# Jaron Lanier **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** computer scientist, musician, and technology critic ## Definition **Jaron Lanier** is a computer scientist, musician, and technology critic. At ICE, joined Sue Halpern and Marcelo Gleiser for Doubling Down. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments a virtual-reality pioneer and longtime critic of surveillance advertising, behavioral manipulation, platform business models, and the reduction of persons to data; has worked at Microsoft Research and earlier VR companies. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** virtual reality, Microsoft Research, digital dignity, platform critique, and behavioral modification. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.jaronlanier.com/) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)