MIT COMMUNICATIONS FORUM: SPRING 1997
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER RESEARCH NETWORKS
Thursday, March 20, 1997
Bartos Theatre, MIT Building E15-070 (20 Ames Street), 4-6 pm
Randy Bush Nazli Choucri
Network Startup Resource Ctr., Univ. of Oregon Political Science Dept., MIT
Lloyd Etheredge Moderator: Roger Hurwitz
Policy Sciences Center, New Haven Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Computer networks have created unprecedented opportunities for
international research communities and collaborations, ranging from the
exchange of preprints to network-based experiments. Domain specific
international research networks will permit specialists to think together
and to speed up their cycles of discovery, development and dissemination.
But such networks also raise critical questions concerning appropriate
technologies, equal access, intellectual property and credit. How are such
networks best organized? What technologies are available for high quality,
yet accessible global scientific communication? What can realistically be
gained from doing science over the Web? Is there any downside risk to such
practice? What role can governments and international organizations play
in building global research communities? Our speakers include the
organizers of research networks for sustainable development, for tropical
diseases and for assisting in the deployment of networking technology in
the developing world.
TEACHING AND LEARNING IN CYBERSPACE
Thursday, April 10, 1997
MIT Building 4, Room 231, (In Main MIT Bldg., 77 Mass. Ave.), 4-6 pm
Vijay Kumar Leslie Perelman
Director, Academic Computing Assoc. Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Shigeru Miyagawa Moderator: Edward Barrett
Foreign Languages and Literatures Writing and Humanistic Studies
Exploring the educational uses of cyberspace is a continuing project at
MIT. In this Forum MIT professors and researchers will speculate about the
promise (and the perils) of cyberspace as a site for teaching and learning
and will demonstrate some of their own work in this environment.
Demonstrations will include Miyagawa's acclaimed Japan homepage, a
language-learning site that incorporates many aspects of Japanese culture
including updates from daily newspapers; and a preview of an online writing
textbook on which Perelman and Barrett have collaborated.
DOCUMENTARY FILM AS NARRATIVE ART
Thursday, April 17, 1997
MIT Building 34, Room 101, (50 Vassar Street), 4-6 pm
Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan Ross McElwee
West City Films Artist in Residence, Harvard University
Susan Woll Moderator: Glorianna Davenport
Central Studios and DeskTop Video Lab. MIT Media Lab
A powerful new generation of documentary filmmakers has emerged in recent
years. Based primarily in Boston, this community of directors has
generated a range of remarkable fact-based films that appropriate narrative
and audio-visual strategies usually thought to belong to fictional movies.
Their experiments with narrative technique have
enlarged the art of the documentary and the cultural uses of story telling.
Speakers will illustrate their remarks with excerpts from their own films
and from the work of some of their colleagues. Clips will be drawn from
such acclaimed films as Errol Morris' Thin Blue Line, Ascher and Jordan's
Troublesome Creek (1996 Academy Award nominee), McElwee's Sherman's March
(Best Documentary, Sundance Festival, 1987) and Woll's Film Diary.
TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM?
Emerging Media in Modern Culture: A Conference
Friday-Saturday, May 9-10, 1997
Bartos Theatre, MIT Building E15-070 (20 Ames Street)
A national conference inaugurating the "Media in Transition" project of the
MIT Media Program, The MIT Communications Forum and the Markle Foundation,
this two-day event will sponsor symposiums on "Regulation and Technology,"
"National Boundaries and Global Communications," "New Media, New Content,"
Technology and Community." A final symposium will consider "The Legacy of
Ithiel de Sola Pool," founder of the
Communications Forum, the title of whose most influential book provides the
title for this conference. Speakers will be drawn from the corporate world,
from journalism and from political life as well as from the academy.
Free and Open to the Public
Forum homepage: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/www
Map of the MIT campus: http://web.mit.edu/map.html
For further information call (617) 253-0008
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Ann Rowbotham Tel. (617) 253-0008
Room E40-215 Fax (617) 253-7140
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
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