I was lucky enough to spend a day with Dave Merrill of the MIT Media lab a couple months back, write about it, and make a video. Now he’s a design rock-star, complete with his own talk at the recent TED conference. Check it out as he explains and demos his “siftables”:
Noted game designer, author, and professor at USC’s School for Cinematic Arts, Chris Swain, gave a talk on the future of video games at MIT on January 28th, 2009. It’s a fascinating look at the current and future roles of video games in society, well worth the two hours if you’re curious. If you’re pressed [...]
Last week I checked out the MIT Science Journalism Panel organized by the MIT Careers Office. Jonathan Fildes, Science and Technology reporter for BBC News, Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health/Science Editor for the Boston Globe, and Trisha Gura a freelance science and medical journalist and author of Lying in Weight spoke about a range of issues [...]
Noam Chomsky spoke this evening at MIT about Gaza, Israel, and US foreign policy. Here’s the tweetstream, followed by some audio of the talk and the QnA afterwards. (apologies for the crappy audio) display_tweme_list(tweme_data, “tweet-list”, false); Here’s the talk: Noam Chomsky on Gaza 1/13/2009 at MIT by mainsequence Here’re some of the questions and answers [...]
video slideshow bonus audio interview video soundtrack (free download) print (PDF) BUILD DAY It’s a gray Saturday morning and the MIT campus is dead. Empty courtyards testify that most students are either sleeping off last night’s fun, or still attached to a screen after an all-night computer programming session. Some are up, however, and I’m [...]