David L. Rose

David L. Rose (born February 19, 1967) is a product designer, entrepreneur, and lecturer at the MIT Media Lab.

David L. Rose
Rose in 2018
Born (1967-02-19) February 19, 1967
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
EducationSt. Olaf College
Harvard University
OccupationVP Vision Technology at Warby Parker
Known forInteractive internet development

Early life

David Rose was born on February 19, 1967 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when his father, James Rose, was in medical school.

Rose graduated from Madison West High School in Madison, Wisconsin in 1985. He obtained a BA in Physics and Fine Arts from St. Olaf College in 1989. He then went on to earn his Masters from Harvard University, focusing on technology in education, graduating in 1992.[1]

Rose lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

Career

Rose founded the company Interactive Factory in 1992 following several years of working as a software engineer in speech recognition and robotics. Interactive Factory, now iFactory, a division of RDW Group, is a boutique design firm specializing in digital and interactive media.

After Interactive Factory's acquisition in 1997, Rose patented the first online photo sharing service and founded Opholio.[2] The start-up was bought by Flashpoint Technology in 1998 [3] and Rose went on to found Viant's Innovation Center, where he was director for four years.

In 2002, Rose co-founded Ambient Devices, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab[4] and a pioneer in embedding Internet information in everyday objects.[5] The Ambient Orb was one of Rose's creations.[6][7][8] The company developed over a dozen internet-connected objects including the Ambient Umbrella, the Ambient Dashboard, 5-day Weather Forecaster, and the Energy Joule.

In 2008, Rose founded Vitality, a high-tech healthcare start-up. At Vitality, he conceived of and led the development of the GlowCap – the first cellular-connected pill cap.[9] The product was a recipient of the 2010 Medical Design Excellence Awards. Vitality was sold to biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong in 2011 and rolled into his NantHealth business.[10]

Rose is the founder and CEO of Ditto Labs, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based start-up focused on image-recognition software.[11] From CrunchBase, "Ditto Labs was first-to-market with a dashboard tool to help top brand marketers derive insights, prospect audiences, and measure campaigns from what appears in social media photos. Ditto’s patented machine learning and computer vision capability is integrate with a majority of enterprise social listening platforms.

In July 2014, Rose published a book about the Internet of Things, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.[12] In the book, Rose argues that the cell phone monopolizes attention and that there is an opportunity to unglue society from these screens by spreading apps into every day objects like clothing, jewelry, and rooms.[13]

Recent work

In 2017, Rose was a Futurist at IDEO where he worked with a team to design and prototype gestural based-interactions. He developed computer vision technology for people to perform one and two-handed gestures to control light and sound in the environment. Rose filmed dancers, American Sign Language teachers, mimes, and an orchestra conductor to learn about the communicative power of subtle gestures. The project and design principles are documented on the IDEO blog, the Octopus.

Rose was the VP of Vision Technology at Warby Parker from 2017-2019.

He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Media Lab where he has worked with the Tangible Media and City Science groups. He currently teaches a course called "Enchanted Architecture."

References
  1. Regan, Keith (11/18/2011). “MHT All Star: David Rose.” Boston Business Journal. Retrieved online March 11, 2014.
  2. Dishman, Lydia (2/21/14). "Ditto Labs is Looking to Mine Brand Insights from Your Shared Photos." Fast Company. Retrieved online March 23, 2014.
  3. Tong, Kathryn (6/15/2000). “Opholio Inc. Acquired by California Firm.” The Boston Globe. Retrieved online via HighBeam Research March 11, 2014.
  4. MIT Media Lab Web site. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  5. Regan, Keith (11/18/2011). “MHT All Star: David Rose.” Boston Business Journal. Retrieved online March 11, 2014.
  6. Feder, Barnaby J. (6/10/2003). "Glass That Glows and Gives Stock Information." The New York Times. Retrieved online March 23, 2014.
  7. Compton, Julie (8/21/2006). “The Ambient Orb: Striving for a PC-Free Tomorrow.” Yahoo! Voices. Retrieved online March 13, 2014.
  8. Felberbaum, Michael (4/16/2004). “Future of ‘glanceable’ technology glows.” Associated Press. Retrieved online via USA Today March 14, 2014.
  9. Furchgott, Roy (4/1/2009). "It's Your Lipitor on Line Two." The New York Times. Retrieved online April 15, 2014.
  10. Kirsner, Scott (2-2-2011). “LA’s richest man buys Cambridge start-up that sells intelligent pill packaging.” Boston.com. Retrieved online March 15, 2014.
  11. Dishman, Lydia (2/21/14). "Ditto Labs is Looking to Mine Brand Insights from Your Shared Photos." Fast Company. Retrieved online March 23, 2014.
  12. Petroski, Henry (7/18/14). "Book Review: 'Enchanted Objects' by David Rose." The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved online August 14, 2014.
  13. “August 26, 2014 - David Rose" The Daily Show. Host and prod., Jon Stewart. Comedy Central. August 26, 2014
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