Wednesday, October 26, 2011
LECTURES
university lecture series:
Nov. 10 - CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY / Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert, directors of the new Center for Artistic Activism / "Political Expressionism" and Other Fallacies of Political Art
Nov. 15 - HUMANITIES CENTER LECTURE / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, DePauw University, and a leading authority on science fiction / Title TBA
school of design:
Nov. 01: JESSICA ROSENKRANTZ & JESSIE ROSENBERG, Nervous System
Nervous System is a studio working at the intersection of science, art and technology. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership between the School of Design, Studio for Creative Inquiry and the Digital Fab Lab.
Nov. 28: RICHARD SENNETT, Author of 'The Craftsman'
World renowned author Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership with the School of Architecture.
February: PANEL DISCUSSION, Local designers
A panel of local designers will discuss the topic 'How to Design the Future'. Details to follow.
March 27: CANDY CHANG, Artist/Designer, Global Ted Fellow, 2009
Candy Chang likes to make cities more comfortable for people. Her background in design, urban planning and street art have informed her projects which redefine public spaces to incite dialog and engage citizens with their city and each other.
April 11: VICTOR MARGOLIN, Professor, Design History, University of Illinois
Noted design historian Victor Margolin is the editor of Design Issues and was the first person in the United States to receive a PhD in design history. Author of the books 'The Politics of the Artificial' and 'The Idea of Design.
school of art:
CAROL CONDE & KARL BEVERIDGE - Thurs. Nov 3 / 5pm, Kresge Theatre
co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
CAROL CONDE and KARL BEVERIDGE are a Toronto-based duo who have an amazing track record of socially concerned and politically committed art making, which usefully contributes to interpretations of Contextual Practice. The artists will present "Documentary Fictions", an overview of their photographic projects depicting environmental issues, health care, the economy, and cultural production. Since 1975, their work has presented stories about labor, resistance and its representation. Most often working in collaboration with members of the communities depicted in their photographs, Condé and Beveridge create narrative series via staged reconstructions employing detailed sets, collage and digital technology. Their work also references various art historical and cultural practices to create a critical commentary on the function and understanding of contemporary cultures. They have exhibited internationally in community spaces, art galleries, and museums: most recently in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Holland. Condé and Beveridge have been active in several labor arts initiatives including the Mayworks Festival in Toronto and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.
school of architecture:
Antonino Saggio
MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER
7:00 KRESGE THEATRE, CMU
Space, Time and Information. The IT Revolution in Architecture, a Paradigm Shift.
Richard Sennett
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
6:00 CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
New York University // London School of Economics
HCI: http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/seminar
Future Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business
Janaki Kumar
Senior Director, User Experience at SAP Labs
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Media, Meaning and Computation: Expressive Intelligence and the Future of Playable Media
Michael Mateas
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)
Interactive Learning: Combining Machine Learning Strategies with Humans in the Loop
Burr Settles
Postdoctoral Fellow, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 3305
Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ron Baecker
Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab), University of Toronto
Friday, November 4, 2011 3:30pm
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Maudlin Auditorium)
HCII Town Hall Meeting-NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:00pm
Feminism and HCI: Intersections and Opportunities
Shaowen Bardzell
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics and Computing, University of Indiana
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Technology that Motivates Creative Problem Solving
Elizabeth Gerber
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
The Playground of the Internet: Where Social Science and Design are BFFs
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Principal Reserach Scientist, Yahoo! Research
Monday, December 5, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)
Robotics Institute: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/event_calendar.html?event_type=seminars&menu_id=242
RI Seminar: Robust motion planning for walking robots and robotic birds
Russ Tedrake
Associate Professor, MIT
October 28, 2011, 3:30PM - 4:30 PM, NSH 1305
RI Seminar: Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ronald Baecker
Professor, University of Toronto
November 04, 2011, 3:30 - 4:00 PM, NSH 1305
RI Seminar: From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
Eitan Grinspun
Associate Professor, Columbia
November 11, 2011,
Mike Gleicher
University of Wisconsin
November 18, 2011,
Larry Zitnick
Researcher, MSR
November 21, 2011, NSH 1507
Lydia Kavraki
Rice University
December 02, 2011,
Frank Dellart
December 02, 2011, 1:00pm, NSH 1507
Yong Jae Lee
PhD Student, UT Austin
December 07, 2011, 3:00pm, NSH 1507
Ian Davis
Rockstar Games New England
December 09, 2011,
Nov. 10 - CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY / Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert, directors of the new Center for Artistic Activism / "Political Expressionism" and Other Fallacies of Political Art
Nov. 15 - HUMANITIES CENTER LECTURE / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, DePauw University, and a leading authority on science fiction / Title TBA
school of design:
Nov. 01: JESSICA ROSENKRANTZ & JESSIE ROSENBERG, Nervous System
Nervous System is a studio working at the intersection of science, art and technology. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership between the School of Design, Studio for Creative Inquiry and the Digital Fab Lab.
