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WWW • WWW 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 will.i.am C. K. WILLIAMS EO WILSON DAMIAN WOETZEL STEPHEN WOLFRAM WILL WRIGHT JOSHUA WURMAN RICHARD SAUL WURMAN EFTA00315128  WWW • WWW SCHEDULE TUES18 Mission Inn Hotel and Spa 3649 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501 Tel: 951.784.0300 www.missioninn.com 5:00PM OPENING in the St Francis of Assisi Chapel at The Mission Inn RICHARD SAUL WURMAN YO-Y0 MA and wiLLam C. K. WILLIAMS AND STEVEN PINKER 7a0PM WINE and hors d'oeuvres in the Atrio adjacent to the Chapel 8:30PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn WED19 THURS20 ;EPT Esri Esri 380 New York Street 380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373 Redlands, CA 92373 Tel. 909.793.2853 Tel. 909.793.2853 www.esricom www.esri.com 7:00AM 'transport from the Mission Inn to Esri Conference Center 700AM Wansport from the Mission Inn to Esri Conference Center 7:15AM Coffee, Juke / Esti Conference Center 7:15AM Coffee, Juke / Esri Conference Center 8:00AM promptly 8:00AM promptly JEFFREY KATZENBERG and NORMAN LEAR CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK DAVID AGUS and ANTONIO DAMASIO PETER RAVEN and JACK DANGER MOND HERBIE HANCOCK and william MEGAN SMITH and NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE FRANK GEHRY and JOHN MAZZIOTTA 10:15AM BREAK—Esri Café, adjacent to the Conference Center 10:15AM BREAK—Esri Café, adjacent to the Conference Center 11:15AM 11:00AM E.O. 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 LUNCFI—Esri Café, adjacent to the Conference Center 1KIOPM LUNCH—Esri Café, adjacent to the Conference Center 2:45PM 2:15PM DANNY HILLIS STEPFIL', WOLFRAM DAVID BLAINE Ind JUL_ TAYMOR JOHN MAEDA and ADAM BLY MATT GROENING and DAVID BROOKS TODD OLDHAM and BJARKE INGELS 4:45PM BREAK—Esr Cafe. adjacent to the Conference Center 4:001'M BREAK—Esn Café. adjacent to the Conference Center 5:15PM Chinese Telepresence / Esri Executive Briefing Room 4:301",' Chinese Telepresence / Esri Executive Briefing Room 6:00PM 5:00PM YO-Y0 MA and DAVID BROOKS LISA RANDALL and SCO1 I BOLTON MARK CUBAN and DAN ARI ELY CRISTINA PATO QUINCYJONES and DAM AN WOETZEL EO WILSON and WILL WRIGHT 8:00PM 'transport to The Mission Inn 6:15PM GEOFFREY WEST and RICHARD SAUL WURMAN 8:45PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn 7:15PM 'transport to The Mission Inn 8:30PM FAREWELL DINNER in the Spanish Art Gallery at The Mission Inn EFTA00315129 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 of Navigenics, a personal genetic testing USC-NCI 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 of Medicine and Engineering chairs the Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Genetics for the at the University of Southern California. World Economic Forum, and speaks regularly at TEDM ED, 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 of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 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 of Health as a Award, the HealthNetwork Foundation's Excellence Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar. and the 2009 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 of Medical Oncology and head of the Laboratory of of proteomics and genomics for the study of cancer Tumor Biology. He was also Assistant Professor of and the development of new 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 of Science, American Association to the development and use of proteomic technologies to for Cancer Research, American College of Physicians, guide doctors in making health-care decisions tailored to American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society individual needs. The center grew out of earlier clinical of Hematology 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 we 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 of Simon and Agus also served as Director of the Louis Warschaw Schuster and is a New York Times #1 Bestseller. Prostate Cancer Center, and as an attending physician in the Agus is married to Amy Joyce Povich, actress and Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at daughter of syndicated television talk show host Maury Cedars-Sinai. He was also an Associate Professor of Medicine Povich. Her stepmother, Connie Chung, is a former CBS News at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). anchor. Agus' grandfather, the late Rabbi Jacob B. Agus, was a He currently is a Professor of Medicine and theologian and the author of several books on Jewish history Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the and philosophy. Agus has two children, Sydney and Miles. Viterbi School of Engineering 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?" EFTA00315130 DAN ARIELY Dan Ariely (born April 29,1968) is an Israeli American Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a second doctorate professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He in business administration at Duke University at the urging teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The of Nobel 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 2.8 million times. He is the author between 1998 and 2008, before returning to Duke University of Predictably Irrational and The Upside ofIrrationaliv, as James B. Duke Professor of Psychology 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 of Management. his father was studying for an MBA degree at Columbia Although he is a professor of marketing 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 ktovet esh Upside ofIrrationally: The Unexpected Benefits ofDefyingLogic (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the at Work and at Home. When asked whether reading Predictably flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could third-degree burns over 7o percent of his 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 of Advanced 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 of money, 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 of North EFTA00315131 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 of cancer treatment. Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he later became head He is chairman of the neurosurgery department and of UCLA's Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program. In 1997, director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at after to 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 of California, mother, Lillian, was a teacher and his father, Robert, was the Irvine School of Medicine from 1998 to 2003. In 2007 he 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 of media 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 "21 Most students at Case Western Reserve University, and then became Important People of the nst 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 250 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 of a heart surgeon the medical equivalent of closing in on baseball's all-time who had developed his own artificial heart valve, and I had a career hits record." (As of 2009, 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 of his 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 of sub-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 of Michigan 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 "alternat[esj incisive writing about incisions with degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1981. his personal memoir, insightful and inspirational." EFTA00315132  iNnne CHAVCI 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 of Penn & 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 of cards, 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 of ice 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, holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds. Jackson, and during the Super Bowl halftime show. Born in Brooklyn, Blaine discovered his passion for In 2010, Blaine performed magic for 7z hours magic at the age of four when he saw a magician perform straight in Times Square, raising nearly Stoo,000 for in the subway. His mother encouraged his passion and he relief efforts 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, fiancée, 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 