Series: Pardee Center Conference Series
Dates: April 10, 11, and 12, 2003
Location: Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, Boston, MA

Presenters and Participants

• George Annas
  Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law
  Chair of the Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health

• Robert Berwick
  Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• David Campbell
  Provost ad interim; Dean, College of Engineering, Boston University

• Charles Cantor
  Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
  Chief Scientific Officer, Sequenom Inc.
  (Member, National Academy of Science)

• George Church
  Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
  Director, Lipper Center for Computational Genetics

• Charles DeLisi
  Senior Associate Provost for Biosciences; Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University

• David Fromkin
  Pardee Professor of Future Studies; University Professor; Professor of International Relations, History, and Law, Boston University
  Director, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

• Anthony Gottlieb
  Executive Editor, The Economist

• Evelyn Fox Keller
  Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow

• Daniel Kevles
  Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University

• Kenneth Lewes
  Psychoanalyst and Author

• Lynn Margulis
  University Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Marvin Minsky
  Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (Member, National Academy of Science)

• Christine Peterson
  Cofounder and President, Foresight Institute, Palo Alto, California

• Steven Pinker
  Peter De Florez Professor of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Stanley Rosen
  University Professor; Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy, Boston University

• Richard Schacht
  Professor of Philosophy; Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Roger Shattuck
  University Professor Emeritus, Boston University
  (Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

• Lee M. Silver
  Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

• Alfred Tauber
  Professor of Philosophy & Medicine; Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University

• Tommaso Toffoli
  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Boston University

This is a chapter from The Future of Human Nature: A Symposium on the Promises and Challenges of the Revolutions in Genomics and Computer Science (Conference). Previous: Forward  |  Table of Contents  |  Next: Session One