Toby Schachman

Toby Schachman
Resident

Toby Schachman is a co-founder of Notion, a web-based collaborative workspace that individuals and teams can build and customize themselves and the founder of Cuttle, a design tool for digital cutting machines. An artist, researcher, and designer, he builds programming environments that support spatial reasoning. His works include Apparatus a dynamic canvas for drawing interactive diagrams and Shadershop an interface for programming GPU shaders.

Toby has worked as a researcher at Dynamicland, Bret Victor’s fifty-year project to invent a communal, in-the-physical-world computer. He holds degrees from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and MIT.

“Symbolic thinking is the only way we know how to program computers but many of our important ideas are more naturally explored spatially, within a visual or kinesthetic domain…”
-Toby Schachman