<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Joi Ito @ MIT </div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito</a></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26lab.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26lab.html?_r=1</a></div>
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<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">&quot;The</span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ito-media-lab-director.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(100, 160, 200);text-decoration:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">announcement</a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">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 </span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26lab.html?_r=1" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(100, 160, 200);text-decoration:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">John Markoff pointed out in the <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial">New York Times</em></a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:24px"> , he didn’t even graduate college — let alone come from the world of academic tenure.&quot;</span></div>

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