Author bios
Walter Bender
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: walter@media.mit.edu). Mr. Bender is a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and principal investigator of the laboratory's News in the Future consortium. He received the B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1977 and joined the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1978. He received the M.S. degree from MIT in 1980. Mr. Bender is a founding member of the Media Laboratory.
Pascal Chesnais
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: lacsap@media.mit.edu). Mr. Chesnais is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. Mr. Chesnais received the B.S. degree from Hofstra University in 1985. He spent two years at the Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine in Paris, France. Mr. Chesnais received the M.S. degree in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1988. A member of the Laboratory's Electronic Publishing Group, Mr. Chesnais is the publisher of FishWrap.
Sara Elo
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: elo@media.mit.edu). Ms. Elo received the Diplome en Informatique B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1992. She was awarded the IBM Artificial Intelligence Prize 1992/1993 by IBM Switzerland for her diplome thesis A Parallel Genetic Algorithm on the Connection Machine. She received the M.S. degree in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1995. As a member of the Machine Understanding Group at the Media Laboratory, she created PLUM. Ms. Elo is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Alan Shaw
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: acs@media.mit.edu). Dr. Shaw is a member of the Media Laboratory's Epistemology and Learning Group. His research focuses on applying constructionist models and theories to urban social settings outside of the classroom. Dr. Shaw received the B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1985. He received the M.S. degree in computer science in 1988 from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the MIT Media Laboratory.
Michelle Shaw
Linking Up Villages, 33 Algonquin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02124 (electronic mail: MichelleAS@aol.com). Ms. Shaw received a B.A. degree in 1985 from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1989. She is currently working with a nonprofit organization, Christian Initiatives and Technical Education, Incorporated (CITE). One of the organization's programs is Linking Up Villages (LUV). Through that program Ms. Shaw is providing the MUSIC system to nonprofit organizations and residents of low-income communities.
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