The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Established in 1861,MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction,along with the Liskov substitution principle,which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming,subtyping,and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award,the highest distinction in computer science.
Simson L. Garfinkel is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville,Massachusetts. He was previously a program scientist at AI2050,part of Schmidt Futures. He has held several roles across government,including a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security,the US Census Bureau's Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access and a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 2006 to 2015,he was an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,California. In addition to his research,Garfinkel is a journalist,an entrepreneur and an inventor;his work is generally concerned with computer security,privacy and information technology.
Stuart E. Madnick is an American computer scientist,and professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology school of engineering. He is the director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS),formerly called the MIT Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity ( ³).
Marshall W. Van Alstyne is the Allen and Kelly Questrom Professor in IS at Boston University and a research associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Geoffrey G Parker. His work focuses on the economics of information. This includes a sustained interest in information markets and in how information and technology affect productivity with a new emphasis on “platforms”as an extension of the work on two-sided markets.
Michael Jones is an American entrepreneur,investor and CEO of Science Inc. In 2017,Jones was named one of Los Angeles's 500 most influential people by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
edX is a US for-profit online education platform owned by 2U since 2021. The platform's main focus is to manage a variety of offerings,including elite brand bootcamps.
Dev Bootcamp was an immersive 19-week coding bootcamp founded by Shereef Bishay,Jesse Farmer,and Dave Hoover in February 2012. It is designed to make graduates job-ready by the end of the program. Dev Bootcamp was headquartered in San Francisco,California,with additional locations Seattle,Chicago,New York City,Washington,D.C.,San Diego,and Austin. It was acquired by for-profit education company Kaplan,Inc in 2014. Dev Bootcamp closed in 2017.
Geoffrey G Parker is a scholar whose work focuses on distributed innovation,energy markets,and the economics of information. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Marshall Van Alstyne.
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan Executive Education. He is also the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship:24 Steps to a Successful Startup.
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago Public Schools alumna". Her first few months at Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (2014) resulted in discovery of the spin memory effect which predates LIGO's reported discoveries and may be proven as an inexpensive way to detect as well as verify gravitational waves and their net effects during a very rare celestial gravitational lensing event the first week of May 2028 if not sooner via Advanced LIGO Since leaving Harvard,Pasterski has pioneered Celestial Holography. She completed her undergraduate studies in three years while still a teenager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),earned her PhD from Harvard University and was a PCTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University before joining the faculty of the Perimeter Institute at age 27. According to Google Trends,Pasterski was the #3 Trending Scientist for all of 2017. In 2015,she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 Science list,named a Forbes 30 under 30 All Star in 2017,and returned as a judge in 2018 as part of Forbes' first ever all-female Science category judging panel.
The Data Incubator is a data science education company. It offers corporate data science training and placement services. It is best known for an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with Master's degrees and PhDs for careers in big data and data science.
Vikas Kapoor is the CEO of Mezocliq,an enterprise technology company.
Kathy Pham is a Vietnamese American computer scientist and product management executive. She has held roles in leadership,engineering,product management,and data science at Google,IBM,the Georgia Tech Research Institute,Harris Healthcare,and served as a founding product and engineering member of the United States Digital Service (USDS) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States at The White House. Pham was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Product and Engineering at the Federal Trade Commission,and the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee.
Jelani Osei Nelson is an Ethiopian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California,Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder,a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.
Micah Altman is an American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics. Since 2012,he has worked as the head research scientist in the MIT Libraries,first as director of the Program on Information Science (2012-2018) and subsequently as director of research for the libraries' Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. Altman previously worked at Harvard University. He is known for his work on redistricting,scholarly communication,privacy and open science. Altman is a co-founder of Public Mapping Project,which develops DistrictBuilder,an open-source software.
Tamara Ann Broderick is an American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on machine learning and Bayesian inference.
Olga Russakovsky is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her research investigates computer vision and machine learning. She was one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition challenge and has been recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's top young innovators.
Jesse Thaler is an American particle physicist who is a professor at the MIT Department of Physics. He was named director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) upon its creation in August 2020.
