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MIT Media Lab

Index MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. [1]

93 relations: Affectiva, Airbag, Amazon Kindle, Ambient device, Ambient Devices, Andrew B. Lippman, Art, Aspen Movie Map, Barnes & Noble Nook, Cambridge, Massachusetts, César Hidalgo, Clocky, Cynthia Breazeal, Dan Ariely, DARPA, Design, Dimagi, Dublin, E Ink Corporation, Elance, Eric Klopfer, Femto-photography, Formlabs, Frank Moss (technologist), Fumihiko Maki, Google Street View, Government of India, Government of Ireland, Groundhog Technologies, Guitar Hero, Harmonix, Hiroshi Ishii (computer scientist), Holosonics, Human–computer interaction, Hybrid search engine, I. M. Pei, Idit Harel, India, Ireland, Jerome Wiesner, John Maeda, Joi Ito, Lego Mindstorms, List Visual Arts Center, Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab Asia, Media Lab Europe, Minority Report (film), ..., MIT Media Lab Object-Based Media, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Mitchel Resnick, Molecular machine, MPEG-4 Structured Audio, Multimedia, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Neil Gershenfeld, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC XO, One Laptop per Child, Pattie Maes, Pointing stick, Potion Design, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Programmable Cricket, Rainbow hologram, Ramesh Raskar, ReQall, Rock Band, Rosalind Picard, Science, Scratch (programming language), Seymour Papert, Siftable, Sifteo Cubes, SixthSense, Sound from ultrasound, Squid Labs, Stephen Benton, Stewart Brand, Technology, The Echo Nest, Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland, Tom Cruise, Twine (device), United States dollar, Walter Bender, Wiesner building, William J. Mitchell, World Economic Forum, Zebra Imaging. Expand index (43 more) »

Affectiva

Affectiva is an emotion measurement technology company that grew out of MIT's Media Lab.

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Airbag

An airbag is a type of vehicle safety device and is an occupant restraint system.

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Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. The hardware platform, developed by Amazon subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. All Kindle devices integrate with Kindle Store content, and as of March 2018, the store has over six million e-books available in the United States.. Retrieved March 30, 2018.

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Ambient device

Not to be confused with the company named: Ambient Devices.

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Ambient Devices

Ambient Devices, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2001 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that designs and markets various ambient devices for display of information ranging from weather to traffic reports to stock quotes.

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Andrew B. Lippman

Andrew Benjamin "Andy" Lippman is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab as well as a Co-Director of various chairs at the institute.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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Aspen Movie Map

The Aspen Movie Map was a revolutionary hypermedia system developed at MIT by a team working with Andrew Lippman in 1978 with funding from ARPA.

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Barnes & Noble Nook

The Barnes & Noble Nook (styled nook or NOOK) is a brand of e-readers developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, based on the Android platform.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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César Hidalgo

César A. Hidalgo (born December 22, 1979) is a Chilean statistical physicist, writer, and data visualization designer.

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Clocky

Clocky is a brand of alarm clock outfitted with wheels, allowing it to hide itself in order to force the owner awake in an attempt to find it.

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Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the DRobotic Life Group) at the MIT Media Laboratory.

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Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely (דן אריאלי; born April 29, 1967) is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight and co-founder of BEworks, Timeful,https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/05/google-acquisition-timeful-dan-ariely/#68e9a02b305e Geniehttp://genie.cooking/genie_about_us.php and Shapa.

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DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

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Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns).

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Dimagi

Dimagi, Inc. is a for- profit social enterprise based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, that delivers open-source software technology suitable for low-resource settings and underserved communities.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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E Ink Corporation

E Ink Corporation (E Ink) is a privately held manufacturer of electrophoretic displays (EPDs), a kind of electronic paper.

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Elance

Elance was an online staffing platform based in Mountain View, California, United States, now operated by Upwork.

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Eric Klopfer

Eric Klopfer (born October 8, 1970) is a professor and Director of the at MIT.

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Femto-photography

Femto-photography is a term used to describe a technique for recording the propagation of ultrashort pulses of light through a scene at a very high speed.

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Formlabs

Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer.

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Frank Moss (technologist)

Frank Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician and author.

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Fumihiko Maki

is a Japanese architect who teaches at Keio University SFC.

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Google Street View

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Government of Ireland

The Government of Ireland (Rialtas na hÉireann) is the cabinet that exercises executive authority in the Republic of Ireland.

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Groundhog Technologies

Groundhog Technologies is a privately held company founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Guitar Hero

The Guitar Hero series (sometimes referred to as the Hero series) is a series of music rhythm games first published in 2005 by RedOctane and Harmonix, and distributed by Activision, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar across numerous rock music songs.

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Harmonix

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., doing business as Harmonix, is an American video game development company based in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its music video games.

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Hiroshi Ishii (computer scientist)

is a Japanese computer scientist.

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Holosonics

Holosonics is a USA firm which is developing and manufacturing directional loudspeaker technology called the Audio Spotlight.

