Ben Fry
Programmer
MIT - USA
   
Benjamin Fry is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. His research focuses on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. The work uses ideas from distributed and adaptive systems to form organic representations that react and respond to the input data. This work is currently directed towards Genomic Cartography which is a study into new methods to represent the data found in the human genome.
At MIT, he is a member of the Aesthetics and Computation Group, led by John Maeda. Ben received an undergraduate degree from the
School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, with a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Computer Science.

Contribution: 
Proce55ing

Proce55ing is an environment for programming images, movement, and interaction. It is a sketchbook for developing ideas, a tool for creating prototypes, and a context for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of creation. We will speak about Proce55ing in relation to existing interaction design curriculum and current software/hardware tools for building interaction.




acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry
proce55ing.net