COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Economist
- Principal, St Hugh 's College, University of Oxford
Andrew Dilnot, economist and broadcaster, is Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He was the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on the beauty of numbers, "More or Less", and presents television documentaries about the economy for Channel 4. He was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. More » In addition, he has served on the board of the National Consumer Council and the government's review committee on the balance between central and local government finance. He has served on the Social Security Advisory Committee, the Retirement Income Inquiry, the Rowntree Committee on the future costs of long-term care, the Ageing Population Foresight panel, and the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, the Swansea Institute of Higher Education and the Institute of Actuaries, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from City University. His main research interests lie in government economic policy as it affects individuals, companies, and the wider economy. He has published widely in these areas. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to economics and economic policy. Less »
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- Content Manager, Wolfram Alpha
C. Alan Joyce is the Content Manager for socioeconomic data in Wolfram|Alpha. He was previously Editorial Director for World Almanac Books and Editor-in-Chief of the #1 bestselling The World Almanac and Book of Facts, and is the former Executive Editor of The New York Times Almanac and The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge.
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- Graphics Developer, Wolfram Research
Chris Carlson started his computer graphics career developing molecular graphics applications at the Max Planck and European Molecular Biology laboratories in Germany. After a brief stint at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Austria, where he taught logic programming and collaborated on art and technology projects, he joined the User Interfaces group at Wolfram Research as an interactive graphics developer. More » He was responsible for the interactive graphics functionality that premiered in Version 6, and is currently interested in applications of Mathematica in architecture and design. Less »
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Strategic Director
- Strategic Director of Wolfram Research
Conrad Wolfram is strategic director of Wolfram Research as well as its European founder and managing director. A recurring theme of the technical and business directions he leads has been the democratisation of computation through automation and interactivity. More » He argues that this direction will be increasingly important as science and mathematics continue to gain significance for everyday living, and that in turn this fundamentally changes how we should teach maths. Less »
Job Titles:
- Professor of Mathematical Sciences
John D. Barrow, FRS, is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a programme to improve the teaching, learning, and appreciation of mathematics and its applications. He is also the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. More » His research interests are in cosmology and the interface between particle physics and astronomy.
He received the 2006 Templeton Prize, the Royal Society's 2008 Faraday Prize, and the 2009 Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics. He has written more than 450 scientific papers, and 20 books, translated into 28 languages. The most recent of these are Cosmic Imagery and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know. His play, Infinities, won the Italian Premi Ubu for best play in the Italian theatre in 2002, and the 2003 Italgas Prize. Less »
Jon McLoone has worked with Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica, since 1992, on software development, system design, technical writing, and strategy. His work has included document processing and conversion technology, and he has worked with several publishers on electronic courseware and interactive content projects.
Stephen Wolfram has had a distinguished career as a scientist, author, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and for authoring A New Kind of Science. Beginning in his teenage years, Wolfram made a number of discoveries in physics and cosmology. More » In the early 1980s his now-classic work on cellular automata helped launch the field of complexity theory. Then in 1986, Wolfram began the creation of Mathematica and founded Wolfram Research.
Wolfram has served as CEO of Wolfram Research for more than two decades, and provides the technical leadership that has made Mathematica the world's leading system for advanced computing. Recently, Wolfram also created Wolfram|Alpha, the breakthrough computational knowledge engine released in 2009.
In addition to his work in technology and business, Wolfram is also a world-renowned scientist. Using Mathematica as his tool, Wolfram made groundbreaking studies of the computational universe that led to his bestselling 2002 book A New Kind of Science, and to the launch of a vibrant new area of science.
Wolfram is the recipient of many awards for science, technology, and business, including a 1981 MacArthur Fellowship. Wolfram has had a long commitment to publishing and communication. He been the author-and publisher-of two bestselling books, and for 25 years the publisher of a leading academic journal. His broad interests span many areas of science, technology, and their history. The tools and methods that Wolfram has created have had a defining influence on the science and technology of the past three decades, and provide the foundations for even more dramatic developments to come. Less »
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- Director of Kernel Technology
Tom Wickham-Jones has worked for Wolfram Research on the implementation of Mathematica since 1990. He is currently the Director of Kernel Technology. He has worked on many details of the Mathematica programming language, as well as other areas such as graphics. More » In addition he is the architect of web Mathematica and Wolfram Workbench. In 1992 he published the book Mathematica Graphics: Techniques and Applications. His most recent work has focused on the Mathematica compiler and parallel computation. Less »
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- CEO, One Laptop Per Child, Europe
Walter De Brouwer is a computational linguist who was involved in two European IPOs: EUnet (now Qwest Communications) and Stepstone. At present, he is the CEO of the European branch of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child. He is a member of the Judge Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (University of Cambridge).
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development