Neil Adam Gershenfeld was born on December 1,1959 and is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab.
12 Facts About Neil Gershenfeld
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Neil Gershenfeld is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Neil Gershenfeld is known for releasing the Great Invention Kit in 2008, a construction set that users can manipulate to create various objects.
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Neil Gershenfeld has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The Economist, and on NPR.
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Neil Gershenfeld was named as one of the 40 modern-day Leonardos by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago.
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In 1998, Neil Gershenfeld started a class at MIT called "How to make anything".
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Neil Gershenfeld wanted to introduce expensive, industrial-size machines to the technical students.
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Neil Gershenfeld believes that this is the beginning of a new revolution: digital revolution in fabrication that will allow people to fabricate things, machines on demand.
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Neil Gershenfeld has presented his course on "How to make anything" at the Association of Professional Model Makers 2010 Conference.
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Neil Gershenfeld feels very passionate about this project, as he believes that teaching kids how to use technology and create it themselves will empower the future generations to become more independent and create technology that each individual community needs, not a technology that is currently available on the market.
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Neil Gershenfeld has been a keynote speaker at the Congress of Science and Technology Leaders.
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Neil Gershenfeld's research was published in Science as well as in The American Physical Society journal.