Alex Wissner-Gross is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University. He has authored 14 publications, received 82 national and international distinctions, been issued 7 full and pending patents, and founded 4 companies. His research has been covered in Technology Review, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Scientific American, and The New York Times. In 2003, Alex became the last person in MIT history to receive a triple major, with bachelors in Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics, while graduating first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering. In 2007, Alex received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard for work on programmable surfaces, which dramatically increased the computational versatility of a range of materials. Before his science and technology career, Alex performed as a boy soprano with the New York City Opera.