Evan McMullin

David Evan McMullin (born April 2, 1976) is an American political activist and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer who ran as an independent during the 2016 United States presidential election.
McMullin was an operations officer of the CIA from 2001 to 2010. He then worked for about a year and a half as an investment banker after receiving an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He was a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015 and served as a chief policy director for the House Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 2015 through July 2016.
In August 2016, McMullin launched a presidential campaign in the 2016 election for President of the United States, as an independent candidate backed by the organization Better for America. Receiving support from some members of the "Never Trump" movement, polling taken late in the campaign showed him ahead of major party nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in his home state of Utah. In the end, McMullin received 21.5% in Utah, taking third place in that state behind Trump and Clinton. Nationally, he received 0.53% of the popular vote.
Following his defeat, McMullin has emerged as a vocal critic of the Trump administration. He endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. He has been involved in early discussions about forming a new center-right political party, as of February 2021, and with Miles Taylor, organized the May 13, 2021 release of the political manifesto "A Call for American Renewal".
Early life and education.
McMullin was born in Provo, Utah, the oldest of four children of David McMullin and Lanie Bullard. At a young age, his family moved to a rural area outside Seattle, Washington, where his father worked as a computer scientist and his mother sold bulk foods to neighbors from the family's garage. After graduating in 1994 from Auburn Senior High School, McMullin spent two years in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon returning, he spent a summer working on an Alaskan fishing vessel.
In 1997, McMullin began attending Brigham Young University; every year he was in college he did a summer internship with the CIA. He spent a year living in Israel and Jordan and volunteered as a refugee resettlement officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2001, McMullin graduated with a Bachelor's degree in International Law and Diplomacy and began formal training with the CIA to become an operations officer.
After working for the CIA, McMullin attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Master of Business Administration degree in 2011.
Career.
Soon after McMullin joined the CIA, the September 11 attacks occurred, leading to an accelerated training and deployment. He spent the next decade working overseas on counterterrorism and intelligence operations as an operations officer with the National Clandestine Service in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. He was first deployed in 2003 and left the agency in 2010.
While the details of his missions remain classified, former CIA officers who worked with McMullin were complimentary of his work, noting his talent for recruiting members of extremist organizations through building trust and willingness to engage in human intelligence outside the confines of the embassy. Some of his missions included information-gathering for efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and collaborating with British intelligence agencies. Near the end of his CIA career, he worked undercover in Iraq. He has stated that his work involved meeting with business and government leaders, as well as collecting information from terrorist operatives.
After leaving the CIA and graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, McMullin began working for the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, and he remained at the company about a year and a half. In 2012, he volunteered for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, which indirectly led to him being recruited by Republicans on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs looking for an adviser with counter-terrorism experience. In 2013, McMullin was an International Advisory Board member for the Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University.
In 2013, McMullin became a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for the 113th Congress. In 2015, McMullin became the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference under Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). It was from this position that he watched the 2016 Republican primaries, and when he began to speak out against Trump he was urged by some Republicans to stay out of the fray. McMullin resigned as chief policy director shortly before declaring his run for the presidency in August 2016.
In August 2016, McMullin launched a presidential campaign in the 2016 election for President of the United States, as an independent candidate backed by the organization Better for America. McMullin described himself as a conservative alternative to the two major political parties' candidates, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
McMullin lost the election, receiving 734,737 votes nationwide (0.54%). His best performance came in his native Utah, where he received about 20% of the vote and came in third place behind Trump and Clinton. After the election, McMullin said that he would start a "new conservative movement" reaching out to "non-traditional conservative voters... who feel disaffected." It might, he said, form a new political party. On January 25, 2017, McMullin announced the formation of Stand Up Republic, a nonpartisan watchdog organization meant to ensure that the Trump administration upholds democracy and tells the truth.
2016 presidential campaign.
On August 8, 2016, McMullin announced that he would run as a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election as an independent. McMullin decided to run due to his belief that Republican nominee Donald Trump was unfit for the office and his strong opposition to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's liberalism. He had personally lobbied several Congresspeople to run under the Better for America banner, but when none would run and it was suggested to him that he should run himself, he decided to do so.
McMullin had the support of several anti-Trump Republican donors and his presidential bid was also backed by several former members of Better for America, a 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to getting nationwide ballot access for an independent candidate for president in the 2016 election. McMullin's campaign was supported by some members of the "Never Trump" movement. Trump repeatedly attacked McMullin, referring to him as "McMuffin" and stating that "I never even heard of this guy before. Nobody did."
McMullin's late entrance into the race caused him to miss several state ballot deadlines, and ultimately he was only able to appear on the ballot in eleven states, with write-in eligibility in many other states. As such he did not appear on enough ballots to win the necessary Electoral College majority of 270 electoral votes. Instead McMullin hoped to deny a majority of the electoral vote to either of the two major party candidates. In such a scenario, under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, the House of Representatives would select the new president from the top-three electoral vote winners.
The same day that McMullin launched his independent bid, it was announced that Kahlil Byrd and Chris Ashby, Republican strategists with expertise in third-party ballot access, would form a super PAC called Stand Up America to support McMullin's campaign. Byrd is a former adviser to Better for America. The PAC would be used for TV and digital ads, live events, and grass-roots organizing, but would not sue for ballot access.
On October 6, McMullin named Mindy Finn as his running mate. Finn had previously worked for Twitter and as a digital strategist for the RNC and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Because Finn's selection came after the ballot paperwork deadlines, Finn did not appear on any of the state ballots. Instead, McMullin's friend's name, Nathan Johnson, was submitted as a placeholder.
McMullin's support surged in Utah in October after the release of a 2005 audio recording in which Donald Trump was heard bragging in lewd terms about making sexual advances on women. On October 19, an Emerson College poll showed McMullin leading the race in Utah by 4 points over Donald Trump and 7 points over Hillary Clinton. McMullin's popularity in Utah – and Trump's unpopularity – appears owing to an unusual shift of Mormons away from the Republican candidate. Had McMullin won Utah, it would have been the first time since 1968 that a non-major-party candidate won a state. His strong polling in Utah led Benjamin Morris, writing for FiveThirtyEight, to call him the "third-most likely person to be the next president of the United States" as of October 13.
Ultimately, McMullin came in third place in Utah, receiving 21.54% of the state's popular vote, behind both Donald Trump (who received 45.54% and the state's six electoral votes) and Hillary Clinton (who received 27.46%). McMullin also took third in Idaho with 6.7%. McMullin promised that, despite his defeat, the "fight would continue" for his new conservative movement.
After the 2016 campaign.
After the 2016 campaign, McMullin has continued to be strongly critical of Trump and Putin. In a December 2016 op-ed, McMullin attacked Trump as a threat to American constitutional government, saying that the president-elect's actions were "consistent with the authoritarian playbook" and "undermined critical democratic norms including peaceful debate and transitions of power, commitment to truth, freedom from foreign interference and abstention from the use of executive power for political retribution."
In late January 2017, McMullin and his former running mate Finn announced the establishment of a 501(c)(4) organization, Stand Up Republic. The group focuses on "defense of democratic (small 'd') norms, constitutionalism and civic involvement." Speaking on so-called "alternative facts" McMullin said: "Undermining truth is a typical authoritarian tactic. It is incredibly dangerous ... We never thought we'd be talking about this in America." In a February 2017 op-ed, McMullin wrote that "President Trump's disturbing Russian connections present an acute danger to American national security." He called upon congressional Republicans to "recommit to patriotic prudence" and "demand that Attorney General Jeff Sessions appoint an independent special counsel to investigate Russia's assault on American democracy and Mr. Trump's possible collusion with the Kremlin.
When asked if there was any possibility of him running for Jason Chaffetz's seat in 2018, he answered: "It is likely that I will seek public office again. That might be in 2018 or it might be sometime down the road, perhaps very far down the road. I genuinely just don't know yet. I'm very focused on things that I think need to be done ASAP and Mindy Finn and I, with our team at the Stand Up Republic, advancing them now. It is possible that I will challenge Chaffetz or Senator Hatch, but there are a lot of factors that go into that decision." In the end, he did not run for either office.
Political positions.
Social issues.
McMullin opposes abortion and identifies himself as pro-life. McMullin supports overturning "Roe v. Wade". According to his campaign website, he opposes "a culture that subsidizes abortion on demand" and McMullin calls for action to reduce unintended pregnancies and promote adoption.
On same-sex marriage, McMullin said in 2016 that he believes in the "traditional marriage between a man and a woman" but he "respects" the Supreme Court's decision in "Obergefell v. Hodges" (which found that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry) and thinks it is "time to move on" from the issue. McMullin's mother is in a same-sex marriage, having married another woman after separating from his father, and McMullin has said that "As far as my mother's marriage is concerned, I believe in the sanctity of traditional marriage. It is an important part of my faith. My mother has a different view. That is OK. I love her very much."
Economic issues.
McMullin supports free trade, pointing to the economic benefits of international trade. He supported NAFTA of 1994 and the original Trans-Pacific Partnership.
McMullin supports the Republican House plan on tax reform. McMullin supports a reduction in the corporate income tax and individual income tax, as well as the estate tax.
McMullin favors cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security, and has proposed means-testing the program and raising the retirement age.
Science and the environment.
McMullin accepts the scientific consensus on climate change, saying: "I do believe that the climate is changing, and I do believe that human activity is contributing to it. If I were president, I would increase investment in technologies that can help us limit and decrease our carbon emissions."
Domestic issues.
McMullin has said that if elected president, he would appoint originalist judges to the Supreme Court, "in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas."
On immigration, McMullin supports border security but not mass deportation.
On health care, McMullin supports the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that blocks health insurance companies from denying coverage or discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. However, he also stated that "we also need to do better than ObamaCare."
Foreign and national security policy.
On the Syrian Civil War, McMullin described himself as a "vocal advocate for international action that would stop Assad's slaughter of innocent Syrians, and eventually set the stage for a negotiated departure from the country." McMullin also has said: "We should have done more to support the moderate Syrian opposition, and we still need to do that. They haven't received sufficient support or training, and we know how to do that very well." McMullin supports imposing a no-fly zone over Syria "to stop the aerial bombardment of Syrian population centers."
McMullin opposes the use of torture, while supporting keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention camp open.
McMullin has harshly criticized the international nuclear agreement with Iran. He stated: "We've got to certainly enforce the deal as it is, but I believe in strengthening sanctions on Iran to force them to make further concessions. I also believe in putting the military option clearly back on the table if Iran decides to not keep its end of the deal and if it ultimately decides to pursue nuclear weapons."
McMullin told ABC News that he believed Donald Trump's public comments were frustrating U.S. counterterrorism efforts. "What he doesn't realize is that we actually depend on Muslims to do counterterrorism, to wage war against terrorists." Trump's remarks concerning Muslims "decreases their willingness to work with us, with other Muslims, and that impedes our ability to destroy ISIS." McMullin also criticized Trump's "allegiance to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin" and accused Putin of engaging in a campaign to destabilize European and North American countries "through fomenting discord between different racial groups, different ethnic groups, and different religious groups."
In 2014, McMullin helped to bring Caesar, a defected Syrian military photographer who leaked 55,000 images depicting abuses by the regime (which formed the basis for the 2014 Syrian detainee report), to speak before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to "The Christian Science Monitor". McMullin clashed with State Department officials he suspected were holding up the hearing. McMullin claimed that State Department officials wanted to have a closed hearing.
Personal life.
McMullin is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In April 2021, McMullin told the "Deseret News" that he was engaged to be married.


