Joi Ito

Joichi ” Joi ” Ito ( 伊藤穰一Itō Jōichi ^? , Born June 19, 1966) is a Japanese activist , entrepreneur , venture capitalist , Director of the MIT Media Lab ^[1] and Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT . ^[2]

Ito has RECEIVED recognition for his role as an entrepreneur dealing with Internet and technology companies and has founded, onder andere companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. Ito is the chairman of the board of Puretech Health . ^[3] Ito is a board member of Sony Corporation, ^[4] The New York Times Company , ^[5] the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , ^[6] the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , ^{[ 7]} and General Partner of Neoteny Labs. ^[8]

Family and education

Ito was born in Kyoto , Japan . His family moved to Canada and-then-when Ito was about age 3 to a suburb of Detroit , Michigan , in the United States where his Father became a research scientist and his mother a secretary for Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., now Ovonics . Company founder Stanford R. Ovshinsky was impressed with Ito, Whom have thought of almost as his sun. Ovshinsky helped Ito developement his interests in technology and social movements, and at age 13 watch im work with scientists, saying, “He was not a child in the Conventional sense.” ^[9]

Ito and his sister Mizuko Ito , who was called Mimi, spent summers in Japan with hun grandmother who taught Them traditional Japanese culture. ^[10] At 14, he Returned to Japan als his mother was promoted to president of Energy Conversion Devices Japan. He studied at the Nishimachi International School ^[11] and for high school, the American School in Japan in Tokyo . ^[12] Ito ook learned “street language, street Smarts, and computers”. One of few Japanese using modems voordat deregulation or networking reached Japan in 1985, Ito had found The Source and the original MUD in his teens (and by 26 was working on his own MUD ). ^[10]

Ito Returned to the United States to attend Tufts University near Boston as a computer science major, where he with, onder Vodafone, Pierre Omidyar , later founder of eBay . ^[13] Finding his course work too rigid and believing therein learning computer science in school was “stupid”, ^[13] Ito dropped out of Tufts to briefly work for Ovonics . Ovshinsky encouraged im to return to school. He enrolled at the University of Chicago in physics but dropped out on Discovering, in his opinion, the program at Chicago to be more oriented towards practical-Producing engineers dan towards teaching an INTUITIVE understanding of physics. ^[9] In the Fall of 1985 he became the first student to register for a groundbreaking program or online courses offered by Connected Education , Inc., for undergraduate credit from the New School for Social Research .

Ito is one of Timothy Leary ‘s godsons-a close non-traditional family-like relationship, an idea zegt to port leg conceived by Leary for a few or his friends. ^{[14] [15]} Ito’s sister is Mizuko Ito , a cultural anthropologist Studying media technology use, and the musician Cornelius was his second cousin. Ito Currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts , with his wife Mizuka Ito (nee Kurogane).

Later life

Ito became a disk jockey working in nightclubs in Chicago zoals The Limelight and The Smart Bar and to work with Metasystems Design Group to start a virtual community in Tokyo. ^[10] Later, Ito ran a nightclub in Roppongi , Japan called XY Relax with help from Joe Shanahan or Metro Chicago / Smart Bar . He helped bring industrial music from Chicago ( Wax Trax ) and later the rave scene, zoals Importing Anarchic Adjustment to Japan.

Ito was the Chairman of Creative Commons from December 2006 Until 2012. He is on the board of Digital Garage, ^[16] Culture Convenience Club (CCC), ^[17] Tucows , ^[18] and EPIC , ^[19]and is on the advisory boards or Creative Commons and WITNESS . He is the founder and CEO of the venture capital firm Neoteny Co., Ltd. In October 2004, he was named to the board of ICANN for a three-year term starting January 2004. In August 2005 he joined the board of the Mozilla Foundation ^[20] and served Until April 2016. He served on the board of the open Source Initiative (OSI) from March 2005 Until April 2007 Hey Currently Serves as a Board Emeritus for OSI. ^[13] He was a founding board member of Expression College for Digital Arts ^[21]as well as the Zero One Art and Technology Network. ^[22] In 1999, he served as the Associate to Mr. Mount (the executive producer) on the film The Indian Runner . ^[23] Ito’ll be served as a Board Member of Energy Conversion Devices from 1995 to 2000.

