Colloquium Series Schedule, 1993-1998 The MIT Media Lab has hosted a number speakers over the years: Date Speaker Host Title (If Known) FALL 1993 10-13 Horacio Reggini Marvin Minsky 10-20 Eric Drexler Marvin Minsky 11-10 Andy diSessa Mitch Resnick 11-17 Wendy MacKay Glorianna Davenport 12-01 Doreen Nelson Mitch Resnick 12-08 Alex Waibel Sandy Pentland 12-15 Andy Van Dam Muriel Cooper SPRING 1994 02-02 Paul Resnick Mitch Resnick 02-09 Paolo Pignatelli Marvin Minsky 02-16 Norm Margolus Neil Gershenfeld 02-23 Danny Edelson Mitch Resnick 03-02 Paul Sajda Ted Adelson 03-09 Karl H. Hoehne Neil Gershenfeld 03-16 Joe Chung Neil Gershenfeld 03-30 Peter Cariani Neil Gershenfeld 04-06 George Lakoff - cancelled Muriel Cooper 04-13 Joan Logue Tom Machover 04-20 Jose Azel Glorianna Davenport 04-27 Miller Puckette Tod Machover 05-04 Bill Lorensen Steve Benton 05-11 Sharon Daniel Tod Machover FALL 1994 09-28 Ben Wittner Neil Gershenfeld 10-05 Vernor Vinge Marvin Minsky 10-12 Amory Lovins Mike Hawley 10-19 Peter Menzel Mike Hawley 10-26 Paul Horowitz Neil Gershenfeld 11-09 Joe Bates Pattie Maes 11-16 James Boyk Mike Hawley 11-23 Andy Fraser Neil Gershenfeld 11-30 Dan Weld Ken Haase 12-07 Ryzsard Michalski Ken Haase 12-14 Richard Cytowic Roz Picard SPRING 1995 02-15 Byron Reeves Mitch Resnick 02-22 Takeo Kanade Sandy Pentland 03-01 Mitch Kapor Mike Hawley 03-08 Phil Morrison Neil Gershenfeld 03-15 Eric Drexler Marvin Minsky 03-22 Bob Moog Neil Gershenfeld 04-05 Brad de Graf Pattie Maes 04-12 Marc Hauser Judith Donath 04-19 Whitman Richards Steve Benton 04-26 Phil Alvelda Neil Gershenfeld 05-03 Scott McCloud Pattie Maes 05-10 Dave Barrett Neil Gershenfeld FALL 1995 09-06 David Durlach Roz Picard 09-14 Ken Perlin Pattie Maes 09-20 Oliver Strimpel Mike Hawley 09-27 Emilio Bizzi Irfan Essa 10-04 Bill Mitchell Terri Ehling 10-18 Tony Dove Glorianna Devenport 10-25 Marilyn Walker Justine Cassell 11-01 Ruzena Bajcsy Sandy Pentland 11-08 Morton Subotnik Tod Machover 11-15 Smadar Kedar Henry Lieberman 11-22 Andreas Weigend Neil Gershenfeld 11-29 Steve Whittaker Justine Cassell 12-06 Chris Janney Glorianna Davenport 12-13 Dan Simon Neil Gershenfeld SPRING 1996 02-07 Steve Feiner Pattie Maes Seeing on Top of the World 02-14 Roger Brockett Joe Paradiso Pattern Generation and its Role in Control and Communication 02-28 Keith Stenning Justine Cassell What the Visualiser Saw: Insights from Logic-Learning and from Browsing Hyperspace 03-06 Tim Garrand Glorianna Davenport The Challenge of Writing for Interactive Multimedia 03-13 Huge Harry Justine Cassell Towards a Digital Computer with Human Face 03-20 Elliot Soloway Mitchel Resnick Learner-Centered Design 04-04 Phil Agre Ken Haase Computer Networking and Collective Cognition 04-10 Susan Brennan Janet Cahn 04-17 Steen Rasmussen Neil Gershenfeld Engineering Based on Self-Organization 04-24 Alex Repenning Mitchel Resnick Tactile Programming: A Unified Program Manipulation Paradigm Supporting Comprehension, Composition, and