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Bringing Science to Life
Presented by: High Tech Business Council’s Bio Cluster
October 5 and 6, 2006
Clarion Riverside Hotel
Rochester, New York
PROGRAM
James Burke
James Burke has been called “One of the most intriguing minds in the Western world.” (Washington Post). His audience is global. His influence in the field of the public understanding of science and technology is acknowledged in citations by such authoritative sources as the Smithsonian and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. His work is on the curriculum of universities and schools across the United States.
In 1965 James Burke began work with BBC-TV on Tomorrow’s World and went on to become the BBC’s chief reporter on the Apollo Moon missions. For over forty years he has produced, directed, written and presented award-winning television series on the BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. These include historical series, such as Connections (aired in 1979, it achieved the highest-ever documentary audience); The Day the Universe Changed; Connections2 and Connections3; a one-man science series, The Burke Special; a mini-series on the brain, The Neuron Suite; a series on the greenhouse effect, After the Warming; and a special for the National Art Gallery on Renaissance painting, Masters of Illusion.
A bestselling author, his publications include: Tomorrow's World, Tomorrow’s World II, Connections, The Day the Universe Changed, Chances, The Axemaker’s Gift (with Robert Ornstein), The Pinball Effect, The Knowledge Web, and Circles. He has also written a series of introductions for the book Inventing Modern America and was a contributing author to Talking Back to the Machine and Leading for Innovation.
Burke’s latest book, Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World, focuses on the surprising connections among the seemingly unconnected people, events and discoveries that have shaped our world. Burke has also written and hosted a bestselling CD-ROM, Connections: A Mind Game.
Burke is a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of technology and social change to audiences such as NASA, MIT, IBM, Microsoft, US Government Agencies and the World Affairs Council.
He wrote a monthly column for Scientific American for six years and is currently a contributor to TIME magazine. His most recent television work is a PBS retrospective of his work, ReConnections.
At present, Burke is working on a large interactive knowledge system due online in 2006, as well as his next book, American Connections, due the same year.
Burke was educated at Oxford and also holds honorary doctorates for his work in communicating science and technology.
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