Ron MacNeil received his BSAD from MIT and his MFA from RISD. He was co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop (with Muriel Cooper) and Principal Research Associate and head of the Intelligent Graphics group at MIT's Media Lab. He has worked as an experimental printmaker, free lance photographer and conducted research in computer-based painting/printing, intelligent personalized design tools, constraint-based and case based graphical programming tools since 1977. His recent work focuses on seamless ultra high resolution projection displays, Knowledge based  transportation systems and tools for online design communities.