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.
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 ...
What's it like to be a grad student at MIT's HyperStudio?
What's it like to be a grad student at MIT's HyperStudio?
MIT graduate student Whitney Trettien describes what it's like to be a Research Assistant at MIT's HyperStudio for Digital Humanities.
Welcome Remarks: MIT and the Digital Economy
Welcome Remarks: MIT and the Digital Economy
This conference highlighted MIT’s role in both understanding and shaping the digital economy.
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 ...
Using Psychoacoustics to Explore Cochlear Function:Basic ...
Using Psychoacoustics to Explore Cochlear Function:Basic Mechanisms and ...
11/17/2006 4:00 PM 34-101Brian C.J. Moore, Professor, Auditory Perception, University of CambridgeDescription: Anyone who suffers from hearing loss as well as those less familiar with this affliction should attend closely to this lecture. Brian Moore describes ...
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.
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 ...
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
05/13/2002, 5:30, 10-485 William J. Mitchell Anthony J. Townsend When cities have suffered major destruction in the past, through fire, earthquake, bombing, and so on, the physical rebuilding task has involved (1) recreating network infrastructure -- transportation ...
'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
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.
The Medium Religion
The Medium Religion
11/15/2008 5:15 PM 32"123Boris GroysDescription: Noted philosopher, critic and essayist Boris Groys, who has previously delved into the Soviet post"modernist and Russian avant"garde art scene, turns his attention now to the recent and dangerous marriage of religion and digital media. In a ...
The Inner History of Devices
The Inner History of Devices
11/06/2008 6:00 PM 35"225Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauz_ Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology,Program in Science, Technology, and SocietyDescription: Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 digital fabrication
The future of digital fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld is director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
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 Emergence of Citizen's Media
The Emergence of Citizen's Media
09/19/2006 5:00 PM BartosAlex Beam, Columnist, The Boston Globe; Ellen Foley, Editor, the Wisconsin State Journal; Dan Gillmor, Director, Center for Citizen Media; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of LiteratureMacVicar Faculty FellowDescription: Extra, extra, browse all about it! The newspaper ...