David Brin

science-fiction. This is most noticeable in The Practice Effect, Glory Season, and Kiln People. His Jewish heritage may be the source of two other strong themes in his works. His work includes The Postman, Startide Rising, Sundiver, The Transparent Society, The Uplift War, and more.

His career has taken him on as a research engineer at Hughes Aircraft Research Labs; managing editor of the Journal of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition; technical consultant and teacher at San Diego State University; post-doctoral fellow at California Space Institute; visiting scholar at Center for Study of Evolution of Life, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA; and so on.

Brin is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and he helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD). He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies. Brin consults and speaks for a wide variety of groups interested in the future, ranging from Defense Department agencies and the CIA to Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google, and other major corporations. He has also been a participant in discussions at the Philanthropy Roundtable and other groups seeking innovative problem solving approaches.

Brin also frequents science or future related television shows such as ""The Universe,"" ""Life After People,"" ""Alien Encounters,"" and ""Worlds of Tomorrow"" among others. He was also a regular on the challenge design show ""The Architechs"" in which ""five geniuses"" were challenged to solve a major problem in 48 hours. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction.

Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics. At the University of California, San Diego, he earned a Master of Science in applied physics in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in space science in 1981.