Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Chad A. Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, Prof. of Materials Science and Engineering, and Prof. of Medicine and the Director of the International Institute for...

Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. François Bourguignon, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics. He is one of the world's leading scholars on poverty and inequality.

Past: Social History - New Directions

Prof. Inga Clendinnen was an outstanding historian who focused on social history and the history of cultural encounters in the early modern period.

Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Sir John Pendry FRS, the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, is a condensed matter theorist.

Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Paul Alivisatos is the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Present: Retrieving the Past: Historians and Their Sources

Prof. Alessandro Portelli, a leading practitioner of oral history, is Professor Emeritus, Università di Roma "La Sapienza".

Future: Bioinformatics

Dr. Cyrus Chothia is Emeritus group leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, in Cambridge, U.K.

Future: Bioinformatics

Prof. David Haussler is a Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Scientific Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute.

Present: The Information Revolution

Mr. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and a member of the Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation.

Future: Bioinformatics

Prof. Michael S. Waterman is Professor of Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California.

Past: Retrieving the Past - Historians and their Sources

Prof. Peter R. Brown, a renowned humanist, is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, at the Department of History, Princeton University.