Brain-Computer Interfaces: Igniting a Revolution
Erika Wagner, Bruce Klein (Singularity University)
Thu Jan 7, Fri Jan 8, 09am-05:00pm, 4-349
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 28-Dec-2009
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Imagine a direct connection between the human brain and the world's most powerful computers...
Would you type with your thoughts?
...help the blind to see?
...give an amputee control over his bionic arm?
...super-charge your memory with digital RAM?
If you had $20 million to catalyze these sort of breakthroughs, what could the world achieve?
Join the X PRIZE Lab@MIT and Singularity University for this special interactive 2-day workshop.
Special guests include:
\\* Ed Boyden, Director of the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group
\\* Ray Kurzweil, Chancellor of Singularity University
\\* Gerwin Schalk, Director of BCI2000
\\* Peter Diamandis, CEO & Chairman of X PRIZE
EVENT IS FULL.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/xprize
Contact: Erika Wagner, 37-219, 253-0017, xprize@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
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Building On-Line Customers: A Workshop
V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 10am-12:00pm, 8-205
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 25, 27, 29, 02-03:30pm, 8-205
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2010
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
In this hands-on workshop, we will design, develop, implement and test the efficacy of various on-line customer acquisition programs to grow an emerging business. We will use an emerging business in the rapidly growing field of integrative telemedicine as our case study. Each session will be a 1-hour lecture followed by 1 hour team workshop sessions. The lectures will present different on-line customer acquisition methods. Three teams, each made up of four members, will work to build a marketing strategy, implement the strategy, and measure its effectiveness on the live business. The same business will be launched under different domain names and team’s on-line acquisition programs will be tested to compare the efficacy of the different strategies.
Contact: V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, E40-196, (617) 869-4486, vashiva@mit.edu
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From Business Plan to Successful Business
Peter Levine
Thu Jan 28, Fri Jan 29, 02-05:00pm, 4-370
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2010
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This 2 day workshop will cover some major steps that come after the completion of the business plan, when you transition to actually creating and running a business. The workshop will be taught by four highly accomplished entrepreneurs who will share their perspective and experience in key areas such as sales or money raising. This series is highly recommended for all the students who are considering entrepreneurship as a further career path, or participating in the MIT $100K Competition. We encourage participants to complete the course 15.975 (“Nuts & Bolts of Business Plans”) before they enroll in this non-for credit course.
Contact: Maria Fraile, E40-196, frailema@mit.edu
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Linked Data Challenge (Demos & Judging)
K. Krasnow Waterman
Tue Jan 19, 05:30-07:30pm, E51-396
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Single session event
The next generation Web is all about data and how we can make better use of it for incredibly useful, game changing applications. Much more than a mash-up, Linked Data can be the mechanism to expose, share and connect pieces of data, information and knowledge anywhere on the Web. This event is the end of a weeklong Linked Data Development Lab (http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9813.html). Come see another exciting example of what folks in the MIT community can accomplish in a week! There will be live prototype demonstrations of the next big thing and, of course, judging and prizes.
Contact: Chris Mather, iapsemantic@mitecenter.org
Cosponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Linked Data Product Development Lab
K. Krasnow Waterman, Reed Sturtevant
Mon Jan 11 thru Fri Jan 15, 09am-05:30pm, 4-370
Tue Jan 19, 05:30-09:30pm, E51-395, Final Presentation/Reception
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Details for applying are at URL below.
Create and build a Linked Data killer app! Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, will kick off the week with his vision of Linked Data. This one week immersive workshop will include lectures on key linked data concepts and technologies. Participants will form multi-disciplinary teams of coders and entrepreneurs for a collaborative week supported by coaches with expertise in Semantic Web, Linked Data, product design, entrepreneurship, Web services and mobile applications. Working prototypes will be evaluated by a blue ribbon panel at the end of the week. Your team's result from this workshop could be a working prototype for an open source project, entry in the $100K competition, etc. Co-sponsored by Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, and EECS.
Web: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2010/LinkedData/KillerApp.pdf
Contact: Chris Mather, E40-196, iapsemantic@mitecenter.org
Cosponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Subject: Linked Data (Semantic Web) Entrepreneurship Talk
K. Krasnow Waterman
Tue Jan 12, 09-10:00am, 4-370
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
The next generation Web is all about data and how we can make better use of it for incredibly useful, game changing applications. Much more than a mash-up, Linked Data can be the mechanism to expose, share and connect pieces of data, information and knowledge anywhere on the Web. In this seminar, panelists will discuss their companies' business models for selling or using Linked Data and Semantic Web. As well as learning about the panelists’ companies you will get first hand perspective on various opportunities in the Linked Data space and how you might join the movement!
Note: This lecture is also part of the weeklong Linked Data Application Development Lab: http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9813.html; you'll want to come back to see the live prototype demonstrations on Tuesday evening, January 19.
Contact: Chris Mather, iapsemantic@mitecenter.org
Cosponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the Web, Talk on Linked Data
K. Krasnow Waterman
Mon Jan 11, 09-10:00am, Room and Webcast TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
The next generation Web is all about data and how we can make better use of it for incredibly useful, game changing applications. In this talk, the inventor of the WorldWideWeb, Tim Berners-Lee will present his vision for how we can connect related data across the Web that wasn’t previously linked. Much more than a mash-up, learn more about how Linked Data can be the mechanism to expose, share and connect pieces of data, information and knowledge on the Semantic Web. Discover the kinds of innovative applications that are already being employed, as well as opportunities for new applications that leverage disparate data sets in exciting new ways.
Note: This lecture is the kickoff for the weeklong Linked Data Application Development Lab, http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9813.html.
Contact: Chris Mather, iapsemantic@mitecenter.org
Cosponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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