Dr. Bruce Murray was a participant in Closer to Truth: 

Show 102, “Will the Internet Change Humanity?"
Show 106, "Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?"
Show 111, "How Does Technology Transform Thinking?"
Show 201, "Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year3000?"
Show 214, "Will Intelligence Fill The Universe?"

Dr. Bruce C. Murray, is Professor of Planetary Science and Geology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has been at Caltech since 1960 and currently teaches courses in Global Environmental Science, Planetary Surfaces, Sedimentary Geology, and Technical Oral Presentation, and supervises graduate student 

He was Director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1976 to 1982, which included the Viking landings on Mars and the Voyager mission through Jupiter and Saturn encounters. In 1979, he and Carl Sagan founded The Planetary Society, a 100,000 member international organization dedicated to exploring the Solar System and to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Dr. Murray was a member of the Mars Television Teams on Mariner 4 (1965), Mariners 6 and 7 (1969), and Mariner 9 (1971-72). He was the Television Team leader for the Mariner 10 flyby of Venus and Mercury (1973-75). More recently he has been a member of the scientific teams of the Russian Phobos '88 mission, the Russian Mars 96 and the US Mars Global Surveyor missions (launch Fall, 1996), and the US New Millenium Mars Microprobe Team.

Starting in the late 1980's , Dr. Murray developed a collaborative research program with JPL comprising targeted field and remote sensing studies aimed at facilitating affordable orbital monitoring of arid land degradation. In conjunction with the World Resources Institute (WRI) , he studies the needs for and technical means of critical global environmental monitoring early in the next Century.

Dr. Murray has a long-standing interest in structured ways to analyze and visualize potential future outcomes of alternative societal and natural circumstances, beginning with his book "Navigating The Future" (Harper Row, 1975). He was a consultant to the "2050 Project", a collaboration between WRI, The Brookings Institution, and the Santa Fe Institute from 1991-95. In 1993 he was made a Markle Fellow of the John and Mary Markle Foundation investigating aspects of how new information technology may impact future societal outcomes. This work involved collaboration with the Aspen Institute, RAND, and Santa Fe Institute. 

He has published over 120 scientific papers and authored or co-authored six books. He received his college education at M.I.T., culminating in the Ph.D. in 1955.

Please visit Dr. Murray's homepage at:

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~bcm/HomePage/