Sandy Pentland
                                              Principle Investigator
                                              Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
                                              MIT Media Laboratory

Alex (Sandy) Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. He is a pioneer in smart environments, wearable
computers, technology for developing countries and is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world having published
more than 200 scientific articles in the areas of human-machine interface, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, machine
and human vision and of course, wearable computing. He a founder of the IEEE Computer Societies' Wearable Computer task
force, IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing and the academic leader of the Human Design Group at the
Media Lab that pioneered wearable computing during the 1990s and continues the tradition of research in the wearables field.
 
 

  Steven J. Schwartz
                                                         Project Manager
                                                         Research Scientist
                                                         MIT Media Laboratory

Steven is responsible for many of the innovations in wearable computing since the early 1990's. As a video design engineer
with Kopin he helped define the technology that enabled head mounted displays for wearable computers. Schwartz
devoted 4 years to industrial wearable computing as the VP of Research for Xybernaut before accepting a position at MIT
to focus on research in wearables. Steven's work on the Smart Vest and MIThrtil projects paved the way for soft packaging
and fine grain distributed architechtures used in WearSAT. Prior to his work in wearable computing, Schwartz was one of the
pioneers in the convergence of digital technology with video and film as the Chief Video Engineer at Lucasfilm LTD.
 
 

Christopher Carr
                                                Team Leader
                                                PhD Candidate
                                                MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department

Christopher Carr graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 with degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics,
and Electrical Science and Engineering, and spent the following two summers working on a study for a Mars Sample Return mission
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He returned to MIT in the fall of 1999 to continue working with the MIT Man-Vehicle Laboratory as a graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics while pursuing his doctoral degree
in the Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
 
 

Ilia Rosenberg
                                                     Co-Principal Investigator
                                                     Communications and Tracking ISS
                                                     The Boeing Company

Ilia works on the International Space Station in the Space and Communications Group in Houston, Texas.
 
 
 

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