The lab is also designed so that people from different disciplines work together, which means “we are often looking at a problem11 we’re not an expert in,” says Tod Machover, a cutting-edge musical composer and MIT professor who, in his experimental work at the lab, helped create the popular interactive video game Guitar Hero. Machover says it’s not uncommon for breakthrough ideas to come from people who are working outside their area of expertise because the novices are “able to see a problem with a fresh eye, forget about what’s easy or hard, and not worry about what other people in that
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