Tag: Dr. James Martin
Video: Dr. Martin On 21st Century Challenges
Longtime Bermuda resident Dr. James Martin was in Oxford recently to deliver a lecture at the university on mankind’s urgent need to adapt to 21st century environmental and scientific developments, touching on issues as diverse as cities custom designed to survive climate change, the threat of technological (or “intelligent”) terrorism... Read more of this article
Dr. Martin: War & Peace In The Nuclear Age
Bermuda-based futurist, philanthropist and humanitarian Dr. James Martin has addressed an Oxford University audience on the horrors of nuclear Armageddon, paraphrasing former Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev’s observation that the survivors of such a conflict would envy the dead. Speaking to the Trinity College Scientific Society on March 16,... Read more of this article
Dr. Martin’s New Film On 21st Century Woes
With the world population passing the seven billion mark this week, Bermuda-based scientist and philanthropist Dr. James Martin has been visiting the Oxford research centre he founded to make a new film promoting the school’s work finding solutions to the unique challenges of the 21st century. Over the course of his visit he was due to meet with... Read more of this article
Firm Founded by Dr. Martin Sold For $550M
Headstrong Corporation — the international provider of comprehensive consulting and IT services founded by long-time Bermuda resident Dr. James Martin [pictured] – has been sold to Genpact Limited for $550 million in cash. A global leader in business process and technology management, Genpact announced earlier this year it was in the... Read more of this article
Independent on the ‘$100 Million Man’
“The Independent” is carrying an in depth interview with Bermuda resident Dr James Martin called ‘The $100 man: Why philanthropist James Martin gave away his fortune.’ Dr. James Martin, a technology entrepreneur considered one of the world’s foremost computer scientists, lives on his own private island in Bermuda. Agars Island... Read more of this article
Writer’s Mysterious Bermuda Assignment
A leading British ghost writer found life was imitating fiction when he was abruptly invited to Bermuda last year on a mysterious assignment. Andrew Crofts, the author of more than 80 books and the model for the title character in the political thriller “The Ghost” and director Roman Polanski’s subsequent movie version “The... Read more of this article
Dr Martin to Speak at Bermuda .NET User Meeting
Bermuda’s .NET User Group will be hosting a meeting on November 15 from 5:30 – 8pm at the XL Group building on Bermudiana Road. Guest speakers will be Dr James Martin and Aaron Erickson. This is a free event with giveaways, cocktails and a chance to network with your peers. It is open to anyone, but most subjects will be geared towards those who... Read more of this article
Michael Douglas Narrates Martin Documentary
Michael Douglas is narrating Bermuda-based humanitarian Dr. James Martin’s documentary on our brave new world — or our doomed one. He’s the Prospero of Agar’s Island. Like the Magus in Shakespeare’s Bermuda-inspired play, Dr. James Martin is sequestered from the outside world on a lonely island. Also like “The Tempest’s”... Read more of this article
Bermuda Resident Donates $50 Million to Oxford
A Bermuda resident has donated $50 million dollars to Britain’s Oxford University, five years after initially donating $100 million to the institution. Dr. James Martin, a technology entrepreneur considered one of the world’s foremost computer scientists, lives on his own private island in Bermuda. He is the owner of Agars Island, which... Read more of this article
