season with a 33.29 record en route to their first playoffappearance in 11 years where they became just the sixth team in NBA history to be down 0-2 and come back to win a five-game series vs. Utah in Round 1. Before the start of the 2001-02 season, American Airlines Center, the Mays new home, opened and Cuban co-founded HDNet, an all high-definition television network on DIRECT./ channel199 which launched in September zooz. As with his other ventures, Cuban is revolutionizing the television industry with HDNet. He is planning to expand HDNet to include three more networks showing high-def sports, movies and entertainment by the end of zooz. During the Mays 2001-02 campaign, the team continued their winning ways by finishing the season with a franchise-best record of37-25 and an NBA-best road record of 27-14, advancing to the postseason for the second-consecutive year. Prior to his purchase of the Mavericks, Cuban co- founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider ofmultimedia and streaming on the Internet,in 1995, selling it to Yahoo! in July of1999. Before Broadcast.com, Cuban co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in1983, and later sold it to CompuServe. Today, in addition to his ownership of the Mavericks, Cuban is an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies and continues to be a sought-after speaker. EFTA_R1_00553508 EFTA02039080 ANTONIO DAMASIO Antonio Damasio (born February zs, 1944 in Lisbon, Portugal) has been named by the Institute of Scientific Information as Asa clinician, he and his collaborators is a University Professor (an award based on multi-disciplinary one of the most highly cited researchers in the past decade). have studied and treated disorders of behaviour interests and significant accomplishments in several Current work on the biology of moral decisions, neuro- and cognition, and movement disorders. disciplines) and David Domsife Professor of Neuroscience at economics, social communication, and drug-addiction, Damasio's books deal with the relationship between the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's has been strongly influenced by Damasio's hypothesis. emotions and feelings, and what their brain substrates. His Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at Damasio also proposed that emotions are part of 1994 book, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human USC, in zoos, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and homeostatic regulation and are rooted in reward/punishment Brain, won the Science et Vie prize, was a finalist for the Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and mechanisms. He recovered James' perspective on feelings as Los Angeles Times Book Award, and is translated in over 30 Clinics from 1976 to zoos. He is also Adjunct Professor a read-out of body states, but expanded it with an "as-if-body- languages. It is regarded as one of the most influential books at the Salk Institute. loop" device which allows for the substrate of feelings to be of the past two decades. His second book, The Feeling ofWhat Damasio is the author of several best-selling simulated rather than actual (foreshadowing the simulation Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making ofConsciousness, books which describe his scientific thinking. "As a leading process later uncovered by minor neurons). He demonstrated was named as one of the ten best books of zoos by the New neuroscientist, Damasio has dared to speculate on experimentally that the insular cortex is a critical platform York Times Book Review, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of neurobiological data, and has offered a theory about the for feelings, a finding that has been widely replicated, and the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and has relationship between human emotions, human rationality, he uncovered conical and subcortical induction sites for over 3o foreign editions. Damasio's Lookinthr Spinoza:Joy, and the underlying biology." human emotions, e.g. in ventromedial prefrontal cortex Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, was published in 2003. In it, Damasio was born in Lisbon and studied medicine and amygdala. He also demonstrated that while the Damasio suggested that Spinoza's thinking foreshadowed at the University of Lisbon Medical School in Portugal, where insular cortex plays a major role in feelings, it is not discoveries in biology and neuroscience views on the mind- he also did his neurological residency and completed his necessary for feelings to occur, suggesting that brain body problem. Spinoza was a protobiologist. His latest book doctorate. He worked as a research fellow at the Aphasia stem structures play a basic role in the feeling process. is SdfComes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. In Research Center in Boston in 1967, prior to receiving his He has continued to investigate the neural basis of it Damasio suggests that the self is the key to conscious MD in Lisbon. His work there on behavioural neurology feelings and demonstrated that although the insular cortex is minds and that feelings, from the kind he designates as was done under the supervision of the late Norman a major substrate for this process it is not exclusive, suggesting primordial to the well-known feelings of emotion, are the Geschwind, the Harvard neurologist who created the field. that brain stem nuclei are critical platforms as well. He basic elements in the construction of the protoself and core As a researcher, Damask:its main field is the regards feelings as the necessary foundation of sentience. self. The book received the Corinne International Book Prize. neurobiology of the mind, especially neural systems which In another development, Damasio proposed that Damasio is a member of the American Academy of subserve emotion, decision-making, memory, language and the conical architecture on which learning and recall depend Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute consciousness. Damasio's seeks to demonstrate that emotions involves multiple, hierarchically organized loops of axonal of Medicine, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. play a critical role in high level cognition, an idea that ran projections that converge on certain nodes out of which Damasio has received many awards including the Prince of counter to dominant zoth century views in psychology, projections diverge to the points of origin of convergence Asturias Award in Science and Technology, the Honda Prize, neuroscience and philosophy. He showed that emotions and (the convergence-divergence framework). This architecture the Kappers Neuroscience Medal, the Beaumont Medal from their biological underpinnings are involved in decision-making is applicable to the understanding of memory processes the American Medical Association, the Nonino Prize and the (both positively and negatively, and often non-consciously); and of aspects of consciousness related to the access Reenpaa Prize in Neuroscience. He has received honorary provide the scaffolding for the construction of social cognition; of mental contents. doctoral degrees (Doctor honoris causa) from the University and are required for the self processes which undergird In "The Feeling of What Happens", Damasio lays of Aachen (2002), University of Aveiro (x003), University consciousness. "Damasio provides a contemporary scientific the foundations of the "enchainment of precedences": "the of Copenhagen (Copenhagen Business School; 2009), validation of the linkage between feelings and the body by nonconscious neural signaling of an individual organism University of Leiden (tom), University Ramon Llull, highlighting the connection between mind and nerve cells... begets the protoself which permits core self and core Barcelona (zozo), University of Coimbra (zon) and this personalized embodiment of mind." consciousness, which allow for an autobiographical self, from the EPFL, Lausanne (zon). He formulated the somatic markers hypothesis, which permits extended consciousness. At the end of the His current work involves the social emotions, which captures the essence of these ideas. This idea has chain, extended consciousness permits conscience. consciousness and the creative interface between inspired many systems-neuroscience experiments carried out Damasio's research depended significantly on neuroscience and the arts, especially music and in laboratories in the U.S. and Europe, and has had a major establishing the modem human lesion method, an enterprise film. The role of feelings states on sentience. impact in contemporary science and philosophy. His articles made possible by Hanna Damasio's structural neuroimaging/ Damasio is married to Dr. Hanna Damasio, on this topic include: Bechara A, Damasio AR, Damasio H, neuroanatomy work complemented by experimental his colleague and frequent co-author. Anderson S. Insensitivity to future consequences following neuroanatomy (with Gary Van Hoesen and Josef Parvizi), Damasio himself notes, in fallibilist fashion, damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition. so:7-15.1994; experimental neuropsychology (with Antoine Bechara, Ralph "I have a difficult time seeing scientific results, especially in Bechara A, Damasio H, Tranel D, Damasio AR. Deciding Adolphs, and Dan Tranel) and functional neuroimaging (with neurobiology, as anything but provisional approximations". advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy. Kaspar Meyer, Jonas Kaplan, and Mary Helen Immordino- Whether despite or because of that fallibilism, Damasio Science. 275:1293-1294.1997; Anderson SW, Bechara A, Yang). The experimental neuroanatomy work with Van Hoesen writes in the belief that 'scientific knowledge can Damasio H, Tranel D, Damasio AR. Impairment of social and Bradley Hyman led to the discovery of the disconnection be a pillar to help humans endure and prevail'. and moral behaviour related to early damage in human of the hippocampus caused by neurofibrillary tangles in the prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 2:1032-1037. Damasio entophinal cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease. EFTA_R1_00553507 EFTA02039081 JACK DANGERMOND Jack Dangermond is the founder and president ofEsri, the and organizations. He is personally committed to applying world's fourth largest privately held software company. GIS methods for environmental stewardship and Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, sustainable communities. Esri is widely recognized as the technical and market leader Dangermond is the recipient ofnumerous in geographic information systems, or GIS, pioneering fellowships, honorary degrees, and awards. He has innovative solutions for working with spatial data. authored hundreds ofpapers on GIS in such diverse Esri has more than one million users in over 350,000 fields as photogrammetry, computer science, planning, organizations representing government; nongovernmental environmental science, and cartography. He delivers keynote organizations (NGOs); academia; and industries such as addresses at meetings and conferences around the globe. utilities, health care, transportation, telecommunications, Dangermond's current work is focused on helping homeland security, retail, and agriculture. organizations deploy spatial data in enterprise environments, Dangermond is recognized not only as a pioneer Web-based services, and mobile computing systems as well in spatial analysis methods but also as one of the most as enhancing applications, models, and tools that can be influential people in GIS. He actively manages Esri and is used for optimized routing, intelligent site selection, crime closely connected to projects, clients, and company vision. and disease analysis, location-based services, infrastructure He takes a leadership role in national and global initiatives to management, public safety, and homeland security. facilitate standards for data access and sharing across agencies EFTA_R1_00553508 EFTA02039082 DAVE GALLO David Gallo is an American oceanographer and Director Dr. Gallo is currently active in planning a series of public-at-large. He has lectured internationally to audiences ofSpecial Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic challenging expeditions and is encouraging the development ranging from children to CEO's with the goal ofawakening Institution—a preeminent, globally recognized scientific ofnew technologies for ocean exploration. He is a member the little bit of Jacques Cousteau and Jules Vemes that resides laboratory. For more than zs years, Dr. Gallo has been at the of James Cameron's Deep Ocean Task Force and the in each ofus. He has given more than to TED and TEDx forefront ofocean exploration, participating in and being XPrize Ocean Advisory Board. Almost every expedition presentations and has appeared in numerous documentaries witness to the development ofnew technologies and scientific into the deep provides results that are often surprising, (Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic) discoveries that shape our view ofplanet earth. He has been sometimes startling and in many cases revolutionary. and has been featured on numerous televised news programs described by TED Conferences as "an enthusiastic ambassador David is becoming increasingly outspoken about (Weather Channel , PBS Need to Know, MSNBC Ed Show, between the sea and those ofus on dry land." With more than the relationship between humanity and the sea. He feels and NBC Today show). 8 million views his TED presentation "Underwater strongly that instead of taking the oceans for granted we need In recognition ofhis efforts in exploration and science Astonishments" is among the tops TED Talks viewed to date. to recognize the oceans critical role in providing the air we communications, David was recently elected a fellow of the David has participated in expeditions to all of breath, the water we drink, and the food we eat. At the same American Association for the Advancement ofScience. He the world's oceans and was one of the first scientists to time, Dr. Gallo feels that human activity has impacted the is a National Fellow of the Explorer's Club, a member of the use a combination ofrobots and submarines to explore ocean on a global scale and with significant consequences. American Geophysical Union, and active on several boards the deep seafloor. Most recently he co-led an expedition The oceans hold the clues to our past and the key to our future including the Marine Environmental Research Institute, the to create the first detailed and comprehensive map of the yet they remain mostly unexplored and poorly understood. One World One Ocean Campaign, and the Terramar Project. RMS Titanic and he co-led the successful international Dr. Gallo is personally committed to conveying effort to locate the remains of Air France flight 447. the excitement and importance ofocean exploration to the EFTA_R1_00553509 EFTA02039083 FRANK GEHRY 4 Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize. In 1999, Mr. Gehry received the the Otis Art Institute at the Parsons School of Design, the to Los Angeles in 1947. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Lotos Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club, and he received University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, Architecture degree from the University of Southern California the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University In 2000, Mr. Gehry received the Gold Medal from the Royal Edinburgh. Mr. Gehry has held teaching positions at some of Graduate School of Design. In subsequent years, Mr. Gehry Institute of British Architects, and he received the Lifetime the world's most prestigious institutions including Harvard has built an architectural career that has spanned five decades Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts. In zooz, University, University of Southern California, University and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe Mr. Gehry received the Gold Medal for Architecture from of California Los Angeles, Sci-Are, University of Toronto, and Asia. Hallmarks of Mr. Gehry's work include a particular the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Gehry Columbia University, the Federal Institute of Technology in concern that people exist comfortably within the spaces that was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Zurich, and at Yale University where he still teaches today. he creates, and an insistence that his buildings address the Letters in 1987, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome Notable projects include: the Guggenheim Museum context and culture of their sites and the budgets of his clients. in 1989, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and in Bilbao, Spain; the DZ Bank Building in Berlin; Nationale- His work has earned Mr. Gehry several of the most Sciences in 2991. In 1994, he was bestowed with the title of Nederlanden Building in Prague; the Jay Pritzker Pavilion and significant awards in the architectural field. He was inducted Academician by the National Academy of Design. In 1998, he BP Bridge in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois; Maggie's into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of was named an Honorary Academician by the Royal Academy Centre, a cancer patient center in Dundee, Scotland; Hotel Architects in 1974, and his buildings have received over too of Arts. In zoo3, Mr. Gehry was inducted into the European Marques de Riscal in El Ciego, Spain; Lou Ruvo Brain Institute national and regional A.I.A. awards. In 1977, Mr. Gehry was Academy of Sciences and Arts and he was designated as in Las Vegas, Nevada; Princeton University Peter B. Lewis named recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize a Companion to the Order of Canada. In zoos Mr. Gehry Science Library in Princeton, New Jersey; Art Gallery of in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and received the Ordre National de Legion d'honneur Chevalier Ontario Renovation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the New Letters. In 2989, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture from the French Government. In zoo6 he was a first year World Symphony in Miami, Florida; the Eight Spruce Street Prize, perhaps the premiere accolade of the field, honoring inductee into the California Hall of Fame. In zoo8, Mr. Gehry Residential Tower located in New York City; and the Walt "significant contributions to humanity and the built received the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Projects under environment through the art of architecture." In 1992, he the Venice Biennale. In zolo, Mr. Gehry received the John construction include the Signature Theatre in New York City; received the Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture) from the Wolf Singleton Copley Award from the American Associates of the Ohr O'Keefe Museums in Biloxi, Mississippi; the Make Foundation. In the same year, he was named the recipient of the Royal Academy Trust, and he received the Cooper Union it Right Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Puente the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association for the Advancement of Science and Art Award in New York. de Vida Museum of Biodiversity in Panama; the Frederick to "honor outstanding contributions to the development, Mr. Gehry has received honorary doctoral degrees from R. Weisman Art Museum Expansion at the University of popularization, and progress of the arts." In 1994, he became Occidental College, Whittier College, the California College Minnesota; and the Foundation Louis Vuitton Museum in the first recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for of Arts and Crafts, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Paris, France. Mr. Gehry is also completing work on the lifetime contribution to the arts. In 1998, Mr. Gehry received the Rhode Island School of Design, the California Institute Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; LUMA Foundation in Arles, France the National Medal of Arts, and he became the first recipient of Arts, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the University of Technology, Sydney in Sydney, Australia. EFTA_R1_00553510 EFTA02039084 2006 / 200 lbs ago rviATT GROENING Matt Groening was born in Portland, Oregon, on February In 1987 James L. Brooks approached Matt about 15, the third of five children. His father, Homer, was a creating animated shorts to fit between sketches of "The cartoonist and filmmaker. From an early age, Matt created Tracey Ullman Show." Matt agreed, but instead ofusing the his own cartoons, amusing his friends and annoying his Life in Hell° characters, he created an entirely new cast: teachers. Groening attended Evergreen State College The Simpsons, which bear the names ofhis family members, in Washington State, where he studied philosophy and Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie (Ban is an anagram for brat). continued his interest in cartoons, comics and music. The Simpsons were soon spun offinto a half-hour After his graduation in 1977, Crooning headed to animated series which first aired on December 17,1989 Los Angeles where he struggled in immobilizing but irksome with a Christmas special, followed by the series premiere poverty. Increasingly frustrated by the traffic, smog, and on January 14, 1990. It has since gone on to become his landlords, Matt began to vent his angst to his friends by the longest running prime-time animated show in sending them cartoons starring a bug-eyed rabbit named television history. An international hit, the series has Bitty. Groening soon began to publish and sell these cartoons also spawned a licensing and merchandising empire. at the record shop where he worked. Their popularity Books based on The Simpsons include The Simpsons encouraged Matt to syndicate, and in April 198o, Life In Hell' Xmas Book, Greetings From The Simpson, The Simpsons formally debuted in the Los Angeles Reader. It was there that Rainy Day Fun Book, The Simpson: Uncensored Family Album, he met his future wife, Deborah Caplan, and together Maggie Simpson's Alphabet Book, Maggie Simpson's Counting they formed Acme Features Syndicate, which today Book, Maggie Simpson's Book ofColors er Shapes, Maggie circulates Life in Hell° to more than zso newspapers Simpson's Book ofAnimals, The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book, around the world in a half-dozen languages. MakingFaces With The Simpsons, The Ultra-Jumbo Rain- Life in Her has also been collected in a best- Or-Shine Am Book, Cartooning With The Simpsons, Bart's selling series ofbooks with over two million copies in print, Guide To Life and The Simpsons: A Complete Guide To Our including Love is Hell, Work is Hell, Schoolis Hell, Childhood Favorite Family, a companion book to the television series. is Hell, Akbar Ars Guide to Life, Greetings ftom Hell, The Groening is also creator and publisher BigBook ofHell, With Love From Hell, How to Go toHell, The of Bongo Comics and Zongo Comics. Road to Hell, Binky's Guide to Love, and Love is StillHell. EFTA_R1_00553511 EFTA02039085 HERBIE HANCOCK Herbie Hancock is a true icon ofmodem music. Throughout Bill Laswell. The first, 'Future Shock', again struck platinum, his explorations, he has transcended limitations and and the single "Rockit" rocked the dance and R8cB charts, genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. With an winning a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental. The video of illustrious career spanning five decades and 14 Grammy* the track won five MTV awards. 