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Andy Malone: Standoff, presented by Andy Malone

I was drawn to the concept of finger guns as a metaphor. I also didn't want to use actual guns in this project. That was sort of a challenge for myself, to not make this about shooting things or make...

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Vi Trinh: Cyber Soldiers in Cyber Houses, presented by Vi Trinh

What struck me first about the Third Amendment is that it’s the only part of the Constitution that deals directly with the relationship between the rights of individuals and the military in both peace...

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Shawn Pierre: ___ vs ___, presented by Shawn Pierre

I’m really really interested in seeing what happens when two people who know each other really well start to play. Because the people you know well, you get to know their tells when they tell a lie, or...

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Peter Bradley: NOMOLOGOS, presented by Peter Bradley

The conceit is that you’re a ball of ink on the national mall and you’re trying to get to the Supreme Courthouse in order to sort of argue your case.

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Broken Ghost (Arnab Chakravarty, Ian McNeely) + Moaw! (MeeNa Ko): Verbal...

We basically kind of doubled down on this idea that the game had to have the performance of the truth at the core of it. So we eliminated the spoken poetry because in the performance of the truth the...

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Danielle Isadora Butler: Evolving Standards of Decency, presented by Danielle...

Justice is so often envisioned by the metaphor of scales and balance. I’m making a gimbaled marble labyrinth. The gimbal allows for balance, but it is set by the user.

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Ryan Kuo: Father Figure, presented by Ryan Kuo

The question for me is, how do you know your rights? Where does your mind go when it gets a hold of those rights? The Ninth is saying there’s a written space here on this piece of paper, and there’s an...

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arts​.codes (Melissa F. Clarke and Margaret Schedel): V.erses, presented by...

When we were developing the concept for v.erses, we were particularly struck by the final clause of the Tenth Amendment, which reads "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This...

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Shall Make, Shall Be Panel/Q&A 1, presented by Andy Malone, Cherisse Datu,...

How do you see your work differently in the context of the full group presentation? Where has it taken you?

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Shall Make, Shall Be Panel/Q&A 2, presented by Arnab Chakravarty, Danielle...

Golan Levin: Welcome back every­one. So for the last few min­utes here we’re going to have a group dis­cus­sion Q&A mod­er­at­ed by pro­fes­sor of Games Learning at the Parsons School of Design...

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Geek of the Week: Brewster Kahle

We're at a thousand dollars per gigabyte, which is what current disk drives cost. The twenty terabytes that people estimate in ASCII that's in the Library of Congress is just twenty million dollars. So...

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Geek of the Week: Radia Perlman

The people that invented Ethernet did a real good thing. Ethernet is good technology. But they did a really bad thing because they called it a net. And they shouldn't have called it Ethernet, they...

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Geek of the Week: Steve Crocker

The interesting phenomenon related to the RSA algorithm and is not shared with some of the other algorithms is it is useful for both encryption and for digital signature. That is they are two distinct...

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Geek of the Week: Marshall T. Rose

It’s kind of like we could have the Congress of the United State pass a law with regards to time travel, but let’s face it you know, no one has a time travel machine so what’s the point of it? You...

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Geek of the Week: Erik Huizer

Carl Malamud: Internet Talk Radio, town crier to the global village. How do you pronounce your name? Erik Huizer: [Pronounces as roughly “howzer”] Malamud: Huizer. Is that right? Huizer: No, that’s not...

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Geek of the Week: Daniel Lynch

I hear these arguments and read these arguments on the mailing list that say oh, we've got to make sure we choose the right technology, the best technology, this should not be a political decision,...

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Geek of the Week: Steve Deering

Clearly encryption gets you into all sorts of political minefields having to do with export controls and so on. And there’s a lot of traffic on the Internet. There’s no particularly strong reason to...

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Geek of the Week: Milo Medin

I think if the Internet really becomes a public data network in the true sense of the word, something that equals Telenet or something like that, or surpasses it in capability, but it's being used that...

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Geek of the Week: Glenn Kowack

One of the ways that we’re very distinct from US networking is that in some sense EUnet and most of the rest of Europe started out with regionals and is today realizing an NSFNET equivalent. In EUnet’s...

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Geek of the Week: Jeff Schiller

I was interested in computer security when I first showed up at MIT as an undergraduate. I just found it an intellectually interesting field of study. But indeed because we have the students that we...

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