Announcement of 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
Announcement of 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
The 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners, as introduced by John S. and James K. Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen. Held as part of the Future of News and Civic Media conference MIT, hosted by MIT's Center for Future Civic Media. The 2009 winners ...
Announcement of 2010 Knight News Challenge Winners
Announcement of 2010 Knight News Challenge Winners
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation--sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media--in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, ...
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; ...
Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education, ...
Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education, moderated by ...
The first panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005. Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Comparative ...
Art and Technology
Art and Technology
High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing.
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. ...
Awareness-Mapping
Awareness-Mapping
Jay Silver explores how the creation of interactive maps can cultivate awareness about local environments, supporting civic engagement by helping community members communicate new perspectives. To this end, we are developing a set of technologies and strategies that help people create, share, ...
Barry L. Vercoe - Interview - Aug. 19, 2011
Barry L. Vercoe - Interview - Aug. 19, 2011
Oral history interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founding member of the MIT Media Lab, and computer music pioneer and composer. Interviewed by Forrest Larson and Mark Ethier, MIT Lewis Music Library. Topics include: ...
Between the Bars
Between the Bars
Between the Bars is a blogging platform for one out of every 142 Americans---prisoners---that makes it easy to blog on paper, using standard postal mail. It consists of software tools to make it easy to upload PDF scans of letters, crowd-sourced transcriptions of the scanned images, and 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 ...
Blended Learning Revisited
Blended Learning Revisited
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown.
Bokode: focus demo
Bokode: focus demo
A demonstration of the process by which a camera going out of focus can display the contents of a Bokode visual tag.
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based ...
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a ...
We show a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products. ...
Building a Challenge from Scratch
Building a Challenge from Scratch
How you and your students can create your own challenges in the Learning Library
Cartegen
Cartegen
Cartagen is a set of tools for mapping, enabling users to view and configure live streams of geographic data in a dynamic, personally relevant way. Today's mapping software is largely based on static data sets, and neither incorporates the time dimension in its display nor provides for ...
Casalegno: Connected Sustainable Home Project
Casalegno: Connected Sustainable Home Project
Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...
Casalegno: Human-Centric Approach to Connectivity
Casalegno: Human-Centric Approach to Connectivity
Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...
Casalegno: The City as a Living Organism, Bus Stop Example
Casalegno: The City as a Living Organism, Bus Stop Example
Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...