He received a PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he founded the MIT Wearable Computing Project. Starner was perhaps the first to integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life as a personal assistant, and he coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990 to describe the types of interfaces he envisioned at the time. His groups’ prototypes on mobile context-based search, gesture-based interfaces, mobile music players, and mobile instant messaging foreshadowed now commonplace devices and services. Starner’s work has been widely featured in the media, including CNN, NPR, the BBC, CBS's “60 Minutes”, ABC's “48 Hours”, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Jour al.