| Biography
Andrew Lippman has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television. Currently, he heads the Lab's Viral Communications program, which examines scalable, real-time networks whose capacity increases with the number of members. This new approach to telephony, sensor interconnection, and broadcasting transfers "mainframe communications" technology to distributed, personally defined, cooperative communicators. In addition, he co-directs MIT's interdisciplinary Communications Futures program. Lippman is on sabbatical for the 2007-08 academic year, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at Nortel.
Lippman has directed research programs on digital pictures, personal computers,
entertainment, and graphics, and he has served on advisory boards of technology
start-ups. Currently, he is on the science councils of both non-profit and
for-profit companies addressing global information infrastructures. Lippman
established and directs the Digital Life consortium, which focuses on both
technical invention and human understanding, and works to create a networked
world where communication becomes fully embedded in our daily lives. He has
written both technical and lay articles about our digital future and given over
250 presentations throughout the world on the future of information and its
commercial and social impact. Lippman received both his BS and MS in electrical
engineering from MIT. In 1995 he completed his PhD studies at the EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
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