Lectures tagged "Electronics"


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History of Experimental Video in Boston
Otto Piene
January 31, 2010
00:47:28
Otto Piene, sky artist and former director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Fred Barzyk, former director of WGBH's New Television Workshop, talk about Boston's influential role in the creation of the video art medium in the late 1960s.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier
January 13, 2010
00:49:32
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier discusses his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture.
Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control
Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control
Joan Johnson-Freese
December 9, 2009
01:22:33
Joan Johnson-Freese, chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the Naval War College, and Laura Grego, scientist for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, discuss space security and the future of space relations in a panel moderated by leading political ana
Cory Doctorow: Makers
Cory Doctorow
November 16, 2009
00:46:03
Sci-fi novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow reads from Makers, his new novel about the near future of technological innovation.
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
The Future of Reading: Books Without Pages?
David Pogue
October 24, 2009
01:36:23
New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue takes a look at how reading and books will be experienced in the future. Steve Haber of Sony, Neil Jones of Interead, and Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Pixel Qi, showcase new technology.
New World Order: State of the Arts Field
Craig Aaron
August 27, 2009
00:59:11
In the opening plenary of the 2009 National Alliance for Media, Art, and Culture (NAMAC), speakers address the threats and opportunities in their field from the perspective of four factors that affect their work: the economy, policy, technology, and culture.
Lewis Lapham: Mixed Media
Lewis H. Lapham
April 29, 2009
00:58:49
Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham observes that the media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues - film, book, video game, broadcast, blog - that without a dictionary or a concordance it is hard to know who is saying what to whom.