Lincoln Wallen

Lincoln Wallen is a British-American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Improbable. He is the former CTO of DreamWorks Animation.
Wallen received a first-class degree in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University in 1982. He also holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Alan Bundy. He was subsequently an academic at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
Wallen later moved into industry, working for the publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he was CTO of EA Mobile, a business he helped to grow to create a $180 million business over three years. He then served as CTO for the online publishing business of EA internationally. Finally, Wallen joined the Californian film animation company DreamWorks, initially as Head of Research and Development from 2008 and later promoted to the position of CTO in 2012.


C. J. Gadd

Cyril John Gadd, (2 July 1893 – 2 December 1969) was a British Assyriologist, Sumerologist, and curator. He was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum from 1948 to 1955, and Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1955 to 1960. Having served in the British Army during the First World War, he joined the British Museum after demobilisation and also worked on excavations at Ur, Carchemish, Alalakh and Nimrud. Having risen to Keeper, he left the British Museum to enter academia, and was appointed professor emeritus on his retirement in 1961.
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Carel S. Scholten

Carel S. Scholten (Amsterdam, 1925 – 2009) was a physicist and a pioneer of computing.
He went to the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam and then studied physics from 1945 to 1952 at the University of Amsterdam.
In 1947 he was asked by the Dutch "Mathematisch Centrum" (which later became the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) to collaborate in building an automatic calculator with his friend and fellow student Bram Loopstra. Their first system, the ARRA I was not a success, but its successor, the ARRA II, on which Gerrit Blaauw also collaborated, was.
In 1954 work started on the ARMAC, which he built together with Loopstra and Edsger Dijkstra, who was responsible for the software and collaborated with Scholten for more than 30 years.
The ARMAC was remarkable for its use of transistors.
In 1958 Scholten went to work for Electrologica (later Philips Electrologica), where he developed the Electrologica X1 computer with Loopstra; up to 1964, 40 models were installed, mainly at universities. He remained with Philips Electrologica until 1979, when he switched to the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, where he stayed until 1985.
In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.


Umang Gupta

Umang Gupta (born 1949) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation.
Biography.
Education.
Umang Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree (1971) in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and an M.B.A. degree (1972) from Kent State University in Ohio, US. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
IBM and Oracle.
After working seven years at IBM, in 1981 Umang Gupta joined Oracle Corporation as their 17th employee and served as vice president and general manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984. He is credited with writing the first business plan for the company. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.
Gupta Technologies.
He was the founder and chief executive of Gupta Technologies, a client/server database and tools company, from 1984 to 1996, where he helped to usher in the era of client server computing with the first SQL database server and application development tools for PC networks.
Keynote.
Gupta was chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems from December 1997. It was sold to private equity company Thoma Bravo in August 2013.
Other.
In 2000 Gupta was honored with of the Shreyas Mavanoor Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy. Gupta served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, California, which later merged with another foundation to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the United States. He along with his wife Ruth were donors to, and served as board members of PARCA, a non-profit organization in the Bay Area of California devoted to the needs of the developmentally disabled and their families, and helped to found Raji House, a respite home for the developmentally disabled, located in Burlingame, California. Umang also has an avid interest in history and served as Chairman of the Board of the San Mateo Historical Association where he and his wife helped sponsor the "Immigrants Gallery", a permanent exhibition to honor the contributions of immigrants to San Mateo county. Umang was also a co-founder of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and currently serves as Global Board Chairman of PanIIT, the alumni organization of over 200,000 alumni of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. He has also participated as an angel investor and adviser to various Silicon Valley technology companies.


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John M. Martinis

John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team to build a quantum computer using superconducting qubit.
Career.
John M. Martinis received his B.S. in physics in 1980 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. During his Ph.D., he investigated the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic variable, the phase difference across a Josephson tunnel junction.
He joined the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in Saclay, France, for a first postdoc and then the Electromagnetic Technology division at NIST in Boulder, where he worked on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) amplifiers. While at NIST he developed a technique of X-ray detection by using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter with electrothermal feedback.
Since 2002 he has been working with Josephson-Junction qubits with the aim of building the first quantum computer.
In 2004 he moved to the University of California Santa Barbara, where he now holds the Worster Chair in experimental physics. In 2014, Martinis' team was hired by Google to build the first useful quantum computer.
On October 23, 2019, Martinis and his team published a paper on Nature with title "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", where they presented how they achieved quantum supremacy (hereby disproving the extended Church-Turing thesis) for the first time using a 53-qubits quantum computer. In April 2020, Wired magazine announced that Martinis reportedly resigned from Google after being reassigned to an advisory role. On September 29th, 2020, it was announced that Martinis had moved to Australia to join Silicon Quantum Computing, a start-up founded by Professor Michelle Simmons.
In 2021, he received the John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications.


David Schwimmer (banker)

David Schwimmer (born 1968/1969) is an American banker, and the chief executive (CEO) of the London Stock Exchange Group since April 2018, when he succeeded Xavier Rolet.
Early life and education.
Schwimmer is a native of New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University, a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, and a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Career.
Schwimmer worked at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell as an associate. In 1998 he joined Goldman Sachs's Financial Institutions Group, focusing on market structure, brokerage and trading. He became chief of staff to then President and COO Lloyd Blankfein in 2005, advising on the merger of the New York Stock Exchange and
Archipelago. The next year he was appointed head of Investment Banking in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and co-head of Goldman Sachs Russia. Elected partner in 2012, in 2017 he became global head of market structure and global head of metals and mining investment banking.
In April 2018, he was hired as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group, having worked as a banker for Goldman Sachs for twenty years. His appointment led to some surprise and humor due to confusion with the actor David Schwimmer of "Friends".
Personal life.
Schwimmer is fluent in Russian, having worked in Moscow for three years running Goldman's Russian operation. In 2018, he moved to London when he assumed his role with the LSE.
A native New Yorker, Schwimmer is a New York Mets Fan.


Joe Zee

Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, and producer, known for "Entertainment Tonight" (1981), "FABLife" (2015) and "Celebrity Style Story" (2012). Zee served as creative director of "Elle" for seven years. He became editor-in-chief and executive creative officer of "Yahoo! Style" in April 2014. He resigned from Yahoo in June 2017.
Early life.
Zee was born in Hong Kong and at the age of one, moved to Toronto where he grew up. He began working in fashion in 1990, at age 22, and ultimately moved to New York City enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Career.
In the mid-1990s, Zee met stylist Lori Goldstein at an "Allure" party, and soon became her assistant.
He was described in a "New York Times" profile as a leader in the mass market and digital transformation of fashion: "a chatty and approachable ambassador of fashion who has aggressively thrust himself in front of "hoi polloi" using Twitter, blogs, v-logs and—most visibly—television."
Zee hosts "All on the Line", a fashion series on the Sundance Channel. In each episode, Zee acts a business consultant to a designer who is struggling.
Zee was a recurring character as boss of the reality series "The City". He has also appeared on episodes of "Ugly Betty," "Mistresses, and General Hospital" as himself. He was one of the co-hosts of the ABC daytime talk show "The Fab Life".
Zee has worked with notable photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Juergen Teller and Patrick Demarchelier.
In 2010, he made an appearance on Gossip Girl as himself.
In 2015, he released his book "That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style."
In 2016, he was one of the guest judges in the final of Miss USA 2016 in T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Personal life.
Zee is married to Rob Younkers, host of Logo TV's "Secret Guide to Fabulous".


