In addition, he codirects the Things That Think Consortium, a group of industrial partners and Media Lab researchers who explore the extreme fringe of embedded computation, communication, and sensing. Paradiso has a PhD in physics from MIT's Lab for Nuclear Science. He's a senior member of the IEEE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the American Physical Society, the ACM, and Sigma Xi. Contact him at joep@media.mit.edu.