Josh Tenenbaum is the Professor of Computational Cognitive Science in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He studies one of the most basic and distinctively human aspects of cognition: the ability to learn so much about the … Continued
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September 27, 2014
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Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor at MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Her recent book, ADDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press 2012), draws on extended research among compulsive gamblers … Continued
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2014 CAST “SEEING/SOUNDING/SENSING” SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANT TOMÁS SARACENO Tomás Saraceno was the inaugural Visiting Artist at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). An artist trained as an architect, Saraceno employs theoretical frameworks and insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics … Continued
REVERBERATIONS
September 25, 2014
7:00 – 9:00 pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue
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September 27, 2014
2:00 – 5:00 pm
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Alva Noë is a writer and philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. For the last decade, his philosophical practice … Continued
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Carrie Lambert-Beatty is an art historian with a focus on art from the 1960s to the present and a special interest in performance in an expanded sense. She teaches art history and visual studies at Harvard University. Her 2008 book … Continued
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September 27, 2014
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2014 CAST “SEEING / SOUNDING / SENSING” SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANT LEILA W. KINNEY Leila W. Kinney is the Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), working with Associate Provost Philip S. Khoury, … Continued
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September 27, 2014
2:00–5:00pm
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