A reminder of Wednesday's IIC Colloquium. Please join us!
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Computational Information Design
March 31, 2010, 4:00pm
Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Ben Fry, design and software consultant, author and co-developer of
Processing
Abstract
The ability to collect and store data continues to increase, but our
ability to understand it remains unchanged. In an attempt to gain
better understanding of data, fields such as information
visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each
solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a
broader sense: There are still too many unsolved data visualization
problems. As a solution, I seek to bring the individual fields
together as part of a single process. I’ll be showing examples of work
developed as part of my Ph.D. dissertation at the MIT Media
Laboratory, as a postdoc studing genetics at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad
Institute of MIT & Harvard, and more recently running a company that
consults on design and software development. The work ranges from
illustrations of data for magazines and journals to software tools
used by geneticists to interactive database applications for Fortune
10 companies.
About the speaker
Ben Fry runs a software and design consultancy in Cambridge, MA that
focuses on understanding complex data. Fry received his doctoral
degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media
Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as
computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization
as a means for understanding information. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he
develops Processing, an open source programming environment used by
tens of thousands of students, artists, engineers and scientists. At
the end of 2007, he published Visualizing Data with O'Reilly. Fry's
personal work has shown at the Whitney Biennial, the Cooper Hewitt
Design Triennial and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His
information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal
Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed and Communications
of the ACM.
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Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming IIC Colloquia:
Wednesday, Apr. 7: Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University
Wednesday, Apr. 14: Frank Baetke, High Performance Computing, Hewlett
Packard
For more information about IIC colloquia and other events :
http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming
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