'Sound System', the follow-up, Awards, including Album of the Year for Riven The Joni also received a Grammy in the R&B instrumental category. Letters, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe. Herbie won an Oscar in 1986 for scoring the There are few artists in the music industry film "'Round Midnight", in which he also appeared as who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic an actor. Numerous television appearances over the jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal years led to two hosting assignments in the 1980s: "Rock Miles Davis said in his autobiography, "Herbie was School" on PBS and Showtime's "Coast To Coast". the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." Records, 'Dis Is Da Drum', he moved to the Verve label, Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child forming an all-star band to record 1996's Grammy- piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto winning 'The New Standard'.In 1997, an album of with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age tr. He duets with Wayne Shorter, '14, was released. began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced The legendary Headhunters reunited in1998, by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a recording an album for Herbie's own Verve-distributed music to express its central themes of peace and global passion for electronics and science, and double-majored imprint, and touring with the Dave Matthews Band. That responsibility, the 'Imagine' project was recorded around in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College. year also marked the recording and release of 'Gershwin's the world and features a stellar group ofmusicians In 1960, Herbie was discovered by trumpeter Donald World', which included collaborators Joni Mitchell, Stevie including JeffBeck, Seal,Pink, Dave Matthews, The Byrd. After two years ofsession work with Byrd as well as Wonder, Kathleen Battle, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chieftains, Lionel Loueke, Oumou Sangare, Konono Phil Woods and Oliver Nelson, he signed with Blue Note Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. tershwies World' won three #1, Anoushka Shankar, Chaka Khan, Marcus Miller, as a solo artist. His 1963 debut album, 'Takin' Off', was an Grammys in 1999, including Best Traditional Jazz Album Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Tinariwen, and Ceu. immediate success, producing the hit "Watermelon Man." and Best R&B Vocal Performance for Stevie Wonder's Herbie Hancock also maintains a thriving career In 1963, Miles Davis invited Herbie to join the "St. Louis Blues." outside the performing stage and recording studio. Recently Miles Davis Quintet. During his five years with Davis, Herbie Herbie reunited with Bill Laswell to collaborate named by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Creative Chair and his colleagues Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Ron Carter with some young hip-hop and techno artists on For Jazz, he currently also serves as Institute Chairman of the (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) recorded many classics, 2OO1's FUTURE2FUTURE. He also joined with Roy Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the foremost international including 'ESP', 'Nefertiti and 'Sorcerer. Later on, Herbie Hargrove and Michael Brecker in 2002 to record a live organization devoted to the development of jazz performance made appearances on Davis' groundbreaking 'In a Silent Way' concert album, 'Directions In Music: Live at Massey and education worldwide. Hancock is also a founder of and 'Bitches Brew, which heralded the birth ofjazz-fusion. Hall', a tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. The International Committee ofArtists for Peace, and was Herbie's own solo career blossomed on Blue Note, 'Possibilities, released in August 2005, teamed recently awarded the much esteemed "Commandeur des Arts with classic albums including 'Maiden Voyage, 'Empyrean Herbie with many popular artists, such as Sting, Annie Lennox, et des Lettres" by French Prime Minister Francois FElon. Isles', and 'Speak Like a Child'. He composed the score to John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, In July of 2011 Hancock was designated a UNESCO Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film 'Blow Up, which led to Joss Stone and Damien Rice. That year, he played a number Goodwill Ambassador by UNESCO Director-General Irina a successful career in feature film and television music. ofconcert dates with a re-staffed Headhunters, Bokova. Recognizing Herbie Hancock's "dedication to the After leaving Davis, Herbie put together a new and became the first-ever Artist-In-Residence at promotion ofpeace through dialogue, culture and the arts," band called The Headhunters and, in 1973, recorded 'Head the Tennessee-based festival Bonnaroo. the Director-General has asked the celebrated jazz musician Hunters: With its crossover hit single "Chameleon," In 2007, Hancock recorded and released 'River: The "to contribute to UNESCO's efforts to promote mutual it became the first jazz album to go platinum. Joni Letters, a tribute to longtime friend and collaborator Joni understanding among cultures, with a particular emphasis on By mid-decade, Herbie was playing for stadium-sized Mitchell featuring Wayne Shorter, guitarist Lionel Loueke, fostering the emergence ofnew and creative ideas amongst crowds all over the world and had no fewer than four albums in bassist Dave Holland and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and co- youth, to find solutions to global problems, as well as ensuring the pop charts at once.In total, Herbie had it albums in the pop produced by Larry Klein. He enlisted vocalists Norah Jones, equal access to the diversity ofartistic expressions." UNESCO's charts during the 1970s. His '7os output inspired and provided Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Leonard Goodwill Ambassadors are an outstanding group ofcelebrity samples for generations ofhip-hop and dance music artists. Cohen and Mitchell herself to perform songs she wrote or was advocates who have generously accepted to use their talent Herbie also stayed close to his love ofacoustic inspired by. The album received glowing reviews and was a and status to help focus the world's attention on the objectives jazz in the '70s, recording and performing with VSOP year-end Top to choice for many critics. It also garnered three and aims ofUNESCO's work in its fields ofcompetence: (reunitinghim with his Miles Davis colleagues), and in Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; Herbie is one education, culture, science and communication/information duet settings with Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson. ofonly a handful ofjazz musicians ever to receive that honor. Now in the fifth decade ofhis professional life, In 1980, Herbie introduced the trumpeter Wynton In 2010 Hancock released the critically-acclaimed Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: in the Marsalis to the world as a solo artist, producing his debut CD, 'Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project,' winner of two forefront ofworld culture, technology, business and music. album and touring with him as well.In 1983, a new pull to the roll Grammy Awards for Best Pop Collaboration and Best Though one can't track exactly where he will go next, he is alternative side led Herbie to a series ofcollaborations with Improvised Jazz Solo. Utilizing the universal language of sure to leave his inimitable imprint wherever he lands. EFTA_R1_00553512 EFTA02039086 DANNY HILLIS William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25,1956, At Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis 2000. The future has been shrinking by one year per year in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, scientist, built a technical team with many people that would for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long- engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking later become leaders in science and industry including term project that gets people thinking past the mental Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Brewster Kahle, Guy Steele, Sydney Brenner, David barrier of the Millennium. I would like to propose a large Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed Waltz, Jack Schwartz, and Eric Lander. He even recruited (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Richard Feynman to spend his summers there. For many temperature changes.It ticks once a year, bongs once a Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, years, Thinking Machines Corporation connection century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium. Applied Proteomics, and author of The Pattern on the machines were the fastest computers in the world. This clock became the Clock of the Long Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. During 1994, however, Thinking Machines filed for Now, a name invented by the songwriter and composer, Danny Hillis was born in Baltimore, Maryland bankruptcy.In1996, after a short stint as a professor at the MIT Brian Eno. Hillis wrote an article for Wired magazine in 1956. His father, William Hillis, was a US Air Force Media Lab, Hillis joined The Walt Disney Company full time suggesting a clock that would last over 10,000 years. epidemiologist studying hepatitis in Africa and relocated with in the newly created role ofDisney Fellow and Vice President, The project led directly to the founding of the Long Now his family through Rwanda, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Research and Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart and Kenya. He spent a briefpart ofhis childhood in Calcutta, which Hillis claimed was an early ambition ofhis: Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. India when his father was a visiting faculty at ISI, Calcutta. I've wanted to work at Disney ever since I was a Hillis asserts that parallelism itselfis approximately During these years the young Hillis was home schooled by his child...I remember listening to Walt Disney on television the main ingredient ofintelligence; that there is not mother Aryge Briggs Hillis, a biostatistician, and developed an describing the 'Imagincers' who designed Disneyland. anything else required to make a mind result from a early appreciation for mathematics and biology. His younger I decided then that someday I would be an Imagineer. distributed network ofprocessors. Hillis believes that brother is David Hillis, a professor ofevolutionary biology Later, I became interested in a different kind ofmagic— ...intelligence is just a whole lot oflittle at the University of Texas at Austin, and his sister is Argye E. the magic ofcomputers. Now I finally have the perfect things, thousands of them. And what will happen is Hillis, a professor ofneurology at Johns Hopkins University. job—bringing computer magic into Disney. we'll learn about each one at a time, and as we do it, In 1978 Hillis graduated from MIT with a BS degree At Disney, Hillis developed new technologies as well machines will be more and more like people. It will in mathematics, followed in 1981with an MS as business strategies for Disney's theme parks, television, be a gradual process, and that's been happening. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer motion pictures, Internet and consumer products businesses. This is not so different from Marvin Minsky's Society Science (EELS), specializing in robotics. He also designed new theme park rides, a full sized walking of Mind theory, which holds that mind is a collection of agents, During this time Hillis worked at the MIT Logo robot dinosaur and various micro mechanical devices. each one taking care ofa particular aspect ofintelligence, Laboratory developing computer hardware and software for Hillis left Disney in 2000, taking with him Bran and communicating with one another, exchanging children. He designed computer-oriented toys and games Ferren, President of the Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D information as required. for the Milton Bradley Company, and co-founded Terrapin Creative Technologies division. Together, Ferren and Hillis Some artificial intelligence theorists have other Software—a producer ofcomputer software for elementary founded Applied Minds, a company aimed at providing opinions—that it's not the underlying computational schools. He also built a digital computer composed of technology and consulting services to firms in an array of mode that's crucial, but rather particular algorithms Tinkertoys that is on display at the Museum of Science, Boston. industries, including aerospace, electronics, and toys.In (ofreasoning, memory, perception, etc.). Others Hillis' major research, however, was into parallel July 2005, Hillis and others from Applied Minds initiated argue that the right combination of "little things" is computing. Hillis designed the Connection Machine, a Metaweb Technologies, Inc. to develop a semantic data storage needed to give rise to the overall emergent patterns of parallel supercomputer; in 1983 Hillis co-founded Thinking infrastructure for the Internet, and Freebase, an "open, coordinated activity that constitute real intelligence. Machines Corporation to produce and market supercomputers shared database of the world's knowledge". When Metaweb Hillis is one ofa small number ofpeople based on this design.In 1988, continuing this research, Hillis was acquired by Google, the technology became the basis who have made a serious attempt to create such a received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers ofGoogle's Knowledge Graph. Hillis, together with "thinking machine" and his ambitions are clear: Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Dr. David B. Agus, cofounded a spinoffofApplied Minds "I'd like to find a way for consciousness to Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in called Applied Proteomics Inc which designed and transcend human flesh. Building a thinking machine is 1983 while doing his doctoral work at MIT. The company was prototyped a machine that measures the level ofproteins really a search for a kind ofEarthly immortality- Something to develop Hillis' Connection Machine design into commercial in the blood for medical diagnosis. much more intelligent than we can exist. Making a parallel supercomputers, and to explore computational Hillis' work with Agus on cancer led to the thinking machine is my way to reach out to that." pathways to building artificial intelligence. Hillis' ambitions founding of the University ofSouthern California Hillis' 1998 popular science book The Pattern on the are represented by the company's motto: "We're building Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (USC PS-OC), Stone attempts to explain concepts from computer science for a machine that will be proud ofus," and Hillis' parallel funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Hillis laymen using simple language, metaphor and analogy. It moves architecture was to be the main component for this task: is the principle investigator of this program. from Boolean algebra through topics such as information Clearly, the organizing principle of the brain is In 1993, with Thinking Machines facing its demise, theory, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithms, parallelism. It's using massive parallelism. The information Hillis wrote about long-term thinking and suggested a heuristics, Turing machines, and promising technologies is in the connection between a lot ofvery simple parallel project to build a clock designed to function for millennia: such as quantum computing and emergent systems. units working together. So if we built a computer that was When I was a child, people used to talk about more along that system of organization, it would likely what would happen by the year z000. Now, thirty years be able to do the same kinds of things the brain does. later, they still talk about what will happen by the year EFTA_R1_00553513 EFTA02039087 BJARKE INGELS QUINCY JONES Bjarke Ingels started BIG Bjarke Ingels Group in zoos after co-founding PLOT Architects in acorn and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. Bjarke has received numerous awards and honors, including the Danish Crown Prince's Culture Prize in ton, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in wog, and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. In rail, the Wall Street Journal awarded Bjarke the Architectural Innovator of the Year Award. In 2012, the American Institute of Architects granted the 8 House its Honor Award, calling it "a complex and exemplary project of a new typology." Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, to Downing Street, and the World Economic Forum. EFTA_R1_00553514 EFTA02039088 An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense arranger and sometime-pianist. He moved on to New York for Home Box Office in association with producers Kathleen of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the and the musical "big leagues" in1951, where his reputation Kennedy and Frank Marshall, a bio-pic on the 19th century roles ofcomposer, record producer, artist, film producer, as an arranger grew. By the mid-50's, he was arranging and Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, Pimp and Seeds ofPeace for arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record recording for such diverse artists as Sarah Vaughan, Ray Showtime, among others. For television, QJMG is developing company executive, magazine founder, multi-media Charles, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Big Maybelle, Dinah the sit-corn The White Guy. QJMG is also active in live entrepreneur and humanitarian. As a master inventor of Washington, Cannonball Adderly and LeVem Baker. entertainment, direct response marketing, and cross-media musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, In 1957, Quincy decided to continue his musical projects for home entertainment and educational applications. classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling education by studying with Nadia Boulanger, the legendary As a record company executive, Quincy remained fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including Parisian tutor to American expatriate composers such as highly active in the recording field throughout the 199os as the records, live performance, movies and television. Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copeland. To subsidize guiding force behind his own Qwest Records, which boasted Celebrating more than 6o years performing and his studies he took a job with Barclay Disques, Mercury's such important artists as New Order, Tevin Campbell, Andre being involved in music, Quincy's creative magic has spanned French distributor. Among the artists he recorded in Europe Crouch, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Siedah Garrett, Gregory over six decades, beginning with the music of the post- were Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel and Henri Salvador, Jefferson and Justin Warfield. New Order's album, Substance swing era and continuing through today's high-technology, as well as such visitors from America as Sarah Vaughan, earned Qwest a gold album in 1987. Tevin Campbell's T.E.V.I.N international multi-media hybrids. In the mid-so's, he was Billy Eckstine and Andy Williams. Quincy's love affair with was both a critical sensation and major commercial success, the first popular conductor-arranger to record with a Fender European audiences continues through the present: in 1991, and the label's release of the Boyz N The Hood soundtrack bass. His theme from the hit TV series Ironside was the first he began a continuing association with the Montreux Jazz album was among the most successful soundtrack recordings synthesizer-based pop theme song. As the first black composer and World Music Festival, which he serves as co-producer. of1991. Qwest Records has also released soundtrack albums to be embraced by the Hollywood establishment in the 6o's, Quincy won the first ofhis many Grammy's in from the major motion pictures Sarafina! and Malcolm X. he helped refresh movie music with badly needed infusions of 1963 for his Count Basie arrangement of "1Can't Stop In 1994, Quincy Jones led a group ofbusinessmen, jazz and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block— Loving You." Quincy's three-year musical association as including Hall ofFame football player Willie Davis, television named "Album Of The Year" at the 1990 Grammy Awards— conductor and arranger with Frank Sinatra in the mid-6o's producer Don Cornelius, television journalist Geraldo Rivera brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah also teamed him with Basie for the classic Sinatra At The and businesswoman Sonia Gonsalves Salzman in the formation Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane Sands, containing the famous arrangement of "Fly Me To of(bvest Broadcasting, a minority controlled broadcasting and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip The Moon," the first recording played by astronaut Buzz company which purchased television stations in Atlanta and hop musical traditions; while his 1993 recording of the critically Aldrin when he landed upon the moon's surface in 1969. New Orleans for approximately $167 million, establishingit acclaimed Miles and Quincy Live At Montreux, featured When he became vice-president at Mercury Records as one of the largest minority owned broadcasting companies Quincy conducting Miles Davis' live performance of the in 1961, Quincy became the first high-level black executive in the United States. Quincy served as chairman and CEO of historic Gil Evans arrangements from the Miles Ahead, Porgy of an established major record company. Toward the end of Qwest Broadcasting. In 1999, taking advantage of the rapid and Bess and Sketches ofSpain sessions, garnered a Grammy his association with the label, Quincy turned his attention escalation ofbroadcast station values, Jones and his partners Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance. As producer to another musical area that had been closed to blacks--the sold Qwest Broadcasting for a reported $270 million. and conductor of the historic "We Are The World" recording world of film scores. In 1963, he started work on the music The laurels, awards and accolades have been (the best-selling single of all time) and Michael Jackson's for Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker and it was the first of innumerable: Quincy has won an Erruny Award for his score multi-platinum solo albums, Off The Wall, Bad and Thriller his 33 major motion picture scores. In 1985, he co-produced of the of the opening episode of the landmark TV miniseries, (the best selling album ofall time, with over so million copies Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Roots, seven Oscar nominations, the Academy of Motion sold), Quincy Jones stands as one of the most successful and Purple, which garnered eleven Oscar nominations, introduced Picture Arts and Sciences' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, admired creative artist/executives in the entertainment world. Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences, and 27 Grammy Awards, and N.A.R.A.S.' prestigious Trustees' His 1995 recording, Qs Jook Joint, again showcased marked Quincy's debut as a film producer.In 1991Quincy Award and The Grammy Living Legend Award. He is the all- Quincy's ability to mold the unique talents ofan eclectic helped launch NBC-TV's hit series, The Fresh Prince Of time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of79 Grammy group ofsingers and musicians, in what resulted in a Bel Air, for which he served as an executive producer. nominations. In 199o, France recognized Quincy with its most retrospective ofhis broad and diverse career from that of In 199o, Quincy Jones formed Chancy Jones distinguished title, the Commandeur de la Legion d' Honneur. a seasoned Jazz musician, to skilled composer, arranger, Entertainment (QJE), a co-venture with Time Warner, Inc. The He is also the recipient of the French Ministry of Culture's and bandleader, to acclaimed record producer. new company, which Quincy served as CEO and chairman, Distinguished Arts and Letters Award. Quincy is the recipient A reference to the backwoods club houses ofrural had a broad ranging, multi-media agenda which encompassed of the Royal Swedish Academy ofMusic's coveted Polar America in the 1930's, 4o's, and so's, the platinum selling programming for current and future technologies, including Music Prize, and the Republic ofItaly's Rudolph Valentino Qs Jook Joint featured performances by artists such as theatrical motion pictures and network, cable and syndicated Award. He is also the recipient ofhonorary doctorates from Bono, Brandy, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Coolio, Kenny television. QJE produced NBC Television's Fresh Prince Of Howard University, the Berklee College of Music, Seattle "Babyface" Edmonds, Gloria Estefan, Rachelle Ferrell, Aaron Bel Air (now in syndication), and UPN's In The House and University, Wesleyan University, Brandeis University, Hall, Herbie Hancock, Heavy D., Ron !sky, Chaka Khan, R. Fox Television's Mad TV, among other syndicated shows and Loyola University (New Orleans), Clark Atlanta University, Kelly, Queen Latifah, Tone Loc, the Luniz, Brian McKnight, television specials. In 1991 Jones founded VIBE Magazine, Claremont University's Graduate School, the University of Melle Mel, Shaquille O'Neal, Joshua Redman, the Broadway and with his publishinggroup VIBE Ventures, would go on to Connecticut, Harvard University, Tuskegee University, New musical troupe Stomp, SWV, Take 6, newcomer Tamia, acquire SPIN Magazine before divestinghis magazine interests. York University,University ofMiami and The American Toots Thielemans, Mervyn Warren, Barry White, Warren In January 1992, Quincy Jones executive produced Film Institute, among others. In zoos, Jones was named a Wiebe, Charlie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Mr. the An American Reunion concert at Lincoln Memorial, Kennedy Center Honoree, for his contributions to the cultural X, and Yo-Yo, among others, and garnered seven Grammy an all-star concert and celebration that was the first fabric of the United States of America. He was recognized by nominations. His recording, From Q, With Love, featured a official event of the presidential inaugural celebration the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master—the collection of z6 love songs that he recorded over the last 32 and drew widespread acclaim as an HBO telecast. nation's highest jazz honor, and was most recently bestowed years ofhis more than so year career in the music business. On March 25,1996, Quincy Jones, executive the National Medal of Arts, our nation's highest artistic honor. Named by Time Magazine as one of the most produced the most watched awards show in the In 199o, his life and career were chronicled in influential jazz musicians of the zoth century, Quincy Jones world, the 68th Annual Academy Awards. The show the critically acclaimed Warner Bros. film, Listen Up: The was born on March 14,1933, in Chicago and brought up received widespread acclaim as one of the most Lives of Quincy Jones, produced by Courtney Sale Ross, in Seattle. While in junior high school, he began studying memorable Academy Award shows in recent years. a film which helped illuminate not only Quincy's life and trumpet and sang in a gospel quartet at age 12. His musical In 1997, Quincy Jones formed the Quincy Jones spirit, but also revealed much about the development of studies continued at the prestigious Berklee College of Media Group. QJMG's feature film projects in development the African American musical tradition. Reflecting on Music in Boston, where he remained until the opportunity include such highly anticipated films as the adaptations of the the changes in pop music over the years, Quincy says, "If arose to tour with Lionel Hampton's band as a trumpeter, Ralph Ellison novel June:rah, David Halberstam's The Children there are any common denominators, they are spirit and EFTA_R1_00553515 EFTA02039089 musicality. I go for the music that gives me goose bumps, Jones next projects include the forthcoming Alicia Keyes, Josh Groban, Oprah Winfrey, Norah Jones music that touches my heart and my soul." Over the years, release ofSoul Bossa Nostra, an album featuring some of and a host ofother entertainers from around the world. Quincy Jones has reached the essence ofmusic and art: today's biggest recording artists and producers such as The initiative has established Municipal Child Centers the ability to touch people's feelings and emotions. Usher, Ludacris, Akon, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Mary in the cities of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Asmara (Eritrea), In 2001, Quincy Jones added the title "Best J. Blige, T-Pain, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, John Legend, Freetown (Sierra Leone), Kigali (Rwanda) and Nablus Selling Author" to his list of accomplishments when his Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia, (Palestine) where youth are being trained to run child- autobiography The Autobiography ofQuincy Jones entered David Banner, Bebe Winans, Mervyn Warren, Jermaine based programs in health, nutrition, Information and the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal Dupri, DJ Paul, and Scott Storch, among others, who have Communication Technology (ICT), Sports and Arts. Best-Sellers lists. Released by Doubleday Publishing, the joined together to celebrate the music of the multi-Grammy In zoo7, Jones and the Harvard School ofPublic critically acclaimed biography retells Jones' life story from winning producer, composer and arranger by recording Health joined forces to advance the health and well-being of his days as an impoverished youth on the Southside of contemporary versions ofpopular recordings from his children worldwide through Project Q a strategic initiative Chicago through a massively impressive career in music, massive catalog; the book Qon Producing which recounts ofSchool's Center for Health Communication. Through film and television where he worked beside legends such his six-decade long career working in the recording studio the strategic use ofmedia, Project Qchallenges leaders as Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Count with music icons such as Count Basle, Duke Ellington, and citizens of the world to provide essential resources Basic, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson, among many Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, among to enable young people to achieve their full potential. others. In conjunction with the autobiography, Rhino many others; a duets album with Stevie Wonder and Tony A centerpiece ofProject Qis the QPrize, which Records released a 4-cd boxed set of Jones' music, spanning Bennett; as well as multiple projects for film and television. recognizes extraordinary leadership by public figures and social his more than $ decade career in the music business, With a longhistory ofhumanitarian work which entrepreneurs who are championing the needs ofchildren. entitled "Q The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones." began in the 1960's and 70's, Jones was one of the key The inaugural QPrize was awarded in January low to Scott The audio recording of "Q; The Autobiography supporters of Jesse Jackson's Operation P.U.S.H. In 1985, he Neeson, founder of the Cambodian Children's Fund, and over ofQuincy Jones," (Simon & Schuster) earned Jones pioneered the model ofusing celebrity to raise money and $600,000 was raised in support ofNeeson's work. The zoo8 his 27th Grammy Award, in the Best Spoken Word awareness for a cause with "We Are the World." The song QPrize will be awarded on October z3 in New York City. Category, while "Q; The Musical Biography ofQuincy remains the best-selling single of all-time, and raised more Through his personal foundation, The Quincy Jones" garnered him a 15th NAACP Image Award, than 563 Million for Ethiopian famine relief. More importantly, Jones Foundation, Jones raises awareness and financial in the category ofOutstanding Jazz Artist. however, it shined a spotlight on the Ethiopian drought and resources for initiatives that support global children's In wog The Complete Quincy Jones:My Journey & US. Government responded with over S800 million in aid. issues in areas ofconflict, malaria eradication, clean Passions, (Palace Press) examined the virtuosity of the man In 1999 Quincy Jones joined Bono and Bob water and efforts to restore the Gulf Coast (post-Katrina). Frank Sinatra named "Q," celebrating his prolific contribution Geldofduring a meeting with Pope John Paul II as a part of Philanthropic partners include Malaria No More, Millennium to American art and culture. The book included a foreword the Jubilee z000 delegation to end third world debt. The Promise, and R&B singer Usher's New Look Foundation. by Clint Eastwood, preface from Bono, an introduction by delegation's visit resulted in $27 billion in third world debt Maya Angelou and an afterword by Sidney Poitier. Comprised relief for Bolivia, Mozambique, and the Ivory Coast. ofpersonal interviews and recollections from Jones, this In 2004, in front ofa live audience ofmore than collection peers behind the veil ofcelebrity, with extraordinary a half-million spectators, Jones launched the We Are the access to his creative inspirations and achievements. Assure initiative with a concert featuring Carlos Santana, EFTA_R1_00553516 EFTA02039090 MARY JORDAN JON KAMEN Mary Catherine Jordan (born November to, 1960) is a Pulitzer debate between Governor Martin O'Malley and former @radical.media creates some of the world's most innovative Prize-winning American journalist for the Washington Post. Governor Robert Ehrlich, and moderated a rare sitdown content across all platforms ofmedia. Originally renowned She is currently the editor of Washington Post Live, which with Redskin owner Dan Snyder, Capital's owner Ted for its commercial and advertising success, it has transformed organizes political debates, conferences and news events Leonsis, and other owners of Washington's sports teams. and grown to develop, produce, and distribute television, for the media company. She has written on U.S. politics, Among the many newsmakers she has interviewed: feature films, music programming, live events, digital the American education system and many other subjects. Legendary singer and songwriter Paul McCartney, Colombian content and design. As the founding Chairman and CEO With her husband, Post journalist Kevin Sullivan, Jordan novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner Henry [Email Redacted], Jon continues to expand @radical's ran the newspaper's bureaus in Tokyo, Mexico City and Kissinger, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and capabilities within this ever-evolvingmedia landscape. London. Jordan has written from nearly 40 countries and Benjamin Arellano Felix, one ofMexico's most notorious Beyond an Executive, Jon is a Producer and Executive also been a frequent commentator on BBC Television. drug kingpins. Jordan has written extensively about injustices Producer ofgroundbreaking projects. Amongst @radical's Jordan, a daughter ofIrish immigrants, was and discrimination against women around the world major achievements, @radical.media has been recognized born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from including articles about the exceedingly low conviction for producing multiple award-winning projects including Georgetown University in 1983 and earned a master's rate ofrape in Britain and the unfortunate girls in India the Academy Award and Independent Spirit Award for the degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of denied schooling solely because they were not born male. documentary The Fog of War; and a Grammy for the Concert Journalism in 1984. In 1989-90, Jordan was awarded Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for for George. This past year, @radical produced the Academy a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University. International Reporting for their Post series on the "horrific Award and Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Paradise Jordan began her Post career as an intern conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how Lost 3 and the Emmy-nominated A&E documentary following for the Style section, crisscrossed the country writing they affect the daily lives ofpeople," as the Pulitzer Board Paul Simon's Graceland journey, Under African Skies. about colleges and schools as the national education described. Along with four Post photographers, Jordan and @radical is currently in production on a Ron Howard- reporter, and covered Virginia and national politics. Sullivan were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for directed documentary on the Made In America festival in For a year at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, she International Reporting for their series of stories on the Philadelphia. And it recently launched THNKR, a Premium studied William Butler Yeats and other Irish poets. She was difficulties women face around the world. The Pulitzer jury YouTube Channel, offering viewers extraordinary access to given her first job in the newspaper business by legendary Irish called the series a "sensitive examination ofhow females in the people, stories, and ideas that are transforming the world. author and editor Tim Pat Coogan, who hired her to write a the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, Beyond his professional duties and column in the Irish Press. She enrolled in Japanese language a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women prolific production credits, Jon is on the Board of Trustees classes at Georgetown University before moving to Tokyo for and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations." of the Rhode Island School ofDesign, and has recently four years and studied Spanish on a post-graduate fellowship Jordan and Sullivan authored The Prison Angel: has been appointed to the Board of the Mr. Holland's at Stanford University before moving to Mexico for five years. Mother Antonia'sJourneyfrom Beverly Hills to a Life ofService Opus Foundation. Jon has continuously fostered @ Currently, Jordan moderates many high-profile in a Mexican Jail (The Penguin Press, 2000. In 2006, the radical's work with numerous organizations and public forums for the Washington Post including the "The 40th book won the Christopher Award, which "salutes media service initiatives, including RED, ONE, and Conservation Anniversary of Watergate" in June 2012 that featured key that affirm the highest values of the human spirit." International. Inion, he accepted Mayor Bloomberg's Watergate figures including including former White House Jordan and Sullivan have also won numerous other awards Made in New York Award at Gracie Mansion. counsel John Dean, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, including the George Polk Award for their coverage of the 1997 Jon strives to increase the reach, impact, and and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Asian Financial Crisis and awards from the Overseas Press legacies of the advertising and entertainment industries. She hosted the 2010 Maryland gubernatorial Club ofAmerica and the Society ofProfessional Journalists. During his two terms as National Chairman of the AICP, he founded the "Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial," which has been presented for the past 20 years at the Museum ofModem Art.In 1994, Jon received the Crystal Apple Award for his outstanding contributions to the city's production industry. EFTA_R1_00553517 EFTA02039091 JEFFREY KATZENBERG Jeffrey Katzcnberg (born December zi, 1950) is an American Under his management, the animation department eventually an opportunity to be character voices in Over the Hedge. film producer and CEO ofDreamWorks Animation. He began creating some ofDisney's most critically acclaimed and Katzenberg has been an industry leader in promoting is perhaps most known for his period as chairman of The highest grossing animated features. These films include Who digital 3D production of film, calling it "the greatest advance Walt Disney Studios when Disney produced some ofits Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989),The in the film industry since the arrival ofcolor in the 1930s." biggest hits, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Rescuers Down Under (woo), Beauty and the Beast (1991, When Katzenberg appeared on The Colbert Report on April Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. As a founder and CEO the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy 20, 2010, he confirmed that from now on "every single ofDreamWorks Animation, he has overseen the production Award for Best Picture), Aladdin (1992), and The Lion King movie" that DreamWorks Animation produced would be ofsuch animated franchises as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu (1994). In addition, Katzenberg also sealed the deal that in 3D and gave Stephen Colbert a pair ofnew 3D glasses. Panda, Monsters vs. Miens and How to Train Your Dragon. created the highly successful partnership between Pixar and Katzenberg married Marilyn Siegel, a kindergarten Katzenberg was born in New York City, the son Disney and the deal that brought Miramax Films into Disney. teacher, in Isom, and they have two children. of Anne, an artist, and Walter, a stockbroker. He attended When Eisner's second in command, Frank Wells, Together, Marilyn and Jeffrey have been highly the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, graduating in 1969. died in a helicopter crash in 1994, Eisner refused to promote active in charitable causes. They donated the multi- Katzenberg began his career as an assistant to Katzenberg to the vacated position ofpresident. This led to million-dollar Katzenberg Center to Boston University's producer David Picker, then in 1974 he became an assistant a falling out between the two executives, and Katzenberg College ofGeneral Studies, citing that the school gave to Barry Diller, the Chairman ofParamount Pictures. Diller left the company in September 1594. He launched a lawsuit their two children the "love ofeducation." They also moved Katzenberg to the marketing department, followed against Disney to recover money he felt he was owed and donated the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Center for by other assignments within the studio, until he was settled out of court for an estimated $25o million. Animation at the University ofSouthern California. assigned to revive the Star Trek franchise, which resulted Later in 1994, Katzenberg co-founded In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board in the hit film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). He DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and David for the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation, continued to work his way up and became President of Geffen, with Katzenberg taking primary responsibility for Katzenberg sits on the boards or serves as a trustee of AIDS Production under Paramount President Michael Eisner. animation operations. He was also credited as executive Project Los Angeles, American Museum of the Moving Image, In 1984, Michael Eisner became ChiefExecutive producer on the DreamWorks animated films The Prince Califomia Institute of the Arts, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Officer (CEO) at The Walt Disney Company. Eisner brought of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado and Joseph: Geffen Playhouse, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Katzenberg with him to take charge ofDisney's motion King of Dreams (both in woo) and Shrek in zooz. Research, University ofSouthern California School of picture division. Katzenberg was responsible for reviving After DreamWorks Animation suffered a Cinematic Arts and The Simon Wiesenthal Center. Together the studio which, at the time, ranked last at the box office Sizs million loss on the traditionally-animated Sinbad: with DreamWorks Animation, Katzenberg founded the among the major studios. He focused the studio on the Legend of the Seven Seas, the studio switched to all DreamWorks Animation Academy ofInner-City Arts in zoo8. production ofadult-oriented comedies under its Touchstone computer-generated animation. Since then, DreamWorks' Katzenberg has an estimated worth of S800 Pictures banner, including films such as Down and Out in animated films have been consistently successful. million according to Forbes. Katzenberg is reported to Beverly Hills (1986), Three Men and a Baby (1987) and Good In 2004, DreamWorks Animation (DWA) have donated over $34 million in political contributions Morning, Vietnam (1987). By 1987, Disney had become was spun off from DreamWorks as a separate since 1979:33% ($1.171+ million) to Democrats, 66% the number-one studio at the box office. Katzenberg also company headed by Katzenberg in an IPO and has ($2.33+ million) to special interest groups without party oversaw Touchstone Television, which produced such hit recorded mostly profitable quarters since then. affiliations, and less than 1% ($7,000) to Republicans. TV series, The Golden Girls and Home Improvement. The live-action DreamWorks movie studio was He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Katzcnberg was also charged with turning around sold to Viacom in December zoos.In zoo8, the live- Ringling College of Art and Design on May 2, zoo8. Disney's ailing Feature Animation unit, creating some action DreamWorks studio again became an independent intrastudio controversy when he personally edited three production company, releasing its films through Disney. minutes out ofa completed Disney animated feature, The In 2°06, Katzenberg made an appearance on the Black Cauldron (1985), shortly after joining the company. fifth season of The Apprentice. He awarded the task winners EFTA_R1_00553518 EFTA02039092 NORMAN LEAR series as well as the Peabody Award in 1977. All in the Family was followed by a succession of other television hit shows including Maude, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Good Times, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Concerned about the growing influence ofradical religious evangelists, Mr. Lear decided to leave television in 198o and formed People For the American Way, a non- profit organization designed to speak out for Bill of Rights guarantees and to monitor violations ofconstitutional freedoms. People For remains an influential and effective voice for freedom.In 1982, he produced a two-hour television special I Love Liberty, with a cast of stars and an audience filling the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Mr. Lear's business career continued in 1984 when he and his business partners created T.A.T. Communications, later known as Embassy Communications, which was sold in 1985. Mr. Lear then created and is currently chairman of Act III Communications, a multimedia holding company with interests in the recording, motion picture, broadcasting, publishing, and licensing industries, including Concord Music Group and Village Roadshow Pictures Group. In addition to People for the American Way, Mr. Lear has founded other nonprofit organizations, including the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication (2OOO-present), a multidisciplinary research and public policy center dedicated to exploring the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society; the Business Enterprise Trust (1989-2000) to spotlight exemplary social innovations in American business; and with his wife, Lyn, co-founded the Environmental Media Association (1989-present), to mobilize the entertainment industry to become more environmentally responsible. In 1999, President Clinton bestowed the National Medal ofArts on Mr. Lear, noting that "Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it." He has the distinction of being among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall ofFame (1984). In addition to his awards for All in the Family, he has been honored by the International Platform Association (1977), the Writers Guild of America (1977) and many other professional and civic organizations. Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film, In zoos, Lyn and Norman Lear created the and as a political and social activist and philanthropist. Declaration ofIndependence Road Trip, a four-year Mr. Lear began his television writing career in 1950 educational initiative and national multimedia tour ofone of when he and his partner, Ed Simmons, were signed to write the surviving original copies of the Declaration, which they for the The Ford Star Revue, starring Jack Haley. After only purchased to share with the American people. As part of the four shows, they were hired away by Jerry Lewis to write for project, Mr. Lear launched Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan the Martin and Lewis Colgate Comedy Hour, which they youth voter initiative that registered well over four million continued to write unti11953. Mr. Lear then began writing on new young voters in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections. his own for comedy shows including The Martha Raye Show, At the Presidential Inauguration in 2009, Declare The George Gobel Show, and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Yourselfpremiered BornAgainAmerican.org, featuring In 1958, Mr. Lear teamed with director Bud Yorkin an inspiring music video that has been viewed by millions to form Tandem Productions. Together they produced several across the country.It is part of an on-going drive to promote feature films, with Mr. Lear taking on roles as executive active and thoughtful citizenship, as embodied in the producer, writer, and director. He was nominated in 2967 Declaration of Independence, which continues to tour. for an Academy Award for his script for Divorce American Mr. Lear is married to Lyn Davis Lear and Style.In 1970, CBS signed with Tandem to produce All in resides in Los Angeles, California. He has six children: the Family, which first aired on January 12,1971and ran for Ellen, Kate, Maggie, Benjamin, Brianna, Madeline and nine seasons. It earned four Emmy Awards for Best Comedy four grandchildren: Daniel, Noah, Griffin, Zoe. EFTA_R1_00553519 EFTA02039093 YO-Y0 MA Yo-Yo Ma's multi-faceted career is testament to his continual Mr. Ma and the Institute have created the Citizen Musician the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and Initiative, a movement that calls on all musicians, music Arts (zoos), the Dan David Prize (zoo6), the Sonning Prize to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. lovers, music teachers and institutions to use the art form (zoo6), the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (zoo8) Whether performing new or familiar works from the to bridge gulfs between people and to create and inspire a and the Presidential Medal ofFreedom (2010). In 2011 Mr. cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for sense ofcommunity. www.citizenmusician.org features Ma was recognized as a Kennedy Center Honoree. He was chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms stories ofCitizen Musician activity across the globe. the recipient of the 2012 Polar Music Prize. Appointed a outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives Mr. Ma is also widely recognized for his strong CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department to find connections that stimulate the imagination. commitment to educational programs that bring the world ofState in zooz, Mr. Ma has met with, trained and mentored One ofMr. Ma's goals is the exploration ofmusic as into the classroom and the dassroom into the world. thousands ofstudents worldwide in countries including a means ofcommunication and as a vehicle for the migrations While touring, he takes time whenever possible to conduct Lithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. Mr. Ma of ideas across a range ofcultures throughout the world. master classes as well as more informal programs for serves as a UN Messenger ofPeace and as a member of the Expanding upon this interest, in 1998, Mr. Ma established students—musicians and non-musicians alike. He has also President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities. He the Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts and educational reached young audiences through appearances on "Arthur," has performed for eight American presidents, most recently organization. Under his artistic direction, the Silk Road Project "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Sesame Street." at the invitation ofPresident Obama on the occasion of the presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, Mr. Ma's discography ofover 75 albums (including 56th Inaugural Ceremony. Mr. Ma and his wife have two engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads more than u Grammy Award winners) reflects his wide- children. He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana workshops for students, and partners with leading cultural ranging interests. He has made several successful recordings cello from Venice and the 1712 DavidoffStradivarius. institutions to create educational materials and programs. that defy categorization, among them "Hush" with Bobby For additional information, see: www.yo-yoma. The Project's ongoing affiliation with Harvard McFerrin, "Appalachia Waltz" and "Appalachian Journey" com, www.silkroadproject.org, and www.opus3artists.com. University has made it possible to broaden and enhance with Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy- educational programming. In the 2011- 2012 school year, winning tributes to the music ofBrazil, "Obrigado Brazil" with ongoing partnerships with arts and educational and "Obrigado Brazil—Live in Concert." Mr. Ma's recent organizations in New York City,it continues to expand Silk recordings include Mendelssohn Trios with Emanuel Ax and Road Connect, a multidisciplinary educational initiative ltzhak Perlman. His new album, "The Goat Rodeo Sessions," for middle-school students in the city's public schools. with Edgar Meyer, Chris Thilc and Stuart Duncan was 1.- ' 9; Developingnew music is also a central undertaking of the released in October zon. Across this full range of releases, Silk Road Project, which has been involved in commissioning Mr. Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artists in the and performing more than 6o new musical and multimedia classical field. All ofhis recent albums have quickly entered works from composers and arrangers around the world. the Billboard chart ofclassical best sellers, remaining in As the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Judson the Top 15 for extended periods, often with as many as four and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, Mr. Ma is partnering tides simultaneously on the list. In fall 2009, Sony Classical with Maestro Riccardo Mud to provide collaborative released a box set ofover 90 albums to commemorate Mr. musical leadership and guidance on innovative program Ma's 3o years as a Sony recording artist. development for The Institute for Learning, Access and Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living Training at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and for Chicago in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age Symphony artistic initiatives. Mr. Ma's work focuses on the four and soon came with his family to New York, where he transformative power music can have in individuals' lives, spent most ofhis formative years. Later, his principal teacher and on increasing the number and variety of opportunities was Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School. He has received audiences have to experience music in their communities. numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), EFTA_R1_00553520 EFTA02039094 JOHN MAEDA Rt. \ \ C M Dividends • PIP gap a *2 ••••7. Team Pc( for wane.. ( ur • John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a the Museum ofModern Art, the San Francisco Museum Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, of Modem Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. academic, and author. His work in design, technology and At RISD, Maeda is leading the movement to leadership explores the area where the fields merge. He is transform STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and the current President of the Rhode Island School ofDesign. Math) to STEAM by adding Art. He believes art and design Maeda was originally a software engineering are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when like science and technology did in the last century. he became fascinated with the work ofPaul Rand and Muriel In 1999, he was named one of the 21most important Cooper. Cooper was a director ofMIT's Visual Language people in the 21st century by Esquire. In 2001, he received Workshop. After completing his bachelors and masters degrees the National Design Award for Communication Design in at MIT, Maeda studied in Japan at Tsukuba University's the United States and Japan's Mainichi Design Prize. Institute of Art and Design to complete his Ph.D. in design. In 2006, Maeda published Laws ofSimplicity, his best- As an artist, Maeda's early work redefined selling book to date, based on a research project to find ways for the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by people to simplify their life in the face ofgrowing complexity. combining computer programming with traditional artistic In 2009 he was inducted into the New technique, laying the groundwork for the interactive motion York Art Director's Club Hall ofFame, and he graphics that are taken for granted on the web today. He received the ALGA Medal in ion. He is a trustee of has exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of EFTA_R1_00553521 EFTA02039095 JOHN MAZZIOTTA Nicholas Negroponte Dr. John Mazziotta is Chair of the Department of Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1O943) is an In z000, Negroponte stepped down as director Neurology, David Geffen School ofMedicine at UCLA, American architect best known as the founder and of the Media Lab as Walter Bender took over as Executive and Director of the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Chairman Emeritus ofMassachusetts Institute of Director. However, Negroponte retained the role oflaboratory Mapping Center. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder Chairman. When Frank Moss was appointed director of the lab from Columbia University in 1972, he obtained an M.D. of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). in 2oo6, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus and Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy and Computer Science from Negroponte was born to Dimitri John Negroponte, more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Georgetown University in 1977. Following an internship at a Greek shipping magnate, and grew up in New York although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT. Georgetown, he completed Neurology and Nuclear Medicine City's Upper East Side. He is the younger brother of John In November zoos, at the World Summit on the training at UCLA and joined the faculty here in 1983. Negroponte, former United States Deputy Secretary ofState. Information Society held in Tunis, Negroponte unveiled the Dr. Mazziotta chairs one of the nation's largest He attended Buckley School in New York City, Le concept ofa Stoo laptop computer, The Children's Machine, Neurology departments, which for nine of the last ten Rosey in Switzerland, and The Choate School (now Choate designed for students in the developing world. The price years achieved the distinguished position of being first in Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, from which he has increased to USS18o, however. The project is part of National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) research funding. An graduated in 1961. Subsequently, he studied at MIT as both a broader program by One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit expert in brain imaging, he established the Brain Mapping an undergraduate and graduate student in Architecture where organisation started by Negroponte and other Media Lab Center at UCLA that includes all of the methods available his research focused on issues ofcomputer-aided design. He faculty, to extend Internet access in developing countries. to study human brain structure and function. He was the earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966. Negroponte is an active angel investor and has principal investigator of the International Consortium for Negroponte joined the faculty ofMIT in 1966. invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 30 years, Brain Mapping, whose goal is to develop the first atlas of For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time including Zagats, Wired, Ambient Devices, Skype and Velti. the human brain that will include behavioral, demographic, between MIT and several visiting professorships at Yale, He sits on several boards, including Motorola (listed on the imaging, and genetic data from 7,000 subjects. Michigan and the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. New York Stock Exchange) and Velti (listed on the London Since beginning this work, Dr. Mazziotta has In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT's Architecture Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ). He is also on the advisory published more than z$$ research papers and eight texts. Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which board of TTI/Vanguard. In August 2007, he was appointed He has received numerous awards and honors, including studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. to a five-member special committee with the objective of the OldendorfAward from the American Society of In 2983, Negroponte created the MIT Media Lab with assuring the continued journalistic and editorial integrity Neuroimaging, the S. Weir Mitchell Award and the Jerome B. Wiesner. As director, he developed the lab into and independence of the WalI Street Journal and other Dow Wartenberg Prize of the American Academy ofNeurology, the pre-eminent computer science laboratory for new Jones & Company publications and services. The committee the Von Hevesy Prize from the International Society media and a high-tech playground for investigating the was formed as part of the merger ofDow Jones with News ofNuclear Medicine, the 1996 Medical Science Award human-computer interface. Negroponte also became a Corporation. Negroponte's fellow founding committee from the UCLA Medical Alumni Association, election proponent ofintelligent agents and personalized electronic members are Louis Boccardi, Thomas Bray, Jack Fuller, to the Institute ofMedicine of the National Academy of newspapers, for which he popularized the term the Daily Me. and the late former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn. Sciences, Honorary Doctorate from l'Universite de Caen In 1992, Negroponte became involved in the creation Negroponte has influenced modern and membership in the Royal College ofPhysicians. of Wired Magazine as the first investor. From 1993 to 1998, day futurists, such as David Houle. In January 2012, Dr. Mazziotta was appointed he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which Associate Vice Chancellor for Medical Sciences and Executive he reiterated a basic theme: "Move bits, not atoms." Vice Dean of the David Geffen School ofMedicine at UCLA. Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995), which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some twenty languages. Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone. However, critics such as Cass Sunstein have faulted his techno-utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical, political and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed. Negroponte's belief that wired technologies such as telephones will ultimately become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such as televisions will become wired, is commonly referred to as the Negroponte switch. EFTA02039096 TODD OLDHAM Todd is a well-known designer whose career spans more than 2o years. Distinguished as an innovator of accessible design, Todd Oldham is the founder of Todd Oldham Studio, a multifaceted, full-service design studio based in NYC. Originally a New York fashion designer, the host of "Todd Time" on MTV's House ofStyle, Todd's career has evolved to include all areas ofdesign, from interior design, film and photography, to furniture and graphic design. Todd is currently working on his 19th book Charky Harper's AnimalKingdom. His previous books include a 672- page monograph on the life's work of artist Alexander Girard; a unique ongoing series called Place Space that explores singular places and the uncommonly devoted people that create them; an artist's monograph on the brilliant, warped work of Wayne White (all published by AMMO BOOKS). Most recently, Kid Made Modem, a collection ofart supplies and kits, books and events, debuted this summer in all Target locations. EFTA_R 1_00553523 EFTA02039097 CRISTINA PATO Cristina Pato has already opened historical new paths for the as a guest artist, including the Grammy award winner "To- vocal department ofNew Jersey City University. Gaita (Galician bagpipe).In1998 Cristina Pato became the Yo Ma and Friends; Songs of Joy and Peace" (SONY BMG During the 2011-2012 season Cristina Pato has towed first female Gaita player releasing a solo album and since then 2008), the "Miles Espanol: New Skectches ofSpain" album Africa and Spain with her own band; USA, China, and Korea she has collaborated with world music, jazz, classical and and the Grammy nominated Silk Road Ensemble album "Off with Yo Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble and India with experimental artists (including Chicago Symphony, Yo-Yo Ma, the Map"(VVorld Village 2010). Ms. Pato has given more than HUM Ensemble. She collaborated in the album Miles Espanol The Chieftains, Arturo O'Farril, World Symphony Orchestra, 500 concerts with her own band many of them recorded and along with Chick Corea and Jack DeJonnette and participated Paquito D'Rivera). Her unique and powerful style full of broadcasted by television stations such as BBC, TVG, CNN at the Kennedy Center Honors Awards honoring Yo Yo Ma with passion and energy has been acclaimed by The New York Times and RTVE, and she has been praised by newspapers as The The Silk Road Ensemble, Johns Williams and James Taylor. as "a virtuosic burst ofenergy" or the BBC as "the Galician New York Thaws, El Pak, La Voz de Galicia or The Scotsman. She is the founder and artistic director of bagpipe diva". Cristina Pato fuses the influences ofLatin Ms. Pato is Doctor ofMusical Arts in Collaborative Galician Connection, a forum in world music celebrated music, jazz, pop and contemporary music, and uses her artistry Piano from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers annually at Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. and unprecedented virtuosic skill to bring her musical vision University (NJ, USA), where she studied with a fellowship Ms. Pato resides in New York City since wog. to life. Pato is a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. from Fundacion Barrie de la Maza. She was awarded with More info: www.cristinapato.com Internationally acclaimed as a Gaita master and the Edna Mason Scholarship and the Irene Alm Memorial classical pianist, Cristina Pato enjoys an active professional Prize for excellence in scholarly research and performance career devoted to both Galician popular and classical music. (Rutgers University, May zoo8). Cristina Pato holds both Her dual careers have led to performances throughout major a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and a stages throughout the world, including USA (Carnegie Hall, Master ofMusic Degree in Music Theory and Chamber Lincoln Center), India (Kaman; Auditorium), Jerusalem Music (with honors) from the Conservatorio de Musica (Jerusalem Festival), Angola, China, Corea, Portugal del Liccu (Barcelona). She also holds also a Master of (Festa do Avante), Brazil (Liszt Festival), UK (Celtic Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts (Computer Music) Connections), France, Italy (Etnofestival), Germany, from the Universitat Pompeii Fabra (Barcelona). Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes) and her native Spain. Cristina Pato is part of the Leadership Council An active recording artist and performer since age of The Silk Road Ensemble collaborating closely iz, Ms. Pato has released four solo Gaita recordings, two as a with Harvard University, the ensemble's residency. pianist and has collaborated in more than thirty recordings Cristina is also a faculty member (adjunct) at the EFTA_R1_00553524 EFTA02039098 Steven Pinker /7-0 mr41 Show this card who, rial k Wolin alts carte en purl. prix d Steven Pinker was born in1954 in the English-speaking Jewish combinations ofcomplements and indirect objects. For the published in zon. Pinker frequently writes for The New York community ofMontreal,Canada. He earned a bachelor's next two decades his research focused on the distinction Tines, Time, The New Republic, and other magazines on degree in experimental psychology at McGill University and between irregular verbs like bring-brought and regular subjects such as language and politics, the neural basis of then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976, where he verbs like walk-walked. The reason is that the two kinds of consciousness, and the genetic enhancement ofhuman beings. has spent most ofhis career bouncing back and forth between verbs neatly embody the two processes that make language Pinker is the Chair ofthe Usage Panel of The Harvard and MIT. He earned his doctorate at Harvard in 1979, possible: looking up words in memory, and combining words American Heritage Dictionary and has served as editor or followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, a one-year stint (or parts of words) according to rules. He has also studied advisor for numerous scientific, scholarly, media, and as an assistant professor at Harvard, and in 1982, a move back language development in twins and the neuroimaging of humanist organizations, including the American Association to MIT that lasted until 2003, when he returned to Harvard. language processes in the brain, and has recently begun the Advancement ofScience, the National Science Foundation, Currently he is Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone lines ofresearch on the nature ofreminding and on the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Family Professor in the Department of Psychology. He also function ofinnuendo and other forms ofindirect speech. Psychological Association, and the Linguistics Society of has spent two years in California: in 1981-82, when he was an In 1994 he published the first of five books America. He has won many prizes for his books (including assistant professor at Stanford, and in 1995-96,when he spent written for a general audience. The Language Instinct was the William James Book Prize three times, the Los Angeles a sabbatical year at the University ofCalifomia, Santa Barbara. an introduction to all aspects of language, held together by Thnes Science Book Prize, and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Pinker is an experimental psychologist who is the idea that language is a biological adaptation. This was Prize), his research (including the Troland Research Prize interested in all aspects oflanguage and mind. Much ofhis followed in 1997 by How the Mind Works, which offered a from the National Academy ofSciences, the Early Career initial research was in visual cognition, the ability to imagine similar synthesis of the rest of the mind, from vision and Award from the American Psychological Association, and shapes, recognize faces and objects, and direct attention within reasoning to the emotions, humor, and art. In 1999 he the Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institution ofGreat the visual field. But beginning in graduate school he cultivated published Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language which Britain), and his graduate and undergraduate teaching. an interest in language, particularly language development presented his research on regular and irregular verbs as a He is also a Humanist Laureate, the 2006 Humanist of in children, and this topic eventually took over his research way ofexplaining how language works in general. In 2002 the Year, recipient of the 2008 Innovations for Humanity activities. Aside from his experimental papers in language and he published The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Award from La Ciudad de las Ideas in Mexico, the 2008 visual cognition, he wrote two fairly technical books early in Nature, which explored the political, moral, and emotional Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological his career. One outlined a theory ofhow children acquire the colorings of the concept ofhuman nature. The StuffofThought Association, and the recipient of six honorary doctorates. words and grammatical structures of their mother tongue. The Language as a Window into Human Nature, published in 2007, Pinker lives in Boston and in Truro second focused on one aspect of this process, the ability to discussed the ways in which language reveals our thoughts, with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. The other use different kinds of verbs in appropriate sentences, such as emotions, and social relationships. His most recent book is authors in the family are his sister Susan Pinker intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, and verbs taking different The Better Angels ofOur Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, and Rebecca's daughter Yael Goldstein Love. EFTA_R1_00553525 EFTA02039099 Lisa Randall PETER RAVEN Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity with a notably international outlook, is president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis.In addition, Dr. Raven is a Trustee of the National Geographic Society and Chairman of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. For more than 39 years, Dr. Raven headed the Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he nurtured to become a world-class center for botanical research, education, and horticulture display. During this period, the Garden became a leader in botanical research and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America. Dr. Raven first realized in the mid 196os that the rapid growth of the human population, consumption, and the spread ofpolluting technologies were threatening biological diversity to a degree that had not been realized earlier. He soon became an outspoken advocate of the need for conservation throughout the world based on efforts to attain sustainability and social justice everywhere. He was described by Time magazine as a "Hero for the Planet," and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan; Volvo Environment Prize; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; the Sasakawa Environment Prize; and the BBVA Prize for Ecology and Conservation, Madrid. In October 2009 he was awarded the first RBG Kew International Medal, given on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Gardens; in January zoto, the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy ofScience and the Friendship Award (for promoting international cooperation) from the government of China. Earlier in zon, he received an award from the President ofMexico for his work with Mexican scientists and institutions over the years. Earlier in his career, Dr. Raven held Guggenheim and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. In mot, Dr. Raven received the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the United States. He has been president of the American Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics she received the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Association for the Advancement ofScience, Sigma Xi, the and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research Chisesi Award, from the University ofRome, La Sapienza. In American Institute of Biological Sciences, and a number of connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current 2006, she received the Klopsteg Award from the American other organizations. He served for ir years as Home Secretary understanding of the properties and interactions of Society of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for her lectures and in of the National Academy ofSciences, to which he was elected matter. She has developed and studied a wide variety of 2007 she received the Julius Lilienfeld Prize from the American in 1977. He is also a member of the American Academy of models to address these questions, the most prominent Physical Society for her work on elementary particle physics Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, involving extra dimensions ofspace. Her work has and cosmology and for communicating this work to the public. of the academies ofscience in Argentina, Australia, Austria, involved improving our under-standing of the Standard Randall has also pursued art-science connections, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, India, Italy, Model ofparticle physics, supersymmetry, baryogenesis, writing a libretto for Hypennusie: A Projective Opera in Seven Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, the U.K. (the cosmological inflation, and dark matter. Randall's research Planes that premiered in the Pompidou Center in Paris Royal Society), and of the Pontifical Academy ofSciences and also explores ways to experimentally test and verify ideas and co-curating an art exhibit for the Los Angeles Arts the Academy ofSciences for the Developing World (TWAS). and her current research focuses in large part on the Large Association, Measure for Measure, which was presented Dr. Raven is Co-editor of the Flora ofChina, Hadron Collider and dark matter searches and models. in Gallery 84 in Los Angeles, at the Guggenheim Gallery a joint Chinese-American international project that is Randall has also had a public presence through her at Chapman University, and at Harvard's Carpenter leading to a contemporary, so-volume account on all the writing, lectures, and radio and TV appearances. Randall's Center. In zon, she was the recipient of the Andrew plants ofChina scheduled for completion at the end of books, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries ofthe Universe's Gemant Award from the American Institute ofPhysics, 2012. He was the first chair of the U.S. Civilian Research Hidden Dimensions and Knockingon Heaven's Door: How which is given annually for significant contributions to the and Development Foundation, a private, congressionally- Physics and Scientific ThinkingIlluminate the Universe and the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension ofphysics. chartered organization that funds joint research with the Modern World were both on The New York Times' list of too Professor Randall was on the list of Time Magazine's independent countries of the former Soviet Union. Notable Books of the Year. Higgs Discovery: The Power ofEmpty "100 Most Influential People" of zoo7 and was one of40 Dr. Raven has written numerous books and Space was released as a Kindle Single in the summer of 2012 people featured in The RollingStone 40th Anniversary issue publications, both popular and scientific, including Biology as an update with recent particle physics developments. that year. Prof. Randall was featured in Newsweek's "Who's ofPlants (co-authored with Ray Evert and Susan Eichhom, Randall's studies have made her among the most Next in 2006" as "one of the most promising theoretical W. H. Freeman and Company/Worth Publishers, New York), cited and influential theoretical physicists and she has received physicists ofher generation" and in Seed Magazine's the internationally best-selling textbook in botany, of which numerous awards and honors for her scientific endeavors. "2005 Year in Science Icons". In 2008, Prof. Randall was the eighth edition appeared in 2011; and Environment (co- She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the amongEsquire Magazines "75 Most Influential People." authored with Linda Berg, Wiley & Sons, New York), a leading American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Professor Randall earned her Ph.D. from Harvard textbook on the environment, now in its eighth edition (2011). Arts and Sciences, was a fellow of the American Physical University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton Dr. Raven received his Ph.D. from the University Society, and is a past winner ofan Alfred P. Sloan Foundation University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is also the of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 after completing his Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young recipient ofhonorary degrees from Brown University, Duke undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Investigator Award, a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator University, Bard College, and the University of Antwerp. He has been awarded honorary degrees by a number of Award, and the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Randall universities in the United States and around the world. is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute ofPhysics. In 2003, EFTA_R1_00553526 EFTA02039100 MOSHE SAFDIE Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, Jerusalem; Golden Dream Bay, a high-density residential the new Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, and the Rabin theorist, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and project in Qjnhuangdao, China; the Kauffman Center for the Memorial Center. During this period, Safdie also became humane design philosophy, Safdie is committed to Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri; and the Crystal involved in the developing world, working in Senegal, Iran, architecture that supports and enhances a project's Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Singapore, and in the northern Canadian arctic. In 1978, program; that is informed by the geographic, social, and Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938, Safdie moved to after teaching at Yale, McGill, and Ben Gurion Universities, cultural elements that define a place; and that responds to Canada with his family at a young age. He graduated from Safdie relocated his residence and principal office to Boston. human needs and aspirations. Safdie has completed a wide McGill University in 2961 with a degree in architecture. He served as Director of the Urban Design Program at range of projects, such as cultural, educational, and civic After apprenticing with Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1978 to institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; mixed-use returned to Montreal to oversee the master plan for the 1984, and Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban urban centers and airports; and master plans for existing 1967 World Exhibition. In 1964 he established his own firm Design from 1984 to 1989. In the following decade, he was communities and entirely new cities around the world. to realize Habitat '67, an adaptation ofhis thesis at McGill, responsible for the design of six of Canada's principal public Major projects by Safdie Architects currently under which was the central feature of the World's Fair and a institutions, including the Quebec Museum ofCivilization, the construction or recently completed include Mamilla Alrov groundbreaking design in the history of architecture. National Gallery ofCanada, and Vancouver Library Square. Center, a dynamic urban center near the Old City in Jerusalem; In 1970, Safdie established a Jerusalem branch office, Safdic has worked with a wide range ofclients, Marina Bay Sands, a mixed-use integrated resort in Singapore; commencing an intense involvement with the rebuilding of includingmunicipal entities and government agencies, Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, the national museum Jerusalem. He was responsible for major segments of the colleges and universities, private developers, and non- of the Sikh people in the Punjab, India; the United States restoration of the Old City and the reconstruction of the new profit organizations and civic institutions. Many ofhis Institute ofPeace Headquarters on the Mall in Washington, center, linking the Old and New Cities. Over the years, his firm's buildings have become beloved regional and D.C.; the National Campus for the Archeology ofIsrael in involvement expanded and included the new city ofModein, national landmarks, including Exploration Place Science Center, Wichita, Kansas; Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Springfield Federal Courthouse, Springfield, Massachusetts; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California; Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada; the National Gallery of Canada; and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. In addition to numerous articles on the theory and practice ofarchitecture, Safdie has written several books, most notably, Beyond Habitat (197o), For Everyone a Garden (1974), Form and Purpose (1982), and Jerusalem: The Future ofthe Past (1989). The City After the Automobile (1997) details Safdie's ideas about urbanism and city planning. A comprehensive monograph ofhis work, Moshe Safdie I, was published in 1996. Moshe Safdie II, a second monograph featuring work from1996-2008, was published in 2009. Safdie has been featured in several films, including Moshe Safdie, The Power of Architecture, which is a portrait film (directed by Donald Winkler, 2004), My Architect: A Son's Journey about Nathaniel Kahn and his father Louis I. Khan (directed by Nathaniel Kahn, 2003), and The Sound of the Carceri, about Bach and Piranesi, with Yo- Yo Ma (directed by Francois Girard, 1997). In the fall of 2010, The National Gallery ofCanada presented Global Citizen: The Architecture ofMoshe Safdie, an exhibition that explores the architect's buildings and design philosophy. The exhibition is co-sponsored by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Skirball Cultural Center. Past exhibitions ofSafdie's designs include Building a NewMuseum (Peabody Essex Museum, 2003-2004); Moshe Safdie, Museum Architecture 1971-1998 (Tel Aviv University, 1998); Moshe Safdie, Projects:1979-1989 (Harvard University Graduate School ofDesign, 1989); and For Everyone a Garden (Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery ofCanada, and San Francisco Museum ofModern Art, 1973-1974. Safdie has been the recipient ofnumerous awards, honorary degrees, and civil honors, including the Companion of the Order of Canada and the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute ofCanada. EFTA_R1_00553527 EFTA02039101 MEGAN SMITH BENEDIKT TASCHEN Megan recently joined Google's advanced products team, Benedikt Taschen, 1964 Cologne, Germany, is a German Google (x), where she is working on range ofprojects including publisher. His professional life started at age 18 in a co-creating/hosting SolveForX, a forum to encourage and 25o-square-foot (23 m') store in Cologne, Germany, named amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork TASCHEN COMICS. In 1984, he bought 40,000 remainder (http://www.wesolvefonc.com/). For nine years before that she copies ofa Magritte monograph published in English with oversaw Coors New Business Development team managing money borrowed from his family. The books sold through at early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations, and technology double the price in two months and he was soon publishing licensing working closely with Google's engineering and his own books. By the end of the 198os TASCHEN titles product teams globally across all product areas. She led many were available in over a dozen languages at prices that made of the company's early acquisitions, including Keyhole (Google art books affordable to students and collectors alike. Earth), WherezTech (Google Maps) and Picasa. Megan also By the late 1990s, he had become a household led the Google.org team transition to expand and innovate name in publishing. When Vanity Fair's Matt Tymauer engineering based projects including Google Crisis Response, deemed him, "one of the few people in business who has the Google for Nonprofits, and Earth Outreach/Earth Engine, courage to do exactly what he wants whenever he wants to", Googler I96-time (now called "GoogleServezo") in addition to Benedikt Taschen tested the theory with Helmut Newton's operationalizing Google's more traditional corporate giving. SUMO, the largest bound book of the roth century. "I have Prior to joining Google in 2003, Megan was the CEO done a lot of books, and I can tell you—without mentioning and, earlier, COO ofPlanetOut, the leading gay, lesbian, names—that publishers arc not all like him. There arc very bisexual and transgender online community, where the few like him. Or there are none like him. He is also, I might team broke through many barriers and partnered closely add, a madman", says Helmut Newton to Vanity Fair. with all of the early major web players. She also held roles SUMO is also the company's most successful title at General Magic and Apple Japan. Over the years, Megan of the last ten years and the precursor to Benedikt Taschen's has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects, most ambitious personal project: GOAT-Greatest ofAll Time, a including an award-winning bicycle lock, space station tribute to Muhammad Ali, shippingin Spring 2004. Four years construction program, solar cookstoves and was a member in the making, GOAT weighs 75 lbs and is zo' x 20" in size, with of the MIT student team who designed, built and raced a nearly Soo pages ofarchival and original photographs, graphic solar car z000 miles across the Australian outback. She holds artwork and articles and essays—including those of Ali himself. a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical Another ofhis books is the Icons series of art engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She books, some of the most accessible in the world. completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab. Today, TASCHEN has offices in Cologne, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris and Tokyo and stores in Amsterdam, Berlin, Beverly