Daniel Leithinger is a masters student in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include surface computing and novel mappings between tangible objects and abstract information. He received a masters degree from the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg under the supervision of Michael Haller. Past projects he worked on include "Shared Design Space", "Coeno", "Gulliver's World" and "Star Wars - Where Science Meets Imagination".
More information on Daniel can be found on his personal website: http://www.leithinger.net