Meet our speakers, who are active leaders in the T.I.M.E. (Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment) areas.
Steven Pinker
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University / Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature & The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker asks audacious questions about the human mind—then boldly sets out to answer them. Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, he's a brilliant speaker, is enormously popular in the media, and highly respected in scientific circles - and for good reason.
Known for his verve, his wit, and his profound ideas—many of them explained by referencing pop culture—Steven Pinker helps non-specialists understanding the science behind human thought and action. One of the world's leading cognitive scientists, Pinker translates his groundbreaking research into articles (he's written for The New York Times and Nature) and books that are accessible to the general reader. His books include new title The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (about the power of communication, language, and good writing), The Better Angels of Our Nature, which garnered a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year award and was chosen for Mark Zuckerberg's book club, The Blank Slate and How The Mind Works, both bestsellers and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His acclaimed "language" series includes The Language Instinct, Words and Rules, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature and The Sense of Style.
A native of Montreal, Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and has also taught at Stanford and at MIT. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has won a number of teaching prizes, and was named among Newsweek's "100 Americans for the Next Century." His research on visual cognition and the psychology of language has received numerous awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Known for his verve, his wit, and his profound ideas—many of them explained by referencing pop culture—Steven Pinker helps non-specialists understanding the science behind human thought and action. One of the world's leading cognitive scientists, Pinker translates his groundbreaking research into articles (he's written for The New York Times and Nature) and books that are accessible to the general reader. His books include new title The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (about the power of communication, language, and good writing), The Better Angels of Our Nature, which garnered a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year award and was chosen for Mark Zuckerberg's book club, The Blank Slate and How The Mind Works, both bestsellers and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His acclaimed "language" series includes The Language Instinct, Words and Rules, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature and The Sense of Style.
A native of Montreal, Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and has also taught at Stanford and at MIT. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has won a number of teaching prizes, and was named among Newsweek's "100 Americans for the Next Century." His research on visual cognition and the psychology of language has received numerous awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
