John Maeda
Designer, technologist and author
John Maeda is an American designer, computer scientist and educator who has written books on design and technology, including The Laws of Simplicity.
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American Born 1966 in Seattle, United States
About John Maeda
A native of Seattle, Maeda was born in 1966. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) he studied computer science and electrical engineering, completing both a bachelor's and a master's degree. He went on to a doctorate in design science from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and later an MBA from Arizona State University. He taught media arts and sciences at MIT for 12 years, and his research at the MIT Media Lab focused on computational design. He also started Design by Numbers, a project that teaches programming to visual artists. Later he served as president of Rhode Island School of Design, from 2008 to 2013. His books include the bestselling The Laws of Simplicity and How to Speak Machine.