Symposium - Digital Cities: Urban Environments and Interactive Technologies Friday, September 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street   How are new technologies representing urban spaces? How will these representations affect our notions of what cities are, how they look, how they might be designed or reimagined? This symposium will include commentary from urban planners and specialists in cultural geography as well as audio-visual demonstrations of a range of projects--pedagogical, documentary, games--that represent real or imagined urban environments.   agenda        speakers   Forum - HyperText in Historical Context: Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson Revisited Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street   This forum will feature video clips from a 1995 symposium in honor of Vannevar Bush, which included Ted Nelson as a speaker, to illustrate how hypertext evolved from conceptualizations rooted in older media towards the reality of today's World Wide Web. A discussion following the screening will focus on factors that have constrained current implementations of hypertext.   Organizer and moderator: Mary Hopper, MIT Commentary: Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc.

editor: david thorburn co-editor: henry jenkins managing editor: mary hopper funded by the markle foundation