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Sep 14 09 2:15pm - 3:15pm
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Speaker:
Frank Moss
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
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Sep 09 09 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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Announcing the first annual research open house of the Camera Culture group at the Media Lab. We focus on creating tools to better capture and share visual information. The goal is to create an entirely new class of imaging platforms that have an understanding of the world that far exceeds human ability and produce meaningful abstractions that are well within human comprehensibility. |
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Sep 03 09 12:00am - Sep 08 09 12:00am
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 Speaker:
Hiroshi Ishii Amanda Parkes
Ars Electronica Festival 2009
The 2009 Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition features current work of the faculty and students from the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA. From its inception almost thirty years ago, the Media Lab has taken an unorthodox research approach to envisioning the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life—technologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities. The lab attracts designers, computer designers, engineers, artists, and scientists, divergent in background and practice. |
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Aug 31 09 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Creating an appropriate indoor climate is essential to worker productivity and personal happiness. It is also an area of large expenditure for building owners. And, with rising fuel costs, finding ways of reducing energy consumption is more important than ever. This idea is promoted further by the notion that most buildings are currently being run inefficiently, due to the non-adaptable nature of their control systems. Not just the occupants, but also the buildings themselves have ever changing needs, for which a single setpoint is inadequate. |
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Aug 14 09 12:00am - Feb 14 10 12:00am
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Boston Museum of Science
Biology inspires Neri Oxman. Working at the interface of environmental design, science, and art, Oxman is inventing novel ways to design, fabricate, assemble, and maintain building "skins" so they can respond to load, light, and heat simultaneously. Think buildings that breathe, sweat, and grow. "I believe that, within two decades, buildings will be designed and constructed as biological tissues," says Oxman. (photo credit: Mikey Siegel) |
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Aug 08 09 8:00am - 10:00am
Chicago, IL
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Sheraton Chicago, Ballroom 7
In the last decade sensors have become cheaper, faster, and more ubiquitous, enabling automatic collection of data at the millisecond-level time scale in a technique called Reality Mining. The Reality Mining workshop will focus on discussing what new management paradigms can be enabled with this technique, as well as how researchers can immediately use sensing tools to augment their research. |
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Jun 15 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Speaker:
Matthias Sala |
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May 16 09 9:00am - 7:00pm
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 Scratch Day is a worldwide network of gatherings, where people will come together to meet other Scratchers, share projects and experiences, and learn more about Scratch. |
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May 14 09 11:30am - 5:00pm
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You are invited to see how MIT students, together with their partner organizations across the developing world are launching mobile technology ventures to address some of the most pressing problems of international development. |
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May 11 09 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Speaker:
Lucy Suchman Host/Chair:
Susanne Seitinger
This talk considers how capacities for action are currently figured at the human–machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Drawing on examples from recent scholarship in anthropology, science and technology studies, and media arts and design, Suchman argues for research aimed at tracing differences that matter within specific sociomaterial arrangements, without resorting to essentialist human-machine divides. |
Past Talks and Colloquia
