Foo Fighters 2007

Foo fighters from Science Foo Camp 2007 http://www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/

  1. Adam Flaherty
  2. Adam Rutherford
  3. Adrian Johns: Historian of science, media, and intellectual piracy. University of Chicago.
  4. Alberto Conti: Astrophysicist, Community Missions Office Development Manager at NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD
  5. Alex Palazzo: cell biologist, postdoc at Harvard Medical School, scienceblogger.
  6. Alice Ting: chemical reporters for cellular imaging; MIT Chemistry Dept.
  7. Allan Jones
  8. Allen Fish
  9. Allen Noren
  10. Alph Bingham
  11. Alyssa Goodman -Professor of Astronomy & Director of Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard
  12. Andrew Walkingshaw - postdoc materials informaticist at the Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Cambridge.
  13. Andy Fire
  14. Anna Kushnir: Graduate student in Virology at Harvard Medical School; blogger, in science and beyond.
  15. Ann Copestake
  16. Ann Druyan
  17. Anne Wojcicki
  18. Anthony Finkelstein: Professor of Software Systems Engineeering at UCL. Interests in ultra-large scale modelling and 'model management'
  19. 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.
  20. Arwen O'Reilly
  21. Attila Csordas: stem cell researcher and biotech geek blogger.
  22. Barbara Tversky
  23. Ben Lorica
  24. Bernardo Huberman
  25. 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.
  26. Bill Takacs
  27. 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
  28. 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.
  29. Bob Lee, aka "Crazy Bob"
  30. 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.
  31. Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar), Chair of ETech and Where 2.0; Co-Chair of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, NYC, and SF
  32. Brian Berman
  33. 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.
  34. BrianDerby: Professor of Materials Science, University of Manchester, UK. Inkjet printing, Bioprinting, The Materials Science of Fine Art
  35. Burt Rutan, Aerospace entrepreneur at http://www.scaled.com/
  36. Carl Bergstrom: evolutionary biologist and dabbler in bibliometrics at the University of Washington
  37. CarlDjerassi playwright & novelist, emer. Prof. of chemistry, Stanford University http://www.djerassi.com
  38. Carol Christian: Astrophysicist and SkyWatch NPR podcast Radio personality, Space Telescope Science Institute
  39. 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.
  40. 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)
  41. Charles Godfrey
  42. Charles Simonyi
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. Chris Adami Evolution guy, secretely working on black hole physics
  46. Chris Anderson
  47. 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.
  48. Chris DiBona, Google Open Source Programs, Summer of Code, Palimpsest scientific data project.
  49. Chris Stone: Systems Administrator, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  50. Chris Uhlik: Google Engineering Director
  51. Christina Smolke
  52. Christopher Voigt: DNA-based programs that run in cells; UCSF.
  53. ChrisWiggins: Associate professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics + Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  54. Clay Shirky
  55. Corie Lok, editor, Nature Network and Nature Network Boston
  56. Craig Nevill-Manning: Engineering Director, Google New York
  57. Dale Dougherty
  58. Dalton Conley
  59. Dan Chudnov: librarian and programmer at the Library of Congress, developer of Canary Database, co-founder of code4lib
  60. Dan Fay
  61. Daniel Olguin Olguin: PhD Student and Research Assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory (Human Dynamics Group).
  62. Danny Hillis: Chairman & Co-founder of Applied Minds, Inc.
  63. 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?
  64. David Gallo: Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, ocean exploration, climate change and humanity, science education.
  65. 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.
  66. David Hawkins: Director, Climate Center, NRDC.
  67. 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.
  68. David Pescovitz: Boing Boing, MAKE:, Institute for the Future
  69. Dean Kamen
  70. DeepakSingh: Strategist/marketer, physical chemist/structural biologist/bioinformaticist and blogger. Co-founder bioscreencast.com
  71. Denise Caruso, The Hybrid Vigor Institute and The New York Times
  72. Doug Church: video games, player expression, authorship through exploration and action.
  73. DrewEndy: Make biology easier to engineer
  74. DuncanHull: Biologist, Engineer and Author: Currently employed as a Research Associate/PhD student @ The University of Manchester, UK.
  75. Duncan Wilson: engineer / designer working in foresight team for architecture / engineering firm Arup - interested in Drivers of Change in the built environment
  76. Dwayne Spradlin
  77. Ed Boyden: assistant professor, MIT Media Lab, MIT Biological Engineering, engineering the brain
  78. Erez Lieberman
  79. Eric Bonabeau
  80. 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.
  81. Eric Lander
  82. Erik Winfree: Assoc. Prof. of CS and CNS at Caltech, interested in coaxing DNA to perform algorithmic tricks
  83. Esther Dyson
  84. EuanAdie: bioinformatics blogger now at Nature
  85. ErezLieberman Mathematician, genomicist, and author at Harvard/MIT. A bit of a generalist: I've done work designing everything from antibodies to NASA spaceshoes.
  86. 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.
  87. Eva Vertes
  88. 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).
