Jameson Toole -- University of Michigan 2010, Jameson Toole is a PhD in MIT's Engineering Systems Division with the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His research focuses on using large behavioral data sets generated from the web (Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.), cell phones, or any other means, to find emergent patterns in human behavior and dynamics. Toole completed his undergraduate degrees at the University of Michigan majoring in Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Economics.

Artist and innovator, Britta Riley, explains R&D-I-Y. Using social media and mass participation, the community has researched and developed her unique approach to growing food in small urban apartments using a window, plastic bottles and some plants. Join in: research and develop it yourself.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.