MIT Media Lab's Journal of Design and Science Is a Radical New Kind of Publication
Last fall Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, stood onstage during the Lab’s 30th anniversary celebration and made a declaration. “Connecting science and design is the future of the Media Lab,” he told audience members, many of whom are experienced in both disciplines. The subtext of Ito’s statement was that the world is quickly changing. Science, design, art, and engineering, long conside
Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Welcome to the new world of artificial intelligence. Soon, we won't program computers. We'll train them. Like dolphins. Or dogs. Or humans. Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject's behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyon
Why Designing a Mars Rover Like Curiosity Just Got a Lot Easier
A few minutes into our interview last Thursday, I ask Tim Nichols, Managing Director of Global Aerospace, Defenses and Marine Industries at Siemens, if he was nervous about the Curiosity's fate on Sunday. "Of course I am," he says with a laugh, "We all know about missions to Mars -- they're complex." None moreso than Curiosity's elaborate landing sequence, designed to get the SUV-sized robot down
They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society
The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to put on a pair of eyeglasses. "Read," the master commands. The candidate squints, but it's an impossible ta
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Two decades after its inception, the World Wide Web has been eclipsed by Skype, Netflix, peer-to-peer, and a quarter-million other apps. Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publicationsIllustration: Andrew Odlyzko Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services—think apps—are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explain
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