He is the author of The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives, published in 2011.
He is the middle child with older brother Billy, a successful restaurateur and restaurant business broker; and younger sister Ivy, an environmentalist.
While a research assistant at the Draper Laboratory at MIT, Moss designed the original prototype for the Space Shuttle digital horizontal flight system.
[2] Tivoli was a venture-backed startup that successfully competed with larger companies to redefine and standardize the technology behind network and systems management.
He also co-founded several other companies, including Stellar Computer, Inc., a developer of graphic supercomputers; and Bowstreet, Inc., a pioneer in the emerging field of Web services that was acquired by IBM and where he was chairman.
Twine was an early innovator in digital healthcare and provided a platform to enable patients to achieve maximal self-efficacy in managing their chronic conditions in continuous collaboration with their care team.
[6] Moss also initiated research into areas that go beyond improving our “digital lifestyles” to solving bigger societal problems, such as health care and disability.
The new building, designed by legendary architect Fumihiko Maki of Japan, was built on the Lab’s research principles of openness and transparency.
[8] Moss is currently active in a diverse set of startups that reflect his eclectic interest, including ArtLifting, a social enterprise that champions artists impacted by housing insecurity and disabilities, where he is a director.