Dave Munson

David R. Munson (born 1942) is an American politician.
Munson obtained his B.A. degree from Sioux Falls College and M.A. degree from Augustana College. For eight and a half years, he taught school. From 1977 to 1983, Munson worked as an independent insurance agent. He retired from CitiBank in December 2001 after 20 years with the bank as its government affairs officer.
In 1978, he was elected to represent Minnehaha County in the South Dakota State House of Representatives. In 1981, Munson became Republican precinct committee-man. From 1983–84, he was House majority whip. His tenure in the state house ended in 1996, as he won a seat on the South Dakota Senate, representing the 10th district until his resignation on May 17, 2002. He served as mayor of Sioux Falls, South Dakota between 2002 and 2010. Finance controversies took their toll on the mayor; and on February 2, 2006, Munson decided not to seek re-election. After dropping out of the mayoral race, his supporters convinced him to re-enter. This proved to be the correct choice for Munson who won by a small margin of just under 900 votes over challenger Bruce Halverson. He left the office of Mayor in May 2010 due to term limits. He was succeeded by Mike Huether.
Munson was the subject of a number of skits on "The Caribou Show". He is a former member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition. His split from the group was well-publicized.


Shahid U. H. Qureshi

Shahid Ul Haq Qureshi (22 September 1945 – unknown date) was a Pakistani electrical engineer, known for his contributions to modem technology.
Education and career.
Qureshi was born on 22 September 1945, in Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his undergraduate degree in 1967 from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He went on to a masters degree at the University of Alberta, completed in 1970. He then remained in Canada for his PhD, which he completed in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto in 1973. His thesis title was "New approaches in adaptive reception of digital signals in the presence of intersymbol interference".
Upon completing his PhD, Qureshi joined Codex Corporation, where he worked on research and development of modems. He rose to the position of Vice-President of Research and Advanced Development at Codex.
Awards and honors.
Qureshi was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1987 for his contributions to the "architecture and commercial development of high-speed voice, voice-band modems".
A "Shahid U. H. Qureshi Memorial Scholarship" is given out annually by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
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Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky is an American business leader who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995. Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in 2005 with Hawkins and Dileep George, based in Redwood City, CA. Numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex. Dubinsky currently serves as CEO and board chair of Numenta.
Dubinsky also serves on the boards of Stanford Health Care (Palo Alto, CA), and Twilio (NYSE: TWLO). She served on the board of Yale University from 2006–2018, including two years as Senior Trustee.
"Fortune" nominated her, together with Hawkins, to the Innovators Hall of Fame, while "TIME" named the pair as part of its "Digital 50" in 1999 for their contribution to the development of the PDA.
Early years.
Dubinsky grew up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where her father, Alfred Dubinsky, worked as a scrap-metal broker. She later attended Yale University where, as a student in Jonathan Edwards College, she majored in history and earned her bachelor's degree in 1977. Dubinsky then worked for the Philadelphia National Bank before obtaining an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, she went to Apple Computer where she worked as a customer-support liaison. By 1985, she ran part of the company's distribution network.
In 1986, Bill Campbell recruited her to a senior position in Claris, a software subsidiary of Apple. Dubinsky was responsible for international sales and marketing, and within four years, her group was responsible for 50% of Claris's sales. However, Dubinsky decided to leave in 1991, when Apple did not allow Claris to become an independent company.
Palm Inc. and Handspring.
After a year's sabbatical in Paris to study French, Dubinsky met Jeff Hawkins through the introductions of Bill Campbell and Bruce Dunlevie. Hawkins was looking for a CEO to manage Palm Inc.
In 1995, U.S. Robotics acquired Palm Inc. for US $44 million. The first PalmPilot went on sale in April 1996. After a few months, sales started ramping quickly. In its first 18 months, more than one million PalmPilots had been sold. 3Com acquired U.S. Robotics, with its Palm subsidiary, in 1997.
Dubinsky, Hawkins, and Palm marketing manager Ed Colligan quickly became disillusioned with 3Com's plans for Palm, Inc. and left in June 1998 to found Handspring. Handspring became a leader in the market of smartphones with the Treo. The bursting of the dot-com bubble took its toll and Dubinsky lost her place on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list in 2001. Furthermore, in 2003, Handspring merged with Palm, Inc. The company, formed through the merger was named palmOne. In 2005, palmOne was renamed to Palm, Inc., returning to its roots, and the independent PalmSource was acquired by Access Corporation of Japan.
Numenta.
In March 2005, Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George, founded Numenta, Inc. The company is based in Redwood City, California. Their goal is to create machine intelligence by developing theory based on the principles in the neocortex.
Numenta focuses on large-scale brain theory and simulation. Numenta researchers work with experimentalists and published results to derive an understanding of the neocortex. Their main research focus areas are cortical columns, sequence learning and sparse distributed representations. They have written a number of peer-reviewed journal papers and research reports on these topics.
Numenta is a technology provider and does not create go-to-market solutions for specific use cases. The company licenses their technology and application code to developers, organizations and companies who wish to build upon their technology." Numenta has several different types of licenses, including open source licenses, trial licenses and commercial licenses. Developers can use Numenta technology within NuPIC using the AGPL v3 open source license.
Harvard Alumni Achievement Award.
On September 27, 2007, Donna Dubinsky was conferred the Harvard Business School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, by Dean Jay O. Light. The award was also given to: Ayala Corp. chair Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, A. Malachi Mixon of Invacare, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group and Hansjörg Wyss of Synthes. She was cited for “"introducing the first successful personal digital assistant (PDA) and who is now developing a computer memory system modeled after the human brain".”
Other activities.
Dubinsky was a trustee of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Several business school case studies have been written about her entrepreneurship. She is involved in philanthropy, and has written an op-ed in support of Obamacare.


Leonie Schroder

Leonie Kira Emma Schroder (born 1974/1975) is a British billionaire heiress, and the daughter of the late Bruno Schroder of the Schroders dynasty. After his death in March 2019, she took over his seat on the board of directors.
Early life.
Leonie Kira Emma Schroder is the only child of Bruno Schroder and his first wife, Patricia "Piffa" Holt. She was educated at the University of St Andrews
Career.
Schroder has been a director of the Schroder Charity Trust, the Red Squirrel Survival Trust and "various entities connected to Dunlossit, the family's large estate" on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast.
In March 2019, Schroders appointed her to fill the seat on its board left by her father's death two weeks earlier. This was despite her never having had a role at Schroders or any large financial services company. Other family members, such as her father, had spent years with the company before they became a board director.
In January 2020, Schroder and family were ranked third in a list of the UK's top 50 taxpayers, with an annual tax bill of £116.8 million on their £4 billion wealth. In May 2020, her net worth was estimated at £4.0 billion.
Personal life.
In 1997, she married Nicholas Francis Fane, an Old Etonian, in Westminster, London. They had three children together, and divorced in 2014. He died on 19 December 2014, "suddenly and tragically", aged 57, and his funeral was held on 8 January 2015 at St. Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire. Fane was a keen sportsman, and in 2008, appeared in "The Field's 50 top shots", published by "The Field" magazine.
They bought the 1200-acre Hurstbourne Park estate in Whitchurch, Hampshire, formerly the home of Lord Portsmouth, from the Donner family in December 2000. A year later, they planned to demolish the remains of the 19th-century house and build a new one, whilst retaining the listed stable block, and the 19th century walled garden and pump house. They were planning on creating a semi-wild shooting estate. The park and garden is grade II listed.


Robert Trump

Robert Stewart Trump (August 26, 1948August 15, 2020) was an American real estate developer and business executive. He was the younger brother of President Donald Trump.
Early life and education.
Robert Stewart Trump was born in Queens, New York City, on August 26, 1948, to Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod. He was the youngest of their five children; his siblings were Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, and Donald. Trump attended Boston University where he majored in economics; while there he played soccer and was the MVP and team captain in 1969.
Career.
Trump joined his father's business and came to manage the Trump Organization's real estate holdings outside of Manhattan.
He served on the board of directors for ZeniMax Media, parent company to Bethesda Softworks, a position he occupied from 1999 until his death in 2020. During his tenure as a director, ZeniMax published series including "Fallout", "The Elder Scrolls", "Doom", and "Wolfenstein". His role at the company was highlighted by media outlets in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, when his brother linked video games to violence and subsequently met with various industry chiefs, including Robert Altman, CEO of ZeniMax. In addition to being a Board member at ZeniMax, Trump was also an investor in the company.
In the years prior to his death, Robert Trump was the president of Trump Management, a business owned by the Trump siblings, including Donald and Robert, as well as their sisters Maryanne Trump-Barry and Elizabeth Trump-Grau. At some point, Trump worked as a real estate developer.
Mary Trump book lawsuit.
In June 2020, Robert Trump filed a lawsuit seeking to preclude the upcoming publication of the book by his niece, Mary L. Trump, "Too Much and Never Enough". Trump's lawsuit was based on a 2001 confidentiality agreement Mary Trump signed in settling a lawsuit related to her grandfather, Fred Trump's, will and estate.
Justice Hal B. Greenwald of the New York Supreme Court ruled in July 2020 that the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, was not a party to the 2001 NDA, and its rights to publish the book were not restricted by that agreement. Greenwald affirmed that Mary Trump's contract with the publisher gave her no ability to halt publication at that point. The book was published as scheduled on July 14, 2020.
Personal life.
Robert Trump lived in Millbrook, New York. In 1984, Trump married Blaine Beard, whom he met at a Christie's fundraiser. He had a stepson Christopher Trump-Retchin. The two filed for divorce in 2007, and the divorce was finalized by 2009. Trump married his second wife, Ann Marie Pallan, in January 2020. Robert was a longtime friend of the Altman Family.
Relationship with Donald Trump.
In 1990, Donald Trump put Robert in charge of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The casino experienced significant problems with its grand opening, especially the slot machine financial controls, that took months to rectify. According to Jack O'Donnell, a former Trump Organization executive, at one of the meetings, "Donald Trump screamed at his brother, putting the blame for the slot machine debacle entirely on him."
Robert Trump remained a loyal supporter of his brother's political career. In a 2016 interview, Robert Trump stated: "I support Donald one thousand percent." Eric Bolling after Robert's death had stated that he and his wife Ann Marie Pallan were vigorous supporters of Donald. Trump himself stated on "Fox & Friends" that he was his biggest fan and would hear about his immense support from others too.
Health and death.
In June 2020, Trump reportedly spent a week in intensive care at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. On August 14, 2020, the White House announced that he had again been hospitalized, and that his brother, the President, would visit him. President Trump visited him that day, later stating that Robert was very ill and was "having a hard time". Robert Trump died at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan the following day, August 15, 2020, at age 71, 11 days before his 72nd birthday; the cause of death has not been disclosed. "The New York Times" quoted a family friend as saying that Trump had recently started experiencing intracerebral hemorrhaging after a fall. Mary Trump, in an interview with Greenpeace a few days before his death, said that Robert had been sick and hospitalized "a couple of times in the last three months."
In a written statement, Donald Trump said, "He was not just my brother, he was my best friend." A funeral service was held for Robert on August 21, 2020 in the East Room attended by 150 guests. This was the first time in almost a century that a president had held a funeral in the East Room. White House officials stated that all expenses would be privately paid by President Trump.


Jay Pinkerton

Jay Pinkerton (born June 15, 1977) is a Canadian humorist known for co-writing, with Erik Wolpaw, the story of Valve's video game "Portal 2". A former editor of both Cracked.com and "Cracked" magazine, "PlayStation World" magazine referred to him as a "one-man gag machine". Prior to joining "Cracked", Pinkerton served as the managing editor of NationalLampoon.com, the website of the national comedy and film brand.
Jay Pinkerton initially registered his website, Jaypinkerton.com, to be a portfolio of his comedy and artwork. Afterwards, Pinkerton joined the forums of the Internet humor website "Pointless Waste of Time" (PWOT), and took the attention of the site's owner, David Wong, with whom Pinkerton worked on a now-defunct satirical news commentary, the "News Skim", and other comedy articles. It was around this time that he first published his redone Spider-Man comics, spawning an internet phenomenon.
In addition to "Cracked", Pinkerton's work has also appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Modern Humorist, CollegeHumor.com and numerous other sites. He has also had his humor writing published in print, including in "Jest Magazine", "McSweeney’s Best Non-Required Reading 2003", "National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love", "The CollegeHumor Guide to College" and "Golden Words".
Pinkerton joined Valve in 2008 and served as a writer for their games. In June 2017, he announced he had left Valve for unspecified reasons. However, he returned to resume working as a writer for Valve in July 2018. Some of his work on return included writing for "", the first original AAA VR title to be released in 2020.


ICv2

ICv2 is an online trade magazine that covers geek culture for retailers. ICv2's main areas of focus are comic books, anime, gaming, and show business products. The site offers news, reviews, analysis, and sales information for retailers and librarians. ICv2 holds an annual trade conference in conjunction with the New York Comic Con; the company also periodically publishes "ICv2 Retailer Guides" in hard copy format.
ICv2 stands for "Internal Correspondence" version 2, named after a trade magazine published in the 1980s-1990s by Capital City Distribution. The site is produced by GCO, LLC, based in Madison, Wisconsin.
History.
Capital City Distribution co-founder Milton Griepp published "Internal Correspondence", first as a newsletter and then as a magazine, until Capital City was acquired by Diamond Comic Distributors in 1996, retaining rights to the name. He launched ICv2 in January 2001. The "ICv2 Retailer Guides" magazines were launched in 2002.
In 2011, ICv2 began holding an industry conference on the eve of the New York Comic Con, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Held annually, the ICv2 event is now known as the "White Paper Happy Hour."
Griepp (on behalf of ICv2) supervised the 2015 American Anime Awards balloting.


Cornelis Bakker

Cornelis Jan Bakker (11 March 1904 – 23 April 1960) was a Dutch physicist and second Director General of CERN. He was also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Biography.
Bakker studied physics at the University of Amsterdam under Pieter Zeeman.
In 1931 he obtained his doctorate. His doctoral thesis dealt with the effects of Zeeman effect on spectral lines of noble gases. The next year he spent at the Imperial College of Science in London, where he continued his research in the area of spectroscopy.
In 1933 he worked for the scientific department of Philips in Eindhoven, where he was active in the field of wireless technology. In the following his interest in nuclear physics grow and he started during World War II in cooperation with August Heyn with the development of a cyclotron for Philips.
After the war Bakker replaced Gorter as a professor of physics and director of the Zeeman Laboratory at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. In addition, he became director of the "Institute for Nuclear Physics" of Amsterdam and the company Philips, which, sponsored by the " Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research " (NWO), formed the center of nuclear physics research in the Netherlands.
In 1951, Bakker was invited by Professor Pierre Auger (then director of the scientific department of UNESCO) to join a group of eight experts which should make plans about the future CERN. He is considered one of the founders of the CERN. A year later (1952) he became director of a group responsible for the design and construction of the "Synchro-Cyclotron (CERN)" (SC). Then he was appointed as director of the Synchro-Cyclotron department. In 1952 Bakker became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, three years later he became foreign member.
In 1955, he replaced Felix Bloch as the Director General of the CERN. He was then 5 years in office until he died in 1960 in a plane crash. During his funeral Bakker's work and commitment to CERN and science was repeatedly touted by politicians and researchers, such as John Adams (his successor as director general) or Jo Cals. In addition, he was awarded the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the former Queen of the Netherlands Juliana.


Andrew Law (financier)

Andrew Eric Law (born June 1966) is a British financier, hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Caxton Associates, a hedge fund headquartered on Berkeley Square in London.
Early life.
Andrew Eric Law was born in June 1966, and raised in Cheadle Hulme near Stockport, England. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a nurse. He was educated at Cheadle Hulme High School. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with a First Class honours degree in Economics in 1987.
Career.
He started his career in finance at County NatWest, now known as NatWest. He then worked as a trader at the Chemical Bank. In 1996, he joined Goldman Sachs, later becoming a managing director, where he oversaw FICC.
Caxton Associates.
He started working at Caxton Associates in London in 2003. In 2008, he became its Chief Investment Officer. Since 2012, he has served as its chairman and chief executive officer. Law is the company's main shareholder.
In 2017, Caxton Associates made £7.3 million profit, down from £95.8 million in 2016.
Political affiliations.
Between May 2010 and January 2015, he donated £947,911 to the Conservative Party, making him its 11th biggest donor in this period. In May 2017, he gave £250,000 to the Conservative Party.
During the 2019 United Kingdom general election campaign Law donated £413,750 to the Conservative Party.
Philanthropy.
He co-chairs the Law Family Charitable Foundation with his wife. They support many non-profit organisations, including the Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster. In 2014, they donated £1 million to The Lowry in Salford, where the spaces inside the Main Gallery were renamed The Andrew and Zoë Law Galleries.
In 2021 the Law Family Charitable Foundation donated £5.85m to the University of Sheffield to launch a new student support programme and search for new therapies for a range of incurable and debilitating diseases.
Law is the chairman of the board of Trustees of Speakers for Schools, which invites public speakers to state schools in the UK. He spoke at the Trinity C.E. High School in Manchester. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Social Finance. Additionally, he is a patron of the Hotcourses Foundation, which helps vulnerable schoolchildren in Kenya.
In an op ed published in "The Huffington Post" in 2014, he called for hedge fund managers to be more philanthropic.
Personal life.
He is married to Zoë Law, a photographer whose portfolio includes the recent exhibition "LIFE", which features portraits of 21 people who have cancer. The exhibition, which was displayed at The Lowry in Salford Quays in 2019, was set up to raise awareness of the cancer support provided by the Maggie's Centres. Zoë Law was previously a make-up artist whose clients included the British singer Dido.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Law is worth £550 million.
He is a supporter of the football team, Manchester City F.C.. He owns "Manchester City vs Sheffield United", a 1938 painting by L. S. Lowry.


