He has put together a committee of 35 advisors, including John Henry Clippinger, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Microsoft researcher Mary Czerwinski, and Jon Hall of the United Nations Development Project.

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But a total reorganization isn't necessary, according to Waber's research, which first began in 2006 when he was a doctoral student at MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics Laboratory.

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While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on its head.

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