Benjamin Fry is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. His research focuses on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. The work uses ideas from distributed and adaptive systems to form organic representations that react and respond to the input data. This work is currently directed towards 'Genomic Cartography' which is a study into new methods to represent the data found in the human genome. At MIT, he is a member of the Aesthetics and Computation Group, led by John Maeda. Ben received an undergraduate degree from the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, with a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Computer Science.