Minds to pay attention to:

1. David Ferrucci (IBM Watson)

2. Denny Vrandecic (Wikimedia Foundation)

3. Doug Lenat (Cyc)

4. Erez Lieberman Aiden (culturomics)

5. Gilad Elbaz (Factual)

6. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)

7. Larry Page (Google)

8. Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz)

9. Paul Allen (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

10. Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator)

11. Pavel Richter (Wikidata)

12. Ray Kurzweil (transhumanism)

13. Sergey Brin (Google)

14. Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha)

15. Tim Berners-Lee (Semantic Web)