As founder of IDEO, David Kelley built the company that created many icons of the digital generation—the first mouse for Apple, the first Treo, the thumbs up/thumbs down button on your Tivo’s remote control, to name a few. But what matters even more to him is unlocking the creative potential of people and organizations so they can innovate routinely.
Past Talks and Colloquia
|
Jul 23 13 2:00pm - 3:30pm
|
 Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
|
|
Jul 22 13 10:00am - 12:00pm
|
Speaker:
Daniel E. Smalley Host/Chair:
V. Michael Bove
Participant(s)/Committee:
Ed Boyden Rajeev Ram In this dissertation Daniel Smalley describes the development of a new integrated-optics platform for holographic video consisting of arrays guided-wave acousto-optic devices. This platform serves as the foundation for a new family of holographic video architectures that trade off its enormous pixel bandwidth for display extent, view angle, and frame rate. |
|
Jul 15 13 3:00pm - 5:00pm
|
Speaker:
Ehsan Hoque Host/Chair:
Rosalind W. Picard
Participant(s)/Committee:
Jeffrey Cohn Bilge Mutlu Louis-Philippe Morency Human nonverbal behaviors are subtle, fleeting, and often contradictory. Is it possible for computers to not only sense, translate and interpret human nonverbal behaviors, but also help us improve these behaviors? This thesis presents a computational framework and a user-centric evaluation to answer that question. The core of this thesis contains three main technical components:
|
|
Jul 12 13 10:00am - 12:00pm
|
Speaker:
Amit Zoran Host/Chair:
Joseph A. Paradiso
Participant(s)/Committee:
Leah Buechley Sherry Turkle Hybrid reAssemblage is a design gestalt that lies at the cross-section of digital design practice and the tactile qualities of traditional craft. Zoran hopes to posit a new hybrid territory–a territory in which the value of artifacts is produced by both machine and man, through automated production as well as human subjectivity. This work is an exploration of two divergent realms: that of emerging computational technologies, and traditional hand-hewn practice. |
|
Jul 09 13 2:00pm - 3:00pm
|
Speaker:
Tod Machover Host/Chair:
Tod Machover
|
|
Jun 10 13 3:00pm - 5:00pm
|
Speaker:
Michael Lapinski Host/Chair:
Joseph A. Paradiso
Participant(s)/Committee:
Thomas M. Kepple Dr. Eric Berkson Humanity's desire to capture and understand motion started in 1878 and has continually evolved to this day. Today, the best-of-breed technologies for capturing motion are marker based optical systems that leverage high-speed cameras. While these systems are excellent at providing positional information, they suffer from an innate inability to accurately provide fundamental parameters such as velocity and acceleration. The problem is further compounded when the target of capture is high-speed human motion. |
|
May 29 13 2:00pm - 3:30pm
|
 Speaker:
Beth Noveck Joi Ito Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
Beth Simone Noveck is founder and director of The Governance Lab. Funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Gov Lab aims to improve people’s lives by changing how we govern using advances in technology and science. |
|
May 21 13 9:00am - May 22 13 5:00pm
San Francisco, CA
|
Speaker:
Joi Ito |
|
May 16 13 6:00pm - 8:00pm
|
All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. |
|
May 16 13 10:00am - 12:00pm
|
Speaker:
Anthony Zorzos Host/Chair:
Edward Boyden
Participant(s)/Committee:
Clifton G. Fonstad Ramesh Raskar To deliver light to the brain for neuroscientific and neuroengineering applications like optogenetics, in which light is used to activate or silence neurons expressing specific photosensitive proteins, optical fibers are commonly used. However, an optical fiber is limited to delivering light to a single target within the three-dimensional structure of the brain. |
