IAP 2017 Activities by Sponsor : Media Arts and Sciences

Computational Law Course

Dazza Greenwood, JD, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Enrollment: By permission of instructors
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: N/A

This course provides a conceptual overview and hands-on projects for understanding and solving legal use cases with data analytics, blockchain and other cryptosystems and a special module on virtual reality for data vizualization. The course includes seminar style lecture/discussion sessions and hands-on, experiential learning through team projects. The course covers:

Legal Analytics, including 1) AI/Machine Learning for solving legal use cases; and 2) Using VR for data-driven visualization of complex financial relationships and legal contexts

Digital Assets, including: 1) Ownership rights, valuation and provenance of digital property; and 2) Storage and exchange of digital property with electronic contracts, automated transactions and autonomous agents

Digital Identity, including: 1) Technology and architecture for autonomy and control of self-sourced digital identity and personal data; and 2) Using individual identity for valid, verifiable login to apps or services and for providing legal acknowledgement, assent or authorization.

Digital Contracts, including 1) Integrating ordinary digital contracts and blockchain "smart contracts" in automated transactions by individuals or businesses; and 2) Standard open-web stack design patterns for executing multiple digital signatures and electronic notarization on digital legal contracts.

For more info and to apply, see: law.MIT.edu/Computational-Law-Course

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Dazza Greenwood, E15-449, 617.500.3644, DAZZA@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

Learning and Workshop Sessions

Jan/23	Mon	02:00PM-06:00PM	E15-341, MIT Media L, Primarily Learning/Discussing
Jan/24	Tue	02:00PM-06:00PM	E15-341, MIT Media L, Primarily Building/Exploring
Jan/26	Thu	06:30PM-11:30PM	TBD, Bonus ABA Hackathon Session
Jan/30	Mon	02:00PM-06:00PM	E15-341, MIT Media L, Primarily Learning/Discussing
Jan/31	Tue	02:00PM-06:00PM	E15-341, MIT Media L, Primarily Building/Exploring

For more information, please see: law.MIT.edu/Computational-Law-Course

Note: The Dates/Times and Place are Subject to Change

Professor Jonathan Askin - Professor of law, Dazza Greenwood, JD - Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Space Frontiers Lecture Series

Ariel Ekblaw

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

With humanity at the cusp of interplanetary civilization, what are the technologies, products and laws that will engage and empower us in this exploratory period? Will space be hackable? Can space be playful? How might we design our interplanetary lives?

Join us at the MIT Media Lab for a three-part lecture series on emerging (outer)Space Frontiers!

All sessions take place in E14-244, 4-5pm.

1/24: "Space Law" with guest lecturer Andy Sellars (Director of the BU Tech & Cyberlaw clinic)

1/26: "Space Architecture" with guest lecturers Vera Mulyani (Mars City Design) & James Wolff (Deep Space Industries)

2/2: "Space Bio" with Lisa Nip and John Min (researchers at the Media Lab, exploring astrobio and tardigrades)

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Ariel Ekblaw, SpaceFrontiersIAP@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

The Wheel of Yoga

Portia Brockway, Yogi

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The Wheel of Yoga - Four 1.5 hour sessions:

We welcome you to join us for one or more of four 15-minute talks focused on the four paths of Yoga: Karma, Jnana, Raja, and Bhakti, profiling great Yogis who have lived each of these paths: Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Vivekananda and Ramakrishna.

The talk will be followed with Q&A and discussion; and a one-hour Hatha (physical) Yoga session gauged to meet the needs of the group. You are welcome to attend the talk only or the talk and the Hatha Yoga session.

If you plan to participate in the physical practice please wear flexible clothing and bring a Yoga mat if you have one (we have a few extra).

With a quarter of a century's experience offering Yoga instruction in Cambridge, and a lifetime aspiring to Yoga's principles and practices, I look forward to these sessions. - Portia Brockway

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Deborah Widener, E14-348G, 617 253-9805, DW@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

The Wheel of Yoga: Karma

Jan/10	Tue	11:30AM-01:00PM	E15-341, Flexible clothing and Yoga mat if possible
Jan/17	Tue	11:30AM-01:00PM	E15-359, Flexible clothing and Yoga mat if possible
Jan/24	Tue	11:30AM-01:00PM	E15-341, Flexible clothing and Yoga mat if possible
Jan/31	Tue	11:30AM-01:00PM	E15-341, Flexible clothing and Yoga mat if possible

We welcome you to attend one or more of four 15-minute talks focused on the four paths of Yoga: Karma, Jnana, Raja, and Bhakti, profiling great Yogis who have lived each path: Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. Following a Q&A, a one-hour Hatha (physical) Yoga session will be taught, gauged to meet the group's needs. Participants may attend the talk only or the talk and the Hatha Yoga session.

Transformative Appetite

Wen Wang, Research Scientist, Lining Yao, Research Assistant, Teng Zhang, Assistant Professor, Syracuse, Chin-Yi Cheng, Research Assistant, Daniel Levine, Research Assistant

Jan/09	Mon	02:00PM-05:00PM	E15-341
Jan/10	Tue	02:00PM-05:00PM	E15-341
Jan/11	Wed	02:00PM-05:00PM	E15-341
Jan/12	Thu	02:00PM-05:00PM	E15-341
Jan/13	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-341
Jan/17	Tue	01:00PM-05:00PM	E14-240
Jan/18	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	E14-240
Jan/19	Thu	01:00PM-05:00PM	E14-240
Jan/19	Thu	05:30PM-06:30PM	Media Lab
Jan/19	Thu	06:30PM-09:00PM	Media Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Passion for digital design and food. No specific major.

This course teaches the theory, design, and fabrication of shape-transforming food by hydration or dehydration processes during making, cooking and eating. It is based on recent research by the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, which explores edible, composite-structured food. The course will include lectures and hands-on design workshops as well as a final exhibition highlighting group projects.

Course Activities:

During lectures, students will learn about design concepts related to transformative materials as well as the underlying principles of materials science and mechanical engineering. Students will also learn to use Rhino and Grasshopper software for 3-D design and some basics of the hardware (3D food printer system).

In the design workshop, the classroom will become a food lab. Students will work with both physical edible material toolkits as well as a digital software simulation toolkit. Concepts of future food will be explored, and students will transform their edible ideas into reality under the instruction of a team of experts that includes a chef, food texture expert, material scientist, designer, software architect, and mechanical engineer!