Monday, February 27, 2006

MIT Media Lab's Moss Wants To Reinvent R&D

By Aaron Ricadela

Frank Moss says innovation will come from online communities of inventors rather than universities, corporate research labs, and organized startups. Moss, named earlier this month as director of MIT's pioneering IT lab, is preparing for a future in which online communities of inventors--rather than universities, corporate research labs, and organized startups--germinate the best ideas. Nicholas Negroponte, one of the Internet's original big thinkers, founded the Media Lab in 1985. He is leaving the lab to pursue his goal of delivering a $100 laptop for less-developed countries.

snippet from InformationWeek.com, February 27, 2006

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