Sharing 05-01 Bruce Tognazzini Pattie Maes Swept Away: Computer Design in an Era of Accelerating Social and Technological Change FALL 1996 09-11 James Randi Neil Gershenfeld In Pursuit of the Chimera 09-18 Rolf Gehlhaar Tod Machover Collaborative Instruments and Interactivity in Music 09-25 Bob Eggleston Neil Gershenfeld New Approaches For The Design Of Natural User Interface 10-02 Amy Jo Kim Amy Bruckman Ritual Reality: Social Engineering in Cyberspace 10-09 Alan Borning Henry Lieberman Constraints for Interactive Graphics 10-17 Howard Poizner Thad Starner What You Need to Know About Sign Language and Gesture 10-23 Ken Goldberg Judith Donath Telerobotics Via the World Wide Web 11-06 Aaron Sloman Roz Picard Architectures for Emotion 11-13 David Kurlander Justine Cassell Comic Chat 11-20 Kim Binsted Justine Cassell Machine Humor 12-04 Don Eyles Joe Paradiso Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups: Flight Software for the Manned Space Program 12-11 Brother Blue Glorianna Davenport Storytelling to Change the World SPRING 1997 02-05 Robert Pinsky Nicholas Montfort A Poet's View of Interaction 02-12 Alan Baratz Nicholas Negroponte Java: A Software Revolution 02-19 Emergency Broadcast Network Maggie Orth Culture and the Disconnected Image: Distortions, Abstractions, and Radical 02-26 Stephanie Forrest Patties Maes Computer Immunology 03-05 Dimitri Metaxas Sandy Pentland Physics-Based Modeling Techniques for Computer Vision, Graphics, and Medical Imaging 03-12 Pavel Curtis Amy Bruckman The Internet as a Populated Place 03-19 Robert Krauss and Lois Putnam Justine Cassell Feeling Inside and Out: Emotion from a Social Psychological and Psychophysiological Perspective 04-02 Felice Frankel Glorianna Davenport On the Surface of Things: Images in Science 04-09 Mary Furlong Amy Bruckman Creating Online Communities 04-16 Doug Carlston Mitchel Resnick How the Internet is Transforming the Software Business 04-23 Marks & Gershenfeld Neil Gershenfeld Serious Fun 05-07 Robert Seyfarth Andy Lippman The Origin of Words in the Minds of Monkeys 05-14 Ricki-Goldman Segall Glorianna Davenport Caught in the Web?: Knowledge Re/Construction, Ethnographic Entanglements, and Other Mishigas FALL 1997 09-17 Christopher Hales Glorianna Davenport 10-01 Mark Tilden Nelson Minar 10-08 Barbara Hayes-Roth Justine Cassell 10-22 Paola Antonelli John Maeda 10-29 Jim Gemmell Bruce Blumberg 11-05 Gustav Deutsch Glorianna Davenport 11-12 Allen Gorin Deb Roy 12-03 Tom Porter Bruce Blumberg SPRING 1998 02-04 Paul Rankin Pattie Maes 02-11 Keith Oatley Roz Picard 02-18 Batya Friedman Jonathan Klein 02-25 Bill Buxton Bruce Blumberg 03-04 James Gould Bruce Blumberg 03-11 Roy Pea Mitchel Resnick 03-18 Jules Engel Bill Tomlinson 04-01 Don Norman Hiroshi Ishii 04-08 Ben Sheiderman Hiroshi Ishii 04-15 Bob Sabiston John Maeda 04-22 Jean Claude Risset Barry Vercoe 04-29 Paul Brainerd Bruce Blumberg 05-13 Bill Durham Mike Best MIT Media Laboratory Home Page | Events Main Index