{"60620":{"#nid":"60620","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ben Fry, Fathom","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT BEN FRY\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBen Fry is principal of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fathom.info\/\u0022\u003EFathom\u003C\/a\u003E, a design and software consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his doctoral degree from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/acg.media.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EAesthetics + Computation Group\u003C\/a\u003E at the MIT Media Laboratory, where \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/benfry.com\/phd\/\u0022\u003Ehis research\u003C\/a\u003E focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his thesis, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.broad.mit.edu\/about\/bios\/bio-lander.html\u0022\u003EEric Lander\u003C\/a\u003E at the Eli \u0026amp; Edythe L. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.broad.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EBroad Insitute\u003C\/a\u003E of MIT \u0026amp; Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Fry was the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/PR\/releases06\/060329_nirenberg.html\u0022\u003ENierenberg Chair of Design\u003C\/a\u003E for the Carnegie Mellon \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.design.cmu.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Design\u003C\/a\u003E. At the end of 2007, he finished writing \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596514556\/\u0022\u003EVisualizing Data\u003C\/a\u003E for O\u0027Reilly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/reas.com\/\u0022\u003ECasey Reas\u003C\/a\u003E of UCLA, he currently develops \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/processing.org\/\u0022\u003EProcessing\u003C\/a\u003E, an open source programming environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software that won a Golden Nica from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aec.at\/en\/prix\/winners2005.asp\u0022\u003EPrix Ars Electronica\u003C\/a\u003E in 2005. The project also received the 2005 Interactive Design prize from the Tokyo Type Director\u0027s Club. In 2006, Fry \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mediaartists.org\/content.php?sec=update amp;sub=press4\u0022\u003Ereceived\u003C\/a\u003E a New Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to support the project. Processing was also featured in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/EXHIBITION \/triennial\/design_life_now.asp\u0022\u003E2006 Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial\u003C\/a\u003E. In 2007, Reas and Fry published \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2 amp;tid=11251\u0022\u003EProcessing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists\u003C\/a\u003E with MIT\nPress, and in 2010, they published \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/144937980X?ie=UTF8 amp;tag=benfrycom-20\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957 amp;creativeASIN=144937980X\u0022\u003EGetting Started with Processing\u003C\/a\u003E with O\u0027Reilly and MAKE. Processing 1.0 was released in November 2008, and is used by tens of thousands of people every week.\u003C\/p\u003E \n\u003Cp\u003EFry\u0027s personal work has shown at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/2002biennial\/\u0022\u003EWhitney Biennial in 2002\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/EXHIBITIONS\/triennia \/inside_design_now.asp\u0022\u003ECooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003\u003C\/a\u003E. Other pieces have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and in the films\nMinority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed, and Communications of the ACM.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Architecture Lecture Series"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 03:31:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:52:11","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-10-06T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-10-06T20:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-10-06T20:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-10-06 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-10-07 00:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-10-07 00:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}