Joichi Ito
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Ito in 2007
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| Born |
Joichi Ito June 19, 1966 Kyōto, Japan |
| Residence | Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater |
Tufts University University of Chicago (attended) The New School |
| Known for | Blogging, Moblogging, Creative Commons, MIT Media Lab |
| Relatives | Mizuko Itō (sister) |
| Website | Joi |
Joichi "Joi" Ito (伊藤 穰一 Itō Jōichi?, born June 19, 1966) is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Director of the MIT Media Lab and Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT.
Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. Ito is the chairman of the board of PureTech Health. Ito is a board member of Sony Corporation,The New York Times Company, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and General Partner of Neoteny Labs.
Ito was born in Kyoto, Japan. His family moved to Canada and then when Ito was about age 3 to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States where his father became a research scientist and his mother a secretary for Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., now Ovonics. Company founder Stanford R. Ovshinsky was impressed with Ito, whom he thought of almost as his son. Ovshinsky helped Ito develop his interests in technology and social movements, and at age 13 gave him work with scientists, saying, "He was not a child in the conventional sense."
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