Nov. 28: RICHARD SENNETT, Author of 'The Craftsman'
World renowned author Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership with the School of Architecture.
February: PANEL DISCUSSION, Local designers
A panel of local designers will discuss the topic 'How to Design the Future'. Details to follow.
March 27: CANDY CHANG, Artist/Designer, Global Ted Fellow, 2009
Candy Chang likes to make cities more comfortable for people. Her background in design, urban planning and street art have informed her projects which redefine public spaces to incite dialog and engage citizens with their city and each other.
April 11: VICTOR MARGOLIN, Professor, Design History, University of Illinois
Noted design historian Victor Margolin is the editor of Design Issues and was the first person in the United States to receive a PhD in design history. Author of the books 'The Politics of the Artificial' and 'The Idea of Design.
school of art:
CAROL CONDE & KARL BEVERIDGE - Thurs. Nov 3 / 5pm, Kresge Theatre
co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
CAROL CONDE and KARL BEVERIDGE are a Toronto-based duo who have an amazing track record of socially concerned and politically committed art making, which usefully contributes to interpretations of Contextual Practice. The artists will present "Documentary Fictions", an overview of their photographic projects depicting environmental issues, health care, the economy, and cultural production. Since 1975, their work has presented stories about labor, resistance and its representation. Most often working in collaboration with members of the communities depicted in their photographs, Condé and Beveridge create narrative series via staged reconstructions employing detailed sets, collage and digital technology. Their work also references various art historical and cultural practices to create a critical commentary on the function and understanding of contemporary cultures. They have exhibited internationally in community spaces, art galleries, and museums: most recently in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Holland. Condé and Beveridge have been active in several labor arts initiatives including the Mayworks Festival in Toronto and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.
school of architecture:
Antonino Saggio
MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER
7:00 KRESGE THEATRE, CMU
Space, Time and Information. The IT Revolution in Architecture, a Paradigm Shift.
Richard Sennett
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
6:00 CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
New York University // London School of Economics
HCI: http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/seminar
Future Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business
Janaki Kumar
Senior Director, User Experience at SAP Labs
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Media, Meaning and Computation: Expressive Intelligence and the Future of Playable Media
Michael Mateas
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)
Interactive Learning: Combining Machine Learning Strategies with Humans in the Loop
Burr Settles
Postdoctoral Fellow, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 3305
Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ron Baecker
Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab), University of Toronto
Friday, November 4, 2011 3:30pm
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Maudlin Auditorium)
HCII Town Hall Meeting-NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:00pm
Feminism and HCI: Intersections and Opportunities
Shaowen Bardzell
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics and Computing, University of Indiana
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Technology that Motivates Creative Problem Solving
Elizabeth Gerber
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
The Playground of the Internet: Where Social Science and Design are BFFs
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Principal Reserach Scientist, Yahoo! Research
Monday, December 5, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)
Robotics Institute: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/event_calendar.html?event_type=seminars&menu_id=242
RI Seminar: Robust motion planning for walking robots and robotic birds
Russ Tedrake
Associate Professor, MIT
October 28, 2011, 3:30PM - 4:30 PM, NSH 1305
RI Seminar: Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ronald Baecker
Professor, University of Toronto
November 04, 2011, 3:30 - 4:00 PM, NSH 1305
RI Seminar: From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
Eitan Grinspun
Associate Professor, Columbia
November 11, 2011,
Mike Gleicher
University of Wisconsin
November 18, 2011,
Larry Zitnick
Researcher, MSR
November 21, 2011, NSH 1507
Lydia Kavraki
Rice University
December 02, 2011,
Frank Dellart
December 02, 2011, 1:00pm, NSH 1507
Yong Jae Lee
PhD Student, UT Austin
December 07, 2011, 3:00pm, NSH 1507
Ian Davis
Rockstar Games New England
December 09, 2011,
Lab Meeting October 26th
- we want to know about more lectures! check out lectures post, add to it, maybe we should link up in subgroups of people that have similiar interests with design challenge or community events to??
