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Speakers

Life and Literature will feature two plenary speakers, George Dyson and Richard Pyle.




Richard Pyle

Plenary Speaker I

Richard Pyle's main field of expertise involves the taxonomy and biogeography of coral-reef fishes. His other areas of interest include the use of advanced diving technology to document biodiversity inhabiting deeper regions of tropical coral reefs, and also the development of computer database systems (and associated data standards) for managing biodiversity information.


He earned his PhD under the guidance of John E. Randall, and has worked in the Department of Natural Sciences at Bishop Museum since 1986. He has authored over a hundred scientific, technical, and popular articles, has been featured in dozens of documentary films, and has received a number of significant awards for his achievements. Pyle is also a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.





George Dyson

Plenary Speaker II

George Dyson is a historian of technology whose interests have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986), the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997), and the exploration of space (Project Orion, 2002). Turing’s Cathedral, “a creation myth for the digital universe,” will be published by Pantheon (USA) and Penguin (UK) in January 2012.