MIT: What is civic media?
I spoke last evening at MIT’s Communications Forum on a panel titled “What is Civic Media?” (One of the questions I’m hoped to have answered… Read More »MIT: What is civic media?
Idea Festival: Woz. Wow.
Steve Wozniak is the featured speaker at the second night of the Idea Festival. After a long introduction, he takes the stage and tries to… Read More »Idea Festival: Woz. Wow.
Idea Festival: Swarmed by Robots
James McLurkin‘s talk is titled “Dances with Robots”. He’s a researcher at MIT studying distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems, a former engineer with iRobot. He… Read More »Idea Festival: Swarmed by Robots
Idea Festival: Craig Nevill-Manning and the secrets of Google’s success
Craig Nevill-Manning is Google’s engineering director and senior research scientist. He’s also a very good computer science teacher. In a talk at Idea Festival about… Read More »Idea Festival: Craig Nevill-Manning and the secrets of Google’s success
Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
I’m here at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky for the next couple of days. Idea Festival was good enough to invite me to speak… Read More »Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”
Peter Galison is a pretty bright guy. He’s Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard, and a Macarthur Fellowship recipient, a scholar of the history of… Read More »Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”