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Hacking VR Speaker Series: Jessica Brillhart, “VR in Science”

Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Google has been at the forefront of exploring new ways to shoot 360, VR stories. As the medium develops, how can VR be used to raise awareness about science-related project? How can it be used to tell stories about our bodies, our health? VR in developments sometimes mean collaborations with doctors, neuroscientists, data scientists. How can scientific knowledge inform creation and creation inform science?

Justin Reich

Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

In this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich's team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.

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B.I.C. at MIT

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Haitian poet, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti.

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Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

After thirty years in service, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet's future: a public platform for private innovation.

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An Evening with Sarah Vowell

MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

On October 5th, best-selling author Sarah Vowell brings history and humor to MIT.

Sean Cubitt

Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants.

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Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Explore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone.

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Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms, national boundaries, and traditional geographies of control.

CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session

MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty and students, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided. November 16, 2017 11AM-1 PM E51-095 Can't make it here? Participate via live stream on our YouTube channel. We'll have a chat room open, so you can ask questions and respond as if you were […]

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Science Writing Admissions Information Session

MIT Building 14E, Room 304 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Science Writing Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided. November 17, 2017 2-4PM 14E-304 Can't make it in person? Participate via live stream on our YouTube Channel. We'll have a chat window open, so you can participate as if you were in the room.