Richard (Dick) Waters

MERL Headquarters
President & Chief Executive Officer; Research Fellow
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978

Phone: (617) 621-7508
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Dick Waters received his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (AI). For the next 13 years he worked at the MIT AI Lab as a Research Scientist and co-principal investigator of the Programmer's Apprentice project. Dick was a founding member of the MERL Research Lab in 1991. As a MERL researcher his work centered on multi-user interactive environments for work, learning, and play. In January 1998, Dick became Director of the MERL Research Lab. In December 1999, he became CEO of MERL as a whole.