Brit Marling

Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) is an American actress and screenwriter. She rose to prominence after starring in several films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including "Sound of My Voice" (2011), "Another Earth" (2011), and "The East" (2013), which she co-wrote in addition to playing the lead role. She co-created, wrote, and starred in the Netflix series "The OA", which debuted in 2016.
Early life and education.
Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of property developer parents John and Heidi Marling. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She has a sister, Morgan. Marling grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and Orlando, Florida, where she attended the arts program at Dr. Phillips High School. Marling was interested in acting, but her parents encouraged her to focus on academics. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class valedictorian.
Career.
At Georgetown, Marling met her long-time collaborators, future directors Mike Cahill and Zal Batmanglij. Marling spent the summer of her junior year interning for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs as an investment analyst. She felt a life spent there would have a lack of meaning and eventually turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with Cahill to film the documentary "Boxers and Ballerinas." Co-writing the documentary with Cahill and Shumaker, and co-directing with Cahill, the film helped Marling gain recognition in 2004.
In 2005, Marling moved with Cahill and Batmanglij to Los Angeles. She attended auditions and was offered roles in horror films, but turned them down. She stated she "wanted to be able to cast herself in roles that wouldn't require her to play the typical parts offered to young actresses, the perfunctory girlfriend or a crime victim." She was discovered by talent agent Hylda Queally.
In the summer of 2009, she joined a group of freegans with friend and co-worker Zal Batmanglij, living in tents and retrieving food from dumpsters, to explore how other young people were constructing a meaningful life.
Marling co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films "Sound of My Voice" and "Another Earth", directed by Batmanglij and Cahill, respectively. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with "Another Earth" winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played the daughter of Richard Gere's character in "Arbitrage".
In 2013, she collaborated with Searchlight on the film "The East", where she also played a leading role. Directed by Zal Batmanglij and co-written by Marling and Batmanglij, "The East" is based on the duo's experience as freegans and their concern with the side effects of prescription drugs.
Marling and Batmanglij collaborated to create the drama series "The OA" which debuted in 2016 on Netflix. It was written by Marling and Batmanglij, who produced the series along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B, and Michael Sugar of Anonymous Content.
Marling started filming for the second season of "The OA" in January 2018. The second season, entitled "Part II", was released on March 22, 2019, and received very positive reviews.
Despite having many roles in films she has co-written, Marling stated she "get[s] a lot more pleasure in acting in other people's stories" since "one of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world."


Terry Semel

Terence Steven Semel (born February 24, 1943) is an American corporate executive who was the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated from 2001 to 2007. Previously, he spent 24 years at Warner Bros., where he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer. He resigned as CEO due in part to pressure from shareholders' dissatisfaction over his compensation (in 2006, salary $1, stock options worth $70 million) and performance. He is also the founder of Windsor Media, the production company that produced "Rules Don't Apply" starring Lily Collins and Warren Beatty.
Early life.
Semel was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mildred (née Wenig) and Ben Semel. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. He was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child, and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.
Career.
Semel began working at Warner Bros. in 1965 as a trainee. From 1970 to 1972, Semel worked for CBS corporation's theatrical film production company, Cinema Center Films, as domestic sales manager.
CBS closed Cinema Center Films in 1972 and Semel moved to the Walt Disney Company, where he was vice president in charge of theatrical distribution until 1975.
In 1975, Semel returned to Warner Bros. Distribution as president, then moved into studio operations as an executive vice president in 1979. Frank Wells announced he was taking a less active role the company in 1981, Semel became president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. on January 1, 1982.
In 1994, Warner Bros. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert A. Daly announced that Semel would become his co-chairman and CEO. The following year, the two men also became co-chairmen and co-chief executives of Warner Music following the firing of Michael J. Fuchs.
Both Daly and Semel resigned from Warner Bros. in July 1999.
Yahoo compensation.
In April 2001, Semel was granted stock options with an SEC Fair Value of over $110 million as a bonus to join Yahoo. During June 2006, his annual salary was reduced to one dollar.
Yahoo!-China cooperation controversy.
As CEO, Semel approved Yahoo!'s cooperation with Chinese officials to release previously confidential Yahoo! information to the Chinese government. This action by Yahoo! was not well received and he showed signs of regret as to how that information was being used. For example, in a widely publicized exchange at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference, he was asked if Yahoo! would have cooperated with Nazi Germany. In response, Semel, who is Jewish, stated, "I don't know how I would have felt then." He added, "I don't feel good about what's happening in China today." When questioned on this topic in a Q & A discussion with Peter Bazalgette at The Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention in 2005, his response was "We have to abide by the laws in the countries in which we operate."
Lost chance to take over Google.
After joining Yahoo, company founders Jerry Yang and David Filo suggested he look at buying Google, whose founders looked up to Yahoo's founders. Semel had dinner with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, asking them what their business was with Yahoo paying only $7 million annually as its biggest licensor of Google search technology. So Semel proposed to buy Google. They replied that they wanted $1 billion and didn't want to sell. Semel said he'd think about the price.
After another dinner Semel agreed to the $1 billion. Page and Brin replied that they wanted $3 billion and didn't want to sell.
Lost chance to take over Facebook.
Semel was given the mandate by Yahoo Board to buy Facebook for up to 1.2 Billion dollars, Mark Zuckerberg having asked a 1 Billion price. He tried to make it nonetheless for 850 million dollars, and Zuckerberg stopped the negotiating process.
Resignation.
Semel ended his six-year tenure as chief executive officer Monday, June 18, 2007, and handed over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon's latest attempt to regain investor confidence. At age 64, Semel remained chairman in a non-executive role. Besides naming Yang as its new CEO, Yahoo appointed Susan Decker as its president. Having recently been promoted to oversee Yahoo's advertising operations, Decker had widely been regarded as Semel's heir apparent . He later resigned from his post as non-executive Chairman from Yahoo completely on January 31, 2008.
Other activities.
Semel is currently co-chair of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) In 2005, he was given the UCLA Medal, that University's highest honor, and the "Legend in Leadership Award" from the Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management.
Personal.
In 1966, he married Maryann Soloway; they divorced in 1974.
In 1977, he married Jane Bovingdon, a former secretary to the actress Susan George.
He has a son, Eric Scott Semel (b. March 15, 1969), and three daughters, Courtenay Semel (b. November 11, 1979), Lily Bovingdon Semel (b. 1985), and Kate Bovingdon Semel (b. March, 1992)..
In 2004, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute was renamed the Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.


Work experience


James W. Bryce

James Wares Bryce (1880 – 1949) was an American engineer and inventor. In 1936, on the centenary of the United States Patent Office, he was honored as one of the country’s 10 greatest living inventors.
Born in New York City on September 5, 1880, his father was from Edinburgh and mother was from Wick.
He studied for three years at City College of New York before taking a draftsman position in 1900. In 1903 he worked for J. Walter Christie and helped develop a front-wheel-drive racing car. In 1904 he went to work for H. T. Goss, who later formed the partnership of Goss & Bryce. One of their contracts was with Bundy Manufacturing Company who made time clocks used to track hours worked by industrial workers.
He took a position at the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (later known as IBM) in 1917 as supervising engineer of the division that developed time recording machines.
Time clocks used punched cards to record workers in and out times. Subtracting these two gave hours worked on each day, and adding them all up gave total work time. This was easily automated by mechanical machines. However, to compute wages, the hours must be multiplied by salary per hour. Bryce invented one of the first electromechanical multipliers using relays for this application, and became IBM's chief engineer. In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.
When Aiken published a press release announcing the ASCC. Bryce was the only IBM person mentioned.
In 1946 Bryce designed the first commercial electronic multiplier using vacuum tubes, which IBM marketed as the IBM 603.
He adapted the 603 to become the arithmetic logic unit in the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC).
However, he was too ill to attend the dedication of the SSEC in January 1948, and died in March 1949.


