People Contributing to Edge.org
Karl Sabbagh
Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper Productions; Author, The Antisemitism Wars: How the British Media Failed Their Public
Todd C. Sacktor
Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
Jacob E. Safra
Swiss investor, is the Chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica, and owner of Spring Mountain Vineyards
Dorion Sagan
writer and sleight-of-hand magician
Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran
Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.
Maria Laura Salinas
former National Sales Director, TV Azteca, Mexico
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
President and CEO of Grupo Salinas and Grupo Elektra
Buddhini Samarasinghe
Molecular Biologist
Scott Sampson
President & CEO, Science World British Columbia; Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author, How To Raise A Wild Child
Larry Sanger
Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium
Laurie R. Santos
Professor of Psychology, Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center, Yale University
Robert Sapolsky
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
Dimitar D. Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; Author, The Life of Super-Earths
Raul Saucedo
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder
Rebecca Saxe
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT
Roger Schank
CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University; Author, Make School Meaningful-And Fun!
René Scheu
Editor-in-chief, Feuilleton of Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Maximilian Schich
Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas
Frank Schirrmacher
Influential German journalist, essayist, best-selling author
Gavin Schmidt
Climatologist; Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Simone Schnall
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Stephen Schneider
climatologist, is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
Susan Schneider
Director, AI, Mind and Society Group, The University of Connecticut; Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress; Author, Artificial You
Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Jonathan Schooler
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathryn Schulz
journalist
Peter Schwartz
Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com; Author, Inevitable Surprises
Adrian Scott
Founder, Rayz
Paul Seabright
Economics Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse; Author, The War of the Sexes
Al Seckel
Cognitive neuroscientist; Author, Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception
Gino Segre
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Author, The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Charles Seife
Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former Journalist, Science Magazine; Author, Hawking Hawking
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-author (with Patricia Churchland), The Computational Brain
Martin Seligman
Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Flourish
David Moinina Sengeh
Doctoral student, MIT Media Lab; Researcher; President, Global Minimum Inc.
Eldar Shafir
William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Ph.D., Princeton University; Co-author, Scarcity
Murray Shanahan
Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London; Author, The Technological Singularity
Robert Shapiro
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research Scientist, New York University; Author, Planetary Dreams
Rupert Sheldrake
biologist and author
Michael Shermer
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific American; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University; Author, Heavens on Earth
Clay Shirky
Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate School of Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP); Author, Cognitive Surplus
Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute; Author, Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Neil Shubin
As a paleontologist and Associate Dean of a major medical school; Author, Some Assembly Required
Olivier Sibony
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School; Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris; Guest Lecturer, London Business School; Author, You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake!
Ludwig Siegele
Technology Editor, The Economist
Karl Sigmund
Professor of Mathematics, University of Vienna; Author, Exact Thinking in Demented Times
Todd Siler
Founder and director of Psi-Phi Communications
Lee M. Silver
professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology
Karoly Simonyi
Scholar-Educator; Physicist
Charles Simonyi
Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Jeff Skoll
Founder of Participant Media; Producer, "Lincoln"
John R. Skoyles
researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain
Kevin Slavin
Assistant Professor and Founder, Playful Systems, MIT Media Lab
Edward Slingerland
Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition, University of British Columbia; Author, Drunk
Gerald Smallberg
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off Broadway Productions, Charter Members; The Gold Ring
John Smart
chairman of the Institute for Accelerating Change
Richard Smith
"perhaps the nation's most vocal authority on data privacy"
Monica L. Smith
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA; Author, Cities
Barry C. Smith
Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of Advanced Study University of London
Laurence C. Smith
Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University; Author, Rivers of Power
Lee Smolin
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
George Smoot
experimental astrophysics and observational cosmology
Allan Snyder
Director of The Centre for the Minds
Alan Sokal
Mathematics Professor, University College London; Physics Professor, NYU
Galia Solomonoff
Architect; Solomonoff Architecture Studio
Michael Specter
Staff writer at The New Yorker
Elizabeth Spelke
Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative
Dan Sperber
Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris; Co-author (with Deirdre Wilson), Meaning and Relevance; and (with Hugo Mercier), The Enigma of Reason
Maria Spiropulu
Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology; Founder, AQT/INQNET
Mark Stahlman
Newmedia Laboratory
Tom Standage
Business Affairs Editor, The Economist; Author, The Edible History of the Humanity
Nina Stegeman
Associate Editor, EDGE; Project Manager, Brockman, Inc.
Bob Stein
Computer scientist; Multi-media pioneer; Founder of The Voyager Company
Paul J. Steinhardt
Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Coauthor, Endless Universe
Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades
Gerd Stern
Media artist and cheese maven and the author
Stephen J. Stich
Board of Governors Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Victoria Stodden
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cliff Stoll
Astrophysicist and the author of Silicon Snake Oil (1995) and The Cuckoo's Egg (1989).
Linda Stone
Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple Computer and Microsoft Corporation
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
Barbara Strauch
Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain; The Primal Teen
Christopher Stringer
Paleoanthropologist; Author, Lone Survivors
Mustafa Suleyman
Head of Applied AI, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies
Frank J. Sulloway
the author of Freud, Biologist of the Mind
Seirian Sumner
Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London
Cass R. Sunstein
Legal Scholar; Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard; Fmr, Administrator of White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Co-Author, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Leonard Susskind
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford; Author, The Theoretical Minimum series
Rory Sutherland
Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, the Spectator; Author, Alchemy
John Swain
physicist at Northeastern
Melanie Swan
Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social Research
Kara Swisher
Co-Executive Editor
Christopher Sykes