Benjamin Fry (born 1975) is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization.
Early life and education
Fry was born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
["Inside design now: National Design Triennial", by Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "Benjamin Fry"] Fry received his BFA in Communication Design, minor in Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University.
He received Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, under the direction of
John Maeda. His doctoral dissertation, "Computational Information Design" introduces the seven stages of visualizing data: acquiring, parsing, filtering, mining, representing, refining and interacting.
[ "Computational Information Design", Ph.D. Thesis]
Career
During his time at MIT Media Lab, Fry co-developed Processing, an open-source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context.
[ Ben Fry, author's profile at the O'Reilly website][ Ben Fry's website] The Processing design environment developed together with
Casey Reas won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.
During 2006–2007, Fry was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He is a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in
Boston.
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Fry's artwork has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial (2003, 2006)[ "National Design Awards: Ben Fry’s ‘Odd Route’ Through Design World Pays Off" , by Stephanie Murg, June 15, 2011]
Books
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2007: (with Casey Reas) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press
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2007: Visualizing Data, O'Reilly
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2010: (with Casey Reas) Getting Started with Processing, O'Reilly
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2015: (with Casey Reas and Lauren McCarthy) Getting Started with p5.js, O'Reilly
See also
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Timeline of programming languages
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Processing programming language
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External links
