Jack Dangermond believes that geospatial information will transform nearly everything.

Skylar Tibbits is the founder and codirector of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT and assistant professor of design research in the department of architecture.

Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work -- and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex’s inner workings.

IBM's Grady Booch is shaping the future of cognitive computing by building intelligent systems that can reason and learn.

Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut.

James B. Glattfelder aims to give us a richer, data-driven understanding of the people and interactions that control our global economy. He does this not to push an ideology -- but with the hopes of making the world a better place.

Architect + computer scientist

Architecture + design entrepreneur

Inventor + environmentalist

Installation artist

Architect

Web entrepreneur