From mit.world at mit.edu Thu Sep 9 10:05:15 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:05:15 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Panel on Clean Energy Entrepreneurship, Lev Manovich on Visualization Message-ID: <201009091405.o89E5FOo032002@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 1 | September 9, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Clean Energy Revolution May 3, 2010 Beyond guts, a great business plan, and friends with deep pockets, clean energy entrepreneurs will need patience and perhaps most of all, a favorable policy environment to succeed. Fortune magazine editor Brian Dumaine leads a discussion with panelists from the worlds of venture capital, academia and industry on ?how to build a winning green tech company.? http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/809 Moderator: Brian Dumaine Senior Editor at Large, Fortune Event Host: MIT Enterprise Forum "Right now, we have bad prices for carbon ? We must think down the road: How will the institutional environment for paying for energy change over time, and how will the institutional environment for supporting energy infrastructure change?" -Scott Stern -------------------------------------------------------------- How to Read 1,000,000 Manga Pages: Visualizing Patterns in Games, Comics, Art, Cinema, Animation, TV, and Print Media May 21, 2010 In this final segment from the HyperStudio conference, Lev Manovich asks "What would it mean to take risks and start creating artifacts, interpretations and analysis that reach beyond language?" http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/807 Speaker: Lev Manovich Professor, Visual Arts University of California, San Diego Director, Software Studies Initiative California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Event Host: HyperStudio "I think visualization in the Information Age is what photography was to the Industrial Age? it's a kind of 'photography of data.' Changing parameters with your virtual camera allows you to reveal different patterns (for) better or worse." -Lev Manovich -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The Medium Doesn?t Matter Presented By: The MIT Education Arcade Sandbox Summit: iPlay, YouPlay, WiiPlay Speaker: Laura Seargeant Richardson Principal Designer Frog Design, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter
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