Clifford A. Pickover

Clifford A. Pickover, Ph.D. received his Ph.D. from Yale and is fascinated by creativity, innovation, education, editing, and publishing. For many years, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He has been granted more than 830 U.S. patents, is an elected Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, is author of more than 50 books, translated into dozens of languages, and has 180,000 Twitter/𝕏 followers. His patents have been owned by a wide variety of companies, including IBM, Activision, Ebay, Google, Halliburton Energy Services, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Nuance Communications, Trend Micro, Intermec IP, WarGaming.net, the U.S. Navy, Twitter, Yahoo!, Globalfoundries, Paypal, King.com, Toshiba Global Commerce, DoorDash, Pryon, Maplebear Inc, Slingshot IOT, Granite Vehicle Ventures, Computer Task Group, Kyndryl, NEC Corporation, Hyundai Motor Co, Kia Corp, Airbnb Inc, and others.