UCLA History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Spring 2016 Colloquium Eric Hounshell (UCLA)

Auriea Harvey is a digital media designer based at Entropy8. Entropy8 was founded by Harvey in 1995 as an experiment with image and interactivity. Since then, it has grown into an award-winning Web development collective. Harvey's personal work deals with issues of humanity in machine-driven spaces. She works to dispel the popular notion that the...

Niels Brügger is Professor in Internet Studies and Digital Humanities (MSO, with special responsibilities), Head of NetLab, part of the Danish Digital Humanities Lab, and head of the Centre for Internet Studies, at Aarhus University. Coordinator of the European network RESAW, a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials. Participates in the research infrastructure project...

Last year, John Maeda published his inaugural #DesignInTech report to reveal the impact Design has made in Silicon Valley. Now, in his second annual report, Maeda doubles down by delving deep into design trends revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems. Drawing on extensive research and his own conversations with hundreds of designers, Maeda examines the...

THE DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES presents Bestselling author Sherry Turkle Live @ UCLA – Monday, April 18 In conversation with UCLA Wasserman Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco Admission is free.  Space is limited. For more information: events@gseis.ucla.edu  (310) 206-0375 Event Details: Date: Monday, April 18, 2016 Time: 4:30pm Reception, 5:30pm Conversation Location: Northwest Campus Auditorium, UCLA Parking:...

Toni Dove lives and works in New York. Since the early 1990s, she has produced unique and highly imaginative embodied hybrids of film, installation art and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing and laser harp to erformon-screen avatars. Toni's projects include:...

Werner Kuhn, Professor for Geography, UC Santa Barbara Beyond the superficial phrase "geographic information," geographic information science lacks consensus on its subject. What do geographic information scientists study? Kuhn will propose a preliminary answer in the form of a set of "core concepts" of spatial information. While originally designed to help students understand GIS, these...

For over two decades media artist and designer Anne Niemetz has been working in the areas of audio-visual design, interactive installation and wearable technology. Multi-Sensory Encounters will present a selection of her collaborative works with artists and scientists that push the disciplinary boundaries, expand their scope and offer resonant experiences to audiences.

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics invites you to attend the 2016 Green Family Lectures featuring Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This lecture is aimed at a general audience, and no particular technical background will be assumed.

What does the visual have to do with military occupation? How does the process of digitization affect the power relationship between Israelis and Palestinians; soldiers and citizens; occupiers and occupied? This mini symposium brings together three scholars who have written extensively on matters of visibility, the visual arts, and digital technology in the context of...