David Merrill recently defended his Ph.D. in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. His background is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science, and his work explores how our interactions with computation can leave the limitations of the desktop interface behind.
Merrill develops physical-digital tools that operate comfortably in our real-world environment to enable new forms of expressivity, problem-solving and collaboration. His expertise includes product invention, design, and implementation (hardware + embedded firmware + software + wireless communication). His latest project in collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi is Siftables - the world's first general-purpose, distributed, inch-scale tangible user interface platform.
David holds an MS from The Media Lab at MIT, and an MS in Computer Science and BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford.
David is from Santa Cruz County, California.
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