Instructor: Joe Paradiso et al
Time: Tuesdays 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Roth room

The goal of the HOWTO seminars is to provide an introduction to "everything students should know about the Media Lab" so that new students can get integrated more quickly and can make the most of their experience here. A second goal is to provide new students with an opportunity to get to know the personalities at the lab and make connections with other students.

Weekly topics will include: history of the Media Lab, intellectual themes, demo or die culture, atelier style of classes, working with urops, resources at the lab, resources elsewhere at MIT, what students do when they leave the lab, and so on.

We will typically have three or so speakers who speak for an hour, followed by 30 mins of Q&A and 30+ mins of mingle time. Food will be provided.

09/15 Introductions, Class Planning, and Media Lab orientation from the associate directors - Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman

09/22 Resources at the Medialab (Pt. 1): how to find the information, knowledge, tools & supplies you need to get stuff done at the Medialab - Paula Anzer (Prospective Sponsor Coordinator), Henry Holtzman (ML Knowledge Management), Stacie Slotnick (Web/PLDB/etc.),Jon Ferguson (NecSys)

Necsys
Projects List Database
Media Lab Directory
Medialabber
Graphic Identity Information

09/29 Media Lab Vision - Frank Moss (Director)
Resources at the Medialab (Pt. 2): Felice Gardner (Sponsor Coordinator), John DiFrancesco (Head Machine Shop Manager
Closed session with the MAS student committee
Machine Shop Information

10/6 An overview of research at the lab- Henry Holtzman, Ramesh Raskar, Cynthia Breazeal, plus a discussion with the Media Lab's Diversity Committee

10/13 No meeting due to Sponsor week

10/20 An overview of research at the lab "Music, Art, Design, and Interface" - David Small, Hiroshi Ishii, Adam Boulanger (speaking for Tod Machover), and Barry Vercoe

10/27 An overview of research at the lab "Learning & Innovation" - Mitchell Resnick, Leah Buechley. Mitch will also coordinate a "Learn from One Another" activity in this session.

11/3 Open Discussion and presentation from MAS/MASCOM (Pattie Maes, Linda Peterson, Aaron Solle).

11/10 IP and Technology Transfer at the Media Lab (David Reed and Geoff Wilson) - also, overview of the Viral Commuications Group with David Reed

11/17 An overview of research at the lab "Machine Learning, AI, and Human Augmentation" - Henry Lieberman, Hugh Herr, Deb Roy

11/24 Research Summaries, TBD

12/01 Research Summaries, TBD

12/08 Iintroduction to writing/formulating a good thesis and where/how to publish papers and disseminate your work.

 

Contact:

E-mail: joep@media.mit.edu
Office: E15-327
Phone: 617.253.8988