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This page will contain an interesting collaborative history of the MIT Media Lab. | |||
Walter's [http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/walter-reunion-10-20-05.pdf reunion talk] provides a terse history of the Lab. | Walter's [http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/walter-reunion-10-20-05.pdf reunion talk] provides a terse history of the Lab. | ||
Revision as of 00:42, 18 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)
- Advanced Diamond Solutions (Mike Sung)
- Agents, Inc/formerly Firefly Network, Inc. (Pattie Maes, Max Metral, Yezdi Lashkari)
- Alchemy 3d (Ali Azarbayejani)
- Alias/WaveFront (Ali Azarbayejani, Sandy Pentland)
- Ambient (Ben Resner)
- aQuery (Timothy Chtzlovski)
- Art Technology Group, Inc. (Joe Chung)
- Automated Holographics
- Aware Technologies (Rich Devaul, Sandy Pentland)
- BCT Partners (Randal Pinkett)
- BuildingBlocks Interactive (Shawn Becker)
- Caveo Technology (George McNulty)
- Cambridge Stereographics Group (Benton)
- Charmed Technology (Sandy Pentland)
- Creative Good (Mark Hurst)
- Coral Software (Henry Lieberman, 1988- acquired by Apple Inc.)
- Diffraction, Ltd. (Bill Parker, Julie Walker)
- Dimagi (Vikram Kumar)
- Ear Studio (Ben Rubin)
- E-Ink (Joseph Jacobson)
- Elance Inc. (Beerud Sheth)
- Ember Corporation (Rob Poor)
- engeneOS (Joe Jacobson)
- Facio Reco (Alex Pentland)
- FashionTechnology (Michelle McDonald)
- Firefly Networks (Pattie Maes, Max Mertal, Yezdi Lasjkari, acquired by Microsoft)
- Firetide (Tareq Hoque)
- First Mile Solutions (Fletcher, Omojola)
- Flat Black Films (Bob Sabiston)
- Frictionless Commerce (Rob Guttman)
- FutureTense, Inc.(BC Krishna)
- GenArts (Karl Sims)
- Groundhog Technolgies (David Chiou)
- Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. (Alex Rigopoulos, Eran Egozy)
- Harmony Line (Tod Machover, Mary Farbood, Jennings Rigopulos, Eran Equzy)
- Holosonic (Joe Pompeii)
- HomePortfolio (Shawn Becker)
- Human Logic (Karen Donoghue)
- International Fashion Machines (Maggie Orth, Joanna Brezowska)
- Interplay Media Consulting (Kevin McGee)
- InTouch (Chris Schmandt)
- Kovio (Joe Jacobson students)
- Light Intertainment, Inc. (Brent Britton)
- Liti Holographics (Paul Christie)
- Logo Computer Systems (Seymour Papert)
- Lobby7 (Levis Leiboh, acquired by ScanSoft Inc.)
- LTU Technologies (Chahab Nastar, acquired by Jastec)
- MaMaMedia, Inc. (Idit Harel)
- Medical Media Systems (Mike McKenna, David Chen, Steve Pieper)
- Message Machines (Pascal Chesnais, Chris Herot, sold)
- Method Software, Inc. (Steve Strassmann)
- Metrospark (Nathan Eagle, Sandy Pentland)
- MicroDisplays Corporation (Mary Lou Jepsen)
- Nearlife (Tinsley Galyean)
- Netmosphere, Inc. (Ly)
- Network Sound & Light, Inc. (Karen Donoghue, Gant, Halliday)
- Newton Research Labs (Randy Sargent)
- nTag (Rich Borovoy)
- Open Ratings, Inc./formerly Fairnetworks (Pattie Maes, Giorgos Zacharia,
- David Wang)
- Perspecta (Earl Rennison, St-Arnaud, Lisa Strausfeld)
- Persistent Vision (Kim Foley)
- Playful Invention Company (Resnick, Robbie Berg)
- Pocketscience (Irene Shen)
- Powerscout (Louie Weitzman, 1998-2000, folded)
- Presto Technologies (Mike Hawley, Henry Holtzman, Andy Lippman)
- Razorfish, Inc. (Craig Kanarick)
- Rifts (Jim McBride)
- Runaway Technology (Rob Silvers)
- Salient Stills (Laura Teodosio, Mike Massey)
- Saybot (Pengkai Pan)
- Sensing Places (Flavia Sparcino)
- Small Design Firm (David Small)
- Snif (Jon Gips)
- Survey Equipment (Trevor Darrell, Sandy Pentland)
- Swim Interaction Design Studio, LLC (Gitta Salomon)
- Thing Magic (Ravi Pappu)
- Thinking Pictures (Stephan Fitch)
- Tramline (Kim Foley)
- Triplecode (David Young)
- Veltinet (Mixalis Bletsas)
- Velti (Alex Moukas)
- Virage (Bradley Horowitz, merged Autonomy)
- Viisage (Sandy Pentlend)
- Vitality (Josh Wachman)
- WatchPoint Media (Jon Dakss, Josh Wachman, Mike Bove)
- WaveArts (Bill Gardner)
- Way Systems (Damien Balsen)
- Wider Reach (Kamal Quadir, Sandy Pentland)
- XS Labs (Joanna Brezowska, active)
- Zebra Imaging, Inc. (Mike Klug, March Holzbach, Alex Ferdman)