Advisory Board

Ralph J. Cicerone, Chair
President, National Academy of Sciences

Janet Zucker, Vice-Chair
Producer

Jerry Zucker, Vice-Chair
Director

Patrick Soon-Shiong, Vice-Chair
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. and The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation

Len Amato
President, HBO Films

Paula Apsell
Senior Executive Producer, NOVA; Director, WGBH Science Unit

Dave Bartis
Producer

Gregory Benford
Professor of Physics, University of California, Irvine

May Berenbaum
Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Adam Bly
Founder and Publisher, SEED

Clark Bunting
President and General Manager, Emerging Networks, Discovery Communications

Rick Carter
Production Designer

Steve Chu
Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Frank Darabont
Writer / Producer / Director

Keith Devlin
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University; Consulting Professor, Mathematics, Stanford University

Jon Farhat
Director, VFX

Anthony Fauci
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Sid Ganis
Producer

Julie Gerberding
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Neil Gershenfeld
Director, Center for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ronald Graham
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego; Chief Scientist, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Brian Greene
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Columbia University

Davis Guggenheim
Director / Producer

Robert M. Hazen
Research Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science’s Geophysical Laboratory; Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University

Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University; 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

Marshall Herskovitz
Producer / Writer / Director

Dustin Hoffman
Actor / Producer

Marty Kaplan
Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication; Director, The Norman Lear Center

Lawrence Kasdan
Director / Writer / Producer

Jeffrey Koplan
Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University

Lawrence Krauss
Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Sherry Lansing
Founder, Sherry Lansing Foundation

Leon Lederman
Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology; 1988 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Doug Liman
Producer / Director

Seth MacFarlane
Writer / Actor / Producer

Michael Mann
Writer/Producer/Director

Alex McDowell
Production Designer

Marvin Minsky
Professor of Computer Science and Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sidney Perkowitz
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics, Emory University

Steven Pinker
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Stanley Prusiner
Professor of Neurology and Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco; 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine or Physiology

Rob Reiner
Actor / Producer / Writer / Director

John Rennie
Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American

Jay Roach
Director / Writer / Producer

Bruce Joel Rubin
Writer

Oliver Sacks
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center

Barbara Schaal
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology, Washington University; Director of the Schaal Lab, Washington University; Vice President, National Academy of Sciences

Tom Schulman
Writer

Jeffrey Silver
Producer

Anne E. Simon
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland at College Park

Alex Singer
Director

Robert Sproull
Vice President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

John Underkoffler
Co-Founder, Oblong Industries

J. Craig Venter
President, J. Craig Venter Institute

Doron Weber
Director for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and the History of Science and Technology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation