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Allen Hockley Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial ...
Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she ...
High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing.
The vast range of new experiments to facilitated greater audience participation and more personalized media content bring are often accomplished through much deeper uses of audience data and platforms whose business models are built on the collection and use of data. ...
Associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Caspar Hare aims to develop theories of practical rationality that may just help us make real-world decisions. Read more about Hare's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/pr
Michael Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.
11/04/2010 5:00 PM E14-633Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman CenterDescription: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the ...
Can human beings, with the help of smart machines, not merely avoid "collective idiocy?"
Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.
