Coco Krumme develops methodologies to measure rates of change in individual human behavior, and to capture statistical regularities in change at the population level, in three pieces: i) a model of individual rate of change as a function of search and finite resources, ii) a structural analysis of population level change in urban economies, and iii) a statistical test for the deviation from a null model of rank churn of items in a distribution.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Dec 14 12 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Speaker:
Coco Krumme Host/Chair:
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Participant(s)/Committee:
Laszlo Barabasi Hal Varian |
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Dec 13 12 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Collective Artificial Intelligence is an end-to-end process for automating digital actors in videogames from thousands of recorded human demonstrations. Videogames are a dynamic story telling medium, unique in allowing players to influence the story being told. While today's games afford players incredible freedom to interact physically with other characters and the environment, the ability to interact socially–using language as action–is much more limited. |
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Dec 06 12 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Nadia Berthouze Host/Chair:
Rosalind W. Picard
Recent years have seen the emergence of technology that involves and requires its users to be engaged through their body and touch. This has opened the possibility to better understand and exploit these modalities to capture, respond to and regulate users' affective experience. Indeed, various studies in psychology have shown that our posture and body movement affect our emotional state, our cognitive abilities and our attitude towards the environment around us. |
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Nov 30 12 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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The first two years of a child's life is a period of remarkable development, especially in the area of language learning. From first productive word use around 12 months of age to the emergence of combinatorial speech in the second year of life, how does a child's everyday experience contribute to his or her early language development? |
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Nov 27 12 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Speaker:
J. J. Abrams Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
Watch the archived webcast. |
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Nov 13 12 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Speaker:
Jonathan Mills Host/Chair:
Tod Machover
The Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting artists and audiences for over sixty years. Founded in 1947, the Festival grew out of the rubble of the Second World War with the aim of providing 'a platform for the flowering of the human spirit.' Every August, the Edinburgh International Festival transforms one of the world's most beautiful cities, presenting three exhilarating weeks of the finest creators and performers from the worlds of the arts - for everyone. |
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Nov 05 12 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Speaker:
Steven Johnson Host/Chair:
Ethan Zuckerman
Hosted by Aaron Naparstek, visiting scholar at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. An election eve conversation with Steven Johnson, author of "Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked World" and Harvard Law School's Yochai Benkler, Susan Crawford & Lawrence Lessig. |
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Nov 03 12 10:30am - 9:00pm
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Do you want to help with Sandy response? Come design, code, and learn with other people this weekend at a CrisisCamp! Here’s how you can get involved if you are a: Volunteer that can attend in person: If you would like to attend a CrisisCamp in person, please sign up on one of the EventBrite pages below. Volunteer that can’t attend in person: There will most likely be many projects that you will be able to coordinate on with volunteers at the event, so if would like to participate, please sign up on Eventbrite as well so you’re in the email loop. |
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Oct 31 12 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Speaker:
Khalida Brohi This talk has been postponed and will be rescheduled. |
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Oct 11 12 5:00pm - 9:30pm
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 Speaker:
John Chowning Host/Chair:
Tod Machover
Lecture: 5:00pm |
