V. Michael Bove, Jr. holds an S.B.E.E., an S.M. in Visual Studies, and a Ph.D. in Media Technology, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently head of the Object-Based Media Group at the Media Laboratory and directs the consumer electronics program CELab. He is the author or co-author of over 60 journal or conference papers on digital television systems, video processing hardware/software design, multimedia, scene modeling, visual display technologies, and optics. He holds patents on inventions relating to video recording, hardcopy, interactive television, and medical imaging, and has been a member of several professional and government committees. He is co-author with the late Stephen A. Benton of the book Holographic Imaging (Wiley, 2008). He is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and associate editor of Optical Engineering. He served as general chair of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'06), and is a member of Board of Governors of the National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Bove is a fellow of the SPIE and of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity, and Capital. He was a founder of and technical advisor to WatchPoint Media, Inc. (now a part of Tandberg Television) and is technical advisor to One Laptop Per Child (creators of the XO laptop for children in developing countries).
CELab, the consumer electronics research program based at the Media Lab (I'm the director)
One Laptop Per Child (I'm Technical Advisor)
Benton and Bove, Holographic Imaging, now available!
MAS Freshman Year Program (I'm the director)
Media Arts and Sciences Academic Information
Fundamentals of Computational Media Design (MAS110) subject Web site Fall 2008
Introduction to Research in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS111) subject Web site Spring 2008
vmb's unprofessional-activities home page (warning: slow download and bad jokes).
