Robert Buderi

In 2007, he founded Xconomy, a national business and technology news and media website based in Boston, for which he served as CEO and editor-in-chief.

[1] From October 2018 through July 2019, Buderi served as president of the World Frontiers Forum,[2] a non-profit established by scientist and inventor David Edwards (engineer), MIT professor and Moderna co-founder Robert S. Langer, and Dennis Ausiello, longtime chief of medicine for Massachusetts General Hospital.

[3] Buderi also served as an inaugural member of The MIT Future Founders Initiative, which was announced in 2021 and seeks to increase the rate of company formation among women faculty.

[7][9] It also covers how radar technology led to major innovations in the aftermath of World War II in fields such as electronics, space exploration, nuclear magnetic resonance, lasers, and computer networking.

[10][7] Buderi’s fifth book, Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub, was published by MIT Press in May 2022.