Neil Gershenfeld
author of "When Things Start To Think" and "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling," leads the Physics and Media Group at MIT's Media Lab, and co-directs the Things That Think research consortium. His laboratory investigates the interface between the content of information and its physical representation, from molecular quantum computers to musical instruments for collaborations with diverse artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Penn & Teller. He has a BA in Physics from Swarthmore, worked at Bell Labs using lasers for atomic and nuclear physics, received a PhD from Cornell studying order-disorder transitions in condensed matter systems, and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. http://www.media.mit.edu/~neilg/ Things That Think Most things do not think. The digital revolution has not included the familiar things around us, but sensing, computing, and communications belong in clothing and in furniture more than on desktops. Developing beyond today's intrusive information technologies is going to require much more capable devices that are embedded much more finely into our environment, the means to connect them into local and global systems, and new applications that can use such resources to solve outstanding personal and social problems. These are the topics of the Media Lab's industrial research consortium Things That Think. I will describe the research supporting this vision, ranging from making liquid computers to electronic inks to tangible interfaces to self-organizing networks to wearable and emotional computers, and introduce emerging products. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
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