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Registration has begun for the fall Things That Think sponsor meeting
and Building Blocks symposium October 20-21, 2003!
Monday, October
20, will feature research updates, sponsor collaborations, and an
exhibition of research projects. Tuesday, October 21, we will hold a
special symposium on the theme of Building Blocks. We will explore the
role of modularity in design, engineering, and learning: how will new
materials and new technologies change the ways we build the world--and
build new ideas? We will examine Building Blocks from nanoscale to
macroscale, from physical to digital, from education to manufacturing. The
event will include hands-on activities to spark new ways of
thinking.
The meeting will begin with breakfast at 8 a.m. on
October 20. The symposium will conclude on October 21 at approximately
4:30 p.m.
Please register here. If you
have questions about the event, please contact TTT Program Assistant Heather Childress
(617-253-8321).
We hope to see you
there!
Sincerely,
Hiroshi Ishii and Mitchel
Resnick
Building Blocks organizers
Agenda
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Day 1: Things That Think Sponsor Meeting
Monday, October
20, 2003
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| 8 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 |
Welcome |
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Walter Bender, Executive Director, MIT Media
Laboratory |
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Hiroshi Ishii, Joe Paradiso, Roz Picard
Co-Directors, Things That Think Research Consortium
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| 9 |
Research Updates |
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Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media
Cynthia Breazeal,
Robotic Life
Bruce Blumberg, Synthetic Characters
Joe
Paradiso, Responsive Environments
Ted Selker, Context-Aware
Computing
Mitch Resnick, Lifelong Kindergarten
Neil
Gershenfeld, Physics & Media
Joe Jacobson, Molecular
Machines
Chris Csikszentmih·lyi, Computing Culture
Roz
Picard, Affective Computing
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| 10 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Research Updates |
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John Maeda, Physical Language Workshop
Bill
Mitchell, Smart Cities
David Cavallo, Future of Learning
Bakhtiar Mikhak, Grassroots Invention
Chris Schmandt, Speech
Interfaces
Mike Bove, Object-Based Media
Pattie Maes,
Interactive Experience
Glorianna Davenport, Interactive Cinema
Sandy Pentland, Human Design
Marvin Minsky, Society of Mind
Scott Manalis, Nanoscale Sensing
Ike Chuang, quanta
Steve Benton, Spatial Imaging
Tod Machover, Hyperinstruments
Judith Donath, Sociable Media
Deb Roy, Cognitive Machines
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| 12 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1 |
Sponsor Collaborations |
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Douglas Johnson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Riku
Suomela, Nokia Research Center
Seongju Chang, ICU/V. Michael
Bove, Media Lab
Cynthia K. Pickering, INTEL
Corporation
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| 2-6 |
Sponsor Open House |
| 6 |
Reception |
| 7 |
Evening Talk—Serious Play |
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Michael Schrage, MIT Media Lab |
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Introduction by Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, Media
Lab
and Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology
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Day 2: Building Blocks Symposium
Tuesday, October
21, 2003
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9 |
Welcome and Overview |
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William J. Mitchell, Academic Head
Program for
Media Arts and Science |
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Hiroshi Ishii and Mitchel Resnick
Building Blocks
organizers |
| 9:30 |
Building Blocks for Nanoscience |
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Joseph Jacobson, Molecular Machines |
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Introduction by Scott Manalis |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Hands-On Activity with LEGO Serious Play |
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Robert Rasmussen, Executive Discovery/LEGO |
| 12 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:15 |
Program Committee Meeting |
| 1 |
Building Blocks for Design and
Manufacturing |
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William J. Mitchell, Moderator |
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Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School |
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Larry Sass, MIT School of Architecture and
Planning |
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Jamie Hsu, General Motors |
| 2:30 |
Break |
| 3 |
Building Blocks for Learning |
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Mitchel Resnick, Moderator |
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Bakhtiar Mikhak, Grassroots Invention |
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Carol Strohecker, Everyday Learning, Media Lab
Europe |
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David Cavallo, Future of Learning |
| 4:15 |
Conclusion |
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