May 23, 2008
MIT Computer Scientist Included Among 100 Top Intellectuals
Neil Gershenfeld, a physicist and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made it to Foreign Policy magazine’s second annual list of the top 100 public intellectuals.
Mr. Gershenfeld, who directs MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, is cited for his interdisciplinary research into quantum computing, nanotechnology, and “personal fabrication.”—Andrea L. Foster
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While I agree with a lot of the list it is hard to see how Anthony Giddens is not on this list
— derrick May 23, 11:58 PM #
Obviously the point of these types of lists is to stir the pot and create controversy and publicity. I wouldn’t consider someone like Hirsi Ali an intellectual, let alone one of the top 100. Larry Summers? Please.
— Michael May 25, 06:01 PM #
While I read the list with interest, I was amused by what the list seemed to reveal: The political and religious assumptions of the list’s compilers not to mention their age. Evidently in order to be considered for the list, you needed to be center-left politically, atheist or agnostic (unless you’re the Pope or a Muslim) and have made your major contributions in publishing 20 to 30 years ago…Hmmmm.
— patrick standen May 27, 10:02 AM #
Foreign Policy magazine’s second annual list of the top 100 public intellectuals is out —- Darn I will have to await another year (or more) to see the list of the top 100 private intellectuals along with the top 100 public intellectuals.
All these rankings —- and, yet I am unable to find the rankings for the nation’s top 100 plumbers —- urgently needed, given …
— zahid May 27, 11:07 AM #