Tobias: making glove bend sensor
Karl: starting to work on some new ideas, just got back from presenting at UIST, highlights: specklesense, touch using time domain reflectrometry, kinect 3d reconstruction:kinectfusion
Zack: made another intractable, gave presentation about thesis work/extensive project to pablo garcia's class. thinks it would be cool if we all gave a presentation about a project they are working on so we really learn more about each other
Huaishu: made a second drum machine, wrote a 2 page paper for TEI, made a user interface for bend sensor
Shawn: went to Art && Code, been reading up on making computers from slime mold, built microntroller for reprap, has been building 3D printer with madeline
Gabe: worked on constraint solver
Daiki: working on 3d object people counter visualizer project, trying to make it wifi
Deren: went to pgh mini makerfaire and art && code, reading about maps and grids and space
Mark: started construction on his new house, business is doing well but need to come up with cash flow problems, got a fancy altimeter, new ugrads who are interested
Yenchia- machine learning..., paper got accepted in CSCW! worked on drawing bot- made it wireless
Tobias: making glove bend sensor
Karl: starting to work on some new ideas, just got back from presenting at UIST, highlights: specklesense, touch using time domain reflectrometry, kinect 3d reconstruction:kinectfusion
Zack: made another intractable, gave presentation about thesis work/extensive project to pablo garcia's class. thinks it would be cool if we all gave a presentation about a project they are working on so we really learn more about each other
Huaishu: made a second drum machine, wrote a 2 page paper for TEI, made a user interface for bend sensor
Shawn: went to Art && Code, been reading up on making computers from slime mold, built microntroller for reprap, has been building 3D printer with madeline
Gabe: worked on constraint solver
Daiki: working on 3d object people counter visualizer project, trying to make it wifi
Deren: went to pgh mini makerfaire and art && code, reading about maps and grids and space
Mark: started construction on his new house, business is doing well but need to come up with cash flow problems, got a fancy altimeter, new ugrads who are interested
Yenchia- machine learning..., paper got accepted in CSCW! worked on drawing bot- made it wireless
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
lab meeting october 19th
Karl won an award! sidebyside press release came out. Are other people after awards, why is he the only one winning awards?
Shawn: got a digital microscope and has slime mold on both coasts, noticeable growth in just 5 minutes! made a 3 day time lapse movie, trying to figure out how it can be used for logic/computation visualization for some sort of kinetic interactive, does it eat? can you train it to grow in a pattern? how can it be used to combine robotics and biology? hacking an avr plane, pretty sweet stuff
Zack: got a wave shield and put it in his bend sensor glove project, reads up to 1 gb, works well with tilt sensor, will show us the glove soon
Deren: needs help with origami folding
Mark working on origami molecule project with the chemists
Nuno: went to toronto, niagra falls, finished first drum machine, the shoes sensor can sense direction of movement
General
display case: we got a small screen, what should we put on it? maybe ray can make the interactive picture frame installation?
tobias put up some the low cost bend sensors on inexpensivesensors.com
Shawn: got a digital microscope and has slime mold on both coasts, noticeable growth in just 5 minutes! made a 3 day time lapse movie, trying to figure out how it can be used for logic/computation visualization for some sort of kinetic interactive, does it eat? can you train it to grow in a pattern? how can it be used to combine robotics and biology? hacking an avr plane, pretty sweet stuff
Zack: got a wave shield and put it in his bend sensor glove project, reads up to 1 gb, works well with tilt sensor, will show us the glove soon
Deren: needs help with origami folding
Mark working on origami molecule project with the chemists
Nuno: went to toronto, niagra falls, finished first drum machine, the shoes sensor can sense direction of movement
General
display case: we got a small screen, what should we put on it? maybe ray can make the interactive picture frame installation?
