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* Medical Media Systems (Mike McKenna, David Chen, Steve Pieper) | * Medical Media Systems (Mike McKenna, David Chen, Steve Pieper) | ||
* Method Software, Inc. (Steve Strassmann) | * Method Software, Inc. (Steve Strassmann) | ||
* | * MicroDisplays Corporation (Jepsen) | ||
* Nearlife (Tinsley Galyean) | * Nearlife (Tinsley Galyean) | ||
* Netmosphere, Inc. (Ly) | * Netmosphere, Inc. (Ly) | ||
Revision as of 10:24, 1 December 2005
This page will contain an interesting collaborative history of the MIT Media Lab.
Walter's reunion talk provides a terse history of the Lab.
=== Pre-history (before 1983) ===
=== Lab formation (1983-1986) ===
Media Lab startups One mechanism for getting ideas out into the world is to create a company. There have been numerous startups by Media Lab alumni over the years (please add missing entires):
- 3001 (Natasha Tsarkova)
- Acme Holograpny (Betsy Connors)
- Agents, Inc/formerly Firefly Network, Inc. (Maes, Metral, Lashkari)
- Alchemy 3d (Ali Azarbayejani)
- Ambient (Ben Resner)
- Art Technology Group, Inc. (Joe Chung)
- BuildingBlocks Interactive (Shawn Becker)
- Cambridge Stereographics Group (Benton)
- Diffraction, Ltd. (Bill Parker, Julie Walker)
- E-Ink (Joseph Jacobson)
- Facio Reco (Alex Pentland)
- Firetide (Tareq Hoque)
- First Mile Solutons (Fletcher, Omojola)
- Flat Black Films (Bob Sabiston)
- Frictionless Commerce (Rob Guttman)
- Futuretense, Inc.(BC Krishna)
- Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. (Alex Rigopoulos, Eran Egozy)
- Interplay Media Consulting (Kevin McGee)
- InTouch (Chris Schmandt)
- Kovio (Joe Jacobson students)
- Light Intertainment, Inc. (Brent Britton)
- Liti Holographics (Paul Christie)
- MaMaMedia, Inc. (Harel)
- Medical Media Systems (Mike McKenna, David Chen, Steve Pieper)
- Method Software, Inc. (Steve Strassmann)
- MicroDisplays Corporation (Jepsen)
- Nearlife (Tinsley Galyean)
- Netmosphere, Inc. (Ly)
- Network Sound & Light, Inc. (Donoghue, Gant, Halliday)
- Open Ratings, Inc./formerly Fairnetworks (Pattie Maes, Giorgos Zacharia, David Wang)
- Perspecta (Rennison, St-Arnaud, Strausfeld)
- Persistent Vision (Kim Foley)
- Pocketscience (Irene Shen)
- Presto Technologies (Hawley, Holtzman, Lippman)
- Razorfish, Inc. (Craig Kanarick)
- Runaway Technology (Rob Silvers)
- Salient Stills (Laura Teodosio. Mike Massey)
- Saybot (Pengkai Pan)
- Swim Interaction Design Studio, LLC (Gitta Salomon)
- Thinking Pictures (Stephan Fitch)
- Tramline (Kim Foley)
- Veltinet (Mixalis Bletsas)
- Virage (Bradley Horowitz)
- Vitality (Josh Wachman)
- WatchPoint Media (Jon Dakss, Josh Wachman, Mike Bove)
- Zebra Imaging, Inc. (Mike Klug, March Holzbach, Alex Ferdman)