11.397 BENOIT MANDELBROT

FRENCH AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN. FATHER OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY. MANDELBROT COINED THE TERM FRACTAL AND PUBLISHED HIS IDEAS IN LES OBJETS FRACTALS, FORME, HASARD ET DIMENSION (1975; AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION FRACTALS: FORM, CHANCE AND DIMENSION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1977). HE BELIEVED THAT FRACTALS, FAR FROM BEING UNNATURAL, WERE IN MANY WAYS MORE INTUITIVE AND NATURAL THAN THE ARTIFICIALLY SMOOTH OBJECTS OF TRADITIONAL EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY. HE PUBLISHED THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF NATURE ACCESSIBLE TO NON-SPECIALISTS. WHERE HE STATED CLOUDS ARE NOT SPHERES, MOUNTAINS ARE NOT CONES, COASTLINES ARE NOT CIRCLES, AND BARK IS NOT SMOOTH, NOR DOES LIGHTNING TRAVEL IN A STRAIGHT LINE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY

10.367 BILL GATES

BILL GATES. AMERICAN CHAIRMAN OF MICROSOFT, THE SOFTWARE COMPANY HE FOUNDED WITH PAUL ALLEN. DURING HIS CAREER AT MICROSOFT, GATES HELD THE POSITIONS OF CEO AND CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT. HE HAS ALSO AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED SEVERAL BOOKS. WITH PAUL ALLEN HE DEVELOPED AN ALTAIR EMULATOR THAT RAN ON A MINICOMPUTER, AND THEN THE BASIC INTERPRETER. IT RESULTED IN A DEAL WITH MIT TO DISTRIBUTE THE INTERPRETER AS ALTAIR BASIC. AFTER THAT THEY NAMED THEIR PARTNERSHIP "MICRO-SOFT" AND GATES NEVER RETURNED TO HARVARD TO COMPLETE HIS STUDIES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.364 JAMES WATSON

10.361 RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. MEXICAN-CANADIAN ELECTRONIC ARTIST WHO WORKS WITH IDEAS FROM ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGICAL THEATER AND PERFORMANCE. RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER IS BEST KNOWN FOR CREATING THEATRICAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES. USING ROBOTICS, REAL-TIME COMPUTER GRAPHICS, FILM PROJECTIONS, POSITIONAL SOUND, INTERNET LINKS, CELL PHONE INTERFACES, VIDEO AND ULTRASONIC SENSORS, LED SCREENS AND OTHER DEVICES, HIS INSTALLATIONS SEEK TO INTERRUPT THE INCREASINGLY HOMOGENIZED URBAN CONDITION BY PROVIDING CRITICAL PLATFORMS FOR PARTICIPATION. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.327 DONNA HARAWAY

DONNA HARAWAY. PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF, PRIMATE VISIONS: GENDER, RACE, AND NATURE IN THE WORLD OF MODERN SCIENCE (1989), SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN: THE REINVENTION OF NATURE (1991), MODEST WITNESS@SECOND MILLENIUM. FEMALEMAN MEETS ONCOMOUSE: FEMINISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE (1997), THE COMPANION SPECIES MANIFESTO: DOGS, PEOPLE, AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS (2003), AND WHEN SPECIES MEET (2008). SHE LIVED IN PARIS FOR A YEAR, STUDYING PHILOSOPHIES OF EVOLUTION. PHD AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. HARAWAY IS A LEADING THINKER ABOUT PEOPLE'S LOVE AND HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MACHINES. HER IDEAS HAVE SPARKED AN EXPLOSION OF DEBATE IN AREAS AS DIVERSE AS PRIMATOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.315 DANAH ZOHAR

BRUNO LATOUR

BRUNO LATOUR (SOCIOLOGIST OF SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGIST). HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BOOKS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN (1991; ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1993), LABORATORY LIFE (WITH STEVE WOOLGAR, 1979) AND SCIENCE IN ACTION (1987). ALONG WITH MICHEL CALLON AND JOHN LAW, LATOUR IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY DEVELOPERS OF ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT), A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH INFLUENCED BY THE ETHNOMETHODOLOGY OF HAROLD GARFINKEL, THE GENERATIVE SEMIOTICS OF GREIMAS, AND (MORE RECENTLY) THE SOCIOLOGY OF DURKHEIM'S RIVAL GABRIEL TARDE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.