John Underkoffler — John Underkoffler is Chief Scientist and co-founder of Oblong Industries,
Inc., whose flagship product, g-speak, is the world’s first mature & robust gestural computing
platform. He served as science and technology advisor to the MINORITY REPORT (2002), THE
HULK (2003), and AEON FLUX (2005), among others. Underkoffler’s engineering and design
pursuits in Los Angeles include work for the entertainment, gaming, and music industries, as well as
academia. In 2004 he served on a featured panel at Sundance sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, entitled The Perils of Prometheus; Ethics in Science and Film.