Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins

male, 51 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, American, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deconstructionism, Comparative Media Studies, media studies…MIT, co-founder of the MIT Comparative Media Studies, MIT Comparative Media
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or...
Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun

male
arsDigita, ArsDigita Community System, AOLserver, Communicator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT…MIT Press
Philip Greenspun is a semi-retired American computer scientist, educator, and early internet entrepreneur who was a pioneer in developing online...
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
artificial intelligence, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Turing Award laureate, Artificial intelligence researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…cofounder of MIT, co-founder of MIT
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
John Maeda

John Maeda

male
graphic designer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, computer programmer, Japanese American, Japanese-American, MIT Media Lab…MIT MEDIA, MIT, Professor, MIT Media Lab
John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer programmer, university professor, and author. He is currently a professor at the MIT...
Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert

male, 81 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Logo programming language, MIT, computer scientist, Educator, Educationist
Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…MIT
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...

John McCarthy

male
Harvard University, phonology, Optimality Theory, university of massachusetts amherst, Phonologist, morphology…MIT
John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts...
Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum

male, 86 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Natural language processing, eliza, MIT, Jewish person, artificial intelligence
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi...