Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, Ph.D., is an award-winning scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of Gemedy and holds academic appointments at the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science, the Harvard Innovation Lab, and the MIT Media Lab. He has received 123 major distinctions, authored 18 publications, and has been granted 23 issued, pending, and provisional patents. Alex has founded, managed, and advised 7 technology companies, 3 of which have been acquired, for a combined value of over $600 million. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize. A thought leader in artificial intelligence, he is a contributing author to the New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories that are Blocking Progress (2015) and the Amazon #1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think (2015). A popular TED speaker, his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200 press outlets worldwide including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired.