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Professor of Political Science. Professor Ansolabehere studies elections, democracy, and the mass media. He is coauthor (with Shanto Iyengar) of *The Media Game* (Macmillan, 1993) and of *Going Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the American Electorate* (The Free Press, 1996). His articles have appeared in *The American Political Science Review*, *The British Journal of Politics*, *The Journal of Politics*, *Legislative Studies Quarterly*, *Public Opinion Quarterly*, *The Quill*, and *Chance*. His current research projects include campaign finance, congressional elections, and party politics.

Cullen Murphy was the managing editor of *The Atlantic Monthly* from 1985 to 2002 and the magazine's de facto editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2005. He is the author of *The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own* and *Are We Rome?* He is currently the editor-at-large of *Vanity Fair*.

Rishi Reddi is an American author. She was born in Hyderabad, India and grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States. Along with her writing career, Reddi has been an enforcement attorney for the state and federal environmental protection agencies, as well as a lawyer for the Massachusetts Secretary of Environment. Her book Karma and Other Stories received the 2007 LL Winship PEN New England Award. Rishi Reddi's work was chosen for Best American Short Stories 2005, featured on NPR's Selected Shorts program, and received an honorable mention for 2004 Pushcart Prize. She has been a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She serves on the board of directors of South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow.

George Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law. He is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional association of lawyers and physicians working together to promote human rights and health. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for Justice John V. Spalding of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and came to Boston University in 1972 as the Director of the Center for Law and Health Sciences at the law school. Professor Annas is the author or editor of sixteen books on health law and bioethics, including *American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries* (2005), *The Rights of Patients* (3d ed. 2004), *Some Choice: Law, Medicine, and the Market* (1999), *Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics* (1993), and *Judging Medicine* (1987), and a play, entitled *Shelley's Brain* that has been presented to bioethics audiences across the U.S. and in Australia. Professor Annas has been called "the father of patient rights," "the doyen of American medico-legal analysts," and a "national treasure." Professor Annas wrote a regular feature on "law and bioethics" for the Hastings Center Report from 1976 to 1991, and a regular feature on "Public Health and the Law" in the *American Journal of Public Health* from 1982 to 1992 and since 1991 has written a regular feature on "Legal Issues in Medicine" for the *New England Journal of Medicine*, now under the title "Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights." He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Institute of Medicine, cochair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Health Rights and Bioethics (Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section) and a member of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies. He has also held a variety of government regulatory posts, including Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Chair of the Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, and Chair of the Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force.

David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, contributing editor at *the Weekly Standard* and member of the National Council of the Arts. He's the author of several books and many technical articles; also essays on art criticism and fiction. The "Tuple Spaces" introduced in Carriero and Gelernter's *Linda System* (1983) are the basis of many computer-communication and distributed programming systems worldwide. *Mirror Worlds* (1991) "foresaw" the World Wide Web and was "one of the inspirations for Java"; the "Lifestream's" system (first implemented by Eric Freeman at Yale) is the basis for Mirror Worlds Technologies' software. He's the author of *The Muse in the Machine*, the novel *1939* (1995), *Machine Beauty* (1998) and other books; Mr. Gelernter is published in *Commentary*, *ArtNews*, * the Washington Post* and many others.

Jesper Juul is a video game researcher at the Singapore-MIT Game Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the author of numerous articles and reviews about video games. Born in 1970 in Denmark, he earned his PhD in information technology in 2004 from the University of Copenhagen.

Margaret H. Myer was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1950. She received her master's degree in social work and worked in child psychiatry at Tufts New England Medical Center, where she was Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. She became a lecturer on psychology at Harvard Medical School while working at Cambridge Hospital and developing a private practice.