Shawn Sims is founder and director of Synaptic Lab - sy-lab.net - a research and design group dedicated to searching for new ideas about the implementation of technology [ and/for/with ] form.

Shawn is a recent graduate from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and now resides in the CoDe Lab [computational design lab] at Carnegie Mellon University working towards a Master's in Tangible Interaction Design. While at Pratt he developed research interests in network+swarm theory, biomemetics, minimal surface morphologies, and computational form finding. Current research includes computationally embedded objects, physical+ambient computing, robotics, and advanced digital design+fabrication methodologies. Shawn is currently a researcher in the Digital Fabrication Lab in the School of Architecture where much of his work investigates 6+7 axis ABB robotic fabrication.

syn·ap·sis (sĭ-nāp'sĭs) pl. syn·ap·ses (-sēz) (New Latin, from Greek, sunapsis, point of contact) they allow the neurons of the central nervous system to form interconnected neural circuits. They are thus crucial to the biological computations that underlie perception and thought.