  89. Felice Frankel: science photographer and head of visual communication and teaching programs Ð http://www.iic.harvard.edu/people/felicef/
  90. Francis Pisani
  91. Frank Rijsberma
  92. Frank Wilczek: theoretical physicist, professor at MIT, widely curious
  93. Freeman Dyson
  94. 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
  95. Gareth Redmond
  96. Gary Flake
  97. Geoff Carr: Science Editor, "The Economist"
  98. Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef
  99. George Church
  100. George Dyson
  101. Georges Natsoulis
  102. Gia Milinovich
  103. Glenn McGee
  104. Greg Bear
  105. Gregg Favalora, quasi-holographic 3-D displays for medical visualization & entertainment. CTO/founder @ Actuality Systems. Unable to attend this year.
  106. Guido David Nœ–ez-Mujica: Undergraduate Student, Biology/Computational Physics. Los Andes University, MŽrida, 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.
  107. Guillermo Cecchi: IBM Research, Computational Biology Center. Biology and/or neuroscience and/or physics.
  108. Gustavo Stolovitzky
  109. Hannah Milman
  110. Henry Gee
  111. Hod Lipson: Evolutionary Robotics and Personal Fabrication (see CCSL)
  112. HughRienhoff
  113. Jack Stilgoe
  114. Jacqueline Floyd, Geophysicist (Seismology), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY, NY; Blogger, Editor, Publisher, ElementList.com
  115. James Randi
  116. Janis Dickinson Director of Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Assoc. Prof. Natural Resources
  117. Jaron Lanier
  118. Jean-Claude Bradley: Associate professor of Chemistry at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA - doing Open Notebook Science at UsefulChem
  119. 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
  120. Jeff Jonas
  121. Jeff Marrongelle
  122. Jim Hendler: Tetherless World Chair of Computer Science, RPI
  123. Joe Rosen
  124. John Durant
  125. John Santini: scientist, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MicroCHIPS; developing implantable chips for drug delivery and biosensing
  126. John Scalzi
  127. John Wilson: advisor, California Energy Commission
  128. JonathanEisen, evolutionary biologist, neophyte science blogger, and supporter of Open Access scientific publication.
  129. Josh Knauer: Information Ecologist and Entrepreneur, MAYA Design
  130. Joshua Napoli: Software Lead at Actuality Systems, maker of 3-D displays and software for surgical image guidance and visualization
  131. 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.
  132. Julia Whitty: author, environmental correspondent at Mother Jones, science and health blogger at The Blue Marble.
  133. 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
  134. 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
  135. Ken Buetow
  136. Ken Nealson
  137. Kevin Fong
  138. Kim Stanley Robinson
  139. Kovas Boguta
  140. Krishna Subramanian - Structural Biologist/Bioinformatician Joint Center for Structural Genomics
  141. Kunal Verma, Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs
  142. Larry Brilliant
  143. Larry Page
  144. Laura Pence - Social Networking and Chemical Education, University of Hartford
  145. Lee Smolin
  146. Leslie Hawthorn
  147. Lincoln Stein - http://stein.cshl.edu Genome informatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  148. Linda Miller - Executive Editor, Nature and the Nature journals
  149. Linda Stone - http://www.lindastone.net Writing, lecturing and studying attention; retired from Apple and Microsoft
  150. Luciano Floridi: philosopher of information and information ethicist, Oxford.
  151. Maddy Gaiman
  152. 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.
  153. MarcAMartiRenom, structural computational biologist / bioinformatician and co-instigator of the Tropical Disease Initiative.
  154. Mark Boguski http://www.markboguski.net/themes.htm
  155. Mark Jacobsen, Managing Director, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
  156. Marsee Henon
  157. Meg Stalcup: grad student at UC Berkeley-UCSF, science illustrator, just finished interning in bioterrorism at Interpol.
  158. Martha Stewart
  159. Melanie Swan, Futurist, blogger
  160. Michael Kurtz: Observational Cosmology, Information Science. Founder of the ADS Digital Library.
  161. Michael Shermer
  162. 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
  163. 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.
  164. Mike Hendrickson
  165. Moshe Pritsker: co-founder of JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), video-publication for biological research. Before JoVE, conducted research on stem cells and bioinformatics.
  166. Natalie DeWitt
  167. Natalie Jeremijenko
  168. Nathan Myhrvold, CEO Intellectual Ventures
  169. Nat Torkington, author, hacker, host of Open Source Convention and Energy Innovation Conference
  170. 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.
  171. NealStephenson - Author. Retired from Blue Origin. Seem to be spending most of my time on history, metaphysics, building things (welding, machining, composites), and swordsmanship.
  172. Neil Ferguson: infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, Director of new Centre intended to make modelling more relevant to disease control efforts.
  173. Neil Gaiman
  174. 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.
  175. Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor, Nature. Author of Mapping Mars and Eating the Sun (forthcoming).
  176. Pamela Silver: Professor Dept of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School and Director Harvard Univeristy-wide Graduate Program in Systems Biology
  177. 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.
  178. Pat Brown
  179. PatTufts: Director of Research at Metaweb and looking for people who would like to share/publish data in Freebase.
  180. Paul Flicek: Computational Biologist, European Bioinformatics Institute. Doesn't make Ensembl, makes Ensembl better with resequenced genomes and functional annotation.