Ito is a venture capitalist and angel investor and was an early stage investor in Kickstarter , ^[24] Twitter , ^[25] Six Apart , Technorati , Flickr , Social Text , Dopplr , Last.fm , rupture , Kongregate , Fotopedia , Diffbot , Formlabs , 3Dsolve and other Internet companies. ^{[26] [27]} A vocal advocate of emergent democracy and the sharing economy , Ito is a doctoral candidate in Business Administration focusing on the sharing economy at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy , Hitotsubashi University . He is the author or Emergent Democracy . ^[28] Ito is Senior Visiting Researcher or Keio Research Institute at SFC. ^[29] In May 2011, it was announced dat Ito’s company, Digital Garage, will bieden PR, marketing, product marketing research and market research for Linkedin Japan. ^[30]

Ito is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor, an Emergency First Responder Instructor Trainer, and a Divers Alert Network (DAN) Instructor Trainer. ^[31]

In recent years, Ito has Become critical or what he sees as Japan’s inward focus. He stated in a 2011 interview dat he thinks Japan needs to look Internationally if it is to continuously to be “relevant”. ^[32]

Journalism

Ito has written opinion editorials for the Asian Wall Street Journal ^[33] and The New York Times ^{[34] [35]} and has published articles in numerous other magazines ^[36] and Newspapers. He has had regular columns in The Daily Yomiuri , Mac World Japan , Asahi Pasocom , Asahi Doors , and other media sources. His photographs port leg-used in The New York Times Online, ^[37] Business Week , ^[38] American Heritage , ^[39] Wired News , ^[40] Forbes , ^[41]and BBC News . ^[42] He was on the editorial masthead early or Wired and Mondo 2000 . He has authored and co-authored a number of books waaronder Dialog – Ryu Murakami X Joichi Ito with Ryu Murakami , and “Freesouls: Captured and Released” with Christopher Adams , a book of Ito’s photographs therein of includes essays by verschillende prominent figures in the free culture movement . ^[43] He has hosted Televisions shows waaronder The New Breed and SimTV shows on NHK .

He is Currently the host of a television show called “Super-Presentation” airing weekly in Japan on NHK . ^[44]

Media “lists” and receptacles

Ito was listed by Time magazine as a member of the “Cyber Elite” in 1997. He was ook named one of the 50 “Stars of Asia” in the “Entrepreneurs and DealMakers” category by Business Week ^[45] and Commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for Supporting the ADVANCEMENT of IT in 2000. ^[46] He was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2001 as one of the “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” ^[47] and Chosen by Newsweek as a member of the ” Leaders of The Pack (High technology Industry) “in 2005, ^[48] and listed in Vanity Fair as a member of” The Next Establishment “in the October Issue, 2007 ^[49] and 2011. ^[50] Joi Ito was named ook by Business Week as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008. ^[51] on July 22, 2011 have been Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his role as one of the world’s leading advocates of Internet freedom from the University of Oxford Internet Institute . ^[52] In 2011, with Ethan Zuckerman , he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to zijn list of top global thinkers, have in welke stated the Best idea is “Users controlling hun eigen data”. ^[53] Ito RECEIVED the degree of Doctor of Literature , honoris causa, from The New School in 2013. ^[54] On March 11, 2014, Ito was inducted into tje SXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame. ^[55] He was a TED speaker at the March 21, TED2014. ^[56] In 2014, Ito was Awarded the Golden Plate Award by the Academy of Achievement . ^[57] On May 17, 2015 Ito RECEIVED a Doctor of Humane Letters , honoris causa, from Tufts University . ^[58]

MIT Media Lab

The New York Times Reported in April 2011. dat Joi Ito was named to be the director of the MIT Media Lab . His appointment was called an “unusual choice” since Ito studied at two colleges, but did not finish his degrees. “The choice is radical, but brilliant,” zegt Larry Smarr , director of Calit2 . ^[59] Ito officially Began his role on September 1, 2011. ^{[1] [60]} He was appointed Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, effective July 1, 2016. ^[61]

Nicholas Negroponte , Media Lab’s co-founder and chairman emeritus, DESCRIBED the choice as Bringing the media to “Joi’s world”. ^[62] In an interview with Asian Scientist Magazine , Joi Ito discusses his vision for the MIT Media Lab, and how he likes the word “learning” better than the word “education”. ^[63]

Publications by Joi Ito

• Ito, Joi; Howe, Jeff (2016). Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future . Grand Central Publishing. ISBN  978-1455544592 .

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