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This page links you to information about some of our favorite people. Our criteria? Folks doing or having done things that fundamentally changed our thinking in some way. Some of these people we are fortunate enough to call friends, others are acquaintances, and some are complete strangers physically, but we feel a kinship with and have great respect.

Doug Engelbart. If not for Douglas Engelbart, many of the technical innovations we consider vital to the personal computer revolution would not exist. Best known for inventing the computer mouse, he also had a big role in developing personal computers and groupware. He has inspired us with his vision that technology should be developed and used as an augmentation to what people can learn. Read more about Doug >>

Dee Hock. Founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa International, Dee Hock has spent his life challenging organizational infrastructure, working to birth new types of entities. He reminds us, ``"Fundamentally, we have an institutional problem. Until we understand and deal with it, all of our societal problems will get progressively worse. Above all else, we will never deal with it until we realize it is not a problem at all but an unbelievable opportunity." The Chaordic Commons, which he founded with the help of Joel Getzendanner, seeks to develop, disseminate and implement new concepts of organization that result in more equitable sharing of power and wealth, improve health, and greater compatibility with the human spirit and the biosphere. Read more about Dee and the Chaordic Commons >>

Michael Dertouzos, who passed away August 27 2001, was director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT. He had a passion for learning and helping others learn. In his bimonthly articles in Technology magazine he lobbied for things such as the end to corporate training and school reform at all levels. He authored several wonderful books including What Will Be and the Productivity. Marcia had the great fortune of interviewing him in the spring of 2001. Read the interview >> Also, Read a tribute to Michael Dertouzos by Ray Kurzweil.

John Dewey and George Herbert Mead in the early years of the past century gave way to individual, behavioristically oriented conceptions of learning based on the early work of Edward Thorndike and extended by B. F. Skinner. Mid century, theories of knowledge construction by Jean Piaget contrasted sharply with those of Thorndike and Skinner. In the last two decades, Howard Gardner launched theories of multiple intelligences.

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