Ackley, David http://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/
	Adleman, Leonard http://www-hto.usc.edu/people/Adleman.html One of the discoverers of the widely used RSA encryption algorithm, and researcher on computer viruses.
	Angle, Colin Develops adaptive robotics, specifically subsumption and swarm level intelligences at MIT.
	Arbib, Michael http://www-hbp.usc.edu/people/arbib.htm One of the first proponents of the idea that we can learn about the brain by studying intelligent machines and vice-versa. He founded the Cognitive Science program along with the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts.
	Axelrod, Robert http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/raxelrod.html Researches the emergent properties of social systems, specifically competition and collaboration in a political, and societal context.
	Baldwin, J.M. http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/museum/baldwin.htm Baldwin founded the first Psychological laboratory in Toronto in 1889, he made use of Darwin's theory of evolution in his theories of development
	Bedau, Mark http://www.reed.edu/~mab/ Studies the relationship between life, mind and intelligence in an evolutionary context.
	Beer, Randall D. http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~beer/ Director of the Case Western Reserve University's Autonomous Agents Research Group.
	Brooks, Rodney A. http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/brooks.html The director of the Mit Humanoid Robotics Group Lab, Co-creator of Cog.
	Burks, Arthur After ENIAC he completed JVN's written proof of the universality of the 29-state automaton.
	Church, Alonso http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Church.html Developed the Church-Turing thesis.
	Codd, E. F. [cod68] http://ag.arizona.edu/classes/rnr271/history/edgar.html Developed an 8-state cellular automaton after Von Neumann's 29-state CA that was capable self-replication as well as preserving the universal computation ability of the Von Neumann CA. Subsequently, he worked on RDMS relational database technology.
	Conway, John Horton Mathematician, Game player, creator of "The Game of Life"
	Crick, Sir Francis http://www.salk.edu/faculty/crick.html Co-discover of the Double-Helical structure of DNA, he is turning his intellect toward information theory.
	Crutchfield, James http://www.santafe.edu/~jpc/
	Deneubourg, Jean-Louis
	Dennet, Daniel http://www.tufts.edu/~ddennett/ Dennet gives a very good description of why consciousness is not an all or nothing phenomena, but one of varying degrees across organisms.
	Descartes, Rene http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html The first rationalist.
	Drexler, K. Eric http://www.foresight.org/FI/Drexler.html The largest proponent of Nanotechnology which will come to fruition a lot quicker with Carbon Nanotubes.
	Dewdney, A. K. http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/ Mathematics Professor, and contributor to Scientific American, our guide to the point where Science and Information theory interact.
	Drake, Frank http://www.seti-inst.edu/general/profiles/frank-d.html Director of SETI, that other search for Artificial Life.
	Dyer, Michael http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/dyer.html
	Eigen, Manfred http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1967/eigen-bio.html Eigen had an interest peripheral to his primary field of chemistry, that of the problem of the storage of information in the central nervous system in humans.
	Einstein, Albert http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
	Farmer, James Doyne http://www.santafe.edu/~jdf/ http://www.predict.com/company.htm
	Feigenbaum, Mitchell http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/feigenbaum/feigenbaum.html
	Feynman, Richard http://www.scs-intl.com/online/ The first scientist to discuss Nanotechnology, and the greatest physicist this century.
	Flynn, Anita http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/anita/anita.html
	Fontana, Walter http://www.santafe.edu/~walter/
	Forrest, Stephanie http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/ Genetic Algorithms researcher.
	Fredkin, Ed http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/fredkin_edward.html http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/interviews/87-einstein/text.html
	Freitas, Robert A. http://www.wtn.net/AwardsSite/robfreitas.wtn http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/index.html
	Gardner, Martin http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/gardner.htm
	Gell-Mann, Murray http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/mgm/
	Gibson, Robert
	Goldberg, David http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/goldberg/d-goldberg.html Worked under Koza, developed a Genetic Algorithm approach to pipeline resource optimization.
	Gosper, R. William http://home.interserv.com/~mniemiec/lifecred.htm#gosper Cellular Automata Researcher, discoverer of the glider gun.
	Green, Milton http://www.toc.lcs.mit.edu/~dmjones/FOCS/Authors/greenmiltonw.html
	Gutowitz, Howard http://www.santafe.edu/~hag/ Cellular Automata Researcher.
