A Radical Rethinking of Business, Technology and Regulatory Strategies

The main concept is the idea of the intersection, each of the cones representing one individual coming to the lab.

Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions.

we may be watching biology catch on as the new media before too long

The 163,000-square-foot addition to the school's media lab emphasizes transparency

"A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research"

..."a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music"

Sociable Media Group

"...an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID"

'Share snippets of information from the minutae of daily life as simple statistical graphs'

'...illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.'

melding technology, design and the arts to transform communication, creativity and connectedness over a distance...

A multipoint awareness and communication portal for connecting remote social spaces

By giving machines common sense, they will finally be able to understand people, our goals and typical problems

Simply pull a cord for a minute and generate electric power for up to several hours

design, business, technology, life - Jon Maeda

The new science of synthetic biology is poised between hype and hope. But its time will soon come

October 16-17, 2006

Showcasing the technologies that are poised to make a dramatic impact on our world