Designing for Emergence at Harvard U
Here's a Harvard University engineering and applied science graduate class that asks, "How do we engineer robust behavior from the cooperation of vast numbers of unreliable parts? Biology hints that...
View ArticleMIT Media Lab's Scratch: a programming language for animation, games, art
I had a great meeting recently with Britt, one of my former students from the Institute without Boundaries. She had returned from visiting the MIT Media Lab where she toured the school and met Mitchell...
View ArticleViewpoints Research Institute
"Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving both general education and understanding of complex systems, especially through the use of new inventions in interactive constructive computing." Founders...
View ArticleSHARE: supporting collaboration in new media communities
Here's a reference from one from my fellow grad students: SHARE.globalhttp://share.dj/global/ * new york * montreal * wiesbaden * san diegoSHARE is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration...
View ArticleDear Professor Spooky, My Avatar Dog Ate My Homework
As it turns out my Media Law class this semester may be held in Second Life. One reason this idea is looking cool is that DJ Spooky is already dropping science in that polygonish sandbox. Check out his...
View ArticleShort and sweet: succinct definitions of design
I wrote my own shortest definition of design as a personal challenge to express the term in a manner that was brief, robust and circumspect. The result (discussed elsewhere in this blog): "Design is...
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