Think you’ve seen holograms in the movies and on TV? Michael Bove from the MIT Media Lab will prove you wrong. See "holograms" in clips from Star Wars, CNN, and elsewhere, compare those special effects with what real holograms are, then learn about the moving holograms being developed right now in MIT labs. In conjunction with the Sampling MIT exhibit.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Dec 11 09 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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Host/Chair:
MIT Museum
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Dec 11 09 5:30pm - 7:30pm
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Speaker:
Eric Rosenbaum Host/Chair:
MIT Museum
Glowdoodle lets you paint with light... or paint with anything! Play with a collection of light-up toys, glowsticks, transparent and reflective materials to create light paintings. If you've got a computer with a webcam, you can continue the fun at home. Drop-in activity. Appropriate for all ages. |
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Dec 10 09 12:00pm - 3:00pm
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Host/Chair:
Lifelong Kindergarten
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Dec 09 09 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Otto Scharmer Peter M. Senge Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and a founding member of the MIT Green Hub. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and governments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has co-designed and delivered award-winning business leadership programs for client firms including Daimler, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Fujitsu, and Google. |
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Dec 07 09 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Kirsch Auditorium (Room 123), MIT Stata Center
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Dec 04 09 3:30pm - 6:30pm
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Participant(s)/Committee:
Rick Borovoy (Center for Future Civic Media) Chuck Baker (Sahara Communications) Brooke Emerson (Translation LLC) Walter Mosley (Author) Chino Hardin (Prison Moratoriums Project) High school students from the Boston Youth Organizing Project The Community Innovators Lab will host the launch of the Urban Lab, a project of MIT Mel King Fellow Malia Lazu. The Urban Lab being incubated at The Co-Lab is a study of the effectiveness of community organizing through new media and mobile platforms. Experts from the worlds of communications/marketing and social media will share their insights and discuss the challenges and opportunities of bringing community organizing into the 21st century. Doors open at 3:30pm and dinner will be served at 5:30pm. Space is limited, please RSVP to mlazu [at] mit [dot] edu. |
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Dec 02 09 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
James P. Comer, M.D. The MIT Media Laboratory is launching a Social Health Initiative, and a series of inaugural keynote lectures. Our goal is to create a network of organizations and tools that help people thrive, staying healthy and happy during their entire lives. Because social health is intimately intertwined with social support, adequate wealth, self-determination, and security, a successful social health system must take a holistic view of life. This initiative is supported by Humana, Telmex, P&G, BT, and Best Buy, as well as grants from the US and Canadian governments. |
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Nov 19 09 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Speaker:
Nancy Baym Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become increasingly important Internet destinations. Their reliance on the concept of "friend" has raised questions about what that term really means in this context. This talk offers an overview of the emerging research on the interpersonal dynamics of social networking sites and focuses in particular on a survey study of friendship in Last.fm, an international site focused on music listening. |
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Nov 19 09 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Speaker:
Marco Monti Marco Monti will present two talks at the next Center for Future Banking event. (1) Trust Formation and Risk Communication in Finance and Health Care: An Empirical Survey on Investor-Advisor and Patient-Doctor Interactions |
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Nov 18 09 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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Speaker:
Berthold K.P. Horn Host/Chair:
Ramesh Raskar
"Dynamic Reconstruction" is the term for computational imaging methods that generalize CT, MRI and CA and provide for imaging using moving detectors and moving radiation-blocking elements. Applications include detecting IEDs at a distance using back-scattered X-rays, detecting SNM at a distance by imaging gamma rays, CA imaging with non-ideal apertures, and a new approach to cone-beam CT. |
