2016-06-20
Automatically Generating Different Re-Tellings of Stories
source: Stanford 2016年6月13日
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Marilyn Walker, Professor of Computer Science and head of the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, discusses her work on storytelling agents who retell existing stories, such as personal narratives posted on weblogs. She describes her method for representing the deep semantic structure of these stories, and how these representations allow us to produce thousands of different retellings of the same story, using narratologically-inspired verbal parameters and personality-based nonverbal parameters.
What does it mean to be a refugee? - Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman
source: TED-Ed 2016年6月16日
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About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own countries. Others, referred to as refugees, sought shelter outside their own country. But what does that term really mean? Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman explain.
Lesson by Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman, animation by TED-Ed.
GSD Talks. Innovate: Megan Panzano MArch '10, "The Edge"
source: Harvard GSD 2016年4月13日
4/12/16
The edge is framed as a potent site of command over contingencies.It is the seat from which the architect may best be able to invite in different logics, with new temporal variation, to mingle with and recode patterns of use, experience, and tectonic definition already familiar. The work presented will include various experiments with spaces capable of operating at the edge of control – enabling and registering specific contingent conditions through architectural delineation. The title also refers to the periphery, where the presented projects hail from or marginal actions that are centralized in the work and investigated as a motivating force. The talk prompts: the edge can be a favorable margin.
Megan Panzano, MArch ’10, is a design critic in architecture at Harvard GSD, where she is currently coordinating and teaching in the first semester studios of both the graduate and undergraduate programs. Through her practice, studioPM, she is working on an assembly of projects addressing conditions of contingency across a range of architectural scales. Panzano has taught architecture studio for six years, concurrent to practice, and previously worked at Utile Inc. and Venturi, Scott Brown + Associates. Her design work has been exhibited in the Cite de l’architecture show in Paris in addition to several Boston venues, and featured in Mark Magazine, Wallpaper, Bauwelt, Domus, Arch Daily, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. Panzano was the designer and co-curator of Living Anatomy, an exhibition on housing, in Fall 2015; her recent essay “Control Points,” published in Harvard Design Magazine No. 41, extends her analysis of housing design to the choreography of contemporary family structures.
Megan Panzano earned a Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (2010) where she was the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize winner and the John E. Thayer Award Scholar. She also received her B.A. in Architecture with honors from Yale.
The Aging Workforce: Challenges and Benefits for the Public's Health | The Forum at HSPH 620
source: Harvard University 2016年2月12日
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the country’s population aged 65 and over is projected to be more than 83 million in 2050 — almost double the estimated population of 43 million in 2012. This Forum examined how the growing, greying labor force impacts workplaces and economic and health security, including retirement savings efforts and systems such as Social Security and Medicare. The discussion also explored what it means to age productively and healthily, with a particular emphasis on the value of working, volunteering and keeping cognitive skills sharp.
Presented February 11, 2016 in Collaboration with The Huffington Post.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
Alan Manning: Economics Of Migration
source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年1月13日
Date: Tuesday 12 January 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Alan Manning
Immigration is currently the most common response when asked about the most important issues facing Britain. This lecture will explain why there is a demand for immigration into the UK, and what the effects of it has been.
Alan Manning is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is Director of the Centre for Economic Performance’s research programme on Community.
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.
Summer Science Exhibition 2016: 100m bubbles
source: The Royal Society 2016年6月7日
Harnessing the physics of bubbles to channel powerful cutting lasers.
To channel low power laser light to where it is needed we often use flexible glass threads, known as fibre optics. But it is more difficult to steer powerful laser beams, because they can cut through these solid glass fibres.
This exhibit showcases our innovative solution to trap and channel these high-powered lasers using the most delicate glass bubbles.
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages.
https://royalsociety.org/events/summe...
Sophie Egan: "Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies" | Talks at...
source: Talks at Google 2016年5月26日
Sophie Egan visited Google's office in Kirkland, WA to discuss her book "Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are".
The popular saying “you are what you eat” could be more true than we know. According to Seattle-based author Sophie Egan, what people choose to eat defines who they are as a person. Her book explores the science behind everything Americans eat. From the popularity of McDonald’s to the more recent gluten-free movement, the book touches on every aspect of truly American cuisine. Why does America have such a high rate of obesity? Why is “having it our way” so unique to the U.S.? Egan, who studied under Michael Pollan, offers insight into these and other questions.
2016 Wheelwright Prize Finalist Presentations
source: Harvard GSD 2016年5月19日
4/20/16
Harvard University Graduate School of Design is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research. Now in its fourth year as an open international competition, the prize originated as a traveling fellowship, established in 1935 in memory of GSD alumnus Arthur C. Wheelwright. For 75 years, the prize was offered to the school’s top graduates, including Paul Rudolph, Eliot Noyes, William Wurster, and I. M. Pei. In 2013, the GSD transformed the prize into a platform to promote new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement.
This year, the Wheelwright Prize jury reviewed nearly 200 applications from 45 countries and selected four finalists, who hail from Italy, Spain, and Chile. The finalists have been invited to the GSD to present their work and research proposals:
The More You Know about Plants, the More You Feel a Part of the World
source: Big Think 2016年5月28日
Geobiologist Hope Jahren: studying the natural world of plants helps us transcend our human form, find joy and meaning in life, and feel more at home in this world we all journey through. Jahren's book is "Lab Girl" (http://goo.gl/2g74Iq).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/hope-jahre...
Transcript - I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves. Plants are not like us and the more you study plants the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us. All the important things that we do from how we move around to how we reproduce to how we react to the sun. Any human activity you could point to you/re going to see something very different in plants. And the more you know about how plants function and the more you watch them function and test their functioning the more deeply you understand how different they are. I think that's useful because I think people have a need to transcend themselves. And I know that when I get bogged down in the dysfunctionalities of how people treat each other and conflicts between men and women and money problems and science and all this kind of thing that I can take some comfort and joy in transcending what seemed like very small scale human noise and look at the differences in a life form that's been successfully occupying the planet for 400 million years.
So, quite frankly I get a lot of joy and comfort and happiness from considering these things. I mean I think that's the main reason to do science is that it feeds the soul. I think that, and I see this in students year after year that the more you know about the world the more you feel like you're part of it. And it's like nothing else. You teach somebody not to just walk up by a tree but to look up at it and say yup that one's deciduous and that one's evergreen and that one is going to lose its leaves this fall but that one is going to stay green just very basic things like that. And you see people's sense of self and self-esteem rise and all of a sudden they know something about the world that they journey through and it makes them a little bit bigger as a person. And that's really a wonderful thing to watch in students and to be able to facilitate. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/XVGG5f.
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