Mike Silagadze, 2/15/12

Founder and CEO, Top Hat Monocle

If you brought a teacher back from 50 years ago and put her in a university classroom today she would be able to pick up exactly where she left off. The classroom experience has barely changed. This is a pretty sad state of affairs

Ann Brenoff, 2/15/12

Senior Writer, The Huffington Post

Why can you only 'like' something on Facebook? Why can't you 'love' it?

Jonathan Spalter, 2/15/12

Chairman, Mobile Future

The next wave of U.S. mobile innovation now waits on Washington. Mobile entrepreneurs and consumers have thrown a perfect spiral down the field. In the now infamous words of Gisele Bundchen, someone's got to catch it.

James M. Gentile, 2/15/12

President, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report on Feb. 7 on how to produce 1 million additional college graduates over the next decade with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It's an important report.

Harriet Brown, 2/15/12

Author, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

If my older daughter had never developed anorexia, I might be more sympathetic to the notion that thinspo is a genuine form of self-expression. That it's every girl's right to want to be skinny.

Martin Ford, 2/15/12

Founder, Silicon Valley-based software development firm

Could skilled machine operator jobs also be offshored? If the parts are moved around robotically so that the entire job consists of analysis, programming and control, then those tasks could potentially be done from anywhere.

Tanyella Evans, 2/15/12

Partner, LEVEL

At the panel event it was clear that this unassuming 8th grade history teacher from White Plains was using technology her fellow well-groomed panelists hadn't even heard of -- integrating tools such as My Big Campus, Edmodo and Socrative, to revolutionize the classroom dynamic.

Ramona Pringle, 2/15/12

Host and Producer, rdigitalife

It all starts sounding very depressing... and lonely. But fear not, the future looks bright. You see, we want to connect... and not just to technology, to each other. We may not be bowling, but we are finding each other in new ways.

Ted Johnson, 2/15/12

Columnist at Variety

Among many politically engaged creatives the failure of SOPA, seen as the industry's biggest policy initiative in recent years, isn't necessarily being blamed on the Obama administration.

Eugene K. Chow, 2/14/12

Executive editor, Homeland Security NewsWire

No matter how dire the threat, any cybersecurity bill must have stringent safeguards that govern how information is shared, how long it can be stored, and who gets to see it.

Stephen Balkam, 2/14/12

Founding CEO, Family Online Safety Institute

Mr. Jordan acted on his impulse and turned a teaching moment -- one that should have been behind closed doors and face-to-face with his daughter -- into a premeditated exhibition of force, petulance and destruction of property.

Sam Sommers, 2/14/12

Professor, Tufts University; Author

This Valentine's Day, go ahead and make use of the latest technology when looking for love. But do so with the realistic expectation that finding that special someone doesn't magically (or scientifically) get easier simply because you're online.

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, 2/14/12

Founder, National Jewish Outreach Program

The winners were selected by NJOP's expert panel of judges and evaluated based on their use of social media to provide information and inspiration to the Jewish community online through blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms.

Eric K. Clemons, 2/14/12

Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School

What's the $100 billion for? It's an option on Mark Zuckerberg and his 800 million Facebook friends. It's an option on whatever future monetization strategy Facebook may develop. That value may be high. It may not be unreasonable.

Jessica Pearce Rotondi, 2/14/12

Associate Editor, HuffPost Women

Today, with Facebook and Twitter feeds across America lighting up with images of candy, roses and slightly creepy teddy bears, Valentine's Day has never been harder to avoid.

James Dyson, 2/14/12

Inventor, Industrial designer

Simple observations can inspire leaps in understanding. In designing a vacuum that didn't choke on dust, I looked to a sawmill. I saw centrifugal force being used to separate dirt and wondered - could the same principle be used on a smaller scale?

Lucas Kavner, 2/13/12

Culture Reporter, Huffington Post

As Houston's family and close friends mourn, do our "RIP Whitney" posts mean something, sandwiched between posts about cereal and recaps of The Bachelor, especially after we've watched, over many years, her slow-motion fall from grace?