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- | The MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 as an interdisciplinary approach between the Arts and Sciences to study the potential uses and effects of emerging technologies. | + | The MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 as an interdisciplinary approach between the Arts and Sciences to study the potential uses and effects of emerging technologies. A part of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, the lab currently features over 350 projects and employs designers, engineers, artists, and research scientists. Currently, there are 28 permanent faculty and investigators working at the lab along with 141 graduate students. The lab is sponsored by over 70 entities and has an annual operating budget of $35 million. |
==History== | ==History== | ||
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+ | Born out of the work of the Architecture Machine Group, the MIT Media Lab opened its doors in 1985 in the specially designed Wiesner Building as the brain child of Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT president Jerome Wiesner. The mandate of the Lab in its first decade was to progress the technology of the digital revolution, focusing its research on areas ranging from holography to cognition and learning. |
Revision as of 16:43, 25 October 2011
The MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 as an interdisciplinary approach between the Arts and Sciences to study the potential uses and effects of emerging technologies. A part of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, the lab currently features over 350 projects and employs designers, engineers, artists, and research scientists. Currently, there are 28 permanent faculty and investigators working at the lab along with 141 graduate students. The lab is sponsored by over 70 entities and has an annual operating budget of $35 million.
History
Born out of the work of the Architecture Machine Group, the MIT Media Lab opened its doors in 1985 in the specially designed Wiesner Building as the brain child of Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT president Jerome Wiesner. The mandate of the Lab in its first decade was to progress the technology of the digital revolution, focusing its research on areas ranging from holography to cognition and learning.