electronics software consulting biotechnology architectural design founded 2000 headquarters burbank california usa key people bran ferren co chairman danny hillis co chairman website appliedminds.com applied minds llc . is an american company founded in 2000 by ex disney imagineers danny hillis and bran ferren that provides technology design r & d and consulting services to multiple firms including general motors intel northrop grumman lockheed martin herman miller harris corporation sony and sun microsystems . the company s headquarters are in burbank california and it maintains offices in new york and washington dc . it supplies products and services in software aerospace entertainment electronics biotechnology and architectural design . it has spun out several companies including metaweb technologies the creators of freebase which was acquired by google touchtable and applied proteomics . activities edit applied minds has been chosen to do major renovations to the renwick gallery in washington dc . 1 elizabeth broun the margaret and terry stent director of the smithsonian american art museum said that the applied minds concept is that it encourages visitors to come back again and again to see the many new and ever changing presentations there . 1 in 2014 danny hillis split off his portion of the company and founded a new company applied invention . appliedinvention.com references edit a b smithsonian american art museum selects winner for renwick gallery grand salon design competition . smithsonian institution . june 14 2013 . pp . si 241 2013 . retrieved 18 july 2013 . external links edit official website a tour of the applied minds site wired magazine article applied minds think remarkably new york times article about an applied minds product babble no privacy in your cubicle try an electronic silencer this article about a corporation in the service industry is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title applied minds & oldid 700086890 categories companies based in burbank californiatechnology companies of the united statesservice company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 16 january 2016 at 09 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view