People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people--girls and boys, grandparents and college students--lovingly engage in these hands-on low-tech hobbies.view more ›
Past Talks and Colloquia
Frequent and varied events—such as lectures, colloquia, symposia, and workshops—play an active role in the continuing vitality and momentum of the Media Lab.
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May 08 09
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Leah Buechley |
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May 06 09
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Wireless internet has arrived. What's the next stage in our wireless lives? Computing, entertainment and healthcare will be increasingly mobile.view more ›
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May 05 09
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Ramji Raghavan Agastya is a movement led by entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, teachers and children to revitalize and transform education for disadvantaged children and teachers in India. Through a scalable and interactive education model, Agastya and its partners--government, corporate and social investors--aim to catalyze social development, innovation and leadership.view more ›
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Apr 29 09
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Philip Balboni One news experiment that actually aims to make a profit while generating original news is GlobalPost, an online international news source with original reporting from in-country correspondents around the world.view more ›
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Apr 27 09
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Kelly Dobson Many important elements of our relationships with machines either go unnoticed or get very little attention compared to our prescribed and conscious interactions with them. These less considered elements--such as sound, infrasound, heat, and motion--are greatly significant and active on multiple levels.view more ›
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Apr 27 09
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Fulu Li In this thesis we lay the foundations for a distributed, community-based computing environment to tap the resources of a community to better perform some tasks, either computationally hard or economically prohibitive, or physically inconvenient, that one individual is unable to accomplish efficiently.view more ›
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Apr 23 09
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Frank Roost With the ongoing success of brand-dominated but factory-free companies like Nike in the consumer goods industry, architects are increasingly involved in the process of "branding." Since the 1980s, many of the brand name companies are co-operating with the same suppliers, and the supposedly unique products with different brand names are frequently manufactured in the same factories in Asia or Latinview more ›
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Apr 13 09
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Jeremy Bailenson Host/Chair:
Cynthia Breazeal
Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford. He earned a BA cum laude from the University of Michigan and a PhD in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University. view more › |
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Apr 07 09
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Host/Chair:
MIT Museum
Portraits depict something essential about a person, usually by delineating the subject’s physical appearance. With the Data Portraits series, in the new exhibition Connections (through Sept. 13, 2009) the Sociable Media Group explores a different approach, portraying people by expressively rendering their online interactions and data about them.view more ›
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Apr 06 09
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Speaker:
Allen Gorin Host/Chair:
Deb Roy
Coping with information overload is a major challenge of the 21st century. Huge volumes and varieties of multilingual data must be processed to extract salient information. We have previously reported on research for how to automatically characterize large volumes of streaming content. However, information includes both content and associated meta-data, which humans deal with as a gestalt but computer systems often treat separately. Attributed random graphs provide a useful mechanism for jointly modeling content and context.view more ›
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