Matt Keeter was one of the winners in SIGGRAPH's student research competition: http://src.acm.org/winners.html and alum Ben Vigoda was featured in Tech Review: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/ben-vigoda-lyric-0501.html • CBA patents have issued for programmable surfaces: http://www.google.com/patents/

's giving an interesting talk on "what ever happened to our capacity to solve interesting problems through technology". He wrote a bit about this in Tech Review - http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/429690/why-we-cant-solve-big-problems/ His email is you want to reach out to him. Or I will get hi