  181. Paul Ginsparg: Prof Dilettante, Cornell Univ
  182. Paul Rothemund
  183. Paul Sereno: Paleontologist, archaeologist, evolutionist, professor, University of Chicago, creator of TaxonSearch, president and cofounder of Project Exploration, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic.
  184. Paul Upchurch: palaeontologist and biogeographer, University College London.
  185. Peter Murray-Rust, Molecular Informatics, Cambridge. Chemical Markup Language, Semantic Chemical Web and XML-based publishing. blog
  186. Pete Worden - Astronomer; Director NASA Ames Research Center; Space Exploration; Space Sciences; Space Security
  187. Philip Campbell - Editor-in-Chief, Nature; Editor-in-Chief, Nature publications
  188. PhillipTiongson, Filmmaker and Founding partner at Potion, a design firm that specializes in social, interactive surfaces
  189. Pierre Lindenbaum, blogger, bioinformatician at Integragen
  190. PZ Myers
  191. Rahul Shendure - VP Product Marketing, Amyris Biotechnologies
  192. Ralph Lorenz Planetary Scientist at JHU-APL
  193. Ravi Iyengar
  194. RichardAkerman: blogger and Technology Architect at CISTI, Canada's National Science Library and Publisher
  195. Richard Jefferson: BiOS PatentLens CAMBIA Molecular biologist and founder of BiOS - Biological Open Source Initiative and PatentLens: science-enabled innovation for social equity.
  196. Richard Satava
  197. Ritu Dhand
  198. Rob Carlson: Principal at Biodesic, which builds engineering tools for biology, focusing on molecular assays and biofuels; Director of Emerging Biotechnology at Bio-era.
  199. Rob Pike
  200. Roger Brent
  201. Roger Brent: Understand intracellular information handling
  202. Roger Magoulas
  203. Rusty Bromley
  204. Samantha Upchurch
  205. Sara Abdulla, Chief Comissioning Editor (Opinion Sections)Nature. Formerly publisher of Nature Network, Macmillan Science Books and Online News Editor of Nature.
  206. Sarah L. Keller: biophysicist studying simplified versions of cell membranes and torturer of premeds at the University of Washington, in Seattle
  207. Sara Winge
  208. Saul Griffith
  209. Scott Mills Gray
  210. Serena Batten
  211. Sergey Brin
  212. Shankar Subramaniam
  213. Simon Quellen Field, author, blogger, entrepreneur – That guy with the science toys, who was handing out light sticks and ultraviolet LEDs.
  214. Sir Martin Rees, Cambridge University: cosmology and speculative futurology.
  215. Stefan Sagmeister: designer at http://www.Sagmeister.com New York
  216. Stefan von Holtzbrinck
  217. 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
  218. Stephen Emmott
  219. 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/
  220. Steve Bryant
  221. SteveJurvetson: geek. VC @ DFJ. rocket enthusiast. Interested in synthetic genomics, nanotech, quantum computng, atheism
  222. Steve Silverman: 3-D Camera Developer/systems engineer for NASA and entertainment industry; also launched 5 sensors to Mars http://www.asc3d.com
  223. Stuart Pimm, conservation science, saving biodiversity, remote sensing. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
  224. Suhky Dhaliwal
  225. Summer Johnson. bioethicist researching nanotechnology and nanomedicine ethics, director of nation's largest ethics online training program
  226. Suresh Neelagaru
  227. Sydney Brenner
  228. Tamara Munzner, CS prof at UBC doing information visualization
  229. Ted Bianco
  230. Ted Kaehler: computer scientist at Viewpoints Research, working educational software for the OLPC ($100 Laptop), a new small operationg system. Interested in AI.
  231. 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/.
  232. Ted Selker: Associate Professor MIT Media Lab, director of Context Aware Computing group, MIT director Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project.
  233. Terrie Miller: O'Reilly/MAKE Magazine and CitizenSci.com
  234. Theodore Gray: Co-founder Wolfram Research, Inc, Contributing Editor at Popular Science Magazine.
  235. ThomasGoetz: deputy editor, Wired Magazine
  236. TimHubbard: Head of Informatics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
  237. Tim O'Reilly
  238. TimoHannay: Director of Web Publishing at Nature, ex-neurophysiologist, co-organiser of SciFoo.
  239. Tomi Pierce: Product Design, Research, Metaweb
  240. Tonya Rutan
  241. Tony Tyson - cosmologist, prof. of physics, UC Davis & director, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope http://www.lsst.org
  242. Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Google
  243. Vamsi K. Mootha: mitochondria, systems biology, translational genomics; Harvard Medical School
  244. VaughanBell : neuropsychologist : mindhacks
  245. Vijay Iyer
  246. Vik Olliver : The RepRap Project, journalist, maker, longhair programmer, 3d modeller, rocket scientist & emergency medic
  247. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
  248. Vince Smith: Cybertaxonomy, Biodiversity informatics; Natural History Museum, London.
  249. Vinod Khosla
  250. Vint Cerf
  251. Wally Gilbert
  252. Yossi Vardi
  253. ZachKaplan CEO Inventables http://www.inventables.com