Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld
Neil A. Gershenfeld is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld attended Swarthmore College, where he graduated in 1981 with a B.A. degree in physics with high honors, and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D.in physics in 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.
There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.
If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep,
In a sense, this is like open-source software, but for hardware.