Steve Mann is a full professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, and is the Chief Scientist of the Rotman School of Management's Creative Destruction Lab. He is also the Chief Scietist of Meta (http://spaceglasses.com), and is widely recognized as "The father of the wearable computer" (IEEE ISSCC 2000), and was founder of the MIT Wearable Computing Project: "Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone... who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline." -- -- Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, Director, and Chairman, MIT Media Lab, 1997