tobias put up some the low cost bend sensors on inexpensivesensors.com
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Lab Meeting October 12th
YenChia- worked on bike orchestra check it out under the work in progress tab
Eric- putting together propsal for class that uses Robot for CNC router in the spring with Karl, added some features to robot camera project
Ray-working on documentation, designing coding for search panning etc, hope to have a demo soon, lit review for phD research
Tobias- working on posture project with Nuno, got ok results, ordered material for bend sensors, programming visualization for this, going to work with undergrad COgSci student
Gabe- has started to think about how to model constraints and has been playing with jbox 2d, hopes to have demo for next week
Zack- working on making fixtures for robot in dFAB, working on some linear actuators and optimizing the system looking into hydraulics and pneumatics, going to try and combine linear and rotary encoders and play with k'nect
Deren- did stuff with VIA, went well, working on maps project/pachube
Daiki- using open CB to count people, trying to efficiently combine different kinds of information
Mark- did 5 reviews for TEI, finished a paper about Architectural Robotics, needs to make it longer
Karl- worked on presentation/video/website for new project, gave practice talk
Eric- putting together propsal for class that uses Robot for CNC router in the spring with Karl, added some features to robot camera project
Ray-working on documentation, designing coding for search panning etc, hope to have a demo soon, lit review for phD research
Tobias- working on posture project with Nuno, got ok results, ordered material for bend sensors, programming visualization for this, going to work with undergrad COgSci student
Gabe- has started to think about how to model constraints and has been playing with jbox 2d, hopes to have demo for next week
Zack- working on making fixtures for robot in dFAB, working on some linear actuators and optimizing the system looking into hydraulics and pneumatics, going to try and combine linear and rotary encoders and play with k'nect
Deren- did stuff with VIA, went well, working on maps project/pachube
Daiki- using open CB to count people, trying to efficiently combine different kinds of information
Mark- did 5 reviews for TEI, finished a paper about Architectural Robotics, needs to make it longer
Karl- worked on presentation/video/website for new project, gave practice talk
Thursday, October 6, 2011
New CoDe Lab Web site category
To resolve the question of how "complete" a project should be before it's allowed in the Projects category on the CoDe Lab Website, Nuno (Huaishu) intelligently suggested a "Work in Progress" category. SO - please prepare a paragraph and an image of your current Work In Progress and let's get it up there now.
Lab Meeting October 5th
Meeting Summary:
General: there is a korean CogSci student interested in being a part of the lab, she has wizard programming skills, do you think she could be involved in something you are doing??
Yenchia will add a log in to the website so we can all make changes easily
Send Deren project for Display case- wanna set up Plunk-O?
Gabe: got laser cutter working! needs a good 2D physics engine model to help sync actions in program
Mark: got altimeter worksing, needs to figure out how to make it into cheap, compace product and splic in audio signal
Tobias: 3D printed casing for module that shows time you spend at your desk, working on finishing fbook signal project
Zack- working with actuators for physical pixel project, trying to reduce energy consumption to get high input--> low input
Nuno- made prototype of shoes, working on drum machine
Yenchia- made prototype that makes the light changes color, calibrating pitch for violin
Charles: controlling actuators from arduino to see resulting behavior, going to explain "bigger picture" at a lab meeting sooon
Daiki- working with Dale on a new project
Ray- lit review, working on raymatic, Create lab had a retreat in Newel Simon, body track...
Deren- working on VIA stuff till saturday come help on saturday!, will have map project development to show next week
Karl- submitted a bunch of papers to CHI, went to NM we should all check out the magic lantern museum!
KJ- providence is awesome, Telart is very cool- AS220 is a cool fab/hacker/print/cafe space in Providence
General: there is a korean CogSci student interested in being a part of the lab, she has wizard programming skills, do you think she could be involved in something you are doing??
Yenchia will add a log in to the website so we can all make changes easily
Send Deren project for Display case- wanna set up Plunk-O?
Gabe: got laser cutter working! needs a good 2D physics engine model to help sync actions in program
Mark: got altimeter worksing, needs to figure out how to make it into cheap, compace product and splic in audio signal
Tobias: 3D printed casing for module that shows time you spend at your desk, working on finishing fbook signal project
Zack- working with actuators for physical pixel project, trying to reduce energy consumption to get high input--> low input
Nuno- made prototype of shoes, working on drum machine
Yenchia- made prototype that makes the light changes color, calibrating pitch for violin
Charles: controlling actuators from arduino to see resulting behavior, going to explain "bigger picture" at a lab meeting sooon
Daiki- working with Dale on a new project
Ray- lit review, working on raymatic, Create lab had a retreat in Newel Simon, body track...
Deren- working on VIA stuff till saturday come help on saturday!, will have map project development to show next week
Karl- submitted a bunch of papers to CHI, went to NM we should all check out the magic lantern museum!
KJ- providence is awesome, Telart is very cool- AS220 is a cool fab/hacker/print/cafe space in Providence
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