Hills, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Hollywood, London, Miami, New York, and Paris. TASCHEN employs zoo staffmembers worldwide and many longtime freelance editors. As Billy Wilder put it in Vanity Fair rocro: "Benedikt reminds me ofan old-time Hollywood figure—a studio head, someone who is in firm command and has his hand in everything". He is married and lives in the Chemosphere, designed by John Lautner in 1960. He bought the home for $1million in 1997, restored the building, and published a book on Lautner. He lives and works in Cologne and Los Angeles. EFTA_R1_00553528 EFTA02039102 Ail IF TAYMOR In 1998, Julie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, and also won a Tony* for Best Costumes, for her landmark production of The Lion King. The musical has won three Moliere Awards including Best Musical and Best Costumes, garnered Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for Taymor's direction, and myriad awards for her original costume, mask and puppet designs. For her latest Broadway production, Spider-Man: flint Offthe Dark, Taymor served as director and co-book writer. Taymor made her Broadway debut in 1996 with Juan Darien:A CarnivalMass, nominated for five Tony' Awards. Other theater work includes The Green Bird, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, The Taming ofthe Shrew, The Transposed Heads and Liberty's Taken. Taymor's feature film directorial debut, Titus, starred Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming. In 2002, her biographical film Frida, starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina, earned six Academy Award nominations, winning two. She took on the music of the Beatles, and earned a Golden Globe• nomination for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy, in Across the Universe. Julie's most recent film, The Tempest, had its North American premiere at the 48th New York Film Festival in October itno, following a world premiere at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Taymor's adaptation of the William Shakespeare play features an all-star cast including Helen Mitten, Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou and Alfred Molina. Beyond the theatre and screen, Taymor has An illustrated book on her career, Julie Taymor: directed five operas internationally including Oedipus Playing With Fire, was recently expanded and revised by Harry Rex with Jessye Norman, for which she earned the N. Abrams. Her book, TheLion King:Pride Rock on Broadway, International Classical Music Award for Best Opera is published by Hyperion. Taymor's adapted screenplay for Production. A subsequent film version premiered at the Titus is published in an illustrated book by Newmarket Press. Sundance Film Festival and won her an Emmy° award. An illustrated book, Rids Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and An Taymor also directed Salome, The FlyingDutchman, to Film, is available from Newmarket Press. Harry N. Abrams Die Zauberfibte (which has been in repertory at The Met for six also published an illustrated screenplay ofTaymor's film years), The MagicFlute (the abridged English version ofDie adaptation of The Tempest which coincided with its premiere. Zauberfilite, which inaugurated a new PBS series entitled "Great Taymor is a 1991recipient of the Performances at The Met") and Elliot Goldenthal's Grendel. MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. EFTA_R1_00553529 EFTA02039103 J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is regarded as one of the leading influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. scientists of the list century for his numerous invaluable In 1998, Dr. Venter founded Celera Genomics contributions to genomic research. He is Founder, Chairman, to sequence the human genome using new tools and and President of the I. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not- techniques he and his team developed. This research for-profit, research organization with approximately 300 culminated with the February zoos publication of the human scientists and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant, genome in the journal, Science. He and his team at Calera synthetic and environmental genomic research, and the also sequenced the fruit fly, mouse and rat genomes. exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics. Dr. Venter and his team at XVI continue to blaze Dr. Venter is also Founder and CEO of Synthetic new trails in genomics. They have sequenced and analyzed Genomics Inc (Sal), a privately held company dedicated hundreds of genomes, and have published numerous to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address important papers covering such areas as environmental global needs such as new sources of energy, new food and genomics, the first complete diploid human genome, and the nutritional products, and next generation vaccines. groundbreaking advance in creating the first self-replicating Dr. Venter began his formal education after a tour bacterial cell constructed entirely with synthetic DNA. of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. Dr. Venter is one of the most frequently cited After earning both a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and a scientists, and the author of more than 250 research articles. Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of He is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, California at San Diego, he was appointed professor at the State public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2008 University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer United States National Medal of Science, the 2002 Gairdner Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Foundation International Award, the zoos Paul Ehrlich and Health campus where he developed Expressed Sequence Tags Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and the King Faisal International or ESTs, a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. Award for Science. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic prestigious scientific organizations including the National Research (TIGR, now part of JCVI), a not-for-profit research Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome Sciences, and the American Society for Microbiology. of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus EFTA_R1_00553530 EFTA02039104 CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK Geoffrey West Charity Tillemann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; B Giardino Di Boboli in Florence, Italy; the National Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Tel Aviv Opera House in Israel; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; the United Nations in New York; and National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol- She has collaborated and performed with noted conductors and musicians including Eva Marton, Bruno Rigacci, Joela Jones, Marvin Hamlisch, Bono, Zoltan Kocis, Joan Domemann, and former Secretary ofState Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Some ofher operatic roles have included Titania in A Mid Summer's Night Dream, Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, and Ophelia in Ophelia Forever. Charity has also performed for numerous presidents, prime ministers, members of Congress, and world dignitaries. After receiving a diagnosis ofIdiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension in 2004, Charity served as the national spokesperson for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, working to raise awareness, increase federal research funding, expand stem cell research, and promote preventative and alternative medicine. In September of 2009, Charity received a bilateral lung transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. After complications from rejection, Charity received a second bilateral lung transplant in January ton. Geoffrey West is Distinguished Professor and former His recent work has focused on developing Since receiving her first transplant, Charity has President of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and an Associate an underlying quantitative theory for the structure and shared her amazing story and vocal talents at numerous Fellow of the Said Business School, Oxford University. Prior dynamics ofcities, companies and long-term sustainability, conferences, musical performance, and events, including: to joining SFI in 1003, he was leader ofhigh energy physics includingrates ofgrowth and innovation, the accelerating TEDMED 20 to in San Diego, CA; the 6th National Learning at Los Alamos National laboratory, where he remains pace oflife, and why companies die, yet cities survive. Congress on Organ Donation in Dallas, TX; the zo to Empathy a Senior Fellow. He received his B.A. from Cambridge He has given many colloquia, keynote addresses and Innovation Summit in Cleveland, OH; and the EG University in 1961and his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford and public lectures world-wide. Awards include the Mercer Conference in Monterey, CA. Charity has been featured on University in 1966. After spells at Cornell and Harvard Prize from the Ecological Society of America, the Weldon CNN with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CBS This Morning, Glamour Universities, he returned to Stanford in 1970 to join the Prize for Mathematical Biology, and the Glenn Award for magazine, ABCNews.com, TED.com, The Huffington Post, faculty. He was President ofSFI from 2005-2009. Aging research. He has been featured in many publications The WallStreet Journal Health Slog, the ClevelandPlain Dealer, West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests world-wide including The New York Times, Nature, Science, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Sunday Times (London). have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology, The Financial Times, Time, Newsweek and Scientific American Her performances have been broadcast around the world on ranging from the elementary particles, their interactions and and has participated in television productions including CNN, CBS, BBC, FOX, MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN and NPR. cosmological implications to the origins ofuniversal scaling Nova, National Geographic and the BBC. His work was Charity received a Bachelor's degree with high laws and a unifying quantitative framework of biology. His selected as a breakthrough idea of2007 by HarvardBusiness honors from Regis University in Denver, CO, where she was research in biology has included metabolic rate, growth, aging Review and, in z006, he was named to Time magazine's raised with her to brothers and sisters. She later studied and mortality, sleep, cancer, and ecosystem dynamics. list of"too Most Influential People in the World". music at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University and the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. She currently resides in Washington, DC and New York City. EFTA_R1_00553531 EFTA02039105 wIll.l.am will.i.am, a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, is a seven-time Grammy Award winner. Known for his work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works with some of the industry's biggest names including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer. Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas will.i.am has released two songs from his upcoming solo cd, rtwillpower on Interscope Records. The first two singles from the cd released in zon are: "T.H.E (The Hardest Ever)," featuring Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, and number one hit song in the UK, "This is Love" featuring Eva Simons. His songs and imagery have entertained and inspired millions, and the power ofhis words resonated deeply in his song "Yes We Can" that mobilized an entire generation to action during the zoo8 presidential campaign. Demonstrating that music, brands and causes can be intertwined to entertain and inform, "Yes We Can" garnered an Emmy Award for "Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment." In ion, will.i.am executive produced and starred in his first prime time TV special "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll" to get young people excited about math and science education, as well as technology and science-related careers. Earlier this year he starred as a Coach on the hit reality TV show, "The Voice" UK edition on BBC One. While in London, will.i.am was a featured performer in "Concert for The Queen" in celebration ofQueen Elizabeth il's Diamond Jubilee. As a musician, producer, director and advocate for education, he is an enthusiastic user of technologies in both his professional and personal lives. In recognition of his ability to harness technology to enhance entertainment, creativity and communication, Intel Corporation appointed will as Director ofCreative Innovation in zon. in collaboration with The Coca-Cola Company, will.i.am is on a mission to elevate the importance ofrecycling and to turn waste into a valued commodity through his EKOCYCLE brand. Launched in July, zozz, EKOCYCLE will give consumers more stylish options when shopping for fashion apparel, accessories and sporting goods that incorporate recycled plastic bottles and aluminum cans. With a commitment to inspire kids to stay in school and go to college to become the leaders of tomorrow, will.i.am advocates regarding the importance and power of a good education through his i.am angel foundation's i.am scholarship. The i.am scholarship provides future leaders and innovators with comprehensive financial assistance to complete post-secondary education. The i.am angel foundation is also active in the U.K. through a STEM education and computer skills joint initiative with The Prince's Trust. Recognized and honored by numerous industry organizations, will.i.am is the recipient ofmultiple Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two NAACP Image Awards, a Viii Do Something Award, the BM! President's Award and a zoo8 Webby Award. EFTA_R1_00553532 EFTA02039106 C. K. WILLIAMS C. K. Williams (born Charles Kenneth Williams on November 1,1936) is an American poet, critic and translator. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the z000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. C. K. Williams grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. He later briefly attended Bucknell University and graduated from the University ofPennsylvania. While at Penn he studied with the romantic scholar, Morse Peckham, and spent a great deal of time in the circle of young architects who studied with and worked for the great architect Louis Kahn. In an essay, "Beginnings," he acknowledges Kahn's dedication and patience as essential to his notion of the life of an artist. Williams lived for a period in Philadelphia, where he worked for a number of years as a pan-time psychotherapist for adolescents and young adults, a ghost-writer and editor, then began teaching, first at the YM-YWHA in Philadelphia, then at several universities in Pennsylvania, Beaver College, Drexel, and Franklin and Marshall. He subsequently taught at many other universities, including Columbia, NYU, Boston University, the University ofCalifornia, both at Irvine and Berkeley, before finally becoming a professor at George Mason University, then moving in 1995 to Princeton University, where he has taught poetry workshops and translation ever since. He met his present wife, Catherine Mauger, a French jeweler, in 1973, and they have a son who is now a noted painter, Jed Williams. He has a daughter from an earlier marriage, Jessie Burns, who is a writer. He lives half the year near Princeton, and the rest in Normandy in France. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His first book, Lies, was published in 1969, and since then he has published many collections of poetry, culminating in his Collected Poems, of which Peter Campion wrote in The APES Boston Globe: "Throughout the five decades represented in his new Collected Poems, Williams has maintained the One branch, I read, of a species of chimpanzees has something like territorial wars, most sincere, and largest, ambitions. Like Yeats and Lowell and when the...army, I suppose you'd call it, of one tribe prevails and captures an enemy, before him, he writes from the borderland between private 'Several males hold a hand or foot of the rival so the victim can be damaged at will? and public life....[His poems] join skeptical intelligence and emotional sincerity, in a way that dignifies all ofour This is so disquieting: if beings with whom we share so many genes can be this cruel, what hope for us? Still, "rival," "victim, "will"-don't such anthropomorphic terms attempts to make sense of the world and ofourselves. C. K. make those simians' social political conflicts sound more brutal than they are? Williams has set a new standard for American poetry." Another collection, Wait, appeared in zow, and The chimps Catherine and I saw on their island sanctuary in Uganda we loathed. another, Writers WritingDying, will come out in 2012. Unlike the pacific gorillas in the forest of Bwindi, they fought, dementedly shrieked, He has written a memoir, Misgivings, which the dominant male lorded it over the rest; they were, in all, too much like us. appeared in woo, a collection ofessays, Poetryand Another island from my recent reading, where Columbus, on his last voyage, Consciousness, 1999, and a critical study of Walt Whitman, encountering some 'Indians" who'd greeted him with curiosity and warmth, wrote, On Whitman, 2020. A new collection of essays,In Time: before he chained and enslaved them, "They don't even know how to kill each other." Poets, Poems and the Rest, will be published in zon. Williams is also an acclaimed translator, It's occurred to me I've read enough-at my age all it does is confirm my sadness. notably ofSophocles' Women ofTrachis and Euripides' Surely the papers: war, terror, torture, corruption—they're like broken glass in the mind. The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Back when I knew I knew nothing, I read all the time, poems, novels, philosophy, myth, Zagajewsld and the French poet Francis Ponge. but I hardly glanced at the news, there was a distance between what could happen He has also published several children's books. and the part of myself I felt with: now everything's so tight against me I hardly can move. The Analects say people in the golden age weren't aware they were govemed; they just lived. Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there? Some gold: nuclear rockets aimed at your head, racism, sexism, contempt for the poor. And there I was, reading. What did I learn? Everything, nothing, too little, too much... Just enough to get me here: a long-faced, white-haired ape with a book, still turning the page. C. K. WILLIAMS EFTA_R1_00553533 EFTA02039107 EDWARD WILSON - Edward Osborne Wilson is a world leading biologist and internationally recognized as one of the planet's most articulate authorities on the interrelatedness of knowledge disciplines and oflife systems. He is acknowledged for two interdisciplinary scientific disciplines (island biogeography and sociobiology), three unifying concepts for science and the humanities jointly (biophilia, biodiversity studies, and consilience), and one technological advance in the study ofglobal biodiversity (the Encyclopedia of Life). A native ofAlabama, Wilson grew up in Mobile and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from The University of Alabama (1949,195o) and his DAMIAN WOETZEL doctoral degree in biology from Harvard University (1955). Wilson has received more than too awards for his research on ants and biodiversity and for his writings addressed to both scientific and non-scientific audiences. He has received two Pulitzer Prizes in general non-fiction Damian Woetzel was a Principal Dancer at New York City for his books On Human Nature (1979) and The Ants (1991); Ballet and frequently performed internationally as a guest the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of star and visiting artist with numerous companies including Sciences; the International Prize of Biology of Japan; and the the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, until his retirement from the stage in loo8. Woetzel currently serves Nonino and Serono Prizes for Letters and Sciences ofItaly. His work in the sciences, letters, the environment as the Director of Arts Programs for the Aspen Institute, the and conservation earned him prominence in the annals of the Artistic Director of the Vail International Dance Festival, and as the Founding Director of the Jerome Robbins New list Century. He was named one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine and one of the world's too Essential Works Program. Woetzel is also active as a director leading intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. He is the and producer outside these roles. Among his recent projects, Woetzel produced and directed an arts salute to Stephen author of 28 books including the recent novel, Anthill, set in the woods of South Alabama; The Social Conquest ofEarth; Hawking at Lincoln Center for the World Science Festival, the soon-to-be-released profile ofhis boyhood hometown, and directed the first performance of the White House Dance Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit ofa Southern City. Series, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama. Woetzel also works with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road Connect program in the New York City Public Schools, and has twice directed culminating year-end performances; at the Museum ofNatural History in 2010, and for the Central Park SummerStage series in ton. Woetzel was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Obama in 2009.In July 2012, Woetzel was honored with the inaugural Gene Kelly Legacy Award—an award jointly created by the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Estate ofGene Kelly in honor of the tooth anniversary ofKelly's birth—for his contributions to the arts as a ballet star and director ofdance and music performances. In June ton, Woetzel was named the Director of Arts Programs at the Aspen Institute. Under Woetzel's direction, the Aspen Institute Arts Program brings together leading artists, arts managers, sponsors, government officials EFTA_R1_00553534 EFTA02039108 and patrons. Through these collaborations, the Program Woetzel has also instituted a series of "UpClose" by Jerome Robbins, Eliot Feld, Twyla Tharp, Susan Stroman, seeks to generate, exchange, and develop ideas and policies performances: lecture-demonstration events which combine and Christopher Wheeldon among others, and danced more in order to encourage vibrancy and dynamism in all artistic rehearsal, performance and commentary by Woetzel and than so featured roles in the Company's repertory, including: realms, and to enrich civic culture in ways only the arts