The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.
In Medias Res 2018
Parks with a Genius Grant, an alum gives the MIT Ph.D. commencement address, and the relaunch of Media in Transition and the Media Spectacle.
In Medias Res 2016
The surreality of so many election moments may account for the focus of this issue of In Medias Res and indeed of CMS/W’s work since 2015 and 2016: the long-awaited breakthrough of virtual reality technology.
New York Times: “Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face”
“A deeply affecting experiment in communication, called ‘The Enemy,’ underway at M.I.T., is the result of a collaboration between Mr. Ben Khelifa and Fox Harrell, an associate professor of digital media.”
Podcast: Fox Harrell, “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
Fox Harrell: “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
Summary, Podcast, Video: “Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media”
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
