302 Ben Fry, Principal

<p>Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli &amp; Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT &amp; Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He is the author of <em>Visualizing Data </em>(O’Reilly, 2007) and the co-author, with Casey Reas, of <em>Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists </em>(MIT Press, 2007) and <em>Getting Started with Processing</em> (O’Reilly, 2010), which describe the project they co-founded in 2001.</p>