Attila Csorgo: Turning Out the Space
Attila Csorgo: Turning Out the Space
04/04/11 Turning Out the Space Attila Csorgo, artist, Budapest, Hungary Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer, Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts? Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Another piece, Distorted Spaces, is ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions ...
03/28/11 Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology? Ricardo Dominguez, artist, activist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD Respondent: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Ricardo Dominguez is ...
Laurent Grasso: Science & Fictions
Laurent Grasso: Science & Fictions
Science & Fictions Laurent Grasso, artist, Paris, France? Respondent: Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology Laurent Grasso will discuss the ideas and processes behind his HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral research) eponymous of a research base in Gakona, Alaska. One ...
Jae Rhim Lee: Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the ...
Jae Rhim Lee: Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and ...
03/14/11 Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other Jae Rhim Lee, artist and ACT research fellow, MIT, Cambridge MA Respondent: Nicholas A. Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy; Director, MIT Technology and Law Program ?Jae Rhim Lee's ...
Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo ...
Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo del Cielo
A Guide to Campo del Cielo Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, artists, Buenos Aires, Argentina Respondent: Richard P. Binzel, MIT Professor of Planetary Science In 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg began working on A Guide to Campo del Cielo, a ...
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, on his Internship at ...
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, on his Internship at Massachusetts General ...
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, is doing his six-month onsite internship at new LGO partner Massachusetts General Hospital from February-August 2011. Hear him discuss the relevance of LGO's management, technology, and leadership training to his analysis of patient flow ...
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 ...
Technology: Do Kids Need More or Less?
Technology: Do Kids Need More or Less?
04/28/2011 10:45 AM Alan Gershenfeld, Founder and President , E"Line; Sara DeWitt, Vice President of PBS Kids Interactive; Rachel Schiff, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Interactive Entertainment; Wendy Bronfin, Director, Product Management at Barnes & NobleDescription: The ultimate ...
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 ...
Bridging the gap from lab-to-market at the Deshpande Center
Bridging the gap from lab-to-market at the Deshpande Center
Movie ideas from the lab to the market place at the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte - Spotlight MIT 2008 - One Laptop ...
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte - Spotlight MIT 2008 - One Laptop per Child - ...
Our keynote speaker this year is Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, founder of One Laptop Per Child. Professor Negroponte is also co-founder and Chairman of the MIT Media Lab. Professor Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then-new ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through ...
Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and ...
04/20/2011 4:00 PM 26"100Dr. Robert D. Braun, Chief Technologist, NASADescription: "I don't remember Apollo at all," confesses Robert Braun, NASA's chief technologist. "I feel really bad about it." Nevertheless, he has spent a lot of time reading and thinking about ...
A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
MIT Communications Forum: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
What Turkle worries about are people who are inseparable from their devices, who can't enjoy, as she does, "a solitary walk across the dunes."
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: ...
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: Application to Energy ...
04/12/2011 4:00 PM Youssef Marzouk, Assistant Professor; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Description: In search of better"burning fuels, or more accurate projections of climate change, researchers inevitably work through multiple models, sometimes at great ...
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
04/11/2011 9:00 AM David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Victor Zue, ScD '76, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, CSAIL; ...
Tom Malone: New technologies change essence of organizations
Tom Malone: New technologies change essence of organizations
MIT Sloan Executive Education professor Tom Malone discusses how new new technologies can change the essence of organizations by communicating information and helping to make decisions. Learn more about professor Tom Malone.
Tom Malone: New Technology Means New Organizations
Tom Malone: New Technology Means New Organizations
Professor Tom Malone on how new technologies redefine how businesses are organized and operate within that new structure. Learn more about the Intelligent Organizations program.
Japan's Nuclear Crisis
Japan's Nuclear Crisis
03/16/2011 5:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT"CIS Program on Political Economy ...
Bell Labs Wave Machine: Matched Impedance
Bell Labs Wave Machine: Matched Impedance
Three segments of the Bell Labs Wave Machine are connected together. The points at which they are connected have the same impedance. Therefore, traveling waves will not be reflected at these boundaries. One can also observe the change in wavelength and velocity as ...