can. special guests. Recent UpClose performances have included: George Balanchinc's: Agon, Coppelia, Prodigal Son, Slaughter Among the events curated by the Aspen "UpClose: Stravinsky by Balanchine," an examination of on Tenth Avenue, Stars and Stripes, Swan Lake; and Jerome Institute Arts Program under Woetzel's direction: the legendary collaboration between George Balanchine Robbins': Afternoon of a Faun, Fancy Free, Dances at a In November 2011, Woetzel curated the inaugural US- and Igor Stravinsky, co-hosted by Woetzel and New York Gathering, A Suite ofDances, and West Side Story Suite. China Forum on the Arts and Culture in Beijing, in partnership City Ballet Master-in-ChiefPeter Martins (zon.); "UpClose: Woetzel originated featured roles in: Eliot Feld's with Asia Society and the Chinese People's Association for Premieres," which provided a first look at a series of works The Unanswered Question and Organon, Peter Martins' feu Friendship with Foreign Countries. The four day forum was created in Vail by choreographers including Christopher de Cartes and The SleepingBeauty, Jerome Robbins' fres, the first in a series ofcultural exchanges seeking to strengthen Wheeldon and Emery LeCrone during the weeks of the 2011 Songs and Quiet City, Susan Stroman's "The Blue Necklace" mutual understanding between Americans and Chinese Vail International Dance Festival; among many others. from Double Feature, Twyla Tharp's The Beethoven Seventh, through panel discussions, lectures, film screenings, museum In 2009 and wio, Woetzel produced and directed Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris, Carousel tours, dinners and performance. American and Chinese the World Science Festival Gala Performances at Lincoln (A Dance), Even/is/1, Morphoses, and Variations Sirieuses. artists and cultural representatives engaged in the forum Center's Mice Tully Hall. For the zow event he created Woetzel also originated roles in ballets by Kevin O'Day, included Joel Coen, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma, Mice Waters, an arts salute to science honoring the theoretical physicist Richard Tanner, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, among others. Liu Ye, Ge You and others. Woetzel also directed a Public Stephen Hawking, featuring performances by Yo-Yo Woetzel appeared in Dance in America's presentation Forum in partnership with the Public Theater titled "Does Ma, John Lithgow, and Kelli O'Hara among others. of "Dinner with Balanchine," dancing Union Jack and Stars Culture Make Us Who We are," hosted by Anne Hathaway with In the fall ofzoo9, Woetzel helped create and began and Stripes.In October 1998, Mr. Woetzel appeared as one of guests including Bill Irwin, David Brooks and Oskar Eustis. directing the Jerome Robbins Foundation's New Essential the stars of the Cole Porter musical Jubilee in a special benefit In March zosz, Woetzel produced a panel with Works (NEW) Program, which supports choreographers performance at Carnegie Hall, during which he sang as well Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor ofCognition and and dance companies during the current financial crisis as danced. In May1999, he starred as Prince Siegfried in Peter Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, by giving grants to enable the production ofnew works. Martins' Swan Lake on the PBS national telecast "Live from and Dr. Ellen Winner, Professor ofPsychology at Boston In 2009, Woetzel launched as curator and director Lincoln Center." Woetzel also appeared in the zooz nationally College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, the new Studio 5 performance series at New York's City televised Live from Lincoln Center broadcast "New York City examining the current state of the arts in education. Center, which features in-depth examinations of today's Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years ofNew Choreography" Woetzel also hosted renowned artists Eric Fischl and most compelling dance artists and companies highlighted by on PBS and in the May zoos Live from Lincoln Center Chuck Close in a conversation about artists and their in-studio performances and demonstrations.In zoo9-2012, broadcast of "Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100." audience at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. guests included David Hallberg, Christopher Wheeldon, Woetzel starred as the Cavalier in the film version ofGeorge In June :on, the Arts Program for the first time Victoria Clark, Rob Berman, Angel Corella, Wendy Whelan, Balanchine's The Nutcracker", released in the winter of1993. curated multiple sessions at the Institute's premiere Edward Villella, among others; topics ofdiscussion ranged During his career, Woetzel frequently performed public program, the Aspen Ideas Festival. For nineteen from musical theatre to collaboration; and featured internationally as a guest star and was a visiting artist sessions, Woetzel brought renowned artists, policymakers, companies included American Ballet Theatre, the Paul with numerous companies including the Kirov Ballet arts administrators as well as leading Chinese cultural Taylor Dance Company and Dance Theater ofHarlem. and American Ballet Theatre. In his guest appearances, representatives for discussions, film screenings and In June ofzozo Woetzel piloted "Arts Strike," Woetzel danced principal roles in classics such as Don cultural exchanges focusing on how the arts impact society. a new effort to have celebrated artists engage educators Qpixote, Giselle, and La Bayadere, among others. Sessions included "Culture and Conflict" with Palestinian- and students, schools and communities, highlighting and Woetzel has choreographed a number of ballets born ballroom star and educator Pierre Dulaine and sharing the unique power of the arts to empower, enrich for New York City Ballet, among other companies. For New Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven; a conversation and educate. The first events have taken place in Vail, York City Ballet, he choreographed Ebony Concerto to between renowned producer Julie Taymor and former Chicago, and Los Angeles, and have all featured Woetzel Stravinsky, and Glazounov Pas de Deux to the composer's Disney CEO and current Aspen Institute Arts Program with Yo-Yo Ma in schools, engaging with students and Les Ruses d'Amour. Woetzel also choreographed the chair Michael Eisner; "Radical Creative Spaces" with their teachers to promote learning through the arts. "Polovtsian Dances" for New York City Opera's production architect Elizabeth Diller; "Arts and the City: Making Woetzel works with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road of Prince Igor, and in 1998, he choreographed and Cities Sing" with Rocco Landesman, Dennis Scholl, Darren Connect program in the New York City Public Schools. In starred in a new version ofAn American in Paris ballet Walker and Richard Florida; amongmany others. June zoio, Woetzel directed the culminating year-end event for Marvin Hamlisch's Gershwin Centennial Gala. Since wo6, Woetzel has been the Artistic Director which took place at New York's Museum ofNatural History, Woetzel is the recipient of a Choo San Goh award of the summer Vail International Dance Festival, where and featured the participation of the Silk Road Ensemble for new choreography. He serves on the Artists Committee he presents dance performances and commissions. He and 450 sixth-grade students. In June 2011, the culminating of the Kennedy Center Honors and as a judge for the Astaire has instituted a number ofinitiatives as director, including year-end event opened the Central Park SummerStage series. Awards. He has also served as a juror for the Princess Grace bringing the educational arts program "Celebrate The Tided "Night at the Caravanserai: Tales of Wonder," the Awards. Woetzel is a frequent speaker on the arts and arts Beat"—the Colorado associate of Jacques d'Amboise's performance again featured hundreds of sixth-grade students policy. Woetzel was the 2008 Harman-Eisner Artist in National Dance Institute—to the Vail Valley, to reach from New York-area public schools, Ma with his Silk Road Residence of the Aspen Institute, and in zoii, he became a local underserved children in the public schools. Ensemble, vocalist Bobby McFerrin, the soprano Emalie Savoy, member of the Knight Foundation's National Arts Advisory Under Woetzel's direction, the festival has actor Bill Irwin, and author Jhumpa Lahiri, among others. Committee. Woetzel also serves on the boards ofdirectors received wide acclaim for its innovation and growth as a In April zon, Woetzel organized an "arts strike" at ofNew York City Center, The Clive Barnes Foundation and nationally recognized showcase for dance, featuring such Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles with Yo-Yo Ma, The The Sphinx Organization, and served on the recent Harvard performances as the debut ofMorphoses/The Wheeldon Silk Road Ensemble, and Memphis looker Charles "Lil Buck" Task Force on the Arts.In November 20°9, President Company, and the launch of New York City Ballet MOVES. Riley. The event included a demonstration and workshop for Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee The annual International Evenings ofDance galas have more than one hundred elementary school students from on the Arts and Humanities. In July 2012, Woetzel was become renowned for Woetzel's curation of first-time the Los Angeles Unified School District. Highlighting the honored with the inaugural Gene Kelly Legacy Award—an partnerships across companies and countries, as well as the event was a first-time duet directed by Woetzel between Ma award jointly created by the Dizzy Feet Foundation and presentation of young, emerging stars making their debuts and Lil Buck, who performed a Memphis Jooldn' version of the Estate ofGene Kelly in honor of the booth anniversary in new repertory. In August 2012, The New York Tunes' The Dying Swan with Ma accompanying on the cello; the ofKelly's birth—for his contributions to the arts as a ballet Alastair Macaulay wrote that the 2012 Vail International performance was immortalized in a video shot by Spike star and director ofdance and music performances. Dance Festival presentations "were distinguished above Jonze which reached over one million views within weeks. Woetzel holds a Master in Public Administration all by catholic taste and brilliant programming. They merit In the fall of2010, Woetzel was a visiting Lecturer Degree from Harvard's Kennedy School ofGovernment. superlatives" and that the International Evenings I gala at Harvard Law School, where he co-taught a course Woetzel has been married to "was simply the best gala I have attended in decades." on Performing Arts and the Law with Jeannie Suk. Heather Watts since 1999. Writing the same week, Wendy Perron ofDace Magazine Woetzel was the artistic director of the New York State compared Woetzel to the legendary impresario Serge Summer School for the Arts School ofBallet from 1994-zoo7. Diaghilev, and praised Woetzel for engaging and educating Woetzel was a Principal Dancer at New York City audiences through spoken introductions to each work, and Ballet from 1989 until his retirement from the stage in 2008. for his commitment to collaboration with live musicians. At New York City Ballet, Woetzel had works created for him EFTA_R1_00553535 EFTA02039109 Stephen Wolfram WILL WRIGHT Stephen Wolfram has been responsible for three William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20,1960, in human intelligence into a system that is more powerful revolutionary developments: the Mathematica Atlanta, Georgia) is an American video game designer and than we thought artificial intelligence was going to be." computation system, A New Kind ofScience, and the co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now In 1986, he met JeffBraun, an investor interested WolframAlpha computational knowledge engine. part ofElectronic Arts.In April zoo9, he left Electronic in entering the computer game industry, at what Wright Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Arts to run "Stupid Fun Club", an entertainment think calls "the world's most important pizza party." Together Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders. they formed Maxis the next year in Orinda, California. age of20. Wolfram's work on basic science led him to a The first computer game Wright designed was SimCity (1989) was a hit and has been credited as one of series of fundamental discoveries about the computational Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was SimCity that the most influential computer games ever made. Wright universe ofpossible programs. Summarized in his best- brought him to prominence. The game was released by himself has been widely featured in several computer selling zooz book A New Kind ofScience, these discoveries Maxis, a company Wright formed with JeffBraun, and he magazines—particularly PC Gamer, which has listed have not only launched major new directions in basic built upon the game's theme ofcomputer simulation with Wright in its annual 'Game Gods' feature, alongside such research, but have also led to breakthroughs in scientific numerous other titles including SimEarth and SimAnt. notables as Roberta Williams and Peter Molyneux. modeling in physical, biological and social domains—as well Wright's greatest success to date came as the original Following the success ofSimCity, Wright as defining a broad new basis for technology discovery. designer for The Sims games series. The game spawned designed SimEarth (1990) and SimAnt (199ft. He co- Launched in 1988, Mathematica has revolutionized multiple sequels and expansions and Wright earned many designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with Fred Haslam and the way technical computation is done, and has been awards for his work. His latest work, Spore, was released in the meantime Maxis produced other "Sim" games. responsible for countless advances over the past two decades. in September 2008 and features gameplay based upon the Wright's next game was SimCopter (1996). Although Starting from a set of fundamental principles devised by model ofevolution and scientific advancement. The game none of these games were as successful as SimCity, they Wolfram, Mathematica has continually grown, integrating sold 406,000 copies within three weeks ofits release. further cemented Wright's reputation as a designer of more and more algorithmic domains, and spawning such He was born as William Ralph Wright "software toys"—games that cannot be won or lost. In 1992, technologies as the Computable Document Format (CDF). on January 20,1960, in Atlanta. He is ofFrench, Wright and his family moved to Orinda, California. Building on Mathematica and A New Kind of English, Italian, and Native American descent. Wright has a great interest in complex adaptive Science, Wolfram in 2009 launched WolframAlpha—an After graduating at 16 from Episcopal High School, systems and most ofhis games have been based around ambitious, long-term project to make as much of the world's he enrolled in Louisiana State University, transferring two them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson's knowledge as possible computable, and accessible to years later to Louisiana Tech. Beginning with a start at an The Ants, SimEarth: James Lovelock's Gala Theory, SimCity: everyone. Used every day on the web and through apps by architecture degree, followed by mechanical engineering, Jay Forrester's Urban Dynamic and World Dynamics, Spore: millions ofpeople around the world, WolframjAlpha defines he fell into computers and robotics. He excelled in subjects Drake's Equation and The Powers of Ten) Wright's role in the a fundamentally new kind ofcomputing platform that is he was interested in—architecture, economics, mechanical development of the concepts from simulations to games is turning science-fiction computer intelligence into reality. engineering, and military history—but was held back by his to empower the players by creating what he dubs "possibility In addition to his scientific and technical impractical goals such as language arts. His earlier dream spaces", or simple rules and game elements that add up to a achievements, Wolfram has been the CEO of Wolfram of space colonization remained, and was joined by a love very complex design. All Maxis, and later games that Wright Research since its founding in 1987. Under Wolfram's for robotics. After another two years at Louisiana Tech, in had a hand in designing, adhere to these design principles. leadership, Wolfram Research has become one of the world's the fall of1980, Wright moved on to The New School in Maxis went public in 199$ with revenue ofUSS38 most respected software companies, as well as a powerhouse Manhattan. He lived in an apartment over Balducci's, in million. The stock reached Sso a share and then dropped of technical and intellectual innovation, and a major Greenwich Village, and spent his spare time searching for as Maxis posted a loss. Electronic Arts bought Maxis in contributor to education and research around the world. spare parts in local electronics surplus stores. After one year June 1997. Wright had been thinking about making a virtual at the New School, Wright returned to Baton Rouge without doll house ever since the early 1990s, similar to SimCity his degree, concluding five years ofcollegiate study. but focused on individual people. Originally conceived During a summer break from college, he ofas an architectural design game called Home Tactics, met his first wife Joell Jones, an artist currently living Wright's idea changed when someone suggested the player in California, on vacation to her hometown ofBaton should be rated on the quality oflife experience by the Rouge. In an interview published in February 2003, Will homeowners. It was a difficult idea to sell to E.A., because claims that games were absorbing so much ofhis time, already 40% ofMaxis's employees had been laid off. he decided that perhaps making games was the way to When Wright took his idea to the Maxis board of go. Wright's first game was the helicopter action game directors, Jeff Braun says, "The board looked at The Sims Raid on Bungeling Bay (1984) for the Commodore 64. and said, 'What is this? He wants to do an interactive doll Wright found that he had more fun creating levels house? The guy is out ofhis mind.' " Doll houses were for girls, with his level editor for Raid on Bungeling Bay than he had and girls didn't play video games. Maxis gave little support while actually playing the game. He created a new game or financing for the game. Electronic Arts, which bought that would later evolve into SimCity, but he had trouble Maxis in1997, was more enthusiastic. Wright's games are so finding a publisher. The structuralist dynamics of the game different from E.A.'s other releases that it was hard to imagine were in part inspired by the work of two architectural and the two being united in the same enterprise. But the success urban theorists, Christopher Alexander and Jay Forrester. ofSimCity had already established Sim as a strong brand, "I'm interested in the process and strategies and E.A., which by then, fifteen years after its founding, was for design. The architect Christopher Alexander, in becoming a Procter & Gamble-style brand-management his book A Pattern Language formalized a lot of spatial company, foresaw the possibility of building a Sim franchise. relationships into a grammar for design. I'd really like to E.A. published The Sims in February 2000 work toward a grammar for complex systems and present and it became Wright's biggest success yet.It eventually someone with tools for designing complex things." surpassed Myst as the best-selling computer game ofall Wright, in an interview with The Times, time and spawned numerous expansion packs and other expressed belief that computers extend the imagination, games. He designed a massively multiplayer version and posits the emergence of the "metabrain", stating: of the game called The Sims Online, which was not as "Any human institutional system that draws popular as the original. By November 2006, The Sims on the intelligence of all its members is a metabrain. Up franchise had earned EA. more than a billion dollars. to now, we have had high friction between the neurons In a presentation at the Game Developers Conference of the metabrain; technology is lowering that friction on March 11,2005, he announced his latest game Spore. tremendously. Computers are allowing us to aggregate our He used the current work on this game to demonstrate intelligence in ways that were never possible before. If you methods that can be used to reduce the amount ofcontent look at Spore, people are making this stuff, and computers that needs to be created by the game developers. Wright collect it, then decide who to send it to. The computer is hopes to inspire others to take risks in game creation. the broker. What they are really exploring is the collective As for his theories on interactive creativity ofmillions ofpeople. They are aggregating design, Wright says the following: EFTA_R1_00553536 EFTA02039110 "Well, one thingI've always really enjoyed is making really designed for failure, which is also something games console of the Soyuz 23, as well as dolls, dice, and things. Out of whatever.It started with modeling as a kid, teach. I mean, I think that failure is a better teacher than fossils. During E3 wog he passed offan old lapel pin building models. When computers came along, I started success. Trial and error, reverse-engineering stuffin your commemorating the Soviet space program to a reporter. learning programming and realizing the computer was this mind—all the ways that kids interact with games—that's "I'm uncollecting. I buy collections on eBay, and I great tool for making things, making models, dynamic models, the kind of thinking schools should be teaching. And I disperse them out to people again. I have to be like an entropic and behaviors, not just static models. I think when I started would argue that as the world becomes more complex, and force to collectors, otherwise all of this stuff will get sorted." doing games I really wanted to carry that to the next step, to as outcomes become less about success or failure, games He once built competitive robots for BattleBots the player, so that you give the player a tool so that they can are better at preparing you. The education system is going with his daughter, but no longer does so. As of November create things. And then you give them some context for that to realize this sooner or later. It's starting. Teachers are woo, Wright still had remnant bits ofmachined metal left creation. You know, what is it, what kind of kind ofworld entering the system who grew up playing games. They're over from his BattleBots days strewn about the garage ofhis does it live in, what's its purpose? What are you trying to do going to want to engage with