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Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries
MVRDV
Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries
MVRDV
MVRDV--whose name is an acronym for the founding members--made its name with wacky ideas, like a high-rise pig farm. But they've since matured into an astonishingly elegant style.
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Rem Koolhaas
OMA
Rem Koolhaas
OMA
You can't talk about contemporary avant-garde architecture without mentioning Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which introduced a rigor--and weirdness--to design; they've always been at the forefront of pondering what design can be, and how it fits in modern society.
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Minsuk Cho
MASS Studies
Minsuk Cho
MASS Studies
MASS Studies is South Korea's own locally produced, internationally recognized success story. Working at a variety of scales--from city plans to galleries and boutiques--they've distinguished themselves with a refinement that's rare in go-go Asian architecture.
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Yansong Ma
MAD architects
Yansong Ma
MAD architects
Chinese architecture has often lived in the shadow of the west--copying its ideas, importing its talent. MAD is changing that, and representing the avant-garde of a new generation of homegrown Chinese talent
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Will Alsop
ALSOP Architects
Will Alsop
ALSOP Architects
Few architects have been so dedicated to such an unusual design aesthetic as maximalist Will Alsop. And fewer still have been as successful at building their designs. His nearly completed "Chips" building was inspired by piled french fries; his extension for the Ontario College of Art and Design is one of the strangest, most exciting buildings in recent memory
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Pharrell Williams
Musician
Pharrell Williams
Musician
As half of the production duo known as the Neptunes, he has helped everyone from Britney Spears to the Hives land on the charts.
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Gregg Gillis
Mashup artist
The ex-biomedical engineer, also known as Girl Talk, layers unlicensed song samples and "performs" them live, with his laptop center stage.
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Alexandra Patsavas
Owner, Chop Shop Music Supervision
She has a gift for matching the right song to the right scene in some of TV's most popular shows.
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Tim Westergren
Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora
An award-winning composer, an accomplished musician, and a record producer, Westergren founded the Music Genome Music Project, a technology that uses over 400 attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them and launched it with Pandora in January 2000. Nine years later, it's the world's favorite Internet and mobile radio station, with the best built-in system for music discovery ever.
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DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way
rapper/producer
The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum record sales. And to prove he was no one-hit wonder, he returned with a chart topping sophomore set. Now he's branched out into a live-action animation series and an endorsement deal with Yums footwear and fashions. Next up: a video game for Xbox 360, and acting.
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Evan Williams
CEO, Twitter
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Evan Williams
CEO, Twitter
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Stephen Chau
Product Manager, Google Maps and Google Earth
Incorporating photos into online maps wasn't a new idea at Google, but no one had figured out how to pull it off until Stephen Chau tackled what became Street View, the company's fastest-growing product of 2008. Vehicles equipped with a half-dozen cameras covered much of the United States and are now photographing nine other countries.
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Dave Morin
Senior Platform Manager, Facebook
He's Facebook's strategic thinker on the next big thing in social media--identity protection on the Web. The issue is who is going to set the standards for open-identity protocols that would enable you to safely take your online profile and relationships with you everywhere on the Internet.
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Michele Ganeless
President, Comedy Central
First came South Park, then The Daily Show and its Colbert spin-off. Now Michele Ganeless is expanding into digital territory. Comedy Central has launched Web sites for all its shows as well as stand-alone sites such as Jokes.com, the largest Internet archive of stand-up videos
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Reed Hastings
Chief Executive Officer, Netflix
Reed Hastings could have stuck with his first breakthrough idea--Netflix recently mailed its 2-billionth DVD. Instead, he's swiftly embraced streaming online and direct to TV via Netflix-ready devices made by LG, Samsung, Microsoft, and others.
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Ed Leonard
Chief technology officer, DreamWorks Animation
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Ed Leonard
Chief technology officer, DreamWorks Animation
Making Shrek come alive, guiding the 20 million hours of computing time to build Kung Fu Panda, or putting the amoeba-like B.O.B. into 3-D for Monsters vs. Aliens
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Tyler Perry
Owner, Tyler Perry Studios
His seven films, which rarely cost more than $20 million, have grossed upward of $300 million combined--four of them opened at No. 1--and sold 25 million DVDs.
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JJ Abrams
Writer of lost and producer of star trek
"It's intriguing to play with exactly when you learn elements in a story," says the Emmy-winning writer-director-producer, referring to Lost, his biggest hit on the small screen. "It engages audience members in a puzzle where they begin to question everything. It makes them look for clues in what they're watching in a way traditional narrative doesn't."
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James Schamus
Chief executive officer, Focus Features
In addition to being a CEO, he's a veteran screenwriter, Columbia University film professor, producer, marketer, distributor, and sometime composer.
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Rich Ross
President, Disney Channels Worldwide
A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney's channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he'll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High School Musical on the world.
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Marilyn Vos Savant
IQ = 186
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Marilyn Vos Savant
IQ = 186
she is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”. Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she solves puzzles and answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects. Vos Savant studied philosophy at the Washington University in St. Louis
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Garry Kasparov
IQ = 190
He was born on April 13 1963 in Russia. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. He continued to hold the “Classical” World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000.
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Philip Emeagwali
IQ = 190
He became an engineer and computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields.
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Christopher Michael Langan
IQ=195
He began talking at six months, taught himself to read before he was four, and was repeatedly skipped ahead in school. During high school he started teaching him self, advanced physics, math, philosophy, Greek and Latin. Then he went to college but dropped out because he thought he could teach the professor more than they could teach him.
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Kim Ung-Yong
IQ=210
He showed his intelligent ability since he was little. He started speaking at 6 months, he was able to read Japanese, Korean, German, English and many other language by his third birthday. At age 3, he was able to solve complicated calculus equations easily with no problems. He got his Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University when he was 16 years old.
