Professor Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting and teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois.
Houston became the chair after serving for more than a decade as the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a 3,500-member organization, and as a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Before joining IRE, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 17 years.
Houston also is the...
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Chris Williamson is the Executive Director of Systems Technology at Wolfram|Alpha. Chris was instrumental in the architectural development of Wolfram|Alpha and leads the company's IT and web development divisions at Wolfram Research. Chris plays a pivotal role in the development of new business solutions and products utilizing Wolfram technologies.
Don Hillebrand is the director of Argonne’s Center for Transportation Research, leading a team of engineers and physicists actively seeking to solve transportation problems related to the nation’s reliance on imported energy.
Jeffrey Chamberlain is the leader of the laboratory-wide Energy Storage Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory, which is developing solutions for both electric cars and the power grid.
Don Hillebrand
Don came to Argonne from DaimlerChrysler A.G. in Stuttgart, Germany where he worked as the manager of Research and Technology Policy in the DaimlerChrysler research labs...
Jeffrey Chamberlain is the leader of the laboratory-wide Energy Storage Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory, which is developing solutions for both electric cars and the power grid.
Don Hillebrand
Don came to Argonne from DaimlerChrysler A.G. in Stuttgart, Germany where he worked as the manager of Research and Technology Policy in the DaimlerChrysler research labs...
Greg Lindsay is a contributing writer for Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.
Greg is a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and is also a fellow of the Hybrid Reality Institute, exploring the co-evolution of humans and technology.
Greg's writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Time.
Greg is a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and is also a fellow of the Hybrid Reality Institute, exploring the co-evolution of humans and technology.
Greg's writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Time.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel hired John Tolva as his Chief Technology officer and tasked him with with leveraging technology to ensure that Chicago delivers better services at a lower cost to taxpayers.
Before joining the city of Chicago, Tolva worked at IBM for over 13 years. In his most recent capacity, he served as the Director of Citizenship & Technology for IBM where he was responsible for developing new social, educational, environmental, and cultural heritage projects that use innovative technologies in partnership with nonprofit institutions and governmental entities.
His team developed...
Before joining the city of Chicago, Tolva worked at IBM for over 13 years. In his most recent capacity, he served as the Director of Citizenship & Technology for IBM where he was responsible for developing new social, educational, environmental, and cultural heritage projects that use innovative technologies in partnership with nonprofit institutions and governmental entities.
His team developed...
Joseph Squier is trained as a photographer and painter, but for the past two decades he has worked at the intersection of fine art and new technology; composition, rhetoric, and literacy; creativity, innovation, and design thinking.
His artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, featured in numerous national newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and Print Magazine, and has been reproduced in over a dozen books. Squier is a founding editor/curator of Ninth Letter, a literary/visual culture magazine and website, which has received over 20 major awards. The...
His artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, featured in numerous national newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and Print Magazine, and has been reproduced in over a dozen books. Squier is a founding editor/curator of Ninth Letter, a literary/visual culture magazine and website, which has received over 20 major awards. The...
Larry Ingrassia is the Business editor of the The New York Times. He joined The Times in 2004 after 25 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he worked as a reporter and held several editing positions, including assistant managing editor. He oversaw The Times’s coverage of the economic crisis that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2009.
Mr. Ingrassia was named the winner of the 2009 Minard Editor Award, honoring excellence in business and economic journalism editing, one of the annual Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished financial journalism.
Mr. Ingrassia was named the winner of the 2009 Minard Editor Award, honoring excellence in business and economic journalism editing, one of the annual Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished financial journalism.
Lee Rainie is the founder and director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
He is a co-author of Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet, the first of a multi-volume book series based on Project surveys that is being published by Cambria Press.
Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, he was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report, after a period of covering politics and editing the magazine's national and science coverage. Before joining the magazine, he was a political reporter for the New York Daily News.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and...
He is a co-author of Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet, the first of a multi-volume book series based on Project surveys that is being published by Cambria Press.
Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, he was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report, after a period of covering politics and editing the magazine's national and science coverage. Before joining the magazine, he was a political reporter for the New York Daily News.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and...
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies and Cinema Studies Department and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2008, winner of the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race...
She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2008, winner of the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race...
Rob Kennedy has been C-SPAN’s President and co-COO since 2006, a position he shares with his colleague Susan Swain. Together, they are responsible for operations at the nation’s only public affairs cable television network. Prior to that, he served as C-SPAN’s Executive Vice President and co-COO, and has been C-SPAN’s top financial officer since 1987.
Rob has worked in the cable television industry his entire career. He brought to C-SPAN experience at both the corporate and system levels of cable television operations. In Rochester, NY, which was a Time, Inc. company, Rob was Vice...
Rob has worked in the cable television industry his entire career. He brought to C-SPAN experience at both the corporate and system levels of cable television operations. In Rochester, NY, which was a Time, Inc. company, Rob was Vice...
Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine, a film critic at Yahoo and the founding editor of Deadspin.
He is the author of four books, most recently "Are We Winning?" He lives in Brooklyn with his wife.
He is the author of four books, most recently "Are We Winning?" He lives in Brooklyn with his wife.
