2001, awarded tenure from MIT; May 2008, named Associate Director, MIT Media Lab; since April 2011, Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab. 1995, founded the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab, pursuing a new vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI): "Tangible Bits." Directs Tangible Media Group and co-directs Things That Think (TTT) consortium. Research focuses upon the design of seamless interfaces between humans, digital information and the physical environment. With team, seeks to change the "painted bits" of GUIs to "tangible bits" by giving physical form to digital information. 2012, presented the new vision "Radical Atoms" to take a leap beyond "Tangible Bits" by assuming a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and appearance dynamically, becoming as reconfigurable as pixels on a screen.