Joichi Ito

TWO YEARS ON: NPO continues volunteer activities to ...
Pieter Franken shows a bGeigie portable radiation detector at Safecast headquarters in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. (Kazuhiro Taira)
As the crisis started to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, tech-savvy individuals on both sides of the Pacific banded together to help fill the void of information...
New York Times outside director feels duty to save...
Joichi Ito talks about journalism in Tokyo on Sept. 30. (Emi Tadama)
Joichi Ito, a two-time dropout and once a critic of traditional media, is now an outside director at one of world’s most influential newspapers on a mission to “save...
NYT adds tech heavyweights Ito, McAndrews to board
Joichi Ito (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NEW YORK--The New York Times Co. is adding two technology heavyweights to its board of directors: Joichi Ito, an early investor in Twitter, Flickr and Kickstarter, and Brian...
Joichi Ito does the sort of 'crazy' research...
Joichi Ito takes a break from greeting presenters to hurriedly check his computer prior to the Media Lab event's start. (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
There were some raised eyebrows when Joichi Ito was named as the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab in April last year.
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