	Handler, Sheryl http://www.interlog.com/~gvwilson/articles/history.html
	Hillis, William Daniel Inventor of the Connection Machine, Hillis now works on the "Long Now" 10000 year clock and a multitude of other projects. His 5 versions of the CM were ahead of their time and technology just like Charles Babbage.
	Hinton, Geoff http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/Hinton/index.html
	Hofstadter, Douglas R. http://www.psych.indiana.edu/cogsci/hofstadter.html
	Holland, John Henry http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/administration/html_files/jholland.html John H. Holland first developed genetic algorithms in the 1960's.
	Hopfield, John J http://www.hopfield.net/~john/ Neural Network Pioneer.
	Hubbell, Stephen http://www.cnie.org/board/hubbell.html
	Joy, Bill http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html Why the future doesn't need us. Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, and is a coauthor of The Java Language Specification.
	Kaufman, Stuart http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/ Used the simplest boolean networks containing cells that compute one of the 16 functions obtainable from 2 binary variable inputs and other combinations, to investigate the interaction of proteins within living systems.
	Kemeny, John G. http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/kemeny.html
	Knight, Tom http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/tk.html
	Knuth, Donald http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ Detailed almost all of the theory of the field of computer science and discrete math.
	Koza, John http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html Developed alternate approach to genetic algorithms (Genetic Programming) that lets the program evolve itself, instead of designing a program to solve a problem
	Kurzweil, Ray http://www.kurzweiltech.com/ray.htm
	Lachmann, Michael http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/ Researches the origins and processes of evolution, specifically multicellularity and social interaction in animals and insects.
	Lander, Eric http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/www/people/pages/lander.html http://www.laskerfoundation.org/fundingfirst/comment/04/comm3d.html
	Langton, Christopher G.
	Lindenmayer, Aristid http://library.thinkquest.org/3343/web-docs/page3.html
	Littman, Michael http://www.cs.duke.edu/~mlittman/
	Lorenz, Konrad http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.l/l863333.htm
	Maes, Pattie http://pattie.www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie/ She is prolific, her company spun off from MIT to work on intelligent Agents.
	Mandelbrot, Benoit http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mandelbrot.html Wired:Aug 1994: The Geometric Dreams of Benoit Mandlebrot IBM Fellow, Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set - a kind of table of contents of Julia fractals for the equation Z(n) = Z(n-1)^2 + C (where c is the point on the complex 2-dimensional plane). When this equation is iterated, the time it takes for Z to spiral out past a radius of 2.0 becomes the color of the point. The result of this is a fractal (fractional dimension) that has an infinite length around its circumference. Here are some examples using Stone Soup Group's Fractint 18.21. Full Set 180 Kb Replicated Subset 474 Kb, this subset is not an exact copy. Spiral 203 Kb
	Margolus, Norman http://www.im.lcs.mit.edu/homedirs/nhm/www/
	Mataric, Maja http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~maja/
	May, Robert http://mathbiol.zoo.ox.ac.uk/bob/bob.html
	Mayer-Kress, Gottfried http://www.santafe.edu/~gmk/MFGB/MFGB.html
	McCarthy, John http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
	McIlroy, H. Douglas http://www.perryland.com/viruses.shtml
	Mead, Carver http://www.cns.caltech.edu/Faculty/Mead.html Researcher of biologically inspired models as applicable to vlsi retina chips.
	Merkle, Ralph http://www.merkle.com/ Researcher of Nanotechnology
	Michalewicz, Zbigniew http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~zbyszek/ A very detailed account of Evolutionary programs and their functioning.
	Mitchell, Melanie http://www.santafe.edu/~mm/ An authority on Genetic Algorithms.
	Minsky, Marvin http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/minsky/minsky.html The Artificial Intelligence pioneer.
	Monod, Jacques http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1965/monod-bio.html
	Moravec, Hans http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/ Robotics Pioneer.
	Morris, Robert Jr. http://www.rhet.agri.umn.edu/Rhetoric/misc/dfrank/worminfo.html
	Newell, Allen http://heinz1.library.cmu.edu/Newell/
	Nowlan, S. J. http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/Hinton/chronological.html
	Oppacher, Franz http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~oppacher/ A-Life and Genetic Programming researcher at Carleton University.
