press & features
Press
Two decades of coverage — from the MIT Media Lab work on taste and common sense, through the art-science years, to now. A selection, in the order I'd offer it.
WIRED
Inside Artsy's quest to make you love art as much as music
Wired · May 2017
The Economist
Shape of things to come: the Guggenheim game
The Economist · November 2015
SVT
How companies are looking at your tastes
Sveriges Television (Sweden) · March 2015
TV4
Your salad says who you are
TV4 (Sweden) · March 2015
San Jose Mercury News
New Q&A web site personalizes answers
San Jose Mercury News · June 2009
Tech's feminine side
The Boston Globe · February 2008
Pensive deviled eggs? Irate gazpacho?
Los Angeles Times · August 2007
The Synesthetic Cookbook — "The Year in Ideas"
The New York Times Magazine · December 2005
Technology Review
Speaking the same language
MIT Technology Review · July 2005
Also featured in the Baltimore Sun ("More than a dash of whimsy," 2007), the Spokesman-Review ("Hello from the future," 2006), Technology Review ("Product Pointer," 2005), Oracle Magazine, IEEE Software, InformationWeek, and the Napa Valley Register, among others.
Honors & recognition
ideas of the year
200850 Greatest Ideas — Restaurant Business Magazine
2005The Year in Ideas — The New York Times Magazine
best-paper awards
2003Outstanding Paper Award — ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
2002Best AI Paper Award — Int'l Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia (Asociación Española de IA)
fellowships & exhibitions
2015Works exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC) and Guggenheim Helsinki NOW
2005AOL Fellowship · British Telecom Fellowship (2004)
2000Tau Beta Pi, MIT
appointments & invited talks
2017Steering Committee, UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality & Empowerment, Amrita University
2015"Computing Taste," invited talk, Museum of Modern Art (R&D Salon), NYC
2006"The Synesthetic Cookbook," plenary, Taste3 (TED-affiliated)