Andrew Benjamin Lippman is a senior research scientist at the MIT Media Lab as well as a Co-Director of various chairs at the institute.

Currently, he heads the Lab's Viral Communications group, which examines scalable, real-time networks whose capacity increases with the number of members.

Lippman has directed research programs on digital pictures, personal computers, entertainment, and graphics.

He was the principal investigator for the pioneering 1978 computerized hypermedia project, the Aspen Movie Map, which functioned much like Google Street View of decades later.

Lippman established and directs the Digital Life consortium, which works to create a networked world where communication becomes fully embedded in our daily lives.