Author bio
Neil Gershenfeld
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: gersh@media.mit.edu). Dr. Gershenfeld directs the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, and is co-Principal Investigator of the Things That Think research consortium. Before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty he received a B.A. in physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, did research at AT&T Bell Laboratories on the use of lasers in atomic and nuclear physics, received a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University studying order-disorder transitions in condensed matter systems, and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows (where he directed a Santa Fe Institute/NATO study on nonlinear time series). His research group explores the boundary between the content of information and its physical representation, including the basic physics of computation, new devices and algorithms for interface transduction, and applications in collaborations that have ranged from furniture and footwear to Yo-Yo Ma and Penn & Teller.
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