Humanities in the Digital Age
Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.
Open Payment, A New Approach to Public Transportation Fare ...
Open Payment, A New Approach to Public Transportation Fare Collection
10/19/2010 4:00 PM 4"237George Kocur, Senior Lecturer CEEDescription: Soon, a ticket to ride won't require paper coupons, tokens, human vendors, or even Boston's CharlieCard. Urban transit is abandoning a century old payment system for sophisticated digital payment ...
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Engineering Smarter Drivers
10/05/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media LabDescription: While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...
Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the ...
Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the Works of Aaron ...
09/30/2010 6:30 PM 32"141Aaron Koblin, Abramowitz Artist in Residence, MITDescription: Where others see just data points and fodder for bar graphs, Aaron Koblin visualizes dynamic systems where information assumes forms both abstract and familiar. In this talk, Koblin ...
How to Read 1,000,000 Manga Pages: Visualizing Patterns in ...
How to Read 1,000,000 Manga Pages: Visualizing Patterns in Games, Comics, ...
05/21/2010 6:45 PM e14"638Lev Manovich, Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; ; Director, Software Studies Initiative, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); Description: In his introduction, moderator ...
Numbers, Words and Colors
Numbers, Words and Colors
Tools developed by Martin Wattenberg and his associate Fernanda Viégas, have changed the way people look at and use visualizations, by empowering and equipping users with the methodology needed to ask different question
Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of ...
Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation
05/20/2010 3:00 PM Bartos theaterKurt Fendt; Johanna Drucker; Amber Frid"Jimenez; Nick Montfort, SM '98, Assistant professor of Digital Media in MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Description: The session begins with brief introductory remarks by moderator ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for ...
05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He ...
A Policy on Leadership
A Policy on Leadership
03/31/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEdmund (Ted) F. Kelly, PhD '70, Chairman, President & CEO; Liberty Mutual Description: Ted Kelly walks a Sloan audience through the process of turning around a failing company. His formula? Develop two key things: a fact based analytical organization, and ...
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
Panel 2: Ensuring Data Protection: Legal and Regulatory ...
Panel 2: Ensuring Data Protection: Legal and Regulatory Methods
A conversation between panelists and audience members on the legal protections and regulations that should be in place to extract value from data but also mitigate the risks associated with research, government, and commercial activities that use personal electronic ...
Panel 3: Summary Discussion
Panel 3: Summary Discussion
Visions of the use of personal electronic data for innovative research and applications that improve sustainability, social equity, urban management, energy efficiency, public health, among others. Panelists: Richard Clarke, Assistant Vice President--Public Policy, AT&T, Inc. David Lazer, ...
Panel 1: Ensuring Data Protection: Technical Methods
Panel 1: Ensuring Data Protection: Technical Methods
What practices and standards for collection, storage, analysis and use or distribution of electronic information would support the value that may be obtained from such information, but also provide appropriate protections? Panelists: Dean Gallant, Assistant Dean for ...
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Elfar Adalsteinsson
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Elfar Adalsteinsson
Professor Elfar Adalsteinsson of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of medical imaging science.
Keynote II
Keynote II
Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation & Mozilla Corporation. Introduction: Francisca Rojas, Research Assistant, MIT SENSEable City Lab. 10/13/2009
Keynote III
Keynote III
Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals. Introduction: Francisca Rojas, Research Assistant, MIT SENSEable City Lab.10/13/2009
