Prof. Steve Mann, PhD (MIT), P.Eng. (Ontario), is widely regarded as ‘The Father of Wearable Computing’ [IEEE ISSCC 2000]. His work as an artist, scientist, designer, and inventor made Toronto the world’s epicenter of wearable technologies back in the 1980s. In 1992 Mann took this invention from Toronto to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding the MIT Media Lab’s Wearable Computing project as its first member. In the words of the Lab’s founding Director, Nicholas Negroponte: ‘Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone… who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline.’
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