Alex Wissner-Gross
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| Alex Wissner-Gross | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexander David Wissner-Gross 1981 (age 42–43) Manhasset, New York |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Great Neck South High School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Alex Wissner-Gross is an American scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He currently holds academic appointments as an Institute Fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science [1] and as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab.[2]
Education[edit]
In 2003, Wissner-Gross became the last person in MIT history to receive a triple major, with bachelors degrees in physics, electrical engineering, and mathematics,[3] while graduating at the top of his class from the MIT School of Engineering, winning the Henry Ford II Scholar Award.[4] In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, [5] where his research on programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine learning was awarded a Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize.[6]
Research[edit]
Wissner-Gross has contributed to research in low-latency networking, intelligent control, scientific computing, knowledge extraction, reconfigurable computing, and robotics.
Low-latency networking[edit]
In 2010, Wissner-Gross published an optimally low-latency solution for positioning computer servers on a network to coordinate distributed stochastic processes, and applied the result to the optimization of global high-frequency trading.[7][8][9][10][11]
Intelligent control[edit]
In 2013, Wissner-Gross published a thermodynamic theory of intelligent control based on entropic forces that generated complex adaptive behavior when applied to simple systems.[12][13][14][15][16]
Scientific computing[edit]
In 2007, Wissner-Gross published a computational approach for simulating liquid-solid phase transitions in the vicinity of heteroepitaxial solid surfaces, and applied the result to the development of non-abrasive medical implant coatings.[17][18][19][20]
Knowledge extraction[edit]
In 2007, Wissner-Gross published an algorithm for extracting semantically ordered reading lists from the link structure of a hypertext corpus, and applied the result to Wikipedia.[21][22]
Reconfigurable computing[edit]
In 2006, Wissner-Gross published an approach for using dielectrophoresis to assemble, reconfigure, and disassemble nanoelectronic interconnects on a chip.[23][24]
Robotics[edit]
In 2001, Wissner-Gross was involved in research on robotic manipulation using nanofluidic media.[25][26]
Selected awards and recognition[edit]
- 1998 Winner of the USA Computing Olympiad and member of US International Olympiad in Informatics team [27]
- 1999 One of 10 winners of the Intel Science Talent Search [28]
- 1999 Named to USA Today's All-USA High School Academic First Team [29]
- 2001 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship [30]
- 2002 Intel Undergraduate Research Award [31]
- 2002 Marshall Scholarship [32]
- 2003 Named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic First Team [3]
- 2003 Henry Ford II Scholar Award from the MIT School of Engineering--for a senior engineering student who has maintained a cumulative average of 5.0 at the end of his or her seventh term and who has exceptional potential for leadership[4]
- 2003 Hertz Fellowship [33]
- 2007 Dan David Prize Scholarship [34]
- 2008 Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize [6]
- 2010 Science News of the Year by Society for Science and the Public [35]
- 2011 Elected to the Philosophical Society of Washington [36]
References[edit]
- ↑ "IACS People".
- ↑ "Hertz Foundation Fellow: Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "All-USA Academic First Team". USA Today. 12 February 2003.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "School of Engineering awards". MIT News. 4 June 2003.
- ↑ "Ph.D. Theses: 2000 to present". Harvard Physics Department.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Thesis Prize Winners". The Hertz Foundation.
- ↑ Phillips, Matt (28 Dec 2010). "MarketBeat Q&A: Danger, Wonk-o-Meter is High on This One". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Ehrenberg, Rachel (29 Oct 2010). "Trading Places". Science News.
- ↑ Palmer, Jason (23 Mar 2011). "Stock Trades to Exploit Speed of Light, Says Researcher". BBC News.
- ↑ Carmody, Tim (11 Nov 2010). "Gaming the System with High-Frequency Trading". Wired.
- ↑ Dillow, Clay (23 Mar 2011). "Financial Traders Look to Boost Profits by Exploiting the Speed of Light for Long-Distance Trades". Popular Science.
- ↑ Palmer, Jason (23 Apr 2013). "Entropy Law Linked to Intelligence, Say Researchers". BBC News.
- ↑ Kosner, Anthony (21 Apr 2013). "From Atoms to Bits, Physics Shows Entropy as the Root of Intelligence". Forbes.
- ↑ Monroe, Don (19 Apr 2013). "Focus: Model Suggests Link between Intelligence and Entropy". American Physical Society.
- ↑ Hewitt, John (22 Apr 2013). "The Emergence of Complex Behaviors Through Causal Entropic Forces". Phys.org.
- ↑ Dvorsky, George (26 Apr 2013). "How Skynet Might Emerge from Simple Physics". io9.
- ↑ Dume, Belle (4 Sep 2007). "Warm Ice Could Make Implants More Biocompatible". New Scientist.
- ↑ Cartwright, Jon (30 Aug 2007). "Warm Ice Could Improve Medical Implants". Physics World.
- ↑ Powell, Alvin (28 Sep 2007). "Hot Ice Could Lead to Medical Device". Science Daily.
- ↑ Ostrovsky, Gene (19 Sep 2007). "Warm Ice for Gadgets in the (Polycrystalline) Diamond Age". Medgadget.
- ↑ Knight, Will (2 Jan 2007). "Wikipedia Links Used to Build Smart Reading Lists". New Scientist.
- ↑ Singhal, Anupriya (5 Jan 2007). "Software Provides Reading Lists". The Harvard Crimson.
- ↑ "Nanowires Get Reconfigured". Institute of Physics. 19 Oct 2006.
- ↑ "Nanotechnology: Toward Matter Programmable to Atomic Precision". Foresight Institute. 7 Jun 2007.
- ↑ Port, Otis (15 Jul 2001). "What This Teenager Did on His Summer Vacation". Bloomberg Businessweek.
- ↑ Feldman, Orna (2001). "Big Ideas". MIT Spectrum.
- ↑ "1998 USACO".
- ↑ "2 LIers Get Top Prizes In Science / 6th and 10th on Intel list". Newsday. 9 March 1999.
- ↑ "Here and There". MIT News. 2 June 1999.
- ↑ "School of Engineering rewards six students, faculty". MIT News. 6 June 2001.
- ↑ "Student Honors & Awards" (PDF). Physics@MIT. 7 October 2002.
- ↑ "Three MIT students win Marshall Scholarships". MIT News. 4 December 2002.
- ↑ "Awards and Honors". 28 January 2004.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross awarded 2007 Dan David Prize Scholarship". 1 May 2007.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross Named in 2010 Science News of the Year". 20 November 2010.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross Elected to Philosophical Society of Washington". 2 December 2011.
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