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Joseph Paradiso is Associate Professor and Sony Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Lab's Responsive Environments group.
Paradiso has a remarkably diverse background, ranging from high-energy physics detectors and spacecraft control systems to electronic musical instruments. He now explores the development and application of new sensor architectures and extremely dense sensor/processor networks for human-computer interfaces and intelligent spaces. An expert on sensing technology, Paradiso has developed a wide variety of systems that track human activity using electric field sensing, microwaves, laser ranging, passive and active sonar, piezoelectrics, and resonant electromagnetic tags.
A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, Paradiso received his PhD in physics from MIT as a Compton Fellow. Before joining the Media Lab, he worked at ETH in Zurich, and the Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the winner of the 2000 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation for his expressive footwear system.
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