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This document is a list of participants and their biographies for 'The Deep Thinking Project.' It appears to be an attachment or briefing document from the House Oversight Committee investigation (stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016222). The list includes prominent academics, scientists, and authors from institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and UC Berkeley.

People (13)

Name Role Context
Chris Anderson Entrepreneur, Roboticist, Author
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; former editor-in-chief of Wired; CEO of 3DR.
Rodney Brooks Computer Scientist, Professor Emeritus
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; MIT Professor; Founder of Rethink Robotics.
George M. Church Geneticist, Professor
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Professor at Harvard Medical School/Harvard-MIT.
Ed Regis Co-author
Mentioned as co-author with George M. Church.
Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher, Professor
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Professor at Tufts University.
David Deutsch Quantum Physicist
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Member of Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford University.
Anca Dragan Assistant Professor
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Professor at UC Berkeley; BAIR Lab steering committee.
George Dyson Historian of Science
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Author.
Peter Galison Science Historian, Professor
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Professor at Harvard University; Co-founder of Black Hole Initiative.
Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.
Alan Gershenfeld Co-author
Mentioned as co-author with Neil Gershenfeld.
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld Co-author
Mentioned as co-author with Neil Gershenfeld.
Alison Gopnik Developmental Psychologist
Participant in The Deep Thinking Project; Professor at UC Berkeley.

Relationships (4)

Chris Anderson Project Participants Rodney Brooks
Both listed as participants in The Deep Thinking Project
George M. Church Co-authors Ed Regis
Listed as co-authors of Regenesis
Neil Gershenfeld Co-authors Alan Gershenfeld
Listed as co-authors of Designing Reality
Listed as co-authors of Designing Reality

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Participants in The Deep Thinking Project
Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; a roboticist; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-
founder and CEO of 3DR; and author of The Long Tail, Free, and Makers.
Rodney Brooks is a computer scientist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT;
former director, MIT Computer Science Lab; and founder, chairman, and CTO of
Rethink Robotics. He is the author of Flesh and Machines.
George M. Church is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical
School; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author (with
Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.
Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of
Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the
author of a dozen books, including Consciousness Explained and, most recently, From
Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds.
David Deutsch is a quantum physicist and a member of the Centre for Quantum
Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. He is the author of The
Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity.
Anca Dragan is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering
committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in
Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI.
George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the
Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing’s Cathedral.
Peter Galison is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-
founder of
the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and
Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time.
Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is
the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of
Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network.
Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The
Philosophical Baby and, most recently, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New
Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and
Children.
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