Professor Neil Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, and directs the Things That Think research consortium. His unique laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from developing molecular computers (which led to the first experimental demonstration of a quantum computation), to smart furniture (seen in the Museum of Modern Art and used in automobile safety systems), to virtuosic musical instruments (including a cello for Yo-Yo Ma and a stage for the Flying Karamazov Brothers).

Author of the best-selling books When Things Start To Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, Dr. Gershenfeld has a BA 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 Bell Labs.

Links:

http://www.media.mit.edu

See essays by this author:

Personal Fabrication

Quantum Computing with Molecules

Seeing Through the Window

See selected books by this author:

FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Afterword

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 10: Seeing Through Windows

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 11: The Nature of Computation

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 12: The Business of Discovery

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 13: Information and Education

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 14: Things That Think

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 1: The Digital Evolution

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 2: Bits and Books

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 3: Digital Expression

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 4: Wear Ware Where?

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 5: The Personal Fabricator

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 6: Smart Money

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 7: Rights and Responsibilities

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 8: Bad Words

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Chapter 9: Bit Beliefs

WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Preface