Megawatt, Professor Nick Montfort’s 2014 computer-generated book, now in German translation
Recently, literary scholar Hannes Bajohr brought Megawatt another interesting step forward, by modifying the code to output the text in German.
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Exploring Gesture-Based Tangible Interactions with a Lighting AI Agent
To be presented at the 2019 International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies.
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
First-of-its-kind field study of the media industry highlights trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding and recognition of co-created works and practices
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Augmenting Reality: The Markers, Memories, and Meanings Behind Today’s AR
William Uricchio’s essay “considers today’s AR technologies in terms of these more deeply embedded practices of augmentation, particularly as they play out as interfaces in urban places.”
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Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift
Launched by the School of Architecture and Planning, the Initiative will partner with faculty across MIT, including those at CMS/W — a leader in transmedia storytelling studies going back to its founding in 1999.
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“Connecting the Unconnected”: A Critical Assessment of US Satellite Internet Services
Without serious commitments from governments and the private sector to follow through on this rhetoric, satellite Internet technology could fail to reach the communities that need it most.
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Fictional Landscapes
“Despite being frequently associated with a scenic ideal, the landscape is not reduced to the myth of untouched nature.”
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Deviled Eggs
“Deviled Eggs” won third place in the Robert A. Boit Prize in the short story category of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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More Than a Pretty Picture: Call Me by Your Name’s Subversion of Hollywood’s Heteronormative Portrayal of Homosexuality
“More Than a Pretty Picture” won first place in the Robert A. Boit Prize essay category of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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The History of the Underground
“The History of the Underground” won first place in the Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public, part of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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We Are All Slime Molds at Heart, Or How We Went Looking for Answers about Our Semi-Intelligent Friends but Ended Up Learning about Ourselves Instead
“We Are All Slime Molds at Heart” won honorable mention in the DeWitt Wallace Prize for Science Writing for the Public, part of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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Urban Forestry
With most of the world’s population now living in cities, should we worry about the implications of living a life without forests?
