Tuesday/Thursday 1:30-2:45
The Sm[Art] Spaces course will bridge the perceived traditional boundaries that divide the sciences and engineering from arts and humanities. Bringing together students from computer science, engineering, and the arts, this course will explore theories of mind and body utilizing a range of perspectives, including artificial intelligence, art, neuroscience, robotics, spirituality and psychology. Expert guest speakers will help to facilitate this investigation by creating a stimulating backdrop. The fine arts model will be used as a "test bed" of creative exploration to learn about the use of embedded computing devices/electronics in our environment. In particular, we will learn the fundamentals of designing, constructing and programming embedded devices and explore the technological, social, spiritual and artistic implications of distributing such interactive devices throughout our environments. Through this collaborative effort, we will investigate new paradigms of creative practice that will be manifested in a set of interdisciplinary group projects.
Dr. Linda Smith
is a Chancellors' Professor of Psychological and Brain
Sciences, and Cognitive Science at Indiana University at Bloomington,
and is the director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory. Smith
earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author
of more than 100 publications on cognitive and linguistic development
in young children. With Esther Thelen, she co-authored the books A
Dynamic Systems Approach to Development (Smith & Thelen 1993) and A
Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action
(Smith & Thelen 1994), which look at development from a dynamic
systems perspective. In 1997, she received the Tracy Sonneborn Award,
Indiana University's highest award to its faculty. In 2007, she was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Smith is also a
member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society.
Talk: "Grounding toddler learning in sensory-motor dynamics" Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center
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(joint work with Dr. Chen Yu) |
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Ken Feingold
has been exhibiting his work in film, video, objects, and
installations since 1974. After first studying at Antioch College
(Yellow Springs, Ohio) he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in
Post-Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts),
Valencia, CA. Among the numerous awards and honors Feingold has
received, the including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004) and
a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003). He has taught
at Princeton University and Cooper Union, among others. His work If /
Then (2001) was included in the Whitney Biennial 2002, and three of
his installations were in the Corcoran Biennial 2002. Self Portrait as
the Center of the Universe (1998 - 2001) was shown at Tate Liverpool
in Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance (2004), and a
"mid-career survey" of his work was shown at Ace Gallery in Los
Angeles between October 2005 and February 2006. His works are in the
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Film Study
Collection) NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kiasma, Helsinki; ZKM
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and others. He has traveled
widely, living for extended periods of time in India, Japan, and
Argentina and working for shorter periods in many other countries. He
lives in New York City.
Talk: Thursday, March 26, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Fred Jones Museum
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Illah Nourbakhsh
is an Associate Professor of Robotics and head of the Robotics Masters
Program in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He
received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in
1996. He is co-founder of the Toy Robots Initiative at The Robotics
Institute, director of the Center for Innovative Robotics and director
of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment
(CREATE) lab. He is also co-PI of the Global Connection Project, home
of the Gigapan project. He is also co-PI of the Robot 250 city-wide
art+robotics fusion program in Pittsburgh. He is director of education
for the NSF-funded ERC, Quality of Life Technologies. His current
research projects include educational and social robotics and
community robotics. His past research has included protein structure
prediction under the GENOME project, software reuse, interleaving
planning and execution and planning and scheduling algorithms, as well
as mobile robot navigation. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory he was a
member of the New Millenium Rapid Prototyping Team for the design of
autonomous spacecraft. He is a founder and chief scientist of Blue
Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was acquired by Witness Systems,
Inc. Illah recently co-authored the MIT Press textbook, Introduction
to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Talk: "Humanity in Robotics" Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center | |
Sri Dharma Mittra
has spent most of his life
in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to
achieve radiant health and spiritual development. Dharma was born in
the late 1930s and has studied yoga since 1958. After meeting his
teacher guru, Sri Swami Kalaishananda, he immersed himself in intense
study and practice of the classical eight limbs of yoga and nine years
of dedicated full-time practice of karma yoga. He was accepted and
initiated as a sannyasi, one who renounces the world in order to
realize God. During these years Dharma had the esteemed honor of being
the personal assistant to the Guru attending to all his needs. Sri
Swami Kailashanada is known as the first Guru to bring the practice of
live-food Yoga Diet, Zone Therapy, and hatha yoga to the West in the
early 1950s.
Talk: "The Purpose of Yoga" Thursday, April 23, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center (Note change of location) |
The remaining class periods will be dedicated to discussing embedded systems within a computer science context. Topics will include:
Where: Bizzell Library 104
Prerequisites: Computer Organization (CS 2613 or equivalent), Operating Systems (CS 3113 or equivalent), Linear Algebra (Mathematics 3333 or equivalent)
Texts:
Last modified: Wed Feb 11 00:31:49 2009