Listening Faster
Listening Faster: How Digital Humanities is Transforming Music Scholarship
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond
MITEF-NYC: Better Strategies for Monetizing Digital ...
MITEF-NYC: Better Strategies for Monetizing Digital Offerings
Monetizing digital offerings is a continuing challenge. Advertising can generally generate only some of the revenue required, so customer payments appear to remain essential for most businesses. Freemium was a good starting point, and now soft pay walls are being ...
At What Cost?: The Privacy Issues that Must Be Considered ...
At What Cost?: The Privacy Issues that Must Be Considered in a Digital ...
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. ...
Local News in the Digital Age
Local News in the Digital Age
This Communication Forum event was held on September 22, 2011, in Bartos Theater at the MIT Media Lab Is local news a casualty of the digital age? A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever, many state ...
Unflat Pavilion
Unflat Pavilion
Part of the MIT FAST Festival, Unflat Pavilion is a freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDS that flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns and windows.
Learning 3.0: Why Technology Belongs in Every Classroom
Learning 3.0: Why Technology Belongs in Every Classroom
04/28/2011 8:45 AM Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of EducationDescription: The Obama Administration's recently unveiled plan for transforming American education through technology does not envision "plugging kids in and ...
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern ...
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern Family
04/28/2011 11:30 AM Vanessa Van Petten, Youthologist and AuthorDescription: Vanessa Van Petten bears witness to a strange new future rapidly becoming reality: devices and apps available for every aspect of family life. Her Radical Parenting website draws on the ...
Bibliodoptera
Bibliodoptera
Bibliodoptera, by Peter Torpey and Elena Jessop, graduate students in Media Arts and Sciences Location: Corridor along the Hayden Library Courtyard (map) A cloud of vellum butterflies, newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, floats above in the corridor between the ...
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on journalism. As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of ...
The Growth of Cryptography
The Growth of Cryptography
02/08/2011 4:00 PM 10"250Ronald L. Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)Description: It's not every day that Euclid appears in public with "Alice and Bob," but in a lecture spanning a few thousand years, Ronald Rivest ...
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
11/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Sanjay Sarma, Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Soon, after checking under the hood and kicking the tires, we will be scanning our car's on"board diagnostic system (OBD). Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to ...
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.
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's ...
10/07/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Dr. Charles C"Y Zhang, Ph.D. 94, Founder, Chairman CEO SOHU.COMDescription: Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China's economic surge than Charles C"Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal ...
Leading through Change
Leading through Change
Tom Glocer says the financial information company Thomson Reuters has been determined to deploy the latest technology in the service of information-hungry customers
'Death and the Powers'
Tod Machover - 'Death and the Powers;' a robotic opera
MIT Media Lab Professor Tod Machover discusses his robotic opera more than 10 years in the making, 'Death and the Powers.' Read more about its premiere at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/opera-machover-0910.html
Who's on Broad? Joe at the Law Office of David Band
Who's on Broad? Joe at the Law Office of David Band
Joe, a lawyer on Broad Street gives us yet another perspective on the commercial corridor.
National Academies Press
National Academies Press
"Pricing Digital Content Product Lines: A Model and Application for the National Academies Press"by P K Kannan of the University of Maryland, Barbara Kline Pope of the National Academies Press and Sanjay Jain of Texas A&M University. This work involves a specialist publisher, the National ...
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the ...
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World ...
05/26/2010 8:30 AM KresgeMichael B. Horn, Co"founder and Executive Director, Education, Innosight InstituteDescription: Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America's public schools? Michael B. Horn ...