Participants * Aaron Swartz * Adam Flaherty * Adam Rutherford * Adrian Johns: Historian of science, media, and intellectual piracy. University of Chicago. * Alberto Conti: Astrophysicist, Community Missions Office Development Manager at NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD * Alex Palazzo: cell biologist, postdoc at Harvard Medical School, scienceblogger. * Alice Ting: chemical reporters for cellular imaging; MIT Chemistry Dept. * Allan Jones * Allen Fish * Allen Noren * Alph Bingham * Alyssa Goodman -Professor of Astronomy & Director of Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard * Andrew Walkingshaw - postdoc materials informaticist at the Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Cambridge. * Andy Fire * Anna Kushnir: Graduate student in Virology at Harvard Medical School; blogger, in science and beyond. * Ann Copestake * Ann Druyan * Anne Wojcicki * Anthony Finkelstein: Professor of Software Systems Engineeering at UCL. Interests in ultra-large scale modelling and 'model management' * Arnab Chatterjee (Arnab)–1996-2000 MChem, Oxford;2000-2004 PhD (electrochemistry, semiconductors, biosensing, novel materials);2004-2005 Spin Allowed-Science Communication Start up; 2005-present Exploratory Scientist, Shell Global Solutions International. Interests: Novel processes, green chemistry and catalysis, viable solar, biofuels, energy to bytes. * Arwen O'Reilly * Attila Csordas: stem cell researcher and biotech geek blogger. * Barbara Tversky * Ben Lorica * Bernardo Huberman * Beth Noveck - law prof, re-inventing collaborative govt institutions with visual, civic software, making policymaking accountable to science, founder, Peer to Patent open patent exam and State of Play VW research conf. * Bill Takacs * Bjorn Lomborg: skeptical environmentalist, adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School. Works on global warming (latest book is Cool It with Knopf, Sept 2007) and prioritizing the planet's scarce resources with Copenhagen Consensus * Bob Fleming: Inventor, Scuba Diver Assistance Devices (Affinity Devices), Implantable chips for therapeutic management and pharmaceutical monitoring (Proteus Biomedical), Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and communication (Aether Wire & Location); longtime partner with Cherie Kushner. * Bob Lee, aka "Crazy Bob" * BoraZivkovic, a chronobiologist, biology instructor, online community manager at PLoS-ONE, a Seed scienceblogger, editor of the Science Blogging Anthology and organizer of the Science Blogging Conference. * Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar), Chair of ETech and Where 2.0; Co-Chair of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, NYC, and SF * Brian Berman * Brian Cox: Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. I am a particle physicist working at CERN in Geneva. I recently worked on the science fiction film Sunshine, and I am in the process of making a documentary on Gravity for the BBC. I'm interested in popularising science in any and every possible way. * BrianDerby: Professor of Materials Science, University of Manchester, UK. Inkjet printing, Bioprinting, The Materials Science of Fine Art * Burt Rutan, Aerospace entrepreneur at http://www.scaled.com/ * Carl Bergstrom: evolutionary biologist and dabbler in bibliometrics at the University of Washington * CarlDjerassi playwright & novelist, emer. Prof. of chemistry, Stanford University http://www.djerassi.com * Carol Christian: Astrophysicist and SkyWatch NPR podcast Radio personality, Space Telescope Science Institute * Carole Goble : Prof of Computer Science at the University of Manchester; founding chair of the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute; Director of the myGrid/Taverna project and the myExperiment social network project for e-Scientists. Builder of workflow and knowledge systems for the Life Sciences, and pioneer in the Semantic Web and Grid Computing for Science. * Catherine Nolan, O'Reilly Editor, Head First Division, Author and Reviewer Recruiter for Head First Science and Math Titles (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus) * Charles Godfrey * Charles Simonyi * Cherie Kushner: Inventor, Scuba Diver Assistance Devices (Affinity Devices), Implantable chips for therapeutic management and pharmaceutical monitoring (Proteus Biomedical), Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and