MITERS

What have MITERs people gone on to do or have done or are doing?

Alan Wu, secretly a MITERS historian, brain dumps for us some notable alumni:

“MIT Nerds”, a major article on MIT student culture, including MITERS
members;  well worth reading for a view of MIT from the outside world:
Discover magazine, June 2005 (http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jun/mit-nerds)

Richard “Dick” Eckhardt ’74 (one of the original founding members of MITERS)
Dick does consulting in Arlington MA (http://www.eckon.net/eckhardtbio.html)
ECD Corporation history (ECD was probably the first MITERS spinoff company)
(http://ecdmicromind.blogspot.com/2006/07/ecd-history-other-products-besides.html)
ECD-100 C-meter (an innovative breakthrough instrument;  the
currently-sold “BK Precision 830B” is directly descended from this
original design)
ECD Micromind advanced personal computer, the success/failure that
killed ECD (http://ecdmicromind.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html)

Jordin Kare ’78
Physicist and Aerospace Engineer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordin_Kare)
Latest hack, a laser zapper appliance that shoots the wings(!) off
mosquitoes, featured at a recent TED conference
(http://pulse2.com/category/dr-jordin-kare/)

Tim Anderson (Z Corp)
Short history of Tim and ZCorp
(http://www.progressiveengineer.com/PEWebBackissues2002/PEWeb%2033%20Dec%2002-2/Anders.htm)
Tim’s homepage at MIT (http://stuff.mit.edu/people/robot/home.html)
NPR story (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111851629)

Limor Fried ’03 (I can separately forward an old email with more
pointers, if asked)
Open Source Software and Hardware Design
Interesting hacks, art, DIY projects (http://ladyada.net)

Robert Moffatt ’09
Wireless power transmission
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070607171130.htm)

Oh and some companies that have ties to MITERS:
SquidLabs, Instructables.com

http://cam.ly/, IP security camera company, Rhett Creighton

http://olopede.com/, Josh Gordonson