Benjamin Fry

1975–

Benjamin Fry received his doctoral degree at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. His current research involves the visualization of genetic data at the Eli & Edyth Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard.

His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003. Other work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he is currently developing Processing, an environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software.

Introduction

Benjamin Fry (born 1975) is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization.

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Q4888685

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