Andy Lippman

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Andrew Lippman is a senior research scientist at MIT and director of the Digital Life Research Program. His research group is the Media and Networks group at the MIT Media Laboratory, and he recently began the Viral Communications Program that focuses on roadmapping the industry by considering the technical, socal, economic and regulatory aspects of communications, broadly conceived. Part of this means building ways to independently connect unlimited numbers of people and gizmos without an infrastructure and without restriction. His analogy is the opportunity created by PCs versus mainframes, or autos versus railroads.

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.)

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