Stephen Emmott is Director of Computer Science at Microsoft Research, Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University and Member of the Board of Directors of NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Techonology and the British Arts. Last year she starred in Ten Thousand Million, a show-monologue set up by Katie Mitchell and represented at the Royal Court Theater in London. According to Michael Billington of The Guardian, it was the biggest stage event of 2012. Ten billion will appear in more than a dozen countries simultaneously.