Tuesdays and Thrusdays 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor (s):
Deb Roy, William Mitchell, Pattie Maes, Sandy Pentland, David Reed
Class Schedule:
DATE TIME ROOM SUBJECT INSTRUCTOR READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS PROJECT PRESENTATIONS 09/07/06 Herbert Simon. The Sciences of the Artificial (Architecture of Complexity), 1996.
09/26/06 William Mitchell. The Logic of Architecture, 6th printing, 1998.
Reading 1: Types and Vocabularies.
Reading 2: Language Of Architectural Form.
Edited by Erik K. Antonsson and Jonathan Cagan. Formal Engineering Design Synthesis, 2001.
Reading 1: Vitruvius Redux.
Reading 2: How to Calculate with Shapes.
Reading 3: Engineering Shape Grammars.
Vehicle Design, Scooters in Perspective by Ernesto C. Martinez-Villapando, Jaewoo Chung, & Wen Dong. (presentation) Scooter by Jeff Lieberman, Bo Morgan, Sajid Sadi, & Susanne Seitinger. (presentation)
Scooter Inspirations by James Barabas, Amy Sun, Stefanie Tellex, Catherine Vaucelle, & Hyung-il Ahn. (presentation)The Extending Axle Vehicle by Ian Eslick, Adam Boulanger, Aaron Zinman, Noah Vawter. (presentation)
10/12/06 Reading 1: Man-Computer Symbiosis (Licklider, 1960).
Reading 2: As We May Think (Bush, 1945).
10/17/06 10/19/06 10/24/06 Reading 1: Memory Systems of 1999. Daniel L. Schacter, Anthony Wagner, and Randy Buckner. MITP. (Schacter, Wagner, & Buckner, 1999).
Reading 2: Dixon, R.A. 1996. Collaborative memory and aging. In Basic and Applied Memory, D.J. Hermann et al., eds. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. (Dixon, 1996).
Reading 3: The Extended Mind. Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers, 1998. Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual vol XXI. (Clark & Chalmers, 1998).
Reading 4: Memory. Fergus I.M. Craik, 2002. Levels of Processing: Past, present... and future? Psychology Press Ltd. (Craik, 2002).
10/31/06 Reading 1: Nicholas Negroponte. Agents: From Direct Manipulation to Delegation. (Chapter 3).
Reading 2: Hutchins, E.L., Hollan, J.D., & Norman, D.A.. (1985). Direct manipulation interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, 1, 311-338. (Hutchins, Hollan, & Norman).
Reading 3 (Optional): Ben Shneiderman, and Pattie Maes. (1997). Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents. Excerpts from debates at IUI 97 and CHI 97. (Shneiderman & Maes).
11/07/06 Augmentation Design Critique
Multi-modal Learning Aid by Jeff Lieberman, Adam Boulanger, James Barabas, & Jae woo Chung. (presentation)
MEM-OTION by Hyungil Ahn, Susanne Seitinger, Cati Vaucelle, & Noah Vawter. (presentation)
Story Telling and Collective Memory by Amy Sun, Bo Morgan, Ian Eslick, & Wen Dong. (presentation)Memory Augmentation by Ernesto Martinez-Villapando, Sajid Sadi, Stefanie Tellex, & Aaron Zinman. (presentation)
11/14/06 Reading 1: Prediction Market
Reading 2: Kay-Yut Chen, Leslie Fine, and Bernardo Huberman. (2003). Predicting the Future. Information Systems Frontier 5:10, 47-61. (Chen, Fine, & Huberman).
Reading 3: Thomas Griffiths, and Joshua Tenenbaum. (2006). Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition. Phsychological Science. (Griffiths & Tenenbaum).
11/16/06 Reading 1: R. Axelrod and W. Hamilton. (1981). Science, Vol. 211 (27), 1390-1396. (Axelrod & Hamilton).
Reading 2: Jon Kleinberg. (2000). Complex Networks and Decentralized Search Algorithms. (Kleinberg).
11/21/06 Reading 1: Fox Keller, The Force of the Pacemaker Concept in Theories of Aggregation in Cellular Slime Mold, in Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale University Press. pp. 150-157. (Fox Keller).
Reading 2: Akella, Seshan, Karp, Shenker, Papadimitriou. Selfish Behavior and the Stability of the Internet: A Game Theoretic Analysis of TCP, ACM SIGCOMM'02. (Akella, Seshan, Karp, Shenker, Papadimitriou).
11/28/06 12/05/06 Reading 1: Alex (Sandy) Pentland. (2006). On the Collective Nature of Human Intelligence. (Pentland).
Reading 2: Drazen Prelec. (2004). A Bayesian Truth Serum for Subjective Data. Science. Vol 306. (Prelec).
12/12/06 E15 - 207
"The Wiesner Room"
Box Office Revenue Prediction by Ian Eslick, Wen Dong, Jeff Lieberman, and Ernesto Martinez. (Virtual Markets)
Polis/Policy by Sajid Sadi, Bo Morgan, Amy Sun, Susanne Seitinger. (Polis-Policy)
Existing System VS Culture as a Function Propagated by the Massess by James Barabas. ( Arts Prediction)