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Rosalind W. Picard |
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George Church |
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Professor Rosalind W. Picard heads the Media Lab’s Affective Computing group and co-directs the Advancing Wellbeing initiative. She co-founded Empatica, which creates wearable sensors and analytics to improve health, and Affectiva, which develops technology to measure and communicate emotion. |
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Nolan Bushnell created an industry when he founded Atari in 1972 and gave the world Pong. His design credo—games should be “easy to learn and difficult to master”—is now inspiring a new generation of developers. |
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George Church is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of PersonalGenomes.org, which provides the only open-access information on human Genomic, Environmental, and Trait data (GET). His doctoral research at Harvard led to the first genome sequence, and his innovations have contributed to nearly all next-generation genome sequencing methods and companies. |
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Kofi Annan is the founding chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2001), and was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006). With the support of his Foundation, Annan mobilizes political will to overcome threats to peace, development, and human rights. |
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Tom Ashbrook |
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Ayah Bdeir |
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Stewart Brand |
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Kevin Esvelt |
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Tom Ashbrook is the host of On Point on WBUR and NPR. His journalism career spans 20 years as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and author. |
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littleBits founder and CEO Ayah Bdeir works to advance open-source hardware and the maker movement. She is a co-founder of the Open Hardware Summit, a TED Senior Fellow, and a Media Lab alumna. |
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Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog, and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Media Lab; The Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and Whole Earth Discipline. |
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Kevin Esvelt is an evolutionary sculptor of molecules and ecosystems. He developed key laboratory safeguards for gene drive research and initiated public discussion of candidate applications for public health, sustainable agriculture, and ecological conservation. He now seeks to reform scientific incentives to favor early transparency and community guidance of powerful technologies with shared impacts. |
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Danny Hillis |
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Joi Ito |
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Mary Lou Jepsen |
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Alan Kay |
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Danny Hillis is co-founder of Applied Minds and several of its spinoff companies, including Applied Invention, Applied Proteomics, TouchShare, and Metaweb (acquired by Google). Hillis is also a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Southern California. |
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Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, has been recognized globally for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom. He is currently exploring how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways. |
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Mary Lou Jepsen is one of the foremost electro-optic and display innovators. She is executive director of engineering at Facebook and head of display technologies at Oculus. She was previously head of the Display Division at Google X, led the architecture and manufacture of the One Laptop per Child, and was founder and CEO of Pixel Qi. |
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Turing Award winner Alan Kay is a founder of Xerox PARC, and a pioneer of personal computing, the GUI, object-oriented programming, and powerful ideas education. He has been a professor at MIT, CalTech, and Stanford, and is now president of Viewpoints Research Institute. |
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Jørgen Vig Knudstorp |
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Tod Machover |
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John Maeda |
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Robert B. Millard |
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Jørgen Vig Knudstorp is the CEO and president of the LEGO Group. He sees his dedication to the further expansion of the LEGO System in Play and the creative play experience to be his life’s mission. |
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Tod Machover heads the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group. His music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world's most important performers and ensembles. Machover has composed five operas, including Death and the Powers, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He has received a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest cultural honors, and the first DigiGlobe Prize from the German government. |
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John Maeda is past president of the Rhode Island School of Design and former professor at the Media Lab. He currently advises technology startups as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; sits on the boards of Sonos and Wieden+Kennedy; and serves on the technical advisory board for Google’s ATAP. |
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Robert B. Millard is the chairman of the MIT Corporation. He is the managing partner and chairman of Realm Partners LLC and the former managing director of Lehman Brothers Inc. He is a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on its finance and budget committee. |
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Marvin Minsky |
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Nicholas Negroponte |
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Penn & Teller |
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One of the world’s leading authorities in the field of artificial intelligence, Marvin Minsky is professor emeritus of media arts and sciences at the Media Lab. He has made fundamental contributions to robotics, computer-aided learning technologies, cognitive psychology, and neural networks, and is the author of The Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine. |
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Nicholas Negroponte, a digital visionary, has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. He is co-founder (with Jerome B. Wiesner) and former director of the MIT Media Lab. He founded the nonprofit One Laptop per Child, and he is author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital. |
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Emmy award-winning comedy-magic duo Penn & Teller have been associated with the Media Lab for nearly 25 years. They have hundreds of television credits, sold-out world tours, and record-breaking Broadway runs. |
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Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, a former professor at MIT, and the author of 10 books, including How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style. |
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L. Rafael Reif |
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Megan Smith |
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Marco Tempest |
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Maria T. Zuber |
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Since assuming office in 2012, MIT president L. Rafael Reif has advanced Institute priorities such as digital learning, innovation, the environment, and a commitment to community. A member of the MIT faculty since 1980, he was director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, and head of the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
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As Chief Technology Officer of the United States, MIT alumna Megan Smith focuses on how technology policy, data, and innovation can advance the future of our nation. Smith is a former vice president of Google, and former MIT board member. |
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Cyber illusionist Marco Tempest combines magic and technology. His interest in computer-generated imagery led him to incorporate video and digital technology into his work, and to the development of a new form of contemporary illusion. Tempest is a former Media Lab Director’s Fellow. |
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Maria T. Zuber is vice president for research at MIT and the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She has been involved in numerous NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. As principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, she was the first woman to lead a NASA spacecraft mission. |
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| 活动议程 |
| 9:00am |
Mind, Magic and Mischief
Friday, October 30, 2015
Kresge Auditorium
Hosted by Penn & Teller
- Robert B. Millard
- Joi Ito
- Steve Pinker
- Danny Hillis
- Marvin Minsky
- Danny Hillis with Stewart Brand and Rosalind W. Picard
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| 11:30am |
- Alan Kay with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and Ayah Bdeir
- Tod Machover
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| 2:00pm |
- Maria Zuber
- Nolan Bushnell
- John Maeda
- Mary Lou Jepsen
- Mary Lou Jepsen with George Church and Kevin Esvelt
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| 4:00pm |
- Hosted by Tom Ashbrook
- Emma Rothschild
- MIT President L. Rafael Reif
- Kofi Annan
- Megan Smith
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Neri Oxman
- Marco Tempest
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