Each year, NYU-Poly’s Lynford Lecture features a prominent thinker who explains complex information and important ideas with clarity and concision. The series is made possible by Tondra and Jeffrey Lynford and NYU-Poly’s Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing (IMAS). Mr. Lynford is Vice Chairman of the NYU-Poly Board of Trustees, Trustee of New York University, Member of the New York State Council on the Arts, Director of the Trust for Governors Island, and Co-Managing Member of Wellsford Strategic Partners LLC. The Lynfords were instrumental in bringing IMAS Co-Directors Drs. David and Gregory Chudnovsky to NYU-Poly.
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Daniel KahnemanNobel laureate in Economic Sciences14th Annual Lynford Lecture, March 2012 |
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Myron ScholesNobel Laureate and Co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model13th Annual Lynford Lecture, April 2010 |
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Frances AllenIBM Fellow Emerita"The Challenge of the Multicores" |
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Jeremy Grantham,Chairman and Co-Founder, GMO"Career Risk and Bubbles Breaking: That's all That Matters" |
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Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder, Jr.Commander, 8th Air Force and Joint Functional Component Commander For Global Strike and Integration, U.S. Strategic Command"The Strategic Imperative for Cyber Defense" |
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Robert MetcalfeInventor of Ethernet"Ethernet Is the Answer? What Is the Question?" |
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John L. PetersenPresident and Founder of The Arlington Institute (TAI)"What To Do about the Future We’re about To Get" |
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Sen. Hillary ClintonU.S. Senator, New York State |
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Dr. Richard L. GarwinTop American Nuclear Scientist"Space Weapons: Good for Us or Bad?" |
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Gerald M. RubinGenome Sequence Pioneer"Computational and Experimental Approaches for Annotating the Drosophila Genome Sequence" |
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Dr. Robert A. Mundell,1999 Nobel Laureate for Econimics"Domestic and Global Economic Issues" |
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Alan KayPioneer of the Modern Personal Computer"The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet!" |
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Bill JoyCo-founder, Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems Inc."The Promise and Challenge of Technology in the 21st Century" |
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Dr. J. Craig Venter, PhdPresident, CSO, Celera Genomics"Decoding the Human Genome" |
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Ed WittenProfessor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ"Adventures in the Quest for Unification" |
