http://bit.ly/qzpdP5 MIT+150: Quick (Festival of Art + Science + Technologies): Quick LIGHT — Evening of Numbers: eleven


Quoting from the official pamphlet:

Quickly LIGHT • May well seven + 8, 2011, 7 pm - 10 pm

Contemporary pioneers in art, science, and technological innovation have occur together at MIT to generate one particular of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has at any time seen. On May 7 and eight, 2011, website visitors can interact with 20+ artwork and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River alongside Memorial Generate at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / rapidly

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

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

• Inflatables
Lobby seven, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture produced 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 seven, 4th Floor
This installation nests layers of the prior into an picture of the existing, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Program)four
Developing three Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell transformed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse in between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

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

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

• Comfortable Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and cost your digital gadgets making use of green photo voltaic driven technologies
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 equally sides of the river. Many thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

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

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

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

• Unflat Pavilion
Building 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into 3. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi

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

• Bibliodoptera
Creating 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters above, reacting to the movement of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Screen
Green Constructing Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light designed by micro-turbines shows a visual sign-up of the replenishable resource of wind power.
By Meejin Yoon.

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

• voltaDom
Building 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an progressive fabrication approach that generates complicated double curved vaults by means of the easy rolling of a sheet of material.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Evening of Amounts
Creating 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lighting installation enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that maintain specific or historical importance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Creating E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell's spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and hectic 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 sound and coloration from a single to another, rising in intensity along the way and illuminating the route to MIT's campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.


VMworld is a massive occasion, comprised of businesses and individuals spanning virtually every single element of IT. It can be a whole lot to digest, but it also can be a great barometer of in which IT is today and wherever it’s heading. A couple days taken out from the present, I gave some believed to the developments I discovered and the insightful discussions I had. Here are five issues I came absent from VMworld contemplating.
The window is closing (closed?) on fundings for platforms as a services. I had this discussion with a couple of men and women this week, and I imagine it’s genuine. DotCloud, AppFog and CloudBees might signify the previous hurrahs of heavily VC-funded PaaS offerings. Consolidation has currently started, and current platforms this kind of as Heroku, Microsoft, Red Hat and Engine Property are firming up their offerings. Oh, and there’s VMware’s own Cloud Foundry, which has a little, but innovative, ecosystem by now forming close to it. I think we’re excellent.
The foreseeable future is about apps. VMware’s Paul Maritz mentioned it in his keynote. Steve Herrod introduced a slew of new technologies for delivering subsequent-generation programs much better across all kinds of products. With PaaS funding dried up, innovators and VCs will have to search up the stack previous software platforms to the programs by themselves. But it’s the foreseeable future, not the present, at minimum in mainstream IT. The display floor at VMworld and some of the conversations I overheard manufactured it distinct that we’re even now way off from the stage of IT automation and operating method agnosticism that will assist businesses really target their IT consideration on purposes.
Dell will be just great. A few weeks ago, my colleague Stacey Higginbotham introduced a fairly dire outlook for Dell, but I’m not so positive I agree. Search previous the tough street in advance in client products, and you see an enterprise IT foreseeable future where Dell would seem to just get it. Seem how several servers it is promoting into webscale data centers. Granted, they are partners now, but Cloudera COO Kirk Dunn produced a few of intriguing observations about Dell in the course of a lengthy dialogue I had with him, including that he’s astonished how a lot of new Dell webscale servers he’s witnessed set up even in usually HP or IBM outlets. Appear at its current ahead-considering software acquisitions and partnerships, which includes Boomi, Joyent, OpenStack and Cloudera. Seem at the trio of IaaS clouds it’s going to launch over the up coming year. I’m not concerned about Dell.
Reliable-state drives are poised to consider more than the data center. Everywhere you turned at VMworld, there was a strong-state storage vendor — Fusion-io , Pure Storage, Nimbus Info Systems, Nimble Storage and flash supplier Samsung. Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen told me flash will replace hard disk drives as the dominant storage medium in 10 a long time. He’s most likely appropriate. Product sales are ramping up, prices are coming down and virtualized workloads now outnumber bodily workloads. They’ll need SSDs to complete at the stage mission-crucial purposes need, so look for flash distributors to select some critical traction as storage refresh cycles roll about.
PCs will join tough disk drives on scrap heap? I pose this as a issue simply because I experience like was meant to be a concept of the VMworld display, but I’m not completely convinced. Sure, consumerization is real and mobile units will turn out to be much more prevalent, but that does not imply they’ll necessarily exchange desktops and laptops. We may possibly operate on the go much more typically now, but white collar staff stil commit lots of time at desk, and 27 inches, four cores and a keyboard still rule in terms of performance. Of course, VMware’s vision, and that of numerous other exhibitors, is 1 of virtual desktops changing our overpowered machines of these days. Only, we’ve been talking about VDI permanently, and there hasn’t been a entire good deal of movement. But perhaps that is changing.
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