J Allard

J Allard (born James Allard, on January 12, 1969 in Glens Falls, New York) is the CEO of Project 529, a company that builds software for cyclists and law enforcement. Prior to starting Project 529, Allard was chief technology and experience officer for the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. He was instrumental in bringing Microsoft into the Internet age, leading the development of Internet technologies for Windows, and oversaw the company's first foray into the video game industry. Allard shipped over 30 products during his tenure at Microsoft and was a founding member of many Microsoft businesses, including Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Windows NT and the TCP/IP product families.
Education.
Allard is a 1991 Boston University graduate with a bachelor's degree in computer science. In 2003, he received the Distinguished Alumni award and delivered the CS department commencement address. He later received an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from Boston University at the 2009 Boston University commencement ceremony alongside Larry Bird and Steven Spielberg. In 2019, Allard was awarded an Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) to New Zealand, joining a community of entrepreneurs and investors to create global change.
Project 529.
Allard started the 529 Garage bicycle registration service in 2014 in Portland, Oregon. Today Project 529 is the world's largest bike registration network, approaching two million registered bikes. The service is used by bicycle owners, cities, law enforcement, universities and bike shops as a registration, reporting and recovery program. Since launching the first official test city of Vancouver, Canada in 2015, bike theft has dropped over 35% and thousands of stolen bicycles have been reunited with their owners. The program is now rapidly expanding throughout North America and has captured the attention of the World Bank.
Microsoft.
Allard joined Microsoft in 1991, recruited from Boston University as a Program Manager on the LAN Manager team overseeing the network protocol efforts and NDIS program. The former chief experience officer is best known for developing the Xbox product family, as well as his 1994 memo, "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet", encouraging the Microsoft team to embrace the Internet. The memo, distributed to Microsoft leaders, captured the attention of Bill Gates and is cited for reshaping the company's direction, earning Allard the reputation as "Microsoft's Father of the Internet." According to an internal email, Allard was a network engineer responsible for convincing Microsoft to ship TCP/IP in Windows 95.
Allard co-founded the Xbox project in 1999, primarily focused on the Xbox software platform, Xbox Live, and recruiting third-party developers and publishers to support the program. He was later promoted to the position of CTO and CXO of the Entertainment and Devices Division. This role had Allard building a unified design team, an incubation & prototyping team called Alchemie Ventures and new product development such as Zune, Kin and Courier. Throughout his career, Allard was an advocate for open standards serving on the Windows Sockets, IETF, IAB and W3C organizations. He often served as a media spokesperson for Microsoft as part of his product and standards work.
Zune.
The Zune program started following the launch of the Xbox 360 in 2006. It was co-led by Allard (product) and Bryan Lee (business). When Lee stepped down in 2007 from his post as Zune Executive in charge of business development, Allard took over as the new executive. Allard oversaw development of the Microsoft Zune, a handheld portable media device, initially seen by some media as a potential iPod rival. The first generation Zune shipped in 2006 and sold more units than all non-iPod MP3 players sold in its first year.
Kin.
The Microsoft Kin phone project, first known by the codename 'Project Pink', began under Allard in 2008. After an internal power struggle, control of the project was moved from Allard to Andy Lees, who headed the Windows Phone division. The project cost Microsoft US$1 billion and was discontinued on June 30, 2010 due to poor sales.
Courier.
Allard headed up the team at Microsoft that created the two-screen tablet prototype and business plan called Courier. The Courier project did not receive funding by Steve Ballmer, who insisted that the product run Windows and Office. Shortly after Ballmer's decision to cancel development of the Courier, Allard left Microsoft, though said his decision to leave was unrelated to the Courier cancellation.
Retirement from Microsoft.
On May 25, 2010, Allard left Microsoft. Upon announcing his retirement, Allard wrote an internal email named "Decide. Change. Reinvent." to Microsoft employees discussing his career history at Microsoft and attempting to instill inspiration to a group of employees at Microsoft he refers to as "The Tribe." According to Allard, "The Tribe" is "a group of people diverse in perspective, similar in skills and completely, totally galvanized around one central purpose. Change."
Before leaving Microsoft, Allard became a director of The Clymb, a Flash sale site featuring outdoor products. In June 2011, The Clymb raised $2 million from a handful of angel investors, including Allard, and was sold to LeftLane Sports in 2016.
Allard joined Intellivision Entertainment on May 14, 2020, as the global managing director to help oversee the release of the Intellivision Amico. As of January, 2021, all references to Intellivision Entertainment and J. Allard's time there have been removed from his linkedin page with no announcement or further information. As of March 2021, all references related to Allard's involvement with Intellivision have now been removed from Intellivision's website and related Intellivision Amico webpages. In an interview posted on GeekWire, Allard says that he left the company last summer, shortly after joining, stating that there was "No drama, just not a good fit,”. This statement from Allard seems to directly contradict Intellivision Entertainment CEO, Tommy Tallarico who has said as recently as March 2021 that J. Allard is still an advisor.


Licensing.biz

Licensing.biz is an online trade magazine published by Biz Media, a subsidiary of Datateam Media Group and based in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Originally aimed at European members of the licensing industry, it has since expanded to cover the trade worldwide.
History.
"Licensing.biz" was founded in 2007 by Intent Media, which was acquired by NewBay Media in 2012. At the time of its creation, the managing director and publisher was Stuart Dinsey. Dinsey left the position in October 2013.
As of 2016, "Licensing.biz" receives about 52,000 monthly readers from over one hundred countries.
In 2018, NewBay was acquired by Future.
In January 2019, Future sold some B2B brands (including Licensing.biz) to Datateam Media Group, Biz Media was formed as the parent company.
"Licensing.biz People Awards".
On 30 April 2015, "Licensing.biz" introduced the "People Awards" ceremony, held in London. On 11 March 2016, the second annual awards show was held in the same city, hosted by BBC 6 Music presenter Shaun Keaveny. The event recognises successful companies involved in the licensing business.


Sandra Liu Huang

Sandra Liu Huang leads the product team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Previously she was the director of product management at Quora, and an early and senior member of the product team at Facebook.
Biography.
Huang went to high school in Taiwan. She pursued her undergraduate education at Stanford University. After taking an introductory programming class, she was immediately drawn to computer science, and later became a teaching assistant for introductory computer science classes.
After graduating from Stanford, Huang took a job at Google as a product manager on the Adwords and AdSense projects. She then moved within Google to work on Google Checkout. After two years at Google, Huang joined Facebook as a product manager on the Instant Personalization program, a feature that allows outside websites to tailor their content to users who are also logged in to Facebook. At Facebook, she worked closely with CEO Mark Zuckerberg to create the company plan for 2011. After three years at Facebook, she joined Quora, a question-and-answer platform, as the company's first product manager. She worked on Quora's iPhone and Android mobile apps and other product updates, and later became Quora's director of product management.
In 2017, Huang left Quora to join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg with the goal to improve the state of health, education, scientific research, and energy.


Tucka Healy

Margaret J. "Tucka" Healy (born September 20, 1962) is an American former soccer player who played as a forward, making three appearances for the United States women's national team. She later worked as an employee for Google.
Career.
In college, Healy played for the California Golden Bears from 1981 to 1985, though she missed the 1984 season. Her first season in 1981 was under the AIAW, while the remaining were in the NCAA. In her NCAA career, she scored 45 goals and had 10 assists. She was an NSCAA Third Team All-American in 1983 and 1985, and was included in the NSCAA All-Region team in 1985. In 2015, she was inducted into the "Lair of Legends" of the California Golden Bears, as part of the athletics hall of fame.
Healy made her international debut for the United States in the team's inaugural match on August 18, 1985 at the Mundialito against hosts Italy. In total, she made three appearances for the U.S. at the tournament, earning her final cap on August 24, 1985 against Denmark.
Personal life.
Healy was born to Mary and John Helding "Jack" Healy, one of five children. At a young age, her family moved from the Denver area to Palo Alto, California. Healy was employee 81 at Google in Mountain View, California, where she worked as an enterprise sales manager, and later for the YouTube partner program, Google Fiber, and YouTube TV.


Home Care Insight

Home Care Insight is a trade journal and website published by Promedia Publishing Ltd., based in London.
It runs annual award ceremonies for the sector.
In July 2019 it started a campaign jointly with the National Association of Care and Support Workers for the compulsory registration of care workers in England, as is the case in the rest of the UK.


Rich Barton

Richard Barton (born June 2, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur and the chief executive officer of Zillow Group. Barton founded online travel company (and Microsoft spinoff) Expedia, Inc., real-estate internet company Zillow, and job search engine and career community Glassdoor. He also founded the online travel photography sharing site Trover, which was acquired by Expedia in 2016. Barton was also a venture partner at Benchmark, and is on the board of directors for Netflix, Avvo, Nextdoor, and Artsy.
In 2003, he was named as one of the top 10 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. In April 2012, he was named to Barack Obama's Presidential Ambassadors for Continental Entrepreneurship.
Early life.
Barton, raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, is the son of a teacher and mechanical engineer. He graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a degree in engineering. He first worked for Alliance Consulting Group, and in 1991, began working for Microsoft.
Barton's forefathers, John Barton and his son Horace, were inducted into the 1999 South Dakota Tennis Hall of Fame.
Entrepreneurship.
Many of Barton's companies add transparency to their industries and provide people with data and information. Expedia gives people more information on travel, Zillow gives people more information on real estate, and Glassdoor gives people more information on salaries and company ratings. Barton refers to his business philosophy as "power to the people."
Barton founded Expedia within Microsoft in 1994. In 1994, Microsoft was planning to build a travel guidebook on a CD-ROM. Barton, who was familiar with text-based internet services of the time, had come across an online service designed for travel agents working from home. He felt this would be a larger opportunity for the company, and pitched the idea of an online travel booking service to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Nathan Myhrvold. Gates, Balmer, and Myhrvold gave Barton permission to move forward with the project, which officially shipped to the web as Expedia in 1996. Barton served as CEO through Expedia's IPO in 1999, and stayed in the position until 2003, after the company was acquired for $3.6 billion.
After a year-long leave of absence from the business community, Barton returned to Seattle in 2004, and started working toward the launch of Zillow with Lloyd Frink, another Expedia and Microsoft alumnus. Barton and Frink did not reveal much about the company prior to its launch.
In February 2020, Barton became a billionaire according to Forbes, after reporting strong earnings at Zillow.


