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Past Talks and Colloquia
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Oct 10 12
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Speaker:
Scott Cook Joi Ito Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
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Oct 04 12
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Speaker:
Karen Brennan Host/Chair:
Mitchel Resnick
Participant(s)/Committee:
Barry J. Fishman Ethan Zuckerman We live in a computational culture—a culture in which we are surrounded by computational systems and interfaces, from social networks to banking infrastructure, to entertainment platforms, to transportation systems. This culture introduces new expectations and new opportunities for learning, creating new demands for what to learn and offering new possibilities for how to learn. |
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Sep 25 12
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Speaker:
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Host/Chair:
Andrew Lippman
Participant(s)/Committee:
Henry Holtzman Catherine Havasi Sepandar Kamvar Navigating both our personal and professional life has evolved into a knowledge-intensive task that is greatly assisted by online social networks (OSN) and other online tools. However, OSNs fail to capture the dynamic affinity groups that arise when people are looking to exchange products and services, engage in some joint activity, or pool resources together. |
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Sep 18 12
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Speaker:
Jigar Mehta Host/Chair:
Center for Civic Media
Open Documentary Lab
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Sep 10 12
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Speaker:
Carroll Bogert Host/Chair:
Ethan Zuckerman
All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. |
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Sep 10 12
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Speaker:
Sajid Sadi Host/Chair:
Pattie Maes
Participant(s)/Committee:
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland Drazen Prelec Since the time of the first philosophers, logic and observed human behavior have stood somewhat in contradiction. More recently, scientists have started to delve into decision- and choice-making to understand why the way we act differs from rational choice, and indeed from our own desires. We believe that it is possible to take the knowledge gleaned about human cognition and design systems that can augment cognition in helping us reach our goals. |
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Sep 06 12
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At the boundary between people, objects, and spaces, we encounter a broad range of surfaces. Their properties perform functional roles such as permeability, comfort, or illumination, while conveying information such as an object’s affordances, composition, or history of use. However, today's surfaces are static and can neither adapt to our changing needs, nor communicate dynamic information and sense user input. |
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Aug 31 12
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Speaker:
Ryan Chin Host/Chair:
Kent Larson
Participant(s)/Committee:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland Frank T. Piller This thesis examines the environmental benefits created by the manufacture, distribution, and consumer use of products that are mass customized (MC) or produced “on-demand” and tailored to individual end-user preferences. Traditional mass production (MP) models take advantage of economies of scale by efficiently producing multiple copies of the same standard product. However, this also creates waste throughout the product life cycle. |
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Aug 30 12
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Speaker:
William Lark, Jr. Host/Chair:
Kent Larson
Participant(s)/Committee:
Hiroshi Ishii Christopher E. Borroni-Bird Growing populations, an increasing middle-class, and rapid urbanization are all escalating factors contributing to urban problems such as excessive energy use, road congestion, pollution due to carbon emissions, and inefficient personal transit. Considering that the average vehicle in a city weighs thousands of pounds, usually carries only one person per trip, and expends a significant amount of its gasoline simply searching for resources such as parking, it is clear that we need new efficient and intelligent modes of transportation. |
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Aug 27 12
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We're hosting the first of many regional alumni gatherings on August 27 in San Francisco. We hope you (and a guest) will join Media Lab Director Joi Ito, several Media Lab faculty members and researchers, and some of your fellow alumni from 7-9pm for a casual get-together at San Francisco's Bluxome Street Winery. This should be a great chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. |
