The OpenLab is full with a fresh crop of talented fellows. Here they are:

The Fellows

James Powderly has a masters degree from NYU's ITP program and comes to Eyebeam from Honeybee Robotics, where he has worked as a director of technology development, applications engineer, and lab foreman since 2002. At Honeybee, James developed technology for NASA's mars rover that is currently on the surface of the red planet and engineered an installation for the Architects Diller + Scofidio that was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art. James has previously worked at Eyebeam as an artist in residence, he is a partner in RobotClothes, and the co-founder of the Robotics Society of America New York City Chapter.

Limor Fried is a recent graduate of the MIT Media Lab where she earned a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. For her thesis, Limor developed and built subversive electronic devices, including a pair of glasses that darken whenever television is in view and a jamming device that disables people's annoying cell phone conversations at the press of a button. She releases much of her work in the form of DIY kits or instruction sets, including persistence of vision displays for bikes, a home brew synthesizer, and a Game Grrl portable Nintendo.

Ben Engebreth comes to Eyebeam from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech where he worked on trajectory optimization for spacecraft. Before JPL, Ben received a masters of science in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado. Ben has recently begun applying his programming and data analysis skills to the development of socially beneficial web projects including the carpool site Pooln and Housing Tracker.

Evan Roth is a recent MFA graduate from the Design Technology department at Parsons where he was his class valedictorian. He is the creator of Graffiti Analysis (video), a project that uses motion tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application to record and analyze a graffiti writer's pen movement over time. Evan's media experiments also include Explicit Content Only, Postal Labels Against Bush, and Graffiti Taxonomy.

Mitch Kapor, Joi Ito, Jason Kottke and Saul Griffith served on the advisory committee that helped select these four fellows from a pool of over 120 applicants.

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