Mashing up Reality: A Guest Blog by Nortel’s Visiting Fellow
I’m pleased today to host a guest blog from well-known industry thought leader Dr. Andrew Lippman. Andy, one of the founding directors of the MIT Media Lab, is half-way through a year-long sabbatical with Nortel as our first (but certainly not last) Visiting Fellow. The possibility of Andy doing his sabbatical at Nortel was explored by both sides during our Technical Conference last year, during which MIT hosted 300 of our top engineers for an evening event. A professor of Andy’s stature taking a sabbatical to work for a corporation is quite unique and says a great deal about Andy’s opinions of Nortel and our vision.
Among our key objectives in bringing a visionary like Andy into ...
