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Dear Colleague,
I thought you might want to attend the following major seminar
being held at NCST on Friday, 24th November at 2.30 pm. Please
pass the message to other colleagues who might be interested.
Please accept my apologies in case you already received this.
Regards,
Durgesh Rao
Research Scientist, NCST
NCST hosts a
Computer Science Seminar on
"New Technologies and the Knowledge Society"
Prof. Barry Vercoe
Assoc Academic Head, Media Lab
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date : 24th November, 2000
Time : 1430 hrs - 1530 hrs
Venue:
Lecture Theatre, NCST
National Centre for Software Technology,
Gulmohar Cross Road No.9, Juhu,
Mumbai 400 049
All are invited to attend
No Registration Fee
Abstract
Technology has always benefitted societies when it is used by the people
themselves. It can promote education by providing environments that encourage
learning. It can promote health by enabling people to look after themselves.
When this technology is digital, we suddenly have extreme flexibility and
portability that can enable a society to leapfrog into a technological world.
The MIT Media Lab has encouraged self-motivated learning and self-improved
health in many parts of the world by helping people gain ready access to
inexpensive digital technology. Now through its Digital Nations initiative
it is bringing these ideas and these technologies to a wide forum. The
educational examples in Costa Rica, Thailand and Brazil are now being
duplicated in many countries, and have the power to unleash the latent
learning potential of whole societies.
We will examine some of the most effective tools for this kind of change,
from simple and inexpensive toys that draw out the curiosity of children,
to sophisticated new technologies that the next generation will grow up with,
explore, and find a way to exploit. The digital version of simple sensors and
communications has the potential to change the world in ways we barely dreamed
of.
About the Speaker
Barry Vercoe is Professor of Music and Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
at MIT. He is author of several languages for digital audio processing,
and has hosted numerous workshops for composers and technology at MIT.
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