MAS.964
Special Topics in Media Technology
Physical Language Workshop
John Maeda, Noah Fields, Marc Schwartz, Sijia Liu
Tue, Thu, Jan 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, 07-09:30pm, E15-301
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 18 participants.
No listeners
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Level: H 3 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit
Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.
Challenges participants to express themselves visually in a studio arts setting. Media used will include but not be limited to: paper, pencils, pens, paint, photographs, sounds, code, and video. Class sessions will focus on critique, intention, creative process, craft, materials, and communication. Are you suffering from stifled creativity? Are you opinionated, open-minded and passionate? Do you doodle all the time? Should you really be at art school, but happened to get a perfect score on the SAT? This is your remedy.
Contact: John Maeda, E15-305B, x3-3133, maeda@media.mit.edu
|
MAS.965
Special Topics in Media Technology
Power Laws: Hype or Revelation
Alex Pentland, Nathan Eagle, Cameron Marlow
Tue, Thu, Jan 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, 03-05:00pm, E15-383
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 20 participants.
No listeners
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Level: H 3 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit
Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.
From sexual networks to filesharing, internet topology to leaders of business organizations, researchers have started to recognize a pervasive characteristic of networks across a variety of disciplines. The term "power law" has come to describe the organizing principle that very few nodes will maintain a large percentage of the links in a network. This class aims to review the literature central to the study of power laws and give attention to the question of whether this theory is here to stay.
Web: http://powerlaws.media.mit.edu
Contact: Nathan Eagle, E15-384c, x3-0370, powerlaws@media.mit.edu
|
|
