FRANK MOSS

  Director, MIT Media Lab

Franklin Moss is Director of the Media Lab and Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. He received his BSE degree in aerospace and mechanical sciences from Princeton in 1971 and his MS and PhD degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. Then he joined IBM — first in Israel at the IBM Science Center and then IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY —where he led research and development projects in computer networks before launching his computer and software start-up career. His list of start-ups includes Apollo Computer, Bowstreet, Lotus Development, Stellar Computer and Tivoli Systems, which he took public in 1995 and merged with IBM in 1996. In 2001 he cofounded Infinity Pharmaceuticals, an early stage cancer drug discovery company that is now public.

The honors and recognitions he received include an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995, Forbes magazine’s “Leaders for Tomorrow” in 2000, and Computer Reseller News’s “Top 20 Entrepreneurs to Watch for” in 2001. He is a member of
the Trustees of Princeton University.