a_t EFTA00315133  MICHAEL GLEN BLOCK Michael Glen Block (born May 250082) 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 of Music, Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby Cleveland Institute of Music, 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 musk from around the Regis and Kelly, VI-Ir., 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 Times, 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 i was completed in 2000. Jeremy Kittel, 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 2000, 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 2000. The Mike Block Band presents an exciting Mike has also worked with director Yaron Zilberman His non-classical writing has been and genre-bending combination of rock, classical, as a Music Consultant for Late Quartet", a 2011 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 4,2000, Mike Block was struck by Mike Block has served as musical director to honest lyrics, and a variety of musical influences. a NYC Taxi while walking at the corner of W85th 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 Lic Buck, actor/comedian Bill Irwin, such as Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall, Zakir Hussain, My broken rib, jaw, cheek, 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 is, 2012. EFTA00315134 ADAM BLY SCOTT BOLTON Adam Bly (born 1981 in Montreal, Canada) is founder Dr. Scott Bolton is the Director of the Space Sciences and CEO of Seed. He is the editor of "Science is Culture: Department at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + 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 of z6 as the youngest senior scientist and manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, where (JPL) for over 25 years. During his tenure as Director of Space he spent three years studying the biochemistry of cancer, Science at SwRI, Dr. Bolton oversaw the launches of New specifically the role of cell 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 of hardware for a number of non- 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 zom, "is the early years of Rolling Stone, when music was less a for the approximately 15o 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 Elastic Mind, 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. of Modern Art. Bolton has more than 30 years experience in the field of In 2007, Bly 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 198o, and Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen 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 Chritien, "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 Bly has lectured around the world on the future of scientific investigation of Saturn's moon Titan. Dr. Bolton has with a number of corporate 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 of Science, 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 of Health, the State Department, Jovian and Saturnian radiation belts, atmospheric dynamics innovative educational program, in partnership with the NASA, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, The and composition, and the formation and evolution of the Lewis Center for Educational Excellence, that provides an Museum of Modern Art, and The Academy of Sciences for the solar system. He has authored over iso 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 mu, 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 in 1994. He for hundreds of schools 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, 2001, and 1996, and Excellence in produced a number of musical concerts, art exhibits, scientific External Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Risk Management in woo; 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 of Science, the Communications Advisory Board with JPL and the California Institute of Technology through of musical artists developing both educational and musical of the National Academy of Sciences, and as an advisor to a special appointment as a Senior Staff Scientist. programs. He is one of the founding members of the Vangelis OECD's Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies. Dr. Bolton also leads a number of educational 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 of Science, 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 Ftio+zo United Nations Conference Dr. Bolton has dedicated developed educational programs on Sustainable Development. involving both formal and informal education including the EFTA00315135 DAVID BROOKS David Brooks (born August 110961) 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; belief of 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 of 2004, some of his opinion pieces suggested that urging the Chicago politician to run for president. However as contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monti* he had tempered his earlier optimism about the war. of December 2011 in 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 of reelection 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 nom, Canada—his father was a U.S. citizen living in Canada at the conviction of Scooter 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, 2006, 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 of Chicago, 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 of angry Palestinians new conservative writers, Backward and Upward: The New identified Brooks as the sort of conservative 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 Bobos 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 2000, 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 FItture Tense. 2008 running mate, Sarah PalM, 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 PalM, 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 of her 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 2011. York Times titled "No U-Turns", Brooks explained that the which he considers to be "in the middle of an Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal- amazing moment of improvement and repair." Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public 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 of 2006. 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 of Northwest 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 1983, he wrote a parody elections, which he considers the most important purpose that two people could claim to love each other and not of conservative 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 of going into crowded Brooks has been a frequent admirer of President 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 of Brooks, The moral case for marriage, including gay marriage." are reserved for extended bouts of name-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 of zoos: "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. LI 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, EFTA00315136  MARK CUBAN When Mark Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks on January 14, woo, 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 woo. 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 woo-or. season with a 53-29 record en route to their first playoffappearance in 11years where they became just the sixth team in NBA history to be down o-z and come back to win a five-game series vs. Utah in Round 1. Before the start of the zoos-oz season, American Airlines Center, the Mays new home, opened and Cuban co-founded HDNet, an all high-definition television network on DIRECTV channel 199 which launched in September 2001. 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 2002. During the Man 2001-02 campaign, the team continued their winning ways by finishing the season with a franchise-best record ofS7-25 and an NBA-best road record of27-14, 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, in1995, sellingit to Yahoo! in July of1999. Before Broadcast.com, Cuban co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, 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. EFTA00315137 ANTONIO DAMASIO Antonio Damasio (born February 25,1944 in Lisbon, Portugal) has been named by the Institute of Scientific Information as As a 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 Dornsife 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 takin