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Media Arts & Sciences

IAP Hackfest 2004
Alex Pentland, Anmol Madan, Jon Gips
Schedule: TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 06-Jan-2004
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Software, hardware or design skills plus ideas and motivati

Come hack in the Borglab!

Design and implement wearable computing applications in the areas of social networking, group coordination, physiology, healthcare and behaviour modification. The workshop will use the MIThril wearable computing platform. For details, visit www.media.mit.edu/wearables.

This is an intensive workshop for the entire duration of IAP. The participants and organizers will jointly determine individual projects. Applicants are required to send a brief statement of ideas and interests for this workshop to hackfest2004@media.mit.edu
Web: http://borglab.media.mit.edu/wiki/borglab/IAP_Hackfest_2004
Contact: hackfest2004@media.mit.ed

Seeing and Thinking with Color
Walter Bender
Thu Jan 22, 10am-04:00pm, E15-283A

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 16-Jan-2004
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event

This day-long seminar covers the technical aspects of color for use in practical applications of Media Technology. Color is discussed from three distinct points of view: human vision, visual processing and digital displays. Topics include the production of color, physiology and psychophysiology of color, the sensation of color, color systems, coding and processing, color vision, rendering in graphics environments, color as an interface, semantics and aesthetics of color.
Contact: Walter Bender, E15-208, x3-7331, walter@mit.edu


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