Jim Mason
Director of the Rosetta Project (01999 - 02006)
Jim was the founder and director of the Rosetta Project from 01999 to 02006. He's a General Specialist working at the intersection of engineering, anthropology and information science. He is a graduate of Stanford University, with degrees in Anthropology and Philosophy, after a long tour of Mechanical Engineering (yes, he has difficulty sticking to one discipline).
He directed the New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford, an effort which brought 11 artists from Papua New Guinea to campus to build a permanent outdoor sculpture garden.
Jim is also the founder and director of The Shipyard collaborative art/build space for large scale mechanical, kinetic and electronic art.
As the founder of ALL Power Labs, Jim is now focused on creating tools for distributed power generation and open source comparative research in biomass thermal conversion.