Andy Lippman: for forty years, Andy has been institutionalized at MIT in capacities ranging from undergrad, to professor, to senior research scientist. He has never had to look for ...read more
Andy Lippman: for forty years, Andy has been institutionalized at MIT in capacities ranging from undergrad, to professor, to senior research scientist. He has never had to look for a job in his life. He received his BS and MS degrees from MIT and a PhD from EPFL (Lausanne) while on leave from MIT.
He is one of the founding members of the MIT Media Laboratory, and one of its most ardent spokesmen: he lives by the vision that we create technology in our own image and for our own purposes — the magic lies in enabling that development to occur. He has done that for more than a few generations of MIT graduates, undergraduates and corporations , and in return he has retained his youthful (perhaps irrational) exuberance. Andy has been an elevator operator, a radio engineer and broadcaster, and has sailed across the Southern Ocean on the BT Global Challenge. He is a Diamond Technology Fellow, an Advisor on the boards of WBYE Independence Media and for a startup PRI radio program called "Fair Game." He has received and help grant NSF research proposals, and he works with startups and established companies. He has eleven patents in television, digital image processing and interface technologies.
