[Mitworld] Emilio Frazzoli on Autonomous Vehicles, Henry Jenkins on Toys and Transmedia

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 4 |  September 27, 2010

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Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
December 8, 2009

If you had half a million dollars, would you opt for an autonomous vehicle passenger car that could drive itself, 
or would you choose a new Ferrari? Emilio Frazzoli provides a number of reasons why autonomous vehicles might be the preferred choice.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/814

Speaker:
Emilio Frazzoli PhD '01
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"We can only coordinate with other vehicles that we can actually see. Imagine that you have a number 
of cars that are all connected on some large city-scale network—you can have much better coordination 
and efficiency in managing the traffic citywide."
-Emilio Frazzoli

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Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is Child’s Play
May 18, 2010

In what could be the ultimate twist on Toy Story, Henry Jenkins suggests that action 
figures -- those Star Wars and Masters of the Universe dolls from a few decades ago -- had the 
power to spark human creativity and transcend their original function. Jenkins argues such toys served 
children and young adults as “authoring tools” in stories that grew increasingly elaborate and 
technologically sophisticated.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/813

Speaker:
Henry Jenkins
Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism


Event Host:
The Education Arcade

"Popular culture demands more of us and our children than most of the classics ever did. In Pokémon, 
each character has antagonisms, friendships, powers, weaknesses, multiple states of being. It’s more 
complex than the periodic table."
-Henry Jenkins

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In The Pipeline:

Energy Innovation at Scale

Presented By:
Department of Chemical Engineering 
 Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture Series

Speaker:
Steven E. Koonin
Under Secretary for Science
U.S. Department  of Energy

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