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godreamI can't remember if I posted to whine about how I was lazy and disorganized and missed a deadline for an advising options form and had to send it in late and was hugely embarrassed. But it turns out I've got a neato Freshman Advising Seminar anyways, hurrah!
As cut & pasted from here:
V. Michael Bove, Jr. and Andrew Lippman
MAS.A18
Engineering: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Mon, 3:00-5:00 PM, E15-344
What makes good ideas work? Is it the quality of the basic idea, the user interface, the times, the marketing campaign, or just the luck of the draw? We will examine a set of intellectual successes and failures drawn from the past, present, and future and use them to uncover principles to help us learn how to think about problems and solutions. Examples will be drawn from a varied list including the ink-jet printer, the MIT blackjack team, the four-tined fork, video on demand, the telephone, and (we hope) some brought in by the students.
V. Michael Bove, Jr. is head of the Media Lab's Object-Based Media Group, which has developed HyperSoap, the world's first hyperlinked TV soap opera, aswell as the world's smallest video projector. He is listed in the current edition of Who's Who in Entertainment, and has really, really obscure musical and literary tastes.
Andrew Lippman directs the Media Lab's Media and Networks Group. He has challenged broadcasters throughout the world by pioneering interactive and digital extrapolations of television via the MIT Television of Tomorrow Program and the Advanced Television Research Program. These included early exemplars of scalable digital encodings, on-demand structuring of video, archiving and interactivity.
I can't wait! *does happy dance* Wicked cool. Okay, so there's a chance I might have wanted the one about digital music better, or "Steal These Bits", but still -- this is definitely unbelieveably neat. Yay!
As cut & pasted from here:
V. Michael Bove, Jr. and Andrew Lippman
MAS.A18
Engineering: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Mon, 3:00-5:00 PM, E15-344
What makes good ideas work? Is it the quality of the basic idea, the user interface, the times, the marketing campaign, or just the luck of the draw? We will examine a set of intellectual successes and failures drawn from the past, present, and future and use them to uncover principles to help us learn how to think about problems and solutions. Examples will be drawn from a varied list including the ink-jet printer, the MIT blackjack team, the four-tined fork, video on demand, the telephone, and (we hope) some brought in by the students.
V. Michael Bove, Jr. is head of the Media Lab's Object-Based Media Group, which has developed HyperSoap, the world's first hyperlinked TV soap opera, aswell as the world's smallest video projector. He is listed in the current edition of Who's Who in Entertainment, and has really, really obscure musical and literary tastes.
Andrew Lippman directs the Media Lab's Media and Networks Group. He has challenged broadcasters throughout the world by pioneering interactive and digital extrapolations of television via the MIT Television of Tomorrow Program and the Advanced Television Research Program. These included early exemplars of scalable digital encodings, on-demand structuring of video, archiving and interactivity.
I can't wait! *does happy dance* Wicked cool. Okay, so there's a chance I might have wanted the one about digital music better, or "Steal These Bits", but still -- this is definitely unbelieveably neat. Yay!
