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New UnderGraduate Seminar, MAS-S01, First Meeting Tomorrow, Wed 6 Sep!

please note well! this is first-and-foremost a seminar for u/g's!
additionally, frosh are strongly _discouraged_ from adding to 
their course load, therefore they are encouraged to wait for
the spring term continuation of this seminar.  there'll still
be plenty of work to do then.

MAS-S01
Networking at MIT: Academic, Business and Social
Professor Seymour Papert and Mr. Richard Shyduroff
Wednesdays, 7-9pm in E15-054;  6 credits, 2-0-4

Will students in the future more easily get the attention of their 
professors, and have more productive interactions with them, and their 
peers, using computer tools and networks, for thinking and collaboration 
in shared "hybrid" environments?  In this experimental undergraduate 
seminar, students will meet weekly with Professor Seymour Papert - once 
a month in traditional, face-to-face sessions, and during the other 
weeks in "virtual" sessions, using the latest video-over-the-Internet 
technologies.  We'll develop ideas, and perhaps tools, in the seminar 
that may help make it easier for future MIT students to meet with 
professors and with researchers and alumni/ae in remote locations around 
the campus and the world.  In the seminar we will look at aspects of 
computer-human-interactions, including technical and human factors, 
as well as related social issues, with equal attention to theory and 
practice.  These will include the use of new SGI machines with video 
cameras in Athena clusters and at the Media Lab, plus the Visible 
Language Workshop's prototype "datawall" project, currently a 2k-by-6k 
display (three "tiled" Sony monitors) affording students the experience 
of working with the world's highest resolution display of its kind, plus 
comparisons with technologies like the Picture Tel (tm) facilities at 
the Media Lab and in MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering Studies.

The primary link to Professor Papert's remote location on the Coast
of Maine will be over MIT, and Papert's own, ISDN lines at up to
128 kbps, using at Papert's end, his own Picture-Tel (just-out-of-
the-box) equipment.  Field trips to Professor Papert's home are
also planned, to confirm participants' perceptions of his varied
remote environments.

For details, please send me e-mail <shydurov@media> and
or leave me a message on x3-2000.

Thanks!

	- r
	  richard shyduroff
	 <rdshydur@athena> <richard@theory.lcs> <shydurov@media>
	  x3-2000, at home in cambridge 864-4039