Digital Life Consortium Events

Digital Life Spring 2004 Meetings
MIT Media Laboratory
May 10 & 11, 2004
Sponsors, visit insite for webcast and presentation archive.

Monday May 10: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
"Designing Bits and Pieces," a symposium sponsored by the MIT Media Laboratory and the Consumer Electronics Association at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. This meeting marks the launch of CELab, a new consumer electronics research program at the Media Lab. The agenda will be updated at http://cel.media.mit.edu

Tuesday, May 11: 8:00 AM-9:00 PM
For Digital Life sponsors and invited prospective sponsors only, the meeting at the MIT Media Lab will include research updates from Media Lab faculty and students, followed by a research open house and Reception. The agenda will be updated on this page.

This meeting is open only to sponsors of the Digital Life consortium at the MIT Media Lab. If you are interested in sponsorship, please see: http://www.media.mit.edu/sponsors/index.html, and contact Deborah Widener at dw@media.mit.edu

Digital Life Sponsor Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, May 11
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre

8:00 AM:		Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM:		Welcome: Andy Lippman and Bruce Blumberg
9:00 AM:		10X Research Presentations: Deb Roy 10x Learning: Mitchel Resnick, Lifelong Kindergarten 10x Mobility: Dan Paluska, Biomechatronics 10x Mobility: Ryan Chin, Smart Cities 10x Dexterity: Kai-yuh Hsiao, Cognitive Machines 10x Dexterity: Guy Hoffman, Robotic Life 10x Awareness: Natalia Marmasse, Speech Interfaces 10x Awareness: Jeff Bartelma, Cognitive Machines 10x Awareness: Yair Ghitza, Cognitive Machines
10:00 AM:		Break
10:30 AM:		Organic Networks Research Presentations: Sandy Pentland Social Fabric, Realized in Hardware, Software, and Wetware Sensate Media: Joshua Lifton, Responsive Environments BYOB (cloth sensing/computing): Gauri Nanda, Object-Based Media Relay Communications: Jeff Halbig, Viral Communications Ambient Semantics: Hugo Liu, Interactive Experience Serendipity: Nathan Eagle, Human Dynamics Dating: Andrew Fiore, Sociable Media Political correctness: Mike Norton, e-Rationality
11:30 AM:		Break
12:00 PM:		Other Research Presentations: Walter Bender Affective Learning: Rosalind Picard, Affective Computing Dog Learning: Bruce Blumberg, Synthetic Characters Machine Learning: Push Singh, The Society of Mind StoryNet: Barbara Barry, Interactive Cinema Common Sense Applications: Henry Lieberman, Software Agents Music, Mind & Health: Tod Machover, Opera of the Future Group Learning: Joanie DiMicco, Electronic Publishing Blogging and STDs: Cameron Marlow, Electronic Publishing VideoBlogging: Aisling Kelliher, Interactive Cinema TalkTV: Erik Blankinship and Luke Ouko, Electronic Publishing Design Intelligence: Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media
1:00 PM:		Lunch
2:00 PM:		e-Markets Research Presentations: Dan Ariely The Economics of Experiments: Dan Ariely Electronic Focus Groups: Olivier Toubia How to Train Technology: Stacy Woods Experiments in Organizations--Opportunities and Challenges: Michael Schrage
2:45 PM:		Digital Nations Update: Mitchel Resnick, Sandy Pentland
3:00 PM:		Research Open House
6:00 PM:		Reception