the kids using games." Oakland home. Wright was a former Robot Wars champion with this thing that you're creating? To really put the player Wright will appear as a character in the video game in the Berkeley-based robotics workshop, the Stupid Fun in the design role. And the actual world is reactive to their Mr. T, where he will team up with Mr. T to fight Nazis. Club. One of Wright's bots, designed with the help of Wright's design. So they design something that the little world inside Wright was given a "Lifetime Achievement daughter Cassidy, "Kitty Puff Puff", fought against its the computer reacts to. And then they have to revisit the Award" at the Game Developers Choke Awards in toot. opponents by sticking a roll ofgauze onto its armature and design and redesign it, or tear it down and build another one, In zooz, he became the fifth person to be inducted into the circling around them, encapsulating them and denying them whatever it is. So I guess what really draws me to interactive Academy ofInteractive Arts and Sciences' Hall ofFame. movement. The technique, cocooning, was eventually banned. entertainment and the thing that I try to keep focused on is Until zoo6, he was the only person to have been honored Following his work in BattleBots, he has taken enabling the creativity of the player. Giving them a pretty large this way by both of these industry organizations.In 2007 steps into the field ofhuman-robot interactions. solution space to solve the problem within the game. So the the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded "We build these robots and we take them down to game represents this problem landscape. Most games have him a fellowship, the first given to a game designer. Berkeley and study the interactions that people have with small solution landscapes, so there's one possible solution and He has been called one of the most important the robots," says Wright. "We built this newer one that has a one way to solve it. Other games, the games that tend to be people in gaming, technology, and entertainment by rapid-fire pingpong cannon. It will fire about to per second. more creative, have a much larger solution space, so you can publications such as Entertainment Weekly, Time,PC Gamer, So we give people this plastic bat and we say, 'It's set up to potentially solve this problem in a way that nobody else has. If Discover and GameSpy. Wright was also awarded the PC play baseball. Do you want to play baseball? It's going to you're building a solution, how large that solution space is gives Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in January zoos. shoot a little ball and you try to hit it.' And all ofa sudden the player a much stronger feeling of empathy. If they know In 1980, along with co-driver and race organizer it's like da-da-da-da, and it's pelting them with balls." that what they've done is unique to them, they tend to care for Rick Doherty, Wright participated in the U.S. Express, After building his reputation as one of the most it a lot more. I think that's the direction I tend to come from." a cross-country race that was the predecessor to The important game designers in the world, Wright in 2009 Wright believes that simulations as games Cannonball Run. Wright and Doherty drove a specially left Maxis, the Electronic Arts owned studio he founded. can be used to improve education by teaching outfitted Mazda RX-7 from Brooklyn, New York to Santa His first post-E.A. venture was the Stupid Fun Club. children how to learn.In his own words: Monica, California in 33:39, winning the illegal race. Wright In October zoto, Current TV announced that "The problem with our education system is we've only competed once in the race, which continued until 1983. Will Wright will produce a new show for the network. The taken this kind ofnarrow, reductionist, Aristotelian approach Since 2003, in his spare time, Wright has collected program, entitled Bar Karma, began airingin February ton. to what learning is. It's not designed for experimenting leftovers from the Soviet space program, "including a In October ton, Will Wright became with complex systems and navigating your way through too-pound hatch from a space shuttle, a seat from a a member of the Board ofDirectors ofLinden them in an intuitive way, which is what games teach. It's not Soyuz... control panels from the Mir", and the control Lab, the creators ofSecond Life. EFTA_R1_00553537 EFTA02039111 JOSHUA WURMAN c. Ns DOPPLER ON WHEELS I grew up in Pennsylvania, bereft ofany really meaningful on a research project and met my wife operating a weather opportunities to experience severe weather, hurricanes, even radar on an island off the coast ofHong Kong and conned real deep snow. As a youth, I tried to impress friends and her into believing that Oklahoma was just like Hong Kong. girls with my home weather station and insect collection. After receiving tenure and the implied lifetime sentence These efforts, among other factors, kept me well out of the at the university, I did the sensible thing: I quit and moved running for homecoming king. Naturally, I moved on to a back to Boulder and founded my own non-profit research party school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) institution, the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR). to search for a better social life. But hating schoolwork, I My wife and I run CSWR, manage the DOWs as National rushed through it, earning my MS at only n. Then after some Science Foundation (NSF) Facilities, and conduct research aimless additional years in school I dropped out for three programs such as the VORTEXa study and hurricane studies. years, working for the Air Force on nuclear winter computer We have four young children who, so far, show no unhealthy simulations and other cheery subjects. Returning to MIT, obsessive interests in tornadoes, hurricanes or radars. I've just I earned my Doctorate and moved to Colorado to work at finished the VORTEXa tornado study (http://vortexa.org), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on which is the largest tornado research mission ever, funded bistatic radar networks, a new type of weather radar system mostly by NSF, employing about izo scientists and crew in that I had invented. However, after seeing real High Plains so vehicles. We had " radars, 4 balloon trucks, UAVs, 40 thunderstorms dose up, and tornadoes, I got distracted deployable instruments, 13 mobile mesonets, photogrammetry and conceived ofbuilding a network ofbig, fast scanning and microphysics teams, damage survey teams, basically radars that could drive right up to tornadoes and fires, inside more of anything that used to study tornadoes scientifically. hurricanes, and into other nice weather. The DOW program Just imagine the lines for fuel and bathrooms in small- was born, and I moved down to Oklahoma to be a professor town gas stations. During WWW, I'll be keeping a nervous for a few years, chase tornadoes and hurricanes, file patents, eye out for any hurricanes threatening to make landfall. teach and write papers. In the middle of this, I traveled to Asia If a hurricane looms,I'll be leading my team into the eye. EFTA_R1_00553538 EFTA02039112 TELEPRESENCE CONVERSATIONS TENTATIVE MAO YUSHI Chinese economist, lot z Milton Friedman Liberty Award. (He wrote an online column criticizing the communist and totalitarian policies ofMao Zedong (Chairman Mao) in China, attacked by Maoists in China.) http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/index.html YA0 MING Retired Chinese basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets ofNBA; investor. TAN DUN Grawemeyer, Oscar, and Grammy awarding winning Chinese contemporary classical composer http://en.wikipedia.org/wild/TanGun ZHANG YONG HE Chinese-American architect, former head ofarchitecture at MIT. EFTA_R1_00553539 EFTA02039113 Richard Saul Wurman Described by Fortune magazine as an "intellectual hedonist" with a "hummingbird mind," Richard Saul Wurman seeks ways to make the complex clear. Recognizing at an early age that his ignorance is his greatest asset, he has made it his mission to sort through the abundance ofinformation that is available on every topic, and design the techniques to make it understandable. In doing so he has continually sought to put himself in the presence ofextraordinary people, including (all now all deceased), Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Jonas Salk, Eva Zeisel, Louis I. Kahn, Charles Eames, Frank Stanton and Schuyler van Renssalaer Cammann, and Arnold Toynbee. There are many others. The only two bosses he had who didn't fire him were Lou Kahn and Charlie Eames. As a result, Wurman has had many lives: as an author (83 books); FAIA Architect, 13-year partner in Murphy Levy Wurman Architects; cartographer (mapped 1/3 of the Mayan city of Tikal and current project 19.20.21.); teacher (Cambridge University, England; Princeton; Washington University, St. Louis; University ofSouthem California; University of California Los Angeles; City College ofNew York, and Dean, Cal Poly School ofDesign); urban designer (recipient ofMIT's Kevin Lynch award in urban design); graphic designer (AIGA Gold Medal, membership in AGI and inducted into the Art Directors Hall ofFame); information theorist (Information EFTA_R1_00553540 EFTA02039114 Anxiety, Follow the Yellow Brick Road) and in medicine (6 networks. In addition he completed many one-off projects, initiative that endeavors to standardize a methodology for books on healthcare and creator and chairman of TEDMED, such as his book Twin Peaks Access, which he co-authored comparative urban data. His Urban Observatory project aims 1995-201o), and as a conference convener. The path of this with David Lynch. Several of his books are in the permanent to establish, for the first time ever, a series of live and changing journey has been paved by one surface: his curiosity. collection of the Museum of Modem Art, New York. electronically connected urban observatories around the world. The acknowledged father of Information Wurman began his career in conferences in 1972 Wurman received both his B.Arch. and M.Arch. Architecture, Wurman has written, designed and published 83 when he chaired the International Design Conference degrees with highest honors from the University of books on a range of topics, while creating conferences and new in Aspen. He then co-chaired the first Federal Design Pennsylvania in 1959. While there, he was awarded the mapping projects. All contribute to a greater understanding of Assembly in 1973 and the national AIA Conference in 1976. Arthur Spayd Brooks Gold Medal, the Thornton Oakley complex information. They wring from his particular brand With each of these he changed the fundamentals of how Award for Achievement in Creative Art, z Chandler grants of innovation: doing the opposite of what is rote or expected. gatherings were run. All these helped his creative molding and two graduate fellowships. He has also been awarded a Wurman published his first two books in 1962. The of TED, TEDMED, and eg, the Entertainment Gathering. Guggenheim Fellowship in Architecture and Design, three first featured models ofso world cities all constructed on a Wurman created the TED conference in 1984, honorary doctorates, two Graham Fellowships and numerous uniform scale, the other was the first book to be written on which he chaired through the 2002 meeting. TED brings grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Louis Kahn. In 1967 he co-authored the first comparative together many of America's clearest thinkers in the fields 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient given by The statistical atlas of major American cities. His latest book is of technology, entertainment and design. He created the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design museum. He was called 33: Understanding Change 0 the Change in Understanding. eg conference in zoo6 and the TEDMED conference in recently given the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to It chronicles the adventures and musings of the eccentric main 1995, which he chaired through 2010. Other conferences Public Discourse by Trinity College Dublin, an honor shared in character, the Commissioner of Curiosity and Imagination. he created and chaired include California 101, TEDSELL, the past by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Aung San Suu Kyi. Wurman created the ACCESS city guides, using TEDNYC, TED4Kobe in Japan and TEDCity in Toronto. Wurman currently lives in Newport, RI graphics and logical editorial organization to make places such Now in 77, Wurman continues to quell his restlessness with his wife, novelist Gloria Nagy, and their three as New York, Tokyo, Rome, Paris and London understandable with a series of new projects. The WWW Conference will be an yellow Labradors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They to visitors. Other volumes he created focus on topics such as active gathering of some of the brightest thinkers of our time have four children and six grandchildren. baseball, football and the 1984 Olympics, the latter with over discussing the complexity of emerging patterns on our planet with 3.2 million copies sold. His road atlases employed similar in improvised conversation - intellectual jazz. In partnership techniques that elucidate U.S. geography and transportation with Esri and @radical.media,19.20.21. is a major cartographic EFTA_R1_00553541 EFTA02039115 MEMO TO PARTICIPANTS MEMO TO PARTICIPANTS re: CONVERSATIONS re: FUTURE APP As most of you are aware, I created TED in 1984 and I trust each of you has read my z4-point memo called pages, which of course nobody looks at. Basically it's junk chaired it through toot. During that time I created WWW Conference Conversation Guidelines with 2.4 points big data, and people mostly focus on one article and a TEDMED in 199$ and the eg Conference in 2006. For that I believe give the spirit of the meeting itself. I've wikipedia entry. The attempt here is to have the first primitive all those meetings I developed an 113-minute talk and had excellent response from many of you as well as development of a platform for beginning to assuage some a series ofrules called the TED Commandments. from sponsors and attendees. This memo addresses the curiosity in the beginning of looking at a visual biography of outcome of the conference, in other words, what I do with at least these so people. If the platform works it's scalable. Several of you have asked 'well what are the new the filming of these approximately 3o conversations. That's the idea of a new modality. Ifit works for people guidelines as they relate to the WVVW Conference'? perhaps it will work for healthcare and other subjects. 1 It will be filmed in black and white by a team directed 12 I'm putting together a team ofpeople consisting of Ali 1 Participants have all been sent the schedule by Jon Kamen and Sidney Beaumont [Email Redacted], Smolens, who will help curate some of the materials for listing the person with whom they have and John Halloran ofJohn Halloran Associates. many of you, Paul Kandarian, a magazine writer friend been paired, attached again below. 2 It will be unedited. There will be a camera on ofmine from Rhode Island, and three others plus Blaise 2 If you go to the participants page on the web each of the individuals in conversation, as well as a Zerega, CEO ofFORA.tv who has agreed to make some site, you can click on that person's name and link long camera on the three ofus sitting on stage. original, simple videos such as Frank Gehry walking around to his or her biographical information. 3 Michael Smolens and David Orban ofdotSUB will his office showing and discussing models of buildings that 3 I have developed a list of30 different premises or then translate it into perhaps to languages and add a he has not built, or variations of for instance the 8 Spruce postulations that will begin you in improvised conversation. running translation in English, which will address the Street tower in New York or hopefully Craig Venter's 4 I have tried this and it works. language needs of90% plus of the world's population. laboratories in a walk-through, E.O. Wilson's offices, etc. etc. 5 You will be facing each other on comfortable 4 This will live on a server and be accessed by 13 So this is a request for the following: please start thinking couches and not the audience. an app that has a release date at this juncture of t about the stuff that you've never shown: everything from 6 There will be approximately iso people in the December. The app will also contain a great deal of baby pictures, pictures ofyour pets, pictures of your office, audience, which will be comprised of fellow participants, additional information on each of the presenters. pictures of your home, things that make you real. Multiple guests and individuals invited by sponsors. 5 The additional curatcd stuff—photos, videos, photographs ofyourself, perhaps a strip ofphotographs of 7 Absolutely no preparation is necessary. and links is what this memo is focused on. you taken in a photo booth at an amusement park that you 8 You will not be selling a book, charity, project or religion. 6 Scrollmotion has already done two extraordinary have in a drawer. Writings that you've done that show your 9 As long as the conversation holds my attention and versions of the organization and design of this app. They edits, something that shows you're real, human, and shows my perceived attention of the audience, you will be in have offices in San Diego and New York City. your process. Pictures of your laboratories. Agree to have conversation. At the conclusion, I will with reasonable 7 There will be a series of unique videos on which I will somebody do a $- or to-minute walk through with you in your politeness call up the next two individuals. comment later, made where appropriate of you in situ. office or your lab or your place ofwork or your architectural 10 If the conversation is fabulous but goes on so long 8 The video of the entire conference ofcourse can studio. Videos or DVDs that for example I know Moshe as to potentially cause us to miss our lunch, I will also be accessed by pairings ofspeakers from a list and Safdie has which he makes to describe what a building will end it and the two ofyou can continue it over lunch. viewed as you would at the conference showing look like in computer graphics to a client. I know he has a 11 There will be no lectern but there will be a side individuals in improvised conversation. However, one fantastic one of an apartment house in Singapore. And I'm table for a cup ofcoffee or glass of water. could also double click on a single name and go into sure Bjarke has similar things that he generally does not 12 There is no strict time schedule but I will this visual biography ofeach of the participants. release. Covers ofbooks about you, covers of books by you. A attempt to keep the order of the final schedule. 9 The demo can be found at list of articles that you think critically describes you and links 13 On occasion I might take the liberty part way into http://vimeo.com/uservg92663/review/47187S45/19ddcst6fo to YouTubes or other videos or other citations that you think a given conversation to add a third person, another The password is WWW. It shows an extremely briefversion of and you have curated yourself that make you particularly participant or simply another member ofthe audience, C. K. Williams, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, in which you interesting, not the half a million available on line. Julie whom I know can add constructively to the conversation. cannot only see a bio, for which we will ask a major expansion, Taymor most have lots ofstuff as well as David Blaine. 14 The entire meeting will be filmed as inconspicuously but also photographs of the covers of a few ofhis it books. We 14 We hope to have this put together, along with the as possible from the far left and right of the stage would also like to have all ofhis books, which you will be able entire conference, for release by 1 December and promote and with one small camera in the audience. to order form the app, some outtake videos, not from the it immediately after Thanksgiving with the help of 15 At this moment there are no plans to live-stream conference but from other sources that we would identify, and IDG, Flipboard (Mike McCue), Esri, !IR and others. I any of the conference. There will be an app with access that you will identify, as well as, in the case of C. K. Williams, am going to ask for your cooperation out in Redlands at to a server to hold the conversations. It is planned that many pages, a few shown here, ofhis personally edited the conference and I will have additional copies of this this will be available on1December and will include a writings ofhis poetry—something you can't find on YouTube, and the other memo to give you when you register. running line of translation into several languages. a presentation or in a book, or perhaps anywhere but this app. 15 Attached are technical specifications for those of 16 The app will also contain a large body ofcurated 10 The idea of this app is to get a behind the scenes, you who understand them yourself. Otherwise please personal information about you. Further explanation behind the curtain, personalized journey through show them to somebody in your office under the age of about this will come to you next week. each individual, which will also have a list oflinks 30 who automatically understands them, who could help 17 I have personally worked out the breaks, lunches and to suggested articles, reviews, YouTubes and other us translate whatever you send us in a usable format. I dinners and I believe they will be of the highest quality and in material that will fill out this visual biography. don't understand them myself but I'm sure some of you rooms that will delight you, both at Esri and at The Mission Inn. 11This is an important point: if you Google Richard have a better handle on this than I do. These will make 18 Obviously there is a lot ofrisk about the Wurman, you come up with perhaps 450,00o citations. the process smooth and efficient and within budget. conversations, particularly the quality, spontaneity, The number changes daily. This would amount to 40,000♦ clarity, improvisation and surprise. 19 The goal is to find some threads that have not emerged before as you speak with your partner, which will encapsulate a type ofhonesty and a non- predicted path in response to each other. 20 This has happened in my several tests of this idea. 21 To repeat, I am endeavoring to make the filming, ambiance, location and lack ofpress all focus on your comfort and the quality of your experience. This above all is my concern and my goal. 22 Improvised conversation in this manner is a new form but a wonderful conversation is perhaps the oldest human media for creative discourse. 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