{"140561":{"#nid":"140561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The MIT Roots of Google Glass","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis week\u0027s\u0026nbsp;Boston Globe column\u0026nbsp;focuses on a group of MIT students who developed some of the first wearable computers \u2014\u0026nbsp;and are now working on\u0026nbsp;Project Glass\u0026nbsp;at Google. Glass is an effort to develop a light-weight, wirelessly-linked, wearable information display. Google took the wraps off\u0026nbsp;late last month, with a demo for software developers in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOne of those MIT alums, \u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E, is now a technical lead at Google, and also\u003Cstrong\u003E a\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eprofessor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EStarner told me last week that his initial motivation for developing a wearable computer was that he wanted to be a better student: \u0022I was spending $20,000 a year at MIT, and I wasn\u0027t remembering it. I decided to make a system that would let me take notes while I was also paying attention in class, and better retain things.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-07-16 16:48:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/innoeco\/2012\/07\/the_mit_roots_of_google_glass.html","title":"Source: Boston.com"}],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}