Location

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre

Description

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, the Media Lab held "Benton Vision"—an event to celebrate Stephen A. Benton—Allen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and inventor of the white-light transmission, "rainbow" hologram—and the field of holography.

Speakers included: 

Jeannie Benton 

Betsy Connors, ACME Holography *

Yuri N. Denisyuk, Ioffe Institute, RAN, Russia

Jean-Marc Fournier, Swiss Federal Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Joseph W. Goodman, Stanford University

Michael A. Klug, Zebra Imaging, Inc.

Emmett N. Leith, University of Michigan

John Maeda, MIT Media Laboratory

Andy Pepper, Shearwater Foundation *

Nicholas J. Phillips, De Montfort University, Leicester, England

Richard D. Rallison, Ralcon Corporation

* Presenting a paper on behalf of Margaret Benyon, Holography Studio Additional resources about holography can be found at the MIT Museum, which includes the Stephen Benton collection.