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Ariel Procaccia on economics and computation

Ariel Procaccia is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2014), the (inaugural)...

Suzana Herculano-Houzel on cognitive ability and brain size

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she heads the Laboratory of Comparative Neuroanatomy. She is a Scholar of the James McDonnell Foundation, and a Scientist of the Brazilian National Research...

Martin Hilbert on the world’s information capacity

Martin Hilbert pursues a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the role of information, communication, and knowledge in the development of complex social systems. He holds doctorates in Economics and Social Sciences, and in Communication, a life-long appointment as Economic Affairs Officer...

Thomas Bolander on self-reference and agent introspection

Thomas Bolander, Ph.D., is associate professor at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark. He is doing research in logic and artificial intelligence with primary focus on the use of logic to model human-like planning, reasoning and problem solving. Of special...

Jonathan Millen on covert channel communication

Jonathan Millen started work at the MITRE Corporation in 1969, after graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He retired from MITRE in 2012 as a Senior Principal in the Information Security Division. From 1997 to 2004...

Wolf Kohn on hybrid systems control

Dr. Wolf Kohn is the Chief Scientist at Atigeo, LLC, and a Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the founder and co-founder of two successful start-up companies: Clearsight Systems, Corp., and Kohn-Nerode,...