http://bit.ly/oXyfS0 MIT+150: Fast (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): Rapidly LIGHT — operator's console for the Liquid Archive (and LightBridge?) pieces

Quoting from the official pamphlet:

Fast LIGHT • May possibly 7 + eight, 2011, 7 pm - 10 pm

Modern pioneers in art, science, and engineering have come jointly at MIT to develop one particular of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has actually seen. On May well 7 and 8, 2011, guests can interact with 20+ artwork and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River alongside Memorial Push at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / rapidly

Installations scattered close to campus (we failed to quite see all of them), once more pasting from the official flyer:

• aFloat
MIT Chapel • Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Inspired by drinking water in the Saarinen Chapel's moat, a touch releases flickers of light before serenity returns as a calm ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.

• Inflatables
Lobby seven, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture made of silver nylon resonates with gusts of air, heat from light bulbs, and the motions of passersby.
By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky, Jorge Amaya.

• (now(now(now)))
Creating 7, 4th Floor
This set up nests layers of the previous into an picture of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Training course)four
Creating 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell changed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse amongst floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

• Maxwell's Dream
Creating ten Community Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural created by magnetic fields that push patterns of light, Maxwell's Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

• Mood Meter
College student Center & Creating 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of joy? Mood Meter playfully assesses and shows the mood of the MIT neighborhood onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.

• Comfortable Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your electronic products utilizing green solar driven engineering
By Shiela Kennedy, P. Seaton, S. Rockcastle, W. Inam, A. Aolij, J. Nam, K. Bogenshutz, J. Bayless, M. Trimble.

• LightBridge
The Mass. Ave Bridge
A dynamic interactive LED array responds to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT's ties to each sides of the river. Many thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

• Sky Function
Killian Court, Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the unique symbiosis among artists, experts and engineers.
By Otto Piene.

• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable display supplies a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT's historical past in science, technology, and artwork.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river adjust shade as they react to the presence of people alongside the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

• Unflat Pavilion
Developing 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into a few. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi

• Gradated Discipline
Walker Memorial Lawn
A subject of enticing mounts develop a landscape that encourages passersby to meander by means of, or lounge upon the sleek plaster styles.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.

• Bibliodoptera
Constructing 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's varied library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters previously mentioned, reacting to the motion of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Display screen
Green Creating Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light designed by micro-turbines displays a visual register of the replenishable resource of wind power.
By Meejin Yoon.

• String Tunnel
Creating eighteen Bridge
A diaphonous tunnel results in a perception of entry to and from the Infinite Corridor and frames the bordering landscape.
By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams.

• voltaDom
Creating 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an progressive fabrication strategy that results in sophisticated double curved vaults through the simple rolling of a sheet of materials.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Night of Quantities
Building 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lighting set up enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that maintain specific or historical significance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Constructing E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell's spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and occupied passageway into a instant of surprise and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Main Streets.
Lanterns react to site visitors by passing audio and color from one particular to another, rising in intensity along the way and illuminating the path to MIT's campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.


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In accordance to Bloomberg:

The South Korean firm will “never” pursue these kinds of a offer, Chief Executive Officer Choi Gee Sung stated in Berlin, wherever he’s attending the IFA consumer electronics honest. The comment, created to reporters in response to inquiries about analysts’ speculation of a possible acquire, was confirmed by Nam Ki Yung, a spokesman for Samsung in Seoul.
“It’s not correct that obtaining an working method is turning into a style,” Choi said. Samsung, which has its very own mobile operating technique known as Bada, is operating to enhance its software capability “harder than men and women outside feel.”

In other words, Samsung is by now possessing amazing good results with Android  and is also investing in producing Bada a feasible platform for developers, so WebOS could just needlessly complicate things. In addition, what’s desirable about spending funds on Palm’s old operating system–which HP acquired, made hardware for, and then promptly stopped making hardware for–when a single of the world’s biggest technologies companies couldn’t even make a go of it? Nonetheless, Samsung has apparently at minimum deemed making use of WebOS in the prior, in accordance to Bloomberg. The outlet cites a few resources who say Samsung “held talks to use WebOS” in its phones.
Friday’s remarks on WebOS follows Choi’s declaration previous week that he “definitively” desired to place rumors of Samsung purchasing HP’s Personal computer company to rest. With regards to that before speculation, Choi said that “[b]ased on the significant disparity in scale with Samsung’s individual Pc organization and the total lack of synergies, it would be the two infeasible and imprudent to even think about.”
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