MIT Media Lab

Media Lab Colloquium Series Webcasts

 

2007

October 1   Social Networks and Internet Use
June 6   Michael Merzenich: "Cortical plasticity underlying human performance abilities; implications for neuro-therapeutics"
 

2006

May 3   Erik Mueller on Commonsense Reasoning
April 12   Ken Perlin: The Illusion of Life, Revisited
February 8   James Kuffner on Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots
 

2005

April 1   Nalini Ambady: Accuracy of Thin Slice Judgements
March 18   Luke Hughes: From Crib to Wardrobe; Reality Online and the Socialization of Devices
March 15   Bernardo Huberman: The Dynamics of Information
March 4   Roberto M. Fernandez: Social Networks in the Hiring Process; Investment and Return to Social Capital
February 25   Richard Hackman: Human Networks Colloquium
 

2004

May 27   Martin Wattenberg: Revelatory Interfaces
April 23   Instruments from Beyond
January 28   David Alderson: Why the Internet Scales
 

2003

December 3   James Der Derian: The Question of Information Technology in an Age of Terror
May 13   Peter Lunenfeld : Visual Intellectuals and Networked Ideals
May 6   Gary Marx: A Tack in the Shoe: Neutralizing and Resisting New Forms of Surveillance
April 1   Rob Kling: Socio-Technical Approaches to IT-Supported Groupspace Designs: Learning from Failures
March 11   Steve Dietz: Interfacing the Digital: Institutional Challenges
March 4   Albert-László Barabási: Web Without a Spider: The Emergence of Complex Networks
February 12   Duncan J. Watts: Six Degrees: The Science of the Connected Age
 

2002

December 10   Eric Paulos: Connexus: An Evocative Interface
December 3   David Mindell: Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
November 26   Natalie Jeremijenko: Twinkling, Humming and Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Some Experiments in the Spectacles of Participation
November 19   Hĺkon Wium Lie: Scalable, Beautiful Web Documents
November 12   Elliot Soloway: Palm-Sized Devices are the Personal Computers of Choice
November 5   Emily Thompson: Dead Rooms and Live Wires: Harvard, Hollywood and the Origins of the Virtual Soundscape, 1900-1930
October 22   Jeffrey Huang and Muriel Waldvogel: Convergent Architectures: The Design of Future Spaces
July 9   What on Earth Happened to the Computer Revolution in Education? (Part 1)
July 9   What on Earth Happened to the Computer Revolution in Education? (Part 2)
June 27   Bil Lewis: Omniscient Debugging
June 11   Ingemar J. Cox: Applying Informed Coding and Embedding to Design a Robust, High Capacity Watermark
June 3   Ioannis Pitas: Benchmarking of still image watermarking algorithms
May 16   Bob Sabiston: Tracing for Fun and Profit
May 1   Dr. Eduardo Doryan: The Global Discussion on Development
April 24   Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM: Perception and Electronic Imaging
February 26   Michael Robinson, Fiat: The Comprehension Shift (CC++ Distinguished Car Lecture)
February 22   Ed Fredkin: The Threat of Human Extinction
February 20   Bill Moggridge: In Search of a Future for Design