Description: Daniel Wilson and Anna Long visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book "Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha!" This event took place on September 5, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Real and fictional, famous and infamous, crazy and just crazily driven, these brilliant men and women exhibit a list of neuroses almost as impressive as their extraordinary accomplishments. At last, you can explore their early fixations, their ambitions, their successes and failures, and the particular quirks that have granted each induction into the Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, including:
- Dr. Evil: Megalomaniacal doctor with antisocial personality disorder (and pathological dislike of his own son, Scotty)
- Nikola Tesla: Real-life mad scientist with obsessive compulsive disorder (and he talked to aliens)
- Lex Luthor: Villain and super genius with manic mood disorder (and premature baldness)
Daniel H. Wilson received his Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, winner of the Wired 2006 Rave Award, and Where's My Jetpack? He is a contributing editor to Popular Mechanics and lives in Portland, Oregon. Anna Long, Ph.D. is a graduate of the University of Washington's Child Clinical Psychology program. She currently conducts research at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon.
