Alex Pentland, Ph.D.

Discipline: Computer Science
Focus: Community Computing
Email: sandy@media.mit.edu
Website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~sandy/
CV: Full CV for Alex Pentland

Biography

Alex (Sandy) Pentland is Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory and Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. A pioneer in smart environments, wearable computers, and technology for developing countries, he is the fourth most-cited computer scientist at MIT, and is a co-founder of several organizations within the IEEE Computer Society including the new Wearable Information Devices Technical Committee. He is a co-founder of the Media Laboratory's Digital Nations Consortium, of the award-winning LINCOS project, of the Center for Future Health. He has won numerous international awards in both the Arts and the Sciences. He was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the next century.

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