Reviews Write New Review
Location
Booking Fee
Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
Virtual Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
[email protected]
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, where his unique laboratory is breaking down boundaries between the digital and physical worlds, from pioneering quantum computing to digital fabrication to the Internet of Things. Technology from his lab has been seen and used in settings including New York's Museum of Modern Art and rural Indian villages, the White House and the World Economic Forum, inner-city community centers and automobile safety systems, Las Vegas shows and Sami herds. He is the author of numerous technical publications, patents, and books including Designing Reality, Fab, When Things Start To Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, and has been featured in media such as The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, CNN, and PBS. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, has been named one of Scientific American's 50 leaders in science and technology, as one of 40 Modern-Day Leonardos by the Museum of Science and Industry, one of Popular Mechanic's 25 Makers, has been selected as a CNN/Time/Fortune Principal Voice, and by Prospect/Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 public intellectuals. He's been called the intellectual father of the maker movement, founding a growing global network of over one thousand fab labs that provide widespread access to prototype tools for personal fabrication, directing the Fab Academy for distributed research and education in the principles and practices of digital fabrication, and chairing the Fab Foundation. Dr. Gershenfeld has a BA in Physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, honorary doctorates from Swarthmore College, Strathclyde University and the University of Antwerp, was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and a member of the research staff at Bell Labs.
Videos
Related Speakers View all
Vinton Cerf
Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
|
|
Apollo Robbins
Perception Expert, Sleight-of-Hand Artist, Emmy-Nomi...
|
|
Thomas Pogge
Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications...
|
|
Clay Shirky
Expert on New Technology & Social Media, & How They ...
|
|
Kevin Allocca
Head of Culture & Trends at YouTube
|
|
Robert Cialdini
Expert in the Science of Influence & Persuasion; New...
|
|
Jimmy Wales
Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune
|
|
John Legend
EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philanthropist
|
|
Daniel Burrus
Leading Futurist, Disruptive Innovation Expert & Str...
|
|
Sherman Alexie
Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer
|
|
Jon Bergmann
Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling ...
|
|
Amy Jo Martin
NYT Best-Selling Author, Angel Investor, CEO of Rene...
|
|
Mitch Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning...
|
|
Dave deBronkart
Patient Engagement Advocate, Author, Survived Stage ...
|
|
Peter Hinssen
Globally Acclaimed Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Aut...
|
|
Mike Vardy
Productivity and Time Management Specialist | Writer...
|
|
Dr. Kevin Fleming
Career Education Expert, Neuropsychologist, Author
|
|
Greg Montana
The Quantum Monk will inspire your audience to tears...
|
|
Kyle MacDonald
Entrepreneur featured on 20/20, ABC, CTV, CBC, CNN, ...
|
|
B. Gentry Lee
Chief Engineer at JPL, Science Fiction Author, NASA ...
|