communication (Aether Wire & Location); Home Theatre HD fanatic; longtime partner with Bob Fleming. * Chinh Dang: Director of Technology from the Allen Institute for Brain Science. I am a part of the team that created the Allen Brain Atlas. * Chris Adami Evolution guy, secretely working on black hole physics * Chris Anderson * Christopher Clark, Director Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, biologist-engineer; scientific conservationist, acoustic communication in animals with specialty in large whales and the impacts from human activities on marine life. * Chris DiBona, Google Open Source Programs, Summer of Code, Palimpsest scientific data project. * Chris Stone: Systems Administrator, O'Reilly Media, Inc. * Chris Uhlik: Google Engineering Director * Christina Smolke * Christopher Voigt: DNA-based programs that run in cells; UCSF. * ChrisWiggins: Associate professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics + Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics * Clay Shirky * Corie Lok, editor, Nature Network and Nature Network Boston * Craig Nevill-Manning: Engineering Director, Google New York * Dale Dougherty * Dalton Conley * Dan Chudnov: librarian and programmer at the Library of Congress, developer of Canary Database, co-founder of code4lib * Dan Fay * Daniel Olguin Olguin: PhD Student and Research Assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory (Human Dynamics Group). * Danny Hillis: Chairman & Co-founder of Applied Minds, Inc. * Dave Carlson: at the centre of a large international science programme Int'l Polar Year, how do we communicate our science to the public using modern tools? * David Gallo: Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, ocean exploration, climate change and humanity, science education. * David Grinspoon, author, planetary scientist, astrobiologist, evolution of potentially habitable planets, science communication, guitar player, environmental ethics of space exploration, some TV and radio stuff. * David Hawkins: Director, Climate Center, NRDC. * David Mindell: engineer/historian, human/machine cooperation in the deep ocean and space flight, robotic archaeology in the deep sea, Director, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society. * David Pescovitz: Boing Boing, MAKE:, Institute for the Future * Dean Kamen * DeepakSingh: Strategist/marketer, physical chemist/structural biologist/bioinformaticist and blogger. Co-founder bioscreencast.com * Denise Caruso, The Hybrid Vigor Institute and The New York Times * Doug Church: video games, player expression, authorship through exploration and action. * DrewEndy: Make biology easier to engineer * DuncanHull: Biologist, Engineer and Author: Currently employed as a Research Associate/PhD student @ The University of Manchester, UK. * Duncan Wilson: engineer / designer working in foresight team for architecture / engineering firm Arup - interested in Drivers of Change in the built environment * Dwayne Spradlin * Ed Boyden: assistant professor, MIT Media Lab, MIT Biological Engineering, engineering the brain * Erez Lieberman * Eric Bonabeau * Eric Drexler, researcher and advisor to Nanorex and the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems. Currently studying stepping stones to advanced nanotechnologies and developing models to aid structural DNA nanotechnology. * Eric Lander * Erik Winfree: Assoc. Prof. of CS and CNS at Caltech, interested in coaxing DNA to perform algorithmic tricks * Esther Dyson * EuanAdie: bioinformatics blogger now at Nature * ErezLieberman Mathematician, genomicist, and author at Harvard/MIT. A bit of a generalist: I've done work designing everything from antibodies to NASA spaceshoes. * Eugenie Scott http://www.ncseweb.org Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc. We monitor the creationism/evolution controversy and support (primarily at the grassroots) efforts to keep evolution in the science classroom. * Eva Vertes * Fabien Campagne Bioinformatics at the ICB@Weill Cornell. Interests include biomedical information retrieval (twease.org), bioinformatics approaches to gene discovery (e.g., cancer markers, late onset alzheimer's disease risk factors), tissue expression similarity searches (TissueInfo & tiSimilarity). * Felice Frankel: science photographer and head of visual communication and teaching programs – http://www.iic.harvard.edu/people/felicef/ * Francis Pisani * Frank Rijsberma * Frank Wilczek: theoretical physicist, professor at MIT, widely curious * Freeman Dyson * Gabrielle Lyon: itinerant educator working on social justice and informal science education; particularly interested in issues of access for underrepresented populations and systemic change models; executive director and cofounder, Project Exploration http://www.projectexploration.org; expedition quartermaster * Gareth Redmond * Gary Flake * Geoff Carr: Science Editor, "The Economist" * Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef * George Church * George Dyson * Georges Natsoulis * Gia Milinovich * Glenn McGee * Greg Bear * Gregg Favalora, quasi-holographic 3-D displays for medical visualization & entertainment. CTO/founder @ Actuality Systems. Unable to attend this year. * Guido David Núñez-Mujica: Undergraduate Student, Biology/Computational Physics. Los Andes University, Mérida, Venezuela. Mathematical modelling of Trypanosoma cruzi's glycolysis, trying to create an OS community of biomedical research against Chagas' disease. Consultant in future studies for the Millennium Project of the ACUNU. Activist on scepticism and rational thinking promotion for the last six years. * Guillermo Cecchi: IBM Research, Computational Biology Center. Biology and/or neuroscience and/or physics. * Gustavo Stolovitzky * Hannah Milman * Henry Gee * Hod Lipson: Evolutionary Robotics and Personal Fabrication (see CCSL) * HughRienhoff * Jack Stilgoe * Jacqueline Floyd, Geophysicist (Seismology), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY, NY; Blogger, Editor, Publisher, ElementList.com * James Randi * Janis Dickinson Director of Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Assoc. Prof. Natural Resources * Jaron Lanier * Jean-Claude Bradley: Associate professor of Chemistry at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA - doing Open Notebook Science at UsefulChem * Jeff Hawkins: founder of Palm, Numenta, and the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, interests include, modeling neocortex, emergent properties of complex systems, understanding space and time, and mobile computing * Jeff Jonas * Jeff Marrongelle * Jim Hendler: Tetherless World Chair of Computer Science, RPI * Joe Rosen * John Durant * John Santini: scientist, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MicroCHIPS; developing implantable chips for drug delivery and biosensing * John Scalzi * John Wilson: advisor, California Energy Commission * JonathanEisen, evolutionary biologist, neophyte science blogger, and supporter of Open Access scientific publication. * Josh Knauer: Information Ecologist and Entrepreneur, MAYA Design * Joshua Napoli: Software Lead at Actuality Systems, maker of 3-D displays and software for surgical image guidance and visualization * Juliana Freire, VisTrails Group, School of Computing, University of Utah. Interests include scientific workflows and provenance, data exploration through visualization, scientific data management, large-scale information integration, web information systems. * Julia Whitty: author, environmental correspondent at Mother Jones, science and health blogger at The Blue Marble. * Kaitlin Thaney: Creative Commons, project manager for Science Commons, passionate about open access issues, curious about intersection of SW and life science research, former journalist * Kathy Giacomini- Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF; Chair, NIH Pharmacogenetics Research Network, research in pharmacogenetics of membrane transporters, http://www.ucsf.edu/dbps/faculty/pages/giacomini.html * Ken Buetow * Ken Nealson * Kevin Fong * Kim Stanley Robinson * Kovas Boguta * Krishna Subramanian - Structural Biologist/Bioinformatician Joint Center for Structural Genomics * Kunal Verma, Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs * Larry Brilliant * Larry Page * Laura Pence - Social Networking and Chemical Education, University of Hartford * Lee Smolin * Leslie Hawthorn * Lincoln Stein - http://stein.cshl.edu Genome informatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory * Linda Miller - Executive Editor, Nature and the Nature journals * Linda Stone - http://www.lindastone.net Writing, lecturing and studying attention; retired from Apple and Microsoft * Luciano Floridi: philosopher of information and information ethicist, Oxford. * Maddy Gaiman * Manu Prakash: Computer-scientist turned fluid-mechanician, Bug hunter. Interested in "physical" evolution-on-chip and merging the fields of Chemistry and Computing. Graduate Student at MIT Media Lab. * MarcAMartiRenom, structural computational biologist / bioinformatician and co-instigator of the Tropical Disease Initiative. * Mark Boguski http://www.markboguski.net/themes.htm * Mark Jacobsen, Managing Director, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures * Marsee Henon * Meg Stalcup: grad student at UC Berkeley-UCSF, science illustrator, just finished interning in bioterrorism at Interpol. * Martha Stewart * Melanie Swan, Futurist, blogger * Michael Kurtz: Observational Cosmology, Information Science. Founder of the ADS Digital Library. * Michael Shermer * Michael Weiss-Malik, Google Earth/Maps Software Engineer and KML Product Manager, co-creator of http://mars.google.com/, previously wrote software for numerous NASA Mars missions. Hit me up at michaelwm@google.com * Mike Halle, holographer, medical visualization at the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, trying to bring computational science and basic sciences together at the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard. * Mike Hendrickson * Moshe Pritsker: co-founder of JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), video-publication for biological research. Before JoVE, conducted research on stem cells and bioinformatics. * Natalie DeWitt * Natalie Jeremijenko * Nathan Myhrvold, CEO Intellectual Ventures * Nat Torkington, author, hacker, host of Open Source Convention and Energy Innovation Conference * Nathan Wolfe: Professor of epidemiology at UCLA. Uses molecular virology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology to study the biology of viral emergence. Currently working with subsistence hunters in regions of high biodiversity to establish a sentinel surveillance system to monitor the spillover of novel viruses into the human species. * NealStephenson - Author. Retired from Blue Origin. Seem to be spending most of my time on history, metaphysics, building things (welding, machining, composites), and swordsmanship. * Neil Ferguson: infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, Director of new Centre intended to make modelling more relevant to disease control efforts. * Neil Gaiman * Nikita Bernstein: CTO/Co-founder of JoVE (Journal of visualized Experiments). Interested in propagation of information within web-based social systems and its influence on political, social, and economic realities. * Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor, Nature. Author of Mapping Mars and Eating the Sun (forthcoming). * Pamela Silver: Professor Dept of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School and Director Harvard Univeristy-wide Graduate Program in Systems Biology * Pankaj Mehra Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs where I build large systems for information management and processing. First Lego League coach – a proud coach – of high-achieving "Claws," a team of 4 7th and 8th graders. * Pat Brown * PatTufts: Director of Research at Metaweb and looking for people who would like to share/publish data in Freebase. * Paul Flicek: Computational Biologist, European Bioinformatics Institute. Doesn't make Ensembl, makes Ensembl better with resequenced genomes and functional annotation. * Paul Ginsparg: Prof Dilettante, Cornell Univ * Paul Rothemund * Paul Sereno: Paleontologist, archaeologist, evolutionist, professor, University of Chicago, creator of TaxonSearch, president and cofounder of Project Exploration, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic. * Paul Upchurch: palaeontologist and biogeographer, University College London. * Peter Murray-Rust, Molecular Informatics, Cambridge. Chemical Markup Language, Semantic Chemical Web and XML-based publishing. blog * Pete Worden - Astronomer; Director NASA Ames Research Center; Space Exploration; Space Sciences; Space Security * Philip Campbell - Editor-in-Chief, Nature; Editor-in-Chief, Nature publications * PhillipTiongson, Filmmaker and Founding partner at Potion, a design firm that specializes in social, interactive surfaces * Pierre Lindenbaum, blogger, bioinformatician at Integragen * PZ Myers * Rahul Shendure - VP Product Marketing, Amyris Biotechnologies * Ralph Lorenz Planetary Scientist at JHU-APL * Ravi