Touching Genius
I was really pleased but not at all surprised to hear that Saul Griffith, MIT Media Lab alum, was awarded one of the 2007 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships. It could not have happened to a nicer and smarter surfer dude. I got to know Saul as a grad student at MIT and take some micro-credit for improvements in his love life. Saul represents the ideal hacker spirit at MIT and actually enacted the principles of distributed innovation that I studied in my dissertation. If you want to track the future of distributed innovation and how to work with communities - keep an eye on Saul.
Tim O’Reilly, future father-in-law of Saul, has a very nice write up about him and his accomplishments.
Way to go Saul! I knew you when…