MIT Media Lab

Michael Schrage is co-director of the MIT Media Lab s eMarkets Initiative and a senior advisor to the MIT Security Studies Program. His research focuses on the role of models, prototypes, and simulations as essential media for managing innovation and risk. His book, Serious Play (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), explores the economics and ethology of modeling within organizations. 

At the MIT Media Lab, the really skilled graduate students and professors stand out because they don t show and tell. They show and ask. They use a demonstration, model, or prototype to elicit the ideas and insights of others as opposed to convincing others of their perspective. 

T. Starner and Y. Maguire, A Heat Dissipation Tutorial for Wearable Computers, MIT Media Lab., MA 02139. 

Michael Casey. Auditory Group Theory with Applications to Statistical Basis Methods for Structured Audio. Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT Media Lab (1998). 

The audience-interactive musical production The Brain Opera, created by MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, was the technological forerunner of the Guitar Hero and Rock Bandvideo games. 

Dr. Michael Best, a computer scientist by training with graduate degrees from the MIT Media Lab, he is an Assistant Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech University. Dr. Susan Dray, an experienced consultant in HCI with extensive experience in the area of international development. Professor Lynne Dunckley, Director of Research at the Institute for Information Technology at TVU in the UK. Dr. John Thomas, Research Staff Member at IBM s T. J. Watson Research Center has been interested in cross-cultural issues in HCI since organizing workshops in this area in 1992 and 1993. 

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