M.I.T. is naming a two time college drop out as the director of the world’s top computer science lab. Why?
“The choice is radical, but brilliant,” said Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a University of California laboratory that pursues a similar research agenda to the Media Laboratory. “He can position the lab at the edge of change and propel it for a decade.”
Looks like being on the edge of change is a priority for M.I.T.