Itinerant filmmaker

Beginning in the early days of silent films Itinerant filmmakers traveled across the USA to make their movies on location with “home talent.” They capitalized on the public’s desire to see themselves and/or their children in the movies. The filmmakers hoped to cash in on the vanity of politicians, high-society types and prominent businessmen and their families. They would pay a small fee to be in the movie and townspeople would pay to watch their neighbors in the film. It was also common for the local chamber of commerce to pay the production expenses and choose the backdrop and locations for filming. Many times it was promised that the film would be shown around the country, enticing the viewers to come and visit the places they saw. The film would then be returned to the Chamber after its run. They often filmed the same characters in the same story over and over, only changing the cast in each city. Sometimes the title would change leading people to think their particular film was unique. These itinerant films were popular in the silent era, but in some cases they were still operating into the 1970s. Several people made careers out of making itinerant films.
Practitioners.
O.W. Lamb was an early entrant into the field of itinerant filmmaking. His company was Paragon Feature Films and it was very active between 1914 and 1916. He was responsible for "The Lumberjack" (1914), the first movie to be made in Wisconsin and "Present and Past in the Cradle of Dixie" (1914) made in Montgomery, Alabama. Lamb also made "The Blissveldt Romance" (1915) in Grand Rapids, Michigan and "The Spirit of Columbus 1865-1915" (1915) in Columbus, Georgia. "The Maid of the Miami" (1915) was made in Dayton, Ohio. Lamb worked with the Chamber of Commerce who often sponsored the production. One hallmark of Lamb’s operation would be to offer a reward of a five-dollar gold piece to the person who came up with title for the film.
Richard Norman made a film entitled "The Wrecker" over 40 times in various cities in the Midwest and South between 1915 and 1919. Norman had purchased footage of a train collision that was used as the climax to the story. Unfortunately, no copies exist of this film. He established Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida in 1919 and found success making “race films.” His first was an all-black version of "The Wrecker" called "The Green-eyed Monster" (1919). His film "The Flying Ace" (1926) is the only one of his movies known to have survived.
Don O. Newland was active in the 1920s and 1930s. His claims of working with Mack Sennett and Mary Pickford are not backed up by his Internet Movie Database biography. He made many of his films in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. He used the name of the town followed by “Hero” for the titles to his films. Known titles include "Janesville’s Hero" (1926), "Belvidere’s Hero" (1926), "Tyrone’s Hero" (1934) and "Huntingdon’s Hero" (1934). The opening credits are available to watch for "Tyrone’s Hero" and the entire film is available for "Belvidere’s Hero".
Melton Barker was active later than most. His "Kidnapper’s Foil" was filmed dozens of times between the 1930s and 1970s, making him possibly the last of his kind and even attempted to move into television. He specialized in using children in his films, hence the name of his company, Melton Barker Juvenile Productions. "Kidnapper’s Foil" was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2012.


Employability

Employability refers to the attributes of a person that make that person able to gain and maintain employment.
Overview.
Employability is related to work and the ability to be employed, such as:
Lee Harvey defines employability as the ability of a graduate to get a satisfying job, stating that job acquisition should not be prioritized over preparedness for employment to avoid pseudo measure of individual employability.
Lee argues that employability is not a set of skills but a range of experiences and attributes developed through higher-level learning, thus employability is not a "product' but a process of learning.
Employability continues to develop because the graduate, once employed, does not stop learning (i.e. continuous learning). Thus employability by this definition is about learning, not least learning how to learn, and it is about empowering learners as critical reflective citizens. Harvey‘s (2001) definition is important for it emphasizes the employability of graduates, which is similar to our context, hence, able to provide insight about how to measure graduates' employability and what are the differences between graduates and experienced individuals in the labor market.
There are numerous terms for employability skills, they are often used interchangeably with terms such as soft skills, generic skills, 21st century skills, generic attributes, transferable skills, generic competencies and holistic competencies. Chan at the University of Hong Kong uses holistic competencies as an umbrella term inclusive of different types of generic skills (e.g. critical thinking, problem-solving skills, positive values, and attitudes (e.g. resilience, appreciation for others) which are essential for students’ life-long learning and whole-person development (Chan, Fong, Luk, & Ho, 2017; Chan & Yeung, 2019 ). In order to understand how holistic competencies should be developed based on student perception, the Holistic Competency Development Framework (HCDF) was developed (Chan & Yeung, 2019). The HCDF consists of five key components that are fundamental to holistic competency development: 1) student characteristics; 2) rationale for learning; 3) students’ actual learning experience and perceptions and interpretations based on that experience; 4) students’ approaches to developing holistic competency; and 5) students’ development of holistic competency as outcomes. The HCDF is an adaption of Bigg’s 3P Student Approach to Learn model (1987). Chan realised that traditional learning processes such as the 3P model do not apply to soft skills development because students who are deep learners in the academic context do not necessarily become deep learners in soft skills education. Thus, the words ‘deep’ and ‘surface’ with respect to academic knowledge are unsuitable in the soft skills context. Accordingly, a new term was coined, Approach to Develop, for conceptualising student engagement in experiential learning leading to the development of holistic competencies. Unlike academic knowledge, holistic competencies must be developed by experience. As an illustration, leadership skills cannot be learnt by reading a book; the learner must have opportunities to observe and experience what leadership is. Hence, the word ‘learn’ can be used to describe academic knowledge acquisition, whilst ‘develop’ is preferable for describing holistic competency education. Validated instruments for assessing student's holistic competencies awareness have been developed (Chan, Zhao & Luk, 2017; Chan & Luk, 2020) although the assessment literacy of competency for both teachers and students remains challenging (Chan & Luo, 2020).
Berntson (2008) argues that employability refers to an individual's perception of his or her possibilities of getting new, equal, or better employment. Berntson's study differentiates employability into two main categories – actual employability (objective employability) and perceived employability (subjective employability).
Research into employability is not a single cohesive body work. Employability is investigated in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, career development, industrial sociology, and the sociology of education, among others. Several employability definitions have been developed based on, or including input from business and industry. In the United States, an Employability Skills Framework was developed through a collaboration of employers, educators, human resources associations, and labour market associations. This framework states, "Employability skills are general skills that are necessary for success in the labor market at all employment levels and in all sectors". After conducting research with employers across Canada, the Conference Board of Canada released Employability Skills 2000+, which defines employability as "the skills you need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work". Saunders & Zuzel (2010) found that employers valued personal qualities such as dependability and enthusiasm over subject knowledge and ability to negotiate.
In relation to freelance or "ad hoc" work.
In the future fewer will be employed and more people work as free lancers or ad hoc on projects. Robin Chase, co-founder of Zip Car, argues that in the future more work will be done as freelancers or ad hoc works. Collaborative economy and other similar platforms are reinventing capitalism, for example platforms like Freelancer.com, a new way of organizing demand and supply.
Freelancer is also an example of how employability can be developed even for people who are not employed – Freelancers offers exposure of certification and in the future similar platforms will also offer continuous upgrade of competencies for the people associated.
In relation to university degree choice.
The Complete University Guide website (based in London within the United Kingdom ) lists the ten most employable degree subjects, indicating the degree of employability with a percentage (of graduates exiting university who subsequently obtain employment). The subject with the most employment is Dentistry, the subjects with ordinately less employment, after the 1st most are as follows; Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Medicine, Physiotherapy, Medical Technology, Optometry Ophthalmology Orthoptics, Occupational Therapy, Land and Property Management, Aural and Oral sciences
Graduate employability, focused on the ways in which higher education equips graduates to meet the needs of the labour market, has become a central feature of universities' missions and branding, and is included in university league tables such as the QS World University Rankings. Universities' have pursued a range of strategies to support their graduates' employability, and graduate employability researchers have considered a number of models based on various kinds of human capital, dispositions, and psycho-social influences.
Organizational issues.
Employability creates organizational issues, because future competency needs may require re-organization in many ways. The increasing automation and use of technology also makes it relevant to discuss not only change but also transformation in tasks for people. The issues are relevant at government level, at corporate level and for individuals.
Institutions for employability.
In the past, government had institutions to handle unemployment and employment. In the future this will be extended to include employability. In many parts of the world, Wheebox conducts 'National Employability Test' an online test that measures candidate's Business communication, Critical Thinking Skills, Numeracy, Coding Skills for IT, Learning Agility and Interpersonal Skills. National Employability Test
The Institute for Employability.
Singapore has created an Institute for Employability that works on competency upgrades, to reduce risk of unemployment, and increase the competitiveness of the nation and corporations and the employability of the individual.


List of Wells Fargo presidents

The List of Wells Fargo presidents includes those persons who have served as President of Wells Fargo since 1852. It includes the presidents of the express mail company from 1852 to 1918 and of the Wells Fargo Bank, which was separated from the express company in 1905 and merged with the Nevada National Bank to form the Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank - the lineal ancestor of the present Wells Fargo Bank.


