Neil Gershenfeld
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, Professor
Full Biography
Neil Gershenfeld has been called the intellectual father of the maker movement. He leads MIT's pioneering Center for Bits and Atoms and is the founder of the global network of community fab labs that has grown to more than a thousand sites. His earlier books When Things Start to Think and Fab presented what became known as the Internet of Things and the maker movement long before those terms became everyday expressions. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