	Oppenheimer, Peter http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/treetown/
	O'Reilly, Una-May http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay/index.html
	Orgel, Leslie http://www.salk.edu/faculty/orgel.html
	Packard, Norman http://www.predict.com/start.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/mark92measurement.html Worked on artificial snowflake growth using a Cellular Automata model.
	Pagels, Heinz http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Pagels/
	Papert, Seymour http://papert.www.media.mit.edu/people/papert/ Co-Developer of the first object-oriented language Smalltalk, the precursor ot Java.
	Pattee, Howard H. http://www.ssie.binghamton.edu/pattee/
	Peirce, Charles S. http://www.peirce.org/ Worked on 3-valued logic among a huge amount of other fields.
	Penrose, L. S. http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/anhumgen/background.html The father of Roger Penrose, his concentration was on the genetic basis of disease and protein expression.
	Penrose, Roger http://tlc.ai.org/penrose.htm http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html Proponent of the assumption that the substrate for consciousness cannot be artificial.
	Prigogine, Ilya http://order.ph.utexas.edu/people/Prigogine.htm
	Prusinkeiwicz, Przemyslaw http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/comsci95/compsci95-05.html
	Rasmussen, Steen http://ees-www.lanl.gov/EES5/bio_ees5/steen/steen.html
	Ray, Thomas http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/
	Reitman, Judith http://www.bus.umich.edu/academic/faculty/jsolson.html
	Resnick, Mitchel http://mres.www.media.mit.edu/people/mres/
	Reynolds, Craig http://www.red3d.com/cwr/ Works on AI flocking behavior GA models for movies and computer games, one example is boids.
	Robertson, Debra http://www.umich.edu/~cogpsych/faculty/olsonj.html
	Rucker, Rudy http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/ Researcher in Cellular Automata
	Sagan, Carl http://planetary.org/society/tributes/ Carl searches for other Artificial Life outside of the solar system. Founder of SETI. Extraordinary Scientist.
	Schuster, Peter http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks/
	Searle, John http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jsearle/ Proponent of the assumption that the substrate for consciousness cannot be artificial.
	Shannon, Claude http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/shannon.html The father of Information Theory
	Simon, Herbert http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/people/directory/Herbert_Simon.html
	Sims, Karl http://www.genarts.com/karl/
	Smith, Alvy Ray http://www.alvyray.com/
	Smith, John Maynard http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/faculty/biology/maynard.htm
	Sober, Elliott http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/
	Spafford, Eugene http://www.cs.purdue.edu/faculty/spaf.html
	Steels, Luc http://arti9.vub.ac.be/steels/
	Sussmann, Gerald J. http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~gjs/gjs.html Artificial Intelligence pioneer.
	Tiesenhausen, Georg von http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepJBIS.html
	Toffoli, Tommaso http://www.im.lcs.mit.edu/tt/home.html
	Travers, Michael http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mt/
	Turing, Alan M. http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/ The other father of Information Theory, the first Cryptographer, creator of the Universal Turing Machine.
	Ulam, Stanislaw M. http://spot.colorado.edu/~gamow/george/1982bio.html
	Urey, Harold http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0044a.html
	Vaucanson, Jacques de http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,76872+1+74908,00.html The first creator of Automata, in the spirit of Sony's Aibo.
	Viola, Paul http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/viola/viola.html
	Von Neumann, John http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html [von58] A Mathematician, Von Neumanns' motivation was to simulate life using a machine. I first learned about Dr. Von Neumann when I came across cellular automata, John worked up until 1953 on his 29-state cellular automaton.
	Vyssotsky, Victor http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history/vyssotsky.html
	Walter, W. Grey http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n09/historia/greywalter_i.htm
	Watson, James http://clio1.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/Watson.html Co-discover of the double-helical structure of DNA.
	Wiener, Norbert http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Wiener_Norbert.html
	Wilson, Stewart http://world.std.com/~sw/
	Wolfram, Stephen http://www.stephenwolfram.com Classification of cellular automata, and in particular 1-dimensional versions.
	Woodger, J. H. http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/93b.islifeas.html
	Wright, Sewall http://www.stat.wisc.edu/wright/about.html
	Yaeger, Larry http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/Default.html