Engineering professor and robotics expert Claire Tomlin will introduce the speakers.
Adam Moss, the current editor in chief of New York magazine, will introduce the speakers.
Chancellor Birgeneau will introduce the speakers, who, along with Birgeneau, are fellows of the AAAS.
Inside the center's control room, where he mostly remained except to introduce the speakers, Adam Malin, one of Creation's two founders, said, "We're here every year, but it feels nostalgic".
Dr. James D. Watson, president of the lab, who discovered DNA, will introduce the speakers: Viviana Risca, a senior at Schreiber High School in Port Washington who won this year's Intel Science Talent Search by encoding a message on a piece of synthetic DNA, and Dr. Laura F. Landweber of Princeton University, a pioneer in DNA computing (516) 367-84516
And to help do that, we've asked two of our faculty members here, Jonathan Ochshorn and Jenny Sabin, who are on the department faculty here at Cornell to both introduce the speakers through the day as well as to help frame and provoke some questions at the end of the day in a panel discussion after we're all done.
In larger meetings, session chairs are generally facilitators who introduce the speakers with a minimum of fuss and ensure that speakers repeat questions from the audience before answering.
The Orwellian loudspeaker alert about acceptable behavior during the event played again, and Cameron Padgett, the clean-cut college student dressed in a navy suit, strode onto stage to introduce the speakers.
The Cornell History Department and the East Asia program sponsored this visit, Professor Walter LaFeber,Tisch Distinguished University Professor, introduced the speaker.
