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Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio which conducts research in the field of game...

Associate professor of digital media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is also a poet, computer scientist, and author of interactive fiction.

Genius, political refugee, humanitarian, locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.

Born 14 September, 1486, at Cologne; died at Grenoble or Lyons in 1534 or 1535. One of the remarkable men of the Renaissance period. Described as a 'knight, doctor, and by common reputation, a...

Professor of Philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in...

A Finnish philosopher who is currently professor of applied philosophy at Aalto University and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group.

Peter Sloterdijk was born in Karlsruhe in 1947. 36 years later, in 1983, he became the shooting star of German philosophy with the publication of his early main work ‘The Critique of Cynical Reason’ .

A professor at Goldsmiths, University of London in the department of Visual Cultures, which she founded in 2002.

A historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.

The 2004 ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism. Benedikt directs the Center for American Architecture and Design.

A critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a...

Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological...

An American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An American scientist and W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the University of Memphis, TN and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems.

Lev Manovich is an Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego where he teaches new media art and theory. He is the author of The Language of New Media (The...

Ford is the founder and director of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC).

Associate Professor in the English Department and an affiliate faculty member in the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University.

Jacques Derrida's work originated the school of deconstruction, a strategy of analysis that has been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law and architecture.

An English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Plato, born in Athens around 427 BC, was considered to be one of the earliest philosophers. He lived during the Age of Synthesis.

French social and literary critic, whose writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading intellectual movements of the 20th century. In his lifetime Barthes published seventeen books and...

A famous social philosopher and "hyper realist," he is a leading critic of the postmodern culture, the economy of communication, and the media system.

Frank Hellemans teaches at the Media faculty of the Catholic College in Mechelen. He was editor of the literary magazine De Brakke Hond. He reviewed literary work for the weekly magazine Knack and...

Research Professor (lector) of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at HvA. Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate...