Biographical sketches of authors
Olufemi Omojola
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: kingpin@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Omojola is a research assistant in the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. He received the S.B. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2000 and is currently working toward an M.S. degree. His interests are in flexible reconfigurable hardware architectures for signal processing, and applications for human-computer interfaces.
E. Rehmi Post
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: rehmi@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Post is presently a doctoral candidate in the Physics and Media Group of the MIT Media Laboratory. He received an M.Sc. in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1998, and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Matthew D. Hancher
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: mdh@mit.edu).
Mr. Hancher is a research assistant in the Physics and Media Group of the MIT Media Laboratory and a candidate for an M.S. degree. Mr. Hancher's research focuses on embedded networking and autonomous robotics.
Yael Maguire
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: yael@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Maguire is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. He is an IBM Student Fellow holding a master's degree in media arts and sciences from MIT. Mr. Maguire received a degree in engineering physics with Highest Honors from Queen's University in Canada. He is currently working on building a tabletop device for quantum computing, which holds the promise of computing faster than traditional, semiconductor-based computers. He currently holds an NSERC fellowship from Canada and is generally interested in the fundamental ties between information processing and physics.
Ravikanth Pappu
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: pappu@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Pappu is an IBM Fellow in the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. His doctoral work focuses on designing and implementing inexpensive systems for cryptographic authentication schemes. Prior to this, he worked on algorithms for computing holograms for the MIT second-generation holographic video system and co-created the first dynamic holographic video system with haptic interaction. Mr. Pappu holds a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from Osmania University, India. He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University in 1993, and a master of science in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1995.
Bernd Schoner
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: schoner@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Schoner holds engineering degrees from the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany, and the École Centrale de Paris, France. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory, working on the sensing, modeling, and synthesis of acoustical instruments.
Peter R. Russo
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: prusso@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Russo is currently a sophomore at MIT studying physics and electrical engineering. He is an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he works on conductive fabric touch sensors, and near-field electric and magnetic field sensors.
Richard Fletcher
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: fletcher@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Fletcher is a Ph.D. candidate in the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, working in the field of electromagnetic tagging. His current thesis research is devoted to developing new ways of encoding information in smart material structures. Prior to coming to the Media Lab, Mr. Fletcher worked for five years at the U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory designing passive microwave structures. He holds undergraduate degrees from MIT in physics and electrical engineering.
Neil Gershenfeld
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307. Dr. Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and directs the Things That Think research consortium. His laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from developing molecular quantum computers, to smart furniture, to virtuosic musical instruments. Author of the books When Things Start to Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, Dr. Gershenfeld has a B.A. degree in physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and a member of the research staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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