Andrew B. Lippman

Andrew Lippman
Andrew Lippman in 2011
Born
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Known forMIT Media Lab
Scientific career
ThesisRe-inventing television (1995)
Doctoral advisorMurat Kunt
Doctoral studentsJudith Donath
Websiteweb.media.mit.edu/~lip/

Andrew Benjamin Lippman is a senior research scientist at the MIT Media Lab as well as a Co-Director of various chairs at the institute. He has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television. Currently, he heads the Lab's Viral Communications group, which examines scalable, real-time networks whose capacity increases with the number of members.