Joi Ito @ MIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26lab.html?_r=1 http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-joi-ito-can-help-mit-media-lab-win-back-the... "The announcement<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ito-media-lab-director.html> that entrepreneur and investor Joi Ito will be taking over as the head of MIT’s venerable Media Lab was notable for several reasons. He’s a notable political activist; he’s Japanese; and, as John Markoff pointed out in the *New York Times* <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26lab.html?_r=1> , he didn’t even graduate college — let alone come from the world of academic tenure."