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可穿戴设备之父——艾里克斯·本特兰

　　Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1952) is the Toshiba Professor at MIT, a serial entrepreneur, and is one of the most cited authors in computer science. Pentland received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981, was lecturer at Stanford University in both computer science and psychology, and joined the MIT faculty in 1986, where he became Academic Head of the Media Laboratory and received the Toshiba Chair in Media Arts and Sciences. He co-leads both the Big Data and the Personal Data and Privacy initiatives of the World Economic Forum, serves on the boards of Telefónica, Motorola Mobility, and Nissan Motors, and previously co-founded and co-directed the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology and Strong Hospital’s Center for Future Health

　　Pentland's research focuses on social physics, big data, and privacy. His research helps people better understand the `physics' of their social environment, and helps individuals, companies and communities to reinvent themselves to be safer, more productive, and more creative. He has previously been a pioneer in wearable computing, technology for developing nations, and image understanding. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, and Harvard Business Review, as well as being the focus of TV features on BBC World, Discover and Science channels.

　　He currently directs the MIT Human Dynamics Lab which uses big data to better understand human society, the Institute for Data Driven Design which builds tools to protect individual privacy, and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program which creates ventures to take cutting edge technologies into the real world, with a special focus on promoting entrepreneurship in developing nations.

　　In 2011 Forbes named him one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists along with a founder of Google and the CTO of the United States.

　　His most recent book is Social Physics which describes research that won both the 2012 McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review and the 40th Anniversary of the Internet Grand Challenge. His previous book Honest Signals described research chosen as Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea of the Year.

　　请原谅小编没有找到这位伟大的可穿戴设备之父——艾里克斯·本特兰的中文资料。如果让小编来翻译，那效果恐怕还比不上网络工具英汉翻译的效果。没事，这点小英文，对于学霸而言，那根本就不是事对吧!