Neil Gershenfeld

Neil Gershenfeld

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Biography

Neil Adam Gershenfeld is an American physicist. He is a professor in the MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

"Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science."

Neil Gershenfeld

"Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way."

Neil Gershenfeld