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Some of the experts interviewed for this project:

Steven Kosslyn serves as the Dean of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.  He is the author of several books, including “Graph Design for the Eye and Mind”, “Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations”,  and Better Powerpoint.

Nancy Duarte is the founder and CEO of Duarte Design.  She is the author of “slide:ology:  The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations” and “Resonate:  Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”.  She also designed the slides for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google.  He is co-author of “AI: A Modern Approach”  and “Paradigms of AI Programming.”

Dan Roam is the founder of Digital Roam, Inc.  He is also the author of “The Back of the Napkin:  Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures” and “Unfolding the Napkin”.

Carmine Gallo is a presentation, media training and communication skills coach for Gallo Communications.  He is a columnist for Businessweek.com as well as the author of “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs:  How to be Insanely Great In Front of Any Audience” and “Fire Them Up!”

Scott McCloud is author of “Understanding Comics” and “Reinventing Comics”.

Jennifer Van Sijll teaches screenwriting at the Art Institute in San Francisco.  She is also the author of “Cinematic Storytelling”.

Nigel Holmes is the author of “Wordless Diagrams.”

Ric Bretschneider was a previous team leader for PowerPoint and Microsoft.

Seth Godin is the author of 13 books including “Linchpin”.  

Dr. Karen Thole is the Dept. Head of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State.

Richard Harrington is the CEO of RHED Pixel.  He is author of “Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4” and “How to Wow with PowerPoint”.

Melissa Marshall teaches in the Department of Communications at Penn State.

Michael Alley is a teacher at Penn State.  He is the author of “The Craft of Scientific Presentations.”

Rick Altman is the author of “Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck & How You Can Make Them Even Better”.  He is also the host of The Presentation Summit.

Lesa Snider is the author of Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual.

Dr. Andrew Abela is the associate professor of marketing at the Catholic University of America.  He developed the Extreme Presentation method and has also authored “The Presentation:  A Story About Communicating Successfully With Very Few Slides” and “Advanced Presentations by Design:  Creating Communication that Drives Action”.

Dr. Tom Litzinger is the head of the Leonhard Center at Penn State.

Dr. Carmen Taran is one of the founders of Rexi Media. She also is the author of “Better Beginnings”.

Julie Terberg is the CEO of Terberg Design and author of “Perfect Medical Presentations”.

Greg Smith is a professor at Georgia State University. He is the author of “Film Structure and the Emotion System.”

Joanna Garner is an assistant professor for the Dept. of Psychology at Penn State Berks.

Sarah Zappe is the Director of Assessment & Instructional Support at the College of Engineering at Penn State.

Jennifer Groh is the associate professor of Neurobiology at Duke University.

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