The continued miniaturization of computational devices is set to revolutionize the field of healthcare and health monitoring for the elderly; a multitude of varied and unobtrusive sensors will be able to continually assess the mobility and well-being of elders in their own homes.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Dec 07 10 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Speaker:
Dr. Douglas McIlwraith Host/Chair:
Joseph A. Paradiso
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Nov 29 10 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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Speaker:
Ethan Zuckerman The internet enables unprecedented connections across international borders. Whether we read a daily newspaper from India, send technical drawings to a factory in China, or use Skype video to meet a friend's child in Japan, we are engaged in activity that would have been impossible or prohibitively expensive two decades ago. Much of the discourse around globalizing technologies suggests that we're experiencing a inexorable flattening of the world, interacting with an increasingly diverse mix of people and ideas from around the world. |
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Nov 23 10 12:30pm - 1:00pm
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Speaker:
Ruixi Yuan Host/Chair:
Human Dynamics
The Internet presents rich opportunities to conduct large-scale social behavior and information diffusion research. We present two studies based on large scale online data. In the first study, cooperation and competition dynamics from online gaming communities were analyzed and a discrete model was developed for the gaming system. In the second study, an epidemic information propagation model was developed to model the topic propagation in the blogspace. We demonstrate its effectiveness by comparing to data collected from popular Chinese blog sites. |
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Nov 18 10 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Speaker:
Abrahm Lustgarten Andrea Pitzer Rosalind Williams Thomas Levenson (Moderator) Host/Chair:
Center for Civic Media
MIT Communications Forum
With government regulators weak, corporations still focused on the bottom line, and communities adapting to structural change, this Communications Forum asks: What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises? |
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Nov 04 10 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Speaker:
David Ardia Daniel Schuman Micah Sifry Host/Chair:
Center for Civic Media
MIT Communications Forum
What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Many states provide a privilege to "journalists" to protect their sources and newsgathering materials. But as more investigative journalism is conducted by so-called amateurs and posted on blogs or websites such as Wikileaks, what are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowd-sourced era? |
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Oct 29 10 11:30am - 12:30pm
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Speaker:
Dr. Ellen Langer Host/Chair:
Matthew S. Goodwin
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, Dr. Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what’s not, can lead to better health at any age. |
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Sep 24 10 12:00am - Sep 26 10 12:00am
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Host/Chair:
Tod Machover
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Sep 10 10 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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You are invited to the Camera Culture group's open house! Join us this Friday Sep. 10 at 5 pm in E14-474 (Media Lab) for the Camera Culture group's open house to welcome new MIT students. We will have hands on demos, prototypes, interactive gizmos and videos of recent projects PLUS food and drinks. |
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Aug 13 10 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Damrosch Park Bandshell, NYC
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