Board of Thinkers
Robert Desimone

Robert Desimone

  Robert Desimone is director of the McGovern Institute and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining MIT, in 2004, he was director of the Intramural Research...

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

The Toshiba Professor at MIT, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics lab, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age

Mark Kennedy

Mark Kennedy

“Kennedy doesn’t ignore the elephant in the room; to the contrary, he looks it straight in the eye.” John King – CNN

Kazuo Yano

Kazuo Yano

Innovators Field Human Informatics Artificial Intelligence Location Central Research Laboratory Publication List K. Yano, Invisible Hand of Data, Soshisha, July, 2014 K. Yano, The Science of Human Interaction and Teaching, J. of Mind, Brain and Education, Volume 7,...

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; Chief Technology Officer, Resilient Systems, Inc. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books —...

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Hirotaka Takeuchi is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches three second-year elective courses: Knowledge-based Strategy, Japan IXP, and Microeconomics of Competitiveness (which he co-teaches with University Professor...