Greetings ffrom Cambridge MA (our fair city) ..
I’m here at an IBM meeting.. Drove down this morning. It was a beautiful day to be driving. Here’s the view f the charles river from my hotel room.. I’m staying just up the street from my old dorm at MIT. This is the hotel that my folks stayed in when I graduated from college. mroe than 25 years ago.. !..
Our meeting doesn’t officially begin until tomorrow. … but my friend David had arraigned for a short tour of the MIT Media Lab. I worked in the precursor to the media lab in the late 70’s and early 80’s . It’s changed quite a bit since then as you would imagine. .. but.. it still had the same sort of cool energy that I remember.
We saw the maings of a machine opera.. where the main character becomes a computerized bookshelf (?!?!?)
a new fold up electrical car !
What a great workspace !
Here’s a gesture operated flecible interface fro making music…
and a real time wind and shadow simulat0r.
and a LADAR contour mapper…
Hre it’s seeing my arm in the field
The ceiling in one lab was covered with pinweels that spun in response to entwork trafic.. (wierd)
The tour was so cool.. it was over just too soon. We walkde out to find some sort of emergence thing goign on. Lucily we were able to back down the street and escape !
I invited my folks o coem out and ea with us.. I coaxed the group inot goign to the ‘Middle East’ a favorite haunt of mine when I weant to school here.. I love the food there. My folks fit right in.. It was great getting them to meet my colleagues and visa versa.
OK.. gotta sleep now. more tomorrow !. Note all.. Nite Sam !
-me
-me