George H. Ross

George H. Ross (born January 6, 1928) is a former executive vice president and senior counsel of the Trump Organization. He is perhaps best known as one of Donald Trump's two advisors on the NBC reality television program "The Apprentice," along with Carolyn Kepcher. On the program, Ross monitored the progress of the contestants and assisted Trump in determining who should be "fired."
Early life and education.
Ross was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bronx. His father died when he was 16. Ross went to Stuyvesant High School and afterward, joined the U.S. Army as a cryptanalyst for one year. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College before earning a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.
Career.
He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1953. After he passed the bar, he worked in the litigation department for Dreyer & Traub. In 1954, he became the in-house counsel for Goldman-DiLorenzo (founded by Sol Goldman and Alex DiLorenzo). Between 2000 and 2005 Ross was in the supervisory council (Aufsichtsrat) of TD Trump Deutschland, planning to purchase or build a Trump Tower in Germany.
He teaches courses in negotiation and real estate transactions at New York University. He is the author of two books, "Trump Strategies For Real Estate" and "Trump Style Negotiation".
Personal life.
As of 2004, Ross lives in Hewlett Harbor, and is married to Billie Ross; they have two children: Nanci and Stephanie.


Gilbert Brown Wilson

Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907–1991), best known as "Gil Wilson," was an American painter known for his large-scale murals, including his 1935 murals in Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Much of his later life was dedicated to depicting Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". In 1955 a short film using this body of artwork won a Silver Reel Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Early life.
Wilson was born on March 4, 1907, in Terre Haute to parents Martha and Wilton A. Wilson, a banker. He attended McLean Junior High and graduated from Garfield High School in 1925. As an active Boy Scout, Gilbert Wilson held a fifteen-year veteran pin and achieved a Silver Eagle rank.
Education.
Wilson attended Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State University) and studied under professor of art William T. Turman. In 1928 he began instruction at the Chicago Art Institute, where he exhibited at the Hoosier Salon and won two awards, as wells as a two-hundred dollar prize in 1929 and 1930. Wilson was considered a poor student. He didn't take courses as outlined, and even failed to follow the venerable tradition of copying old masters, drawing miserably. Instead, he spent his time drawing prehistoric men and animals in the Field Museum, and the world's flora and fauna.
In Chicago, Wilson met mural painter Eugene Savage due to the Hoosier Prize, whom he learned the craft of murals at Yale School of Fine Arts. After three months of diligent labor, Wilson left Yale and went home. He wrote Savage that he couldn't stand that sort of artistic life; that he would much rather work and live with the master, as had been the apprentice's way for centuries before. Thus it happened that for the next ten months Wilson became part of the Savage household in Ossining, New York. During this time Wilson rendered color composition and design to rolls of architectural blueprints, did various household chores, came twice a month for the regular shopping tour to New York, and painted incidentals for the remainder of the Elks Memorial murals. This was his only canvas-oil experience except for the three still lifes of his schooldays.
Wilson became enamored with the work of prominent muralists Diego Rivera and José Orozco and travelled to Mexico to study under Rivera; there he would also study with sculptor Urbici Soler. "Great art can and must be universal—but of necessity it must have its origin in a locality... Great art must be in touch with life, must function through some means and link itself up with the common everyday experience of the people." wrote Wilson from Mexico.
Philosophy.
Inspired by Rivera, Orozco and Savage, as well as Terre Haute-area thinkers like social activist Eugene Debs and writers Theodore Dreiser and Max Ehrmann, much of Wilson's work concerns the plight of the common man. Common themes in his murals are war, capitalism, industrialization and ecological issues. Wilson believed that the lowest form of art is regional; the highest universal.
Wilson later recalled how seeing Orozco's work for the first time had been a revelation, saying, "From that moment on I knew it was what I wanted Art to be — a real, vital, meaningful expression, full of purpose and intention, having influence and relation to people's daily lives — a part "of" life. Here was the first "modern" art I had ever seen."
Wilson did not always find support from his community during his time in Terre Haute, particularly finding conflict with the town's affluent, who found his motifs of oppression and social change unappealing. He dealt with frustration and depression through much of his career, even destroying part of his own mural in Indiana State University's Laboratory School.
Other common themes were multicultural community and racial equality. In 1960 Wilson was artist in residence at Kentucky State College and proposed a set of murals for the gymnasium depicting black history. However, the gymnasium burned down before the murals were undertaken, and Wilson was later fired from his position there for his communist beliefs. His oil painting "John Henry", from this time period, was possibly a study for these murals.
Works.
Many of his murals can be found in schools and other public places including Antioch College, New York City's School of Sculpture, School of Dance (Columbus, Ohio), the Spink Wawasee Hotel, Chicago's Lincoln Park building and local community theaters in Terre Haute.
Woodrow Wilson Middle School murals.
Wilson's first job upon returning to his hometown in 1933 was a set of four murals at Woodrow Wilson Middle School. Called "Liberation", these large-scale chalk murals can be found directly inside the main entrance of the building and took Wilson three years to complete, ending in 1935.
The murals, which span three walls, depict images of industrialization, capitalism, greed, agriculture, warfare and a needy populace. A portion of the mural shows four Boy Scouts of different ethnic backgrounds clasping hands with a quote showing Wilson's "respect and admiration" for scouting.
Upon completion of the murals, the school board refused to pay or reimburse Wilson for his work. His only payment was a collection of coins by the school's students that totalled $28.
Partially due to the presence of Wilson's murals, the school is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Indiana State University.
A mural in ISU's University Hall (formerly the Laboratory School) was completed by Wilson in 1936 after six weeks of work. Funded by the Works Progress Administration, themes of the work include an anti-war sentiment coupled with poor stewardship of the earth, Dust Bowl devastation and the necessity for multicultural collaboration. Wilson's own writings about the work state that the mural "is an attempt to state thru the medium of form and color the greatest problem facing civilization today. That problem is WASTE. Waste of the earth upon which we live and the waste of human life."
Wilson's creativity and local sensibility was made all the more evident when artist Bill Wolfe restored the mural in 2009 and realized that Wilson had used clay from the nearby Wabash River in some of his colors, Rembrandt chalk pastels, and was left-handed. "Originally the mural wrapped its way around and down the hallway until one afternoon Wilson was provoked by someone in maintenance," Lustig said. "In a flurry of outrage he washed away the outer walls. His father paid to have the walls repainted and brought to their original condition."
The university is home to six works by Wilson in all. One visible mural called "The Bean Pickers" (dated 1932) is in the foyer of Tilson Auditorium. Another work depicting professor Fred Donaghy was lost in 1998 when the Classroom Building where the mural was located was razed.
Antioch College.
The Curl Gymnasium of Antioch College's Wellness Center is the home of his eponymous mural, which was dedicated as a class gift by the Antioch College Class of 1938 to the school. Separated into three sections titled "Collapse," "Man Emerges," and "Order," this mural evoked themes such as racial and gender equality, the destructive spread of fascism in Europe, the collapse of modern civilization under capitalism, and the relationship between man and nature. Wilson described in the 1939 "Antioch Alumni Bulletin" that "in the mural, where I have sought to paint the collapse of modern civilization under capitalism, it is but a picture of what one artist feels is ahead if something is not done."
Moby Dick.
After reading Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" in the late 1940s, Wilson created numerous artworks around the book, which he viewed as a guide for the betterment of humanity. In 1955 a short film using his artwork won a Silver Reel award at the Venice Film Festival. The next year, Wilson traveled with his Moby Dick paintings and drawings on a 27-state tour.
Writings.
In addition to his artwork, Wilson was a published writer. In the late 1930s, Wilson had numerous conversations about art, politics and current events with novelist Sherwood Anderson which would become the subject of his piece "A Mural Portrait of Sherwood Anderson." Wilson also published an interview with cartoonist Art Young in the summer 1938 issue of "Direction Magazine", including portraits of Young both by Wilson and by José Clemente Orozco.
Legacy.
The definitive collection of Wilson's work was bequeathed to the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute after Wilson's death. A 2007 exhibit "Gilbert Wilson, Native Son" commemorated the centennial of his birth.
Actor Walter Huston and his son, film director John Huston, were both champions of Wilson’s work. The elder Huston co-sponsored (with author Pearl S. Buck) an exhibition of Wilson’s work at New York City’s Arthur U. Newton Galleries in May 1949. Wilson also used Walter as a model for at least one of his paintings of Ahab from Moby-Dick. John Huston called Wilson “a brilliant artist and one of America’s foremost painters.”
Wilson was known to give many of his works away, which is why some of them have been found at estate sales and thrift stores.
Indiana State University professor Edward Spann wrote a full-length biography of Wilson but died before it could be published. It remained unpublished due to the wishes of his widow for more than a decade, until Wilson's family entrusted author and editor Robert K. Elder to edit and publish "Unfinished and Unbroken: The Life of Artist Gilbert Wilson". In 2016, during a visit to the Swope Art Museum, Elder saw the exhibition "Good Intentions: Two Unrealized Projects by Gilbert Brown Wilson". Co-curated by former director Susan Baley, and current curator Edward Trover, the exhibition displayed Wilson's "Old Mister World and the Hue-Mans: A Fable of the Earth and the Atom", and panel studies for his unrealized Moby Dick mural for the library in Frankfort, Kentucky.
 Inspired by the exhibition, Robert K. Elder gathered images for the book "Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson" with publisher Hat & Beard Press.