Dale Joachim
Dale organizes a yearly summer camp in the US for children ages 7-13. Following the 2009 earthquake in Haiti, he drafted and co-taugh a course at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entitled New Media Projects for Haiti through which students proposed and presented (in Haiti) technology projects relevant for Haiti. Dale has advised the One Laptop Per Child organization on the deployment of laptops in Haiti. He has led several signal, audio, speech and music processing research projects as a faculty at Tulane University and MIT. Dale holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and enjoys occasional piano performances.
Spencer Russell
Spencer Russell is an eclectic artist and engineer who has done sound and video design for sold-out theatre performances in New York, marathon trans-atlantic tours as a double-bassist, and ran a software and hardware development team that deployed multi-thousand unit building automation systems. He is currently working and studying at the MIT Media Lab, where his research interests range from large-scale wireless mesh networks and sensor infrastructure to audio spacialization and augmented musical performance systems. Spencer holds a BA from Oberlin College and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
David Fleurimond
David is a high school physical education teacher in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. He has organized several large scale regional and state-wide events. David is renown for his ability to organize, clearly communicate and facilitate learning events for large groups. He has as well organized science technology summer camps in the US.
Nan-Wei Gong
Nan-Wei is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. She holds a PhD degree from the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, from the Responsive Environments Group under Prof. Joseph A. Paradiso. Her primary research is about developing low-cost inkjet printed gesture input surfaces. She is an MIT Energy Fellow and has extensive experience developing low-power sensing systems and wearable electronics. She has worked in several industrial research labs – Microsoft Research and Nokia Research Center, on interaction design, electronics, and rapid prototyping. As an engineer and a musician, she enjoys inventing new interfaces and instrument for musical expressions. She received a SM in Media Technology from MIT and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.