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Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4, 2000
MIT Media Laboratory
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Everything, the universe, and life - Author bio

by N. Gershenfeld

Biographical sketch of author

Neil Gershenfeld   MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307. Dr. Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and directs the Things That Think research consortium. His laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from developing molecular quantum computers, to smart furniture, to virtuosic musical instruments. Author of the books When Things Start to Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, Dr. Gershenfeld has a B.A. degree in physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and a member of the research staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.