Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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The MIT Media Lab is launching a new research initiative – X-Reality. Broadly speaking, X-Reality will focus on the integration between the virtual and real worlds at several levels. The new initiative aims to bring together related Media Lab projects in this new area, to share their diverse viewpoints and research approaches, and hopefully accelerate…
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The Turing Test was proposed in 1950 by the famous English mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing, as a pragmatic and innovative approach to testing a machine’s capability to exhibit intelligence. Turing developed it to help him consider the question: Can machines think? In the Turing Test, a human judge engages in a written, natural language…
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Last week I went back to the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. It was a very stimulating event, both because of the talks and panels as well as the people that this conference attracts. I participated in a panel on How Real is the Virtual Web?, which was moderated by Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in Virtual Reality…
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One of my favorite films is the 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet. Loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the film had a considerable influence on science fiction movies and TV programs over the next few decades, including Star Trek and Star Wars. But what I really like about Forbidden Planet is its very clever…
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On March 22 we held our third seminar in the series Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges, which is co-sponsored by IBM and MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. The objective of the seminars is to show how industry leaders are using engineering-based approaches – e.g., design, tools, processes, analysis, simulations, etc – to address complex…
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Over the last six months I have been thinking a lot about virtual worlds and visual, intuitive, human oriented interfaces in general. I am frankly fascinated by our increasing ability to deal with all kinds of applications in a highly visual, interactive way. After all, that is how we generally deal with the world around…
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Last week I moderated a panel on Transforming Healthcare, Education and Business through Virtual Worlds at the Westport (CT) Public Library. There is a lot of interest in virtual worlds – and Second Life in particular, as evidenced by the number of recent newspaper and magazine articles by top technology reporters like Kevin Maney of…
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As the New Year begins, it is traditional to review key events from the last year and make predictions for the coming one. I followed that tradition a year ago when I chose Reflections on Blogging as the theme for my last blog entry of 2005. I had started this personal blog in May of…
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Last week I was interviewed by Stephen Shankland, a technology reporter for CNET. I have had a number of interviews with Stephen over the years, all one-on-one. Some have been in person, – when we met at conferences we both happened to be attending, but most have been over the phone, given that Stephen is…
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Last week I attended SC06 – the 2006 international supercomputing conference which this year took place in Tampa. This annual conference is one of my favorites, where I get to meet so many of the supercomputing colleagues whom I have known and worked closely with for years – people from universities and research labs, government…