Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
Machine Visions
Machine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT.
Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
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.
“I Just Don’t Know Where to Begin”: Designing to Facilitate the Educational Use of Commercial, Off-the-Shelf Video Games
Documenting the implementation of commercial, off-the-shelf games in their secondary level, humanities (e.g. social studies, history, languages) classrooms.
Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
Excellence in Teaching
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.