From: MIT TechTV on Tue, Aug 03 2010 10:39 PM

The improved Cap Kart now has lightweight lithium-ion batteries and a custom rear differential. This is mostly a test of the rebuilt rear axle, but also always good to make sure the controller still works, since it’s cursed. Next order of business: test driving.

From: MIT TechTV on Tue, Aug 03 2010 10:39 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Sun, Jul 18 2010 9:55 PM

With new trimmed 16x10 inch propellers, thrust has increased to over 9000 kilodynes.

From: MIT TechTV on Sun, Jul 18 2010 9:55 PM

Speaker: Alex Leavitt, Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) & Web Ecology Project. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: In his new book, "Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts" (2010), Jonathan Gray argues for the recogni...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Andy Engel, Wayne State University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: When physical space is digitized, tagged, and reassembled, as in Microsoft’s photo-stitching technology Photosynth, it is likewise reified, extended, and damaged. The byproduct of this digit...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Maria Moon, Art Center College of Design. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: neurographica investigates the ways in which design can be used to explore and analyze neurological data. Traditionally, the predominant role of design in the scientific process has been t...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Matthew Dimopoulos, Claremont Graduate University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: As an archivist and historian it is increasingly apparent that with the current and growing glut of digitally born documents a new model of visualizing collections would be helpfu...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Video tour of Professor Franz X. Kaertner’s labs at RLE.

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speakers: Der-Tsai Lee, Ming-chorng Hwang, Sophy Shu-Chen and Jessie Tsai, Academia Sinica. Abstract: The government of Taiwan initiated a national digitization program in 2002 to digitize our cultural heritage. Its main objective is to promote content digitization and preservation at...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Dustin Morrow, Temple University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: This multimedia project examines the artistic/expressive dimensions of the visualization of music in its exploration of the conscious and subconscious interpretations of live performance. Laptop m...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Rebecca Mushtare, Marymount Manhattan College. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: Visualizing data is not an easy task, and can be implemented in a variety of ways and with a variety of techniques. As a media maker, I have become more and more interested in the ide...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:36 PM

Speaker: Esra Ozkan. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: Information visualization could be largely defined as graphical representation of complex information. It comprises a set of tools and techniques that transforms sophisticated data such as scientific findings, human ex...

From: MIT TechTV on Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:35 PM

Speakers: Der-Tsai Lee, Ming-chorng Hwang, Sophy Shu-Chen and Jessie Tsai, Academia Sinica. Moderator: Emma Teng. Abstract: The government of Taiwan initiated a national digitization program in 2002 to digitize our cultural heritage. Its main objective is to promote content digitiza...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:30 PM

Speaker: Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the theoretical relevance of kinetic poetry for studying the interaction between language, digital media, and signifying processes. Several wr...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:30 PM

Speaker: Jonathon Cousins. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: The presentation is a walk through of the design and development process behind a visualization recently created for the World Economic Forum Summit in Dubai.  The aim of the presentation is to demonstrate how inf...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:30 PM

Speaker: Ellen Sebring, MIT. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: Where do images from the historical record take you in historical inquiry and what is offered by working within the digital environment? This presentation will be a case-based examination of the "visual fingerprint...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:30 PM

Speaker: Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan. Moderator: Noel Jackson. Abstract: Museums are increasingly adopting open data policies, both for easy internal reuse of data sets and as a way of building community engagement online. While the opening up of data is a welcome development, too ...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:29 PM

Speaker: Maximillian Schich, Northeastern University. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: This talk introduces image matrices as a useful visualization method for visual classification networks, such as tagged images or otherwise categorized visual documents. Famous examples of ...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:29 PM

Speakers: Shiva Ayyadurai and Andrea Frank, MIT. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Many phenomena of global concern such as climate change, health and nutrition, globalization are complex systems with many inter-related components. In the modern world of rapid information deliv...

From: MIT TechTV on Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:29 PM

Director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center Prof. Richard Lester