Nathan Eagle is a Research Scientist at the MIT Design Laboratory. He is currently involved in the creation of MIT's EPROM (Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles) initiative both at MIT and the University of Nairobi, where he is a Visiting Lecturer. EPROM's key activities include the development of new applications for mobile phone users worldwide, academic research using mobile phones, and the creation of a widely applicable mobile phone programming curriculum. During his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab, he focused on projects that spanned a variety of disciplines from appropriate technology to artificial intelligence. His dissertation on machine perception and learning of complex social systems explored the intersections of social network analysis, machine learning, and signal processing.