>Where do you get the money for your wearables? is it school funded, and if >so how do you get into the program This theme comes up occasionally. My system was self-funded until early 1996 when the lab started funding the "wearables closet," which I manage: pc104 boards, PEs, cases, twiddlers, etc. for rapid prototyping for students/faculty using the base Lizzy design. Over the years it totaled about $10,000, but, then again, I was encouraging a research program and the technology was not what it is today. As for getting into the program, www.media.mit.edu has info about applying for graduate school at the MIT Media Lab. However, I'm headed to start a new program at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech (www.cc.gatech.edu) with about 6 other new professors in related fields. CMU has the EDRC (www.edrc.cmu.edu??) which hosts their wearables research. There is also Steve's lab in Toronto, UWashington HIT Lab, UOregon labs, KTH in Sweden, and probably some I'm forgetting. Most all the wearables programs can be reached off the research links section at http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/ To look into being a student at one of these places, just look for the admissions page at the base address (i.e. www.gatech.edu) and when you send in your application mention your interest in wearables and the professor(s) by name. Academic research is not something to get into lightly. Its a lot of fun, but also a lot of hard work, and most of the real research is not what makes it into the popular press accounts of what we're doing. Also, if you are looking to be a graduate student, pick your advisor carefully. Look for a mentor for the long term. Ask current students about their advisor, how (s)he is to work for, and how long they've been working for her/him. For current graduate students, read the book "A PhD Is Not Enough" for more tips. Thad Starner MIT Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Project soon: Future Computing Environments Georgia Tech -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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