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Nov 22 13 7:30pm - 9:30pm
BAM, Brooklyn, NY
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Nov 22 13 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Tessa Lau About a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, Tessa Lau joined Willow Garage with one mission: to create robots so easy to use that everyone, including persons with disabilities, could use them to improve their lives. From an HCI researcher's perspective, robotics is a very rich field: incredibly complex systems which are sorely in need of good design and usable interfaces. Because of their complexity, merely using robots requires precise specification of what they should do: in short, programming. Yet how can we expect mere mortals to program robots? |
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Nov 21 13 12:00am - Nov 23 13 12:00am
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 Host/Chair:
Nicholas Negroponte
Futures Past: Design and the Machine is a three-day conference on the institutional and intellectual history of research and visions for human-machine systems beginning in the second half of the 20th century, and its relationship to emerging roles of technology in design. The conference is structured around paper sessions with junior scholars, researchers, and historians. The event includes panel discussions with protagonists of early efforts to incorporate computers, information technologies, and communication engineering in the design process. |
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Nov 20 13 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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Speaker:
Khalida Brohi Joi Ito Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
Khalida Brohi is the founder and executive director of the Sughar Empowerment Society, a nonprofit social enterprise in Pakistan dedicated to providing tribal and rural women opportunities to grow their skills as well as learn leadership skills in an environment of growth and development. Brohi launched Sughar in 2009 ("Sughar" means "skilled and confident woman") to provide opportunities to unleash the potential of all women in Pakistan, such as resources to launch and sustain rural businesses. Brohi's aim over the next 10 years is to change the lives of one million women in Pakistan. |
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Nov 07 13 6:00pm - 10:00pm
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Nov 06 13 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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 Host/Chair:
Ethan Zuckerman
All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. |
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Nov 06 13 9:00am - 11:00am
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We are surrounded by visual reproductions: computer screens, photographs, televisions, and countless other technologies allow us to perceive objects and scenes that are not physically in-front of us. All existing technologies that reproduce images perform engineering tradeoffs that provide the viewer with some subset of the visual information that would be available in person, in exchange for cost, convenience, or practicality. For many viewing tasks, incomplete reproductions go unnoticed. |
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Oct 09 13 12:00am - Jul 10 14 12:00am
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Explore this exhibition to discover how innovators are using 3D printers to turn computer data into physical objects that could change your life. The stories we’ve uncovered focus on the future of industry, medicine and whether 3D printing will change your shopping experience. The exhibit includes work designed by Media Lab professor Neri Oxman. |
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Oct 09 13 12:00am - Oct 13 13 12:00am
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 Webcast: http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/13/video 10/9, 9:00am: Deb Roy 10/9, 11:30am: Ed Boyden 10/9, 3:30pm: Marco Tempest 10/10, 9:00am: Joi Ito |
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Oct 01 13 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Stephen Schueller Host/Chair:
Karthik Dinakar
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Past Talks and Colloquia
