WIRED's First-Ever Smart List 2008.15 Big Thinkers Who Should Advise the Next President WIRED and The New America Foundation The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute and think tank located in Washington, D.C. that promotes innovative political solutions transcending conventional party lines -- what they call radical centrist politics. to Host Panel Discussion in DC on Friday, October 3, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- The October 2008 issue of WIRED magazine features fifteen big thinkers that WIRED editors would like to see as advisors to the next president, on issues such as climate change, energy, security and defense. WIRED and the New America Foundation will host a panel discussion on Friday, October 3, 2008 from 12pm to 1:30pm at the New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor in Washington, DC. The panel will be moderated by WIRED Senior Editor and New America Foundation Fellow, Nicholas Thompson and the panel will include some of the men and women featured in WIRED's Smart List: Robert Dalrymple, Civil Engineering Professor Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. , Mitchell Joachim, Partner, Terreform 1, Parag Khanna, Director, Global Governance Global governance refers to political interaction and the creation and empowering of international organizations aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region, when there is no democratic power of enforcing compliance. Initiative, New America Foundation, and Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Science Adviser, Army Human Terrain System The Human Terrain System is a program under the auspices of the US Military in Iraq and Afghanistan. It utilizes experts in anthropology, language and intelligence to understand how societies make decisions and how attitudes are formed in order to assist the US Military in . The WIRED Smart List includes: [TABLE OMITTED] To view the entire article, please visit http://www.wired.com/wired/. To RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. to the panel discussion on Friday, October 3, 2008 in DC, please contact Elizabeth Wu, wu@newamerica.net and (202) 986-2700 x315 or visit http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/think_big. To interview the editors or writers, or for more information on the panel discussion, please contact Jenna Landry at jenna_landry@wired.com. |
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