International House invites alumni, friends and residents to a Lodestar Dinner program featuring Saul Griffith (I-House ‘94-‘95) 2007 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant Winner on Audacious Dreams: Innovations in Green Technology
November 4, 2009
Reception at 6 pm
Dinner & Program at 6:30 pm
$20 I-House Alumni, Members & Host Families, $25 General Public
Free for the first 50 I-House residents to sign up at the Program Office.
Advance reservations required. Reserve soon, we expect a full house!
I-House alumnus and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Saul Griffith is an inventor whose innovations serve the global public good. From an ingenious method to make low-cost customized prescription eyeglasses from a single lens—an approach he says was inspired by a drop of water—his inventions have served thousands in the developing and developed world. A National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, Saul owns multiple patents spanning textiles, optics, nanotechnology and energy production. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Saul used the Hawaiian word for breeze -Makani - to name the company he launched in 2006 to harness high altitude winds as the least expensive renewable clean energy source on earth. That vision secured a $10M+ investment by Google. A columnist and contributor to Make and Craft magazines, and a technical advisor to Popular Mechanics, Saul co-authors children’s science and technology comic books called “HowToons” and launched Instructables.com as a web portal for worldwide do-it yourself creative engineering videos and posts. Saul holds degrees in materials science, mechanical engineering, and received his doctorate in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines from MIT prior to his studies at Cal and I-House residency in 1994-95. He lives and works in the Bay Area.
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