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michel waisvisz / jan st.werner lecture: ambient intelligence
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The goal of the Ambient Intelligence research group is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive we are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people's needs and actions, and that become true "accessories" for expanding our minds. http://interact.media.mit.edu/index.html |
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Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directs the Media Lab's Ambient Intelligence research group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her areas of expertise are human-computer interaction, artifical life, artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, and intelligence augmentation. Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She has received several awards: Newsweek magazine named her one of the "100 Americans to watch for" in the year 2000; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite, the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title "Global Leader for Tomorrow"; Ars Electronica awarded her the 1995 World Wide Web category prize; and in 2000 she was recognized with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council. | ||
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| FoAM (http://fo.am/)
is a laboratory for the propagation of lived experience. We are looking
for processes, moments and situations in which experience can be freed from
cultural and historical biases, allowing the participants to absorb fresh
stimuli. In order to locate these experiences in engaging cultural and ecological
contexts, we often work in non-institutionalised public spaces, from roof
gardens to intimate living rooms, clubs and overgrown fortresses. FoAM's
collaborators dwell most of the time in the murky spaces between the physical
and digital, scientific and artistic, natural and technological worlds.
We inhabit these spaces to research and develop responsive environments,
active materials, generative media, culinary performances and other entangled
forms of contemporary creative expression. Guided by our motto "grow
your own worlds", artists and scientists work in interdisciplinary
teams, scavenging far and wide for relevant scientific, technological and
social innovations, fusing them into seeds of imaginary, yet tangible worlds
and planting them in the cracks of everyday life. Maja Kuzmanovic, has completed the BA in Design Forecasting (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)in 1996 and MA in Interactive Multimedia (University of Portsmouth) in 1997. After graduation, she collaborated on a range of interdisciplinary projects in research institutes around Europe (such as CWI, the Netherlands; GMD, Germany; Starlab, Belgium), as well as an independent artist-researcher (collaborating with collectives such as PIPS:Lab, Postworld Industries, sponge...). Her research spanned novel forms of performance and multi-sensory storytelling, HC(H)I and responsive media design for virtual and mixed reality. For these works, in 1999 Maja was elected one of the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT ’s Technology Review. She founded FoAM as a cultural research department in Starlab in 2000, becoming an independent organisation in 2001, a distributed entity with cells in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2002, that evolved into a mixed reality laboratory in 2004. | ||
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