What's the Next Big Thing?

NOVA scienceNOW: What's the Next Big Thing?

Social Robots

Edited by

Jedd Ehrmann

Written, Produced and Directed by

Terri Randall

Earthquake Detection

Edited by

Dan Crow

Produced by

Heeth Grantham

Written by

Matthew Collins

Directed by

Kirk Wolfinger

Robo Cars

Edited by

Jedd Ehrmann

Written, Produced and Directed by

Terri Randall

Smart Grid

Edited by

Jedd Ehrmann

Written, Produced and Directed by

Terri Randall

Profile: Jay Keasling

Edited by

Robe Imbriano

Written, Produced and Directed by

Robe Imbriano

Executive Producer

Samuel Fine

Executive Editor

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Senior Series Producer

Vincent Liota

Senior Editorial Producer

Julia Cort

Supervising Producers

Stephen Sweigart Joey David Jovanovich

Senior Editor and Colorist

David Chmura

Senior Researcer

Sharon Kay

Associate Producer

Fran Laks

Online Editor

Vincent Liota

Graphic Design

Brian Edgerton

Compositor & Animator

Yunsik Noh

Music

Rob Morsberger

Sound Mix

Bill Cavanaugh, RazorMix, Inc.

Assistant Editors

Yunsik Noh
Nicolas Stark

Assistant to Neil deGrasse Tyson

Elizabeth Stachow

NOVA scienceNOW Series Animation

Edgeworx

Production Manager for Smart Grid Segment

Michael Reichman

Field Producer for Jay Keasling Segment

Carla Denly

Associate Producer

Daniel Sites

Camera

Yoram Astrakhan
Joseph Brunette
David Dellaria
Joseph Friedman
Ralph Knox
Ben McCoy
Duane Poquis

Sound Recordists

Glen Ackers
Ryan Agostino
Carl Franson
Dennis Jensen
Brian Kaurich
Tim Korn
Jeremy Sides
Daniel Sites
Eugene Thompson

Animation

Edgeworx
Jared Flynn
Hiro Sasa
399 Productions

Prop Maker

Spencer Anderson

Archival Material

AP Archive
General Motors
Dennis M. Ihde
iStockphoto
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
IEEE Spectrum magazine
Philip K. Dick Trust
Toyota Motor Corp.
Bosch Home Appliances
Duke Energy
Electric Power Research Institute
smart USA
Drew Davidson/Getty Images
Personal Robotics Lab, Intel Labs Pittsburgh
U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Special Thanks

Rick Hursh
Dan Popa
Stefany Sanders
Michael Terrazas
Chih-Hung Aaron King
Hanson Robotics
Tesla Motors
PJM Interconnection
Terry Boston, PJM
Willow Garage
Travis Deyle
The Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech
Socially Intelligent Machines Lab at Georgia Tech
Willett Kempton, University of Delaware
Roger Anderson, Columbia University

Neil deGrasse Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.

NOVA Series Graphics

yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music

Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music

Ray Loring
Rob Morsberger

Post Production Online Editor

Spencer Gentry

Closed Captioning

The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator

Kristen Sommerhalter

Publicity

Eileen Campion
Victoria Louie
Karen Laverty

Marketing

Steve Sears

Researcher

Kate Becker

Production Coordinator

Linda Callahan

Paralegal

Sarah Erlandson

Talent Relations

Scott Kardel, Esq.
Janice Flood

Legal Counsel

Susan Rosen

Post Production Assistant

Darcy Forlenza

Associate Producer Post Production

Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor

Regina O’Toole

Post Production Editor

Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager

Nathan Gunner

Compliance Manager

Linzy Emery

Development Producer

Pamela Rosenstein

Business and Product Manager

Jonathan Loewald

Senior Producer and Project Director,
Margret & Hans Rey/Curious George Producer

Lisa Mirowitz

Coordinating Producer

Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor

Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer

Melanie Wallace

Executive Producer

Howard Swartz

Managing Director

Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer

Paula S. Apsell

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0917517. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Dieuseul Anglade

Haiti Bureau of Mines and Energy

Christopher Borroni-Bird

General Motors

Rodney Brooks

Massachusetts Institute of Technology people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/

Eric Calais

Seismologist, Purdue University

Chad Cohen

Correspondent

Daniel Darancou

General Motors

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

David Hanson

Hanson Robotics

Thomas H. Jordan

Southern California Earthquake Center

Jay Keasling

Joint BioEnergy Institute

Max Keasling

Jay’s father

Charlie Kemp

Georgia Tech

Eric Lightner

U.S. Department of Energy

Ernest Majer

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Andrew Phillips

Electric Power Research Institute

Blake Simmons

Joint BioEnergy Institute

Ziya Tong

Correspondent

Sherry Turkle

MIT

Vijay Vaitheswaran

The Economist

Eric Wolfinger

Correspondent