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 ...
TV or Not TV: That's Not the Question
TV or Not TV: That's Not the Question
05/19/2010 11:30 AM Bartos theaterAlice Cahn, Vice President for Social Responsibility, Cartoon Network; Terry Fitzpatrick, EVP Content Distribution, Sesame Workshop; Nick Gnat, Next"Generation Broadcast Journalist, MOUSE; Justin Johnson, Founder, Online Video Contests, Creative Services ...
Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education
Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education
04/23/2010 10:00 AM e14"633William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies; ; Peter Donaldson, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of the Literature Faculty, MIT. Director, Shakespeare Interactive Archive; Kurt Fendt; Scot Osterweil; ...
Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and ...
Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a ...
04/23/2010 2:30 PM e14"633Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Erin Reilly, Research Director, New Media Literacies Project, USC; Sangita Shresthova, Manager, Part. culture ...
Jenkins' Farewell: Reflections on a Career at MIT
MIT Commnuications Forum: Jenkins' Farewell — Reflections on a Career at ...
04/22/2010 5:00 PM Bartos theaterHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media StudiesDescription: In conversation with William Uricchio, ...
Civics in Difficult Places
MIT Communications Forum: Civics in Difficult Places
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority.
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital ...
MIT Communications Forum: The Gutenberg Parenthesis — Oral Tradition and ...
Should we view the last 500 years or so of Western culture as a strange interlude, defined by printed page and other artifacts that once dominated the landscape but are now fading in relevance?
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
03/01/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEugene J. Huang, Government Operations Director, National Broadband Task Force, Federal Communications CommissionDescription: The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory ...
The Future of Digital Public Media
The Future of Digital Public Media
03/01/2010 5:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJake Shapiro, PRX Director; Robert Bole, VP, Dig Strategy, CPB; Marita Rivero, VP and General Mgr for Radio and Television, WGBH ; Kinsey Wilson, Senior VP and GM, Digital Media, NPR; Damian Thorman, Ntl Program Director, Knight Foundation; Sue Schardt, ...
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
Leading through Adversity
Leading through Adversity
02/18/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPaul Sagan, President & CEO, Akamai TechnologiesDescription: Few companies have endured such hardship, or risen to such heights in a brief span of time as Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagantells how he became the CEO of this young firm, and helped it survive ...
The Culture Beat and New Media
MIT Communiations Forum: The Culture Beat and New Media
Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive.
Liberty by Design
Liberty by Design
Alan Davidson returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space.
The State of Drupal
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal from its inception while a "typical geek" undergraduate in Antwerp in 1999 to the upcoming release of Drupal 7.
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
10/20/2009 4:00 PM e51"335David Fialkow, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners; Ben Fischman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail Convergence, Inc.; Alex Laats, 89, President, BBN Technologies' Delta DivisionDescription: While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar -- ...
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career ...
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's ...
10/06/2009 7:00 PM 6"120Thomas Levenson, Head of Writing and Humanistic StudiesDescription: Who knew that one of mankind's greatest scientists also worked as a gumshoe on London's mean streets, or that this same absent"minded professor helped England fix its monetary ...