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biography.com - Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer Co-Inventor, talks about his love for his childhood erector set, his toy?s influence on his success and his memories of the JFK Assasination.
http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=businessfigures&bcpid=1740037448&bclid=1773233214&bctid=1738780846
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Personal Robots Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00 June 7, 2008 Running Time: 0:47:42
About the Lecture
Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical interactions.Breazeal wants to shift the concept of robots from machines that explore distant places like Mars, or vacuum floors, to devices that can function in society at large, dealing with people on a daily basis “to enhance daily life, to help us as partners.”
Building sophisticated machines means delving into human social intelligence, our ability to develop a sense of self, communicate thoughts and feelings in words and gestures, and interact with others. Humans are wired to read the underlying mental states of our fellows. Can robots learn to “sense and perceive and interpret the same non-verbal cues to coordinate their ‘mind’ and behavior with people,” wonders Breazeal. Indeed, could a robot “potentially leverage its interaction with people to help bootstrap its own cognitive development”?
She demonstrates some remarkable milestones in the journey to develop such a machine. Leonardo, a Yoda-like creature, seems to have the cognitive savvy of a young child, with object permanence and a theory of other minds. He and a human confederate watch a Big Bird doll get hidden under a box. Then only Leonardo sees when a hooded man puts the doll beneath a basket. When his confederate enters the room, Leonardo can answer the question accurately, “Can you find where I think Big Bird is?” Leo points to the box (but like a child, gives the game away by looking at the basket). Leo has also absorbed social referents, reaching eagerly for Big Bird, who’s been described in a cheerful voice as fun and jolly, and shrinking away from a Cookie Monster doll, which the human “parent” has described with a scary voice and gestures as bad. If robots are going to exist in our world, says Breazeal, they have to learn from us when things are safe to explore.
Breazeal’s next generation of mobile and personable creations may serve as helpmates, tutors, teammates, or even companions “addressing the loneliness of old age.” They will certainly bring us closer to the question of “when might a machine be a person.”
About the Speaker
Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00
LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Cynthia Breazeal directs the Media Lab's Personal Robots group. She was previously a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab. Breazeal is particularly interested in developing creature-like technologies that exhibit social commonsense and engage people in familiar human terms. Kismet, her anthropomorphic robotic head, has been featured in international media and is the subject of her book Designing Sociable Robots, published by the MIT Press. She continues to develop anthropomorphic robots as part of her ongoing work of building artificial systems that learn from and interact with people in an intelligent, life-like, and sociable manner.
Breazeal earned Sc.D. and M.S. degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The information on this page was accurate as of the day the video was added to MIT World. This video was added to MIT World on September 29, 2008.
Personal Robots Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00 June 7, 2008 Running Time: 0:47:42
About the Lecture
Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical interactions.Breazeal wants to shift the concept of robots from machines that explore distant places like Mars, or vacuum floors, to devices that can function in society at large, dealing with people on a daily basis “to enhance daily life, to help us as partners.”
Building sophisticated machines means delving into human social intelligence, our ability to develop a sense of self, communicate thoughts and feelings in words and gestures, and interact with others. Humans are wired to read the underlying mental states of our fellows. Can robots learn to “sense and perceive and interpret the same non-verbal cues to coordinate their ‘mind’ and behavior with people,” wonders Breazeal. Indeed, could a robot “potentially leverage its interaction with people to help bootstrap its own cognitive development”?
She demonstrates some remarkable milestones in the journey to develop such a machine. Leonardo, a Yoda-like creature, seems to have the cognitive savvy of a young child, with object permanence and a theory of other minds. He and a human confederate watch a Big Bird doll get hidden under a box. Then only Leonardo sees when a hooded man puts the doll beneath a basket. When his confederate enters the room, Leonardo can answer the question accurately, “Can you find where I think Big Bird is?” Leo points to the box (but like a child, gives the game away by looking at the basket). Leo has also absorbed social referents, reaching eagerly for Big Bird, who’s been described in a cheerful voice as fun and jolly, and shrinking away from a Cookie Monster doll, which the human “parent” has described with a scary voice and gestures as bad. If robots are going to exist in our world, says Breazeal, they have to learn from us when things are safe to explore.
Breazeal’s next generation of mobile and personable creations may serve as helpmates, tutors, teammates, or even companions “addressing the loneliness of old age.” They will certainly bring us closer to the question of “when might a machine be a person.”
About the Speaker
Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00
LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Cynthia Breazeal directs the Media Lab's Personal Robots group. She was previously a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab. Breazeal is particularly interested in developing creature-like technologies that exhibit social commonsense and engage people in familiar human terms. Kismet, her anthropomorphic robotic head, has been featured in international media and is the subject of her book Designing Sociable Robots, published by the MIT Press. She continues to develop anthropomorphic robots as part of her ongoing work of building artificial systems that learn from and interact with people in an intelligent, life-like, and sociable manner.
Breazeal earned Sc.D. and M.S. degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The information on this page was accurate as of the day the video was added to MIT World. This video was added to MIT World on September 29, 2008.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
WHERE SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM MEETS - 21 MINUTES
BUDDHISM BELIEVES IN THE EMPTINESS, It is one the pagan religions along with Hinduism, Taoism etc. Concepts are intriguing in Buddhism and makes it with science creates a crisp combination to see. Worth seeing.
DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO - http://v4.lscache5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=d9d5b681e16f0fd0&itag=18&begin=0&ratebypass=yes&title=Where+Science+and+Buddhism+Meet&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=1244553901&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,ratebypass,title&signature=4D971AFE7FF5107905D3D9A289510D826772480B.4A7314E764D9BE64C80F6F7AB3936076FC9F36E8&key=ck1
Monday, June 8, 2009
mitworld.mit.edu - Video Player Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) 1 HR 20 MINUTES
Beauty, design and liveliness of fractal geometry.
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About the Lecture
Roughness is ubiquitous and a major sensory input of Man. The first step to measure and simulate it was provided by fractal geometry. Illustrative examples will be drawn from the sciences, engineering (the internet) and (more extensively) the variation of financial prices. The beauty of fractals, an unanticipated "premium," helps in teaching and bridges some chasms between different aspects of knowing and feeling.
About the Speaker
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University IBM Fellow (Emeritus)
Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow (Emeritus) at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, is best known as the founder of fractal geometry and author of Les Objets Fractals, and The Fractal Geometry of Nature. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences as well as a Membre Titulaire de l'Academie Europenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres.
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Industrial Liaison Program
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