Topics: Media Arts+Sciences

Spring 2013

In One Voice

Music resounds –– leading new technologies, criss-crossing disciplines, transcending bias, and leaving us resonating with ourselves, each other, and the cosmos.

Jay Scheib was recently named Best New York Theater Director. Photo: Len Rubenstein
Spring 2013

Theater Quality

Jay Scheib, a sizzling director, playwright, actor, and videographer was recently named Best New York Theater Director.

Prof. Sandy Pentland says that understanding honest signals will make us better managers, workers, and communicators. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2009

Honest Signals

Prof. Sandy Pentland says that understanding our unconscious social patterns can make us better managers, workers, and communicators.

John Maeda says the clean design of the iPod has made simplicity popular. Photo: Ed Quinn
Winter 2007

Less Is More

Prof. John Maeda writes The Laws of Simplicity, a guide to simplify business, technology, design, and life.

“I want to create efficient...technology to help the world,” says Assoc. Prof. Ted Selker, an inventor with 50 patents, whose vision for us all is to live in a world where we solve problems by using a minimum of the world’s resources.” Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2004

Inventing the Future

Assoc. Prof. Ted Selker, who’s inventing technology for the future, dreams of a world that spins forever and doesn’t destroy its resources.

Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, founder and director of the Tangible Media Group at MIT’s Media Lab, says Tangible Bits is like wearing a pair of eyeglasses to help us see the invisible. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2004

Tangible Technology

By making bits something we can manipulate with our hands and perceive through our senses, Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Ishii is working to bridge the physical world with cyberspace.

Adam Madlinger, an 18-year-old freshman who has owned a video production company for three years, says:
Spring 2004

In Business

Freshman Adam Madlinger is an entrepreneur who launched a company when he was in high school.