Recent Posts
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CMS, Media Lab Take Top Prize in Knight News Challenge
CMS and the MIT Media Lab were awarded a $5 million Knight News Challenge Grant to fund a Center for Future Civic Media, where researchers will experiment with new technologies to empower community news. Read the Boston Globe story.
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Mind Over Machine: What Deep Blue Taught Us about Chess, Artificial Intelligence, and the Human Spirit
We can see how Deep Blue impacted the chess community and influenced the fields of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science in the long run.
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Eavesdroppers: How Scientists Are Learning to Listen in on the Animal Kingdom: Four Stories on Wildlife and Sound
Sound gives scientists a new way of knowing what is swimming, roaming, and flying where. And some scientists are using these sounds for conservation.
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Space, Place, and Database: Layers of Digital Cartography
Cybercartography, an emergent system of maps, mapmaking tools, and mapmakers, forces a rethinking of spatial representations.
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.art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art
A solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.