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Human–computer interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) researches the design and use of computer technology, focused on the interfaces between people (users) and computers.

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Hybrid search engine

A hybrid search engine (HSE) is a type of computer search engine that uses different types of data with or without ontologies to produce the algorithmically generated results based on web crawling.

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I. M. Pei

Ieoh Ming Pei, FAIA, RIBA – website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (born 26 April 1917), commonly known as I. M.

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Idit Harel

Idit R. Harel (born Idit Ron; September 18, 1958) is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and CEO of Globaloria.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Jerome Wiesner

Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

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John Maeda

John Maeda is an American executive, designer, technologist.

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Joi Ito

is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and director of the MIT Media Lab.

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Lego Mindstorms

Lego Mindstorms is a hardware software platform produced by Lego for the development of programmable robots based on Lego building blocks.

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List Visual Arts Center

Established in 1985, the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) is the contemporary art gallery of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (it was preceded by the MIT Hayden Gallery, in building 14, next to the Humanities Library).

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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Media Lab Asia

Media Lab Asia (MLAsia) was founded in 2001 as a not-for-profit research entity as a result of cooperation between the MIT Media Lab and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.

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Media Lab Europe

Media Lab Europe (MLE) was a research institute in Dublin, Ireland based on the MIT Media Lab.

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Minority Report (film)

Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.

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MIT Media Lab Object-Based Media

The Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, led by V. Michael Bove, Jr., explores the creative and technological applications and implications of the intersection of context-aware consumer electronics and self-aware digital content.

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MIT School of Architecture and Planning

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

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Mitchel Resnick

Mitchel Resnick (born June 12, 1956) is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

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Molecular machine

A molecular machine, nanite, or nanomachine, refers to any discrete number of molecular components that produce quasi-mechanical movements (output) in response to specific stimuli (input).

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MPEG-4 Structured Audio

MPEG-4 Structured Audio is an ISO/IEC standard for describing sound.

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Multimedia

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Neil Gershenfeld

Neil A. Gershenfeld (born 1959 or 1960) is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab.

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Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect.

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OLPC XO

The OLPC XO, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and 2B1, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).

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One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit initiative established with the goal of transforming education for children around the world; this goal was to be achieved by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.

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Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes (born 1961) is a professor in MIT's program in Media Arts and Sciences.

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Pointing stick

A pointing stick is an isometric joystick used as a pointing device, as with a touchpad or trackball, typically mounted in a computer keyboard.

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Potion Design

Potion Design is a private interactive design firm located in New York City.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation.

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Programmable Cricket

Programmable Crickets, known commercially as PicoCrickets, are robotic toys in the form of programmable bricks.

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Rainbow hologram

The rainbow or Benton hologram is a type of hologram invented in 1968 by Dr.

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Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group.

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ReQall

as an app that intelligently organized your spoken voice notes winning a DEMOgod award.

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Rock Band

Rock Band is a series of music video games developed by Harmonix and MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts for the Nintendo DS, iOS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PSP, Wii, Xbox One and Xbox 360 game systems.

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Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962) is an American scholar who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.

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Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

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Scratch (programming language)

Scratch is a visual programming language and online community targeted primarily at children.

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Seymour Papert

Seymour Aubrey Papert (February 29, 1928 – July 31, 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT.

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Siftable

Siftables are small computers that display graphics on their top surface and sense one another and how they are being moved.

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Sifteo Cubes

Sifteo Cubes were an interactive gaming platform developed by Sifteo, Inc.

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SixthSense

SixthSense is a gesture-based wearable computer system developed at MIT Media Lab by Steve Mann in 1994 and 1997 (headworn gestural interface), and 1998 (neckworn version), and further developed by Pranav Mistry (also at MIT Media Lab), in 2009, both of whom developed both hardware and software for both headworn and neckworn versions of it.

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Sound from ultrasound

Sound from ultrasound is the name given here to the generation of audible sound from modulated ultrasound without using an active receiver.

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Squid Labs

Squid Labs was an independent research and development company founded by a group of four MIT graduates.

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Stephen Benton

Stephen Anthony Benton (1941–2003) was the E. Rudge ('48) and Nancy Allen Professor of Media & Sciences, and the Director for Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".

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The Echo Nest

The Echo Nest is a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies.

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Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland

Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland includes all education after second-level, encompassing higher education in universities and colleges and further education on Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and other courses.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Twine (device)

Twine is a stand-alone device that uses sensors to detect parts of its environment and that connects to a wifi network to communicate.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Walter Bender

Walter Bender is technologist and researcher who works in the field of electronic publishing, media and technology for learning.

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Wiesner building

The Wiesner building (Building E15) houses the MIT Media Lab and the List Visual Arts Center and is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner and his wife Laya.

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William J. Mitchell

William John Mitchell (15 December 1944 – 11 June 2010) was an Australian-born author, educator, architect and urban designer, best known for leading the integration of architectural and related design arts practice with computing and other technologies.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Zebra Imaging

Zebra Imaging develops 3D digital holographic images, hologram imagers and interactive 3D displays for government and commercial uses.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab

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