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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Benjamin Fry
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He is a principal of Fathom (a design and software consultancy in Boston, Master of Arts). He is also a co-developer of Processing, an open source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context. Fry received his Doctor of Philosophy (in "Computational Information Design") from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, under the direction of John Maeda.
During 2006-2007, Ben Fry was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design.
His other interests include visualization of genetic data. His personal work in this area was featured at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum National Design Triennial in 2003.
Fry"s artwork has been featured in the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the Whitney Biennial in 2002, Museum of Modern Art in New York (2001, 2008), at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (2000, 2002, 2005) and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk.
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