MIT Media Lab: Redesigning the Future

NOVEMBER 9, 2001
ORIBE HALL, RAPPONGI
TOKYO, JAPAN

Recognizing the long-standing support of Japanese business leaders, the MIT Media Laboratory introduced the rebirth of its research agenda in a one-day seminar in Tokyo.

11 members of the MIT Media Laboratory faculty presented their most recent research initiatives to the leaders of over 88 Japanese corporations, universities and members of the international press. Their 25 minute talks can be viewed in full-length by following the links below.

NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
Founding Chairman

OPENING REMARKS
Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT. He also serves as Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, for the Lab's two sister institutions in Ireland and India.

WALTER BENDER
Executive Director

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
How to produce, represent, and distribute news and information efficiently and how to engage the consumer of news as an active participant.
http://ep.media.mit.edu

AESTHETICS AND COMPUTATION GROUP
How new forms and contexts can advance the process of constructing digital expressions.
http://acg.media.mit.edu

JOHN MAEDA

MOLECULAR MACHINES
How to engineer logic and machines on the molecular scale.
http://www.media.mit.edu/molecular

JOSEPH JACOBSON

JOSEPH PARADISO

RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
New sensing modalities and enabling technologies for responsive spaces that create new forms of interactive experience and expression.
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv

TED SELKER

CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING
How what we do, where we are, and how we feel in particular environments redefines our computer-human interactions.
http://www.media.mit.edu/context

TANGIBLE MEDIA
How to design a seamless interface between people, bits and atoms.
http://tangible.media.mit.edu

HIROSHI ISHII

COMPUTING CULTURE
How artists can refigure technology to address the full range of human experience.
http://compcult.media.mit.edu

CHRIS CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

ROBOTIC LIFE
How to build robotic creatures with a "living" presence that people can physically interact with, communicate with, understand, and teach in human terms.
http://robotic.media.mit.edu

MEDIA AND NETWORKS
How scalable global networks are changing our media, our communities, and our businesses.
http://dl.media.mit.edu

ANDREW LIPPMAN

MITCHEL RESNICK

LIFELONG KINDERGARTEN
How new technologies extend what people can create– and what they learn in the process.
http://llk.media.mit.edu