2006-02-15

Andrew Lippman, Senior Research Scientist at
MIT

 "Viral Innovation and Communications.“

Andrew Lippman is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT and director of the Digital Life Research Program (http://dl.media.mit.edu/).  His research group is the Media and Networks group at the MIT Media Laboratory, and he began the Viral Communications Program.  The current focus of the work addresses re-thinking radio, from making the spectrum scalable and readily accessible, to building infrastructure-free communications systems for broadcasting and telecommunications.  Both of these are feasible as the intelligence migrates into individual radios.  In the past, his research has focused on the enabling technologies of human communications, beginning with early research on video displays, human interaction systems, and ultimately visual communications.  He was one of the first members of the MPEG group, and he developed scalable video techniques for low-rate and high-definition television.  He has taught at MIT for 25 years in positions ranging from professor to his current position, and his courses included digital video and the technology and policy of media.  He received his BS and MS degrees from MIT and a PhD from EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland.)