Iyengar * RichardAkerman: blogger and Technology Architect at CISTI, Canada's National Science Library and Publisher * Richard Jefferson: BiOS PatentLens CAMBIA Molecular biologist and founder of BiOS - Biological Open Source Initiative and PatentLens: science-enabled innovation for social equity. * Richard Satava * Ritu Dhand * Rob Carlson: Principal at Biodesic, which builds engineering tools for biology, focusing on molecular assays and biofuels; Director of Emerging Biotechnology at Bio-era. * Rob Pike * Roger Brent * Roger Brent: Understand intracellular information handling * Roger Magoulas * Rusty Bromley * Samantha Upchurch * Sara Abdulla, Chief Comissioning Editor (Opinion Sections)Nature. Formerly publisher of Nature Network, Macmillan Science Books and Online News Editor of Nature. * Sarah L. Keller: biophysicist studying simplified versions of cell membranes and torturer of premeds at the University of Washington, in Seattle * Sara Winge * Saul Griffith * Scott Mills Gray * Serena Batten * Sergey Brin * Shankar Subramaniam * Simon Field * Sir Martin Rees, Cambridge University: cosmology and speculative futurology. * Stefan Sagmeister: designer at http://www.Sagmeister.com New York * Stefan von Holtzbrinck * Stephana Patton, patent attorney, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP. Acquires, protects and defends intellectual property and conducts pharmaceutical life-cycle management, passionate about genetic resource and traditional knowledge issues - http://www.eapdlaw.com/professionals/detail.aspx?attorney=326 * Stephen Emmott * Steve Benner, co-founder of the fields of synthetic biology, paleogenetics, and evolutionary bioinformatics; Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution http://www.ffame.org/ * Steve Bryant * SteveJurvetson: geek. VC @ DFJ. rocket enthusiast. Interested in synthetic genomics, nanotech, quantum computng, atheism * Steve Silverman: 3-D Camera Developer/systems engineer for NASA and entertainment industry; also launched 5 sensors to Mars http://www.asc3d.com * Stuart Pimm, conservation science, saving biodiversity, remote sensing. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University * Suhky Dhaliwal * Summer Johnson. bioethicist researching nanotechnology and nanomedicine ethics, director of nation's largest ethics online training program * Suresh Neelagaru * Sydney Brenner * Tamara Munzner, CS prof at UBC doing information visualization * Ted Bianco * Ted Kaehler: computer scientist at Viewpoints Research, working educational software for the OLPC ($100 Laptop), a new small operationg system. Interested in AI. * Ted Kahn: CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning and founding director of the Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory (open source educational resource for improving science teaching/learning) http://www.designworlds.com; NMC: New Media Consortium Fellow http://www.nmc.org and CSTS Fellow, Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University http://www.scu.edu/sts/. * Ted Selker: Associate Professor MIT Media Lab, director of Context Aware Computing group, MIT director Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. * Terrie Miller: O'Reilly/MAKE Magazine and CitizenSci.com * Theodore Gray: Co-founder Wolfram Research, Inc, Contributing Editor at Popular Science Magazine. * ThomasGoetz: deputy editor, Wired Magazine * TimHubbard: Head of Informatics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK * Tim O'Reilly * TimoHannay: Director of Web Publishing at Nature, ex-neurophysiologist, co-organiser of SciFoo. * Tomi Pierce: Product Design, Research, Metaweb * Tonya Rutan * Tony Tyson - cosmologist, prof. of physics, UC Davis & director, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope http://www.lsst.org * Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Google * Vamsi K. Mootha: mitochondria, systems biology, translational genomics; Harvard Medical School * VaughanBell : neuropsychologist : mindhacks * Vijay Iyer * Vik Olliver : The RepRap Project, journalist, maker, longhair programmer, 3d modeller, rocket scientist & emergency medic * Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran * Vince Smith: Cybertaxonomy, Biodiversity informatics; Natural History Museum, London. * Vinod Khosla * Vint Cerf * Wally Gilbert * Yossi Vardi * ZachKaplan CEO Inventables http://www.inventables.com