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unusual facts about Media Lab



Negroponte switch

In the 1980s Professor Nicholas Negroponte of the Media Lab at MIT originated the meme, that came to be known as the "Negroponte Switch".


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Animation Forum West Midlands

The network was founded in 2006 by Birmingham City University's Screen Media Lab, following initial funding by Digital Central.

Asian Scientist

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, who discussed his vision for the MIT Media Lab, and how he likes the word “learning” better than the word “education”.

ChoiceStream

Pattie Maes, Interim Head of Program in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab

DDP-24

Of notability, Max Mathews, considered by many to be the founding father of computer music, used among others, a DDP-224 and a DDP-24 computer to develop his GROOVE music system, as related by Professor Barry Vercoe in a 1999 MIT Media Lab interview.

José Santana

In 2005 he joined the Media Lab, helping in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, launched by Nicholas Negroponte and in 2007 at the Department of Linguistic and Philosophy with Professor Noam Chomsky.

LINCOS

The LINCOS program was initiated in late 1998 as a joint initiative between the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.

Mirko Tobias Schäfer

Schäfer is a curator at Impakt Festival and a board member of the Utrecht's media lab SetUp Utrecht.