Michio Kaku

Dr. Michio Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City Univ. of New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 1968 (summa cum laude and 1st in his physics class). He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley in 1972, and been a professor at CUNY for almost 30 years. His goal is the complete Einstein's dream of a "theory of everything," to derive an equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will summarize all the physical laws of the universe.
He is the author of two international best-sellers, Hyperspace and Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. For Visions, he interviewed 150 of the world's top scientists, many of them Nobel Laureates and directors of the largest scientific laboratories, about their vision for the next 20 years in computers, robotics, biotechnology, space travel, etc. These are the scientists who are inventing the future in their laboratories. Visions is the most authoritative and most authentic understanding of the world of the future.

Dr. Kaku also does considerable public speaking on international radio and TV. He has appeared on the Larry King Show, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN-Financial, ABC-TV News, BBC-TV, BBC-Radio, PBS's Nova and Innovation, Tech-TV, and has appeared on numerous science specials, including PBS's Steven Hawking's Universe, Science Odyssey, and Einstein Revealed, the BBC's Future Fantastic, Parallel Universes, Copenhagen, Channel 4's The Big G: the story of gravity, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel's Exodus Earth, A and E, and many science documentaries.

He was profiled in Tech-TV's Big Thinkers series and is a regular commentator on that cable network. He has spoken on over 500 radio stations around the country.

He also hosts his own national weekly radio program which airs in 6 cities in the US and also the KU national satellite band and internet. He appears regularly on the Discovery Channel in Canada. He has also written for Time Magazine and been quoted in Scientific American, the N.Y. Times, the Washington Post, the London Daily Telegraph, the London Times, the Philadelphia Inquire, Wired Magazine, and Fast Magazine. He has written cover articles for New Scientist magazine, Astronomy magazine, and the Sunday London Times. He appears regularly on Tech TV. He has written several op-ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal.

He frequently keynotes major business conferences about the next 20 years in computers, finance, banking, and commerce.

Comments from his speaking engagements include:
"He's a spellbinding speaker. He had the crowd mesmerized."
"He electrified the audience with his glimpse into the next 20 years."
"His visionary look into the next 20 years was the highlight of the conference."
"People couldn't stop talking about his speech. It was truly a tour de force."

Client Ovations: Dr Kaku did it all. Attending all meetings, signing books, doing video taping, and flexible on his introduction to engage the audience. Thank you for a great talk and moving our visions forward.

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