媒介艺术与科学(Media Arts and Sciences)

Professor Hiroshi Ishii's musicBottles work as containers and controls for digital information - the 'sounds' of the violin, the cello and the piano in Edouard Lalo's Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 7.

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石井裕（Hiroshi Ishii）教授的音乐瓶作品同时是数字资讯的控制器和容器，该资讯来自Edouard Lalo的C小调钢琴三重奏作品第七号中小提琴、中提琴和钢琴的声音。
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Professor Hiroshi Ishii's musicBottles work as containers and controls for digital information - the 'sounds' of the violin, the cello and the piano in Edouard Lalo's Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 7.

如果说未来有任何事情是可以确定的，那就是科技的影响，特别是数字科技的影响将会持续增加，改变我们表现自己的方式，改变我们彼此沟通的方式，以及我们感知、思考和与周遭世界互动的方式。这些“媒介科技”只不过开始了进化的第一个阶段：他们依然简陋、使用不便、没有量身定做，不符合使用者的习惯。如何将它们的潜力完全发展出来？这就成了这个资讯时代最基本的技术和设计议题。

在麻省理工学院中，媒介艺术与科学专精于研究、发明和创意运用能增进人类与机械之间表达和理解的科技。这个领域奠基于现代通讯、计算机和人类科学，相关的学位课程和媒介实验室中的研究计划密切相关。计算机与运算是这个跨领域学门中最主要的角色。为了跟上相关知识的爆炸性发展，我们研发并培育了新的理论与实务并重的研究，它们也成为了这个新兴学门的基础。媒介艺术与科学最简单的模式可以被描述成从技术面、认知面和审美观来探究如何透过科技满足人类的互动需求。以更前瞻的说法来说，这个领域所追求的是未来资讯丰富的环境中的生活品质。

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If anything can be certain about the future, it is that the influence of technology, especially digital technology, will continue to grow and to profoundly change how we express ourselves, how we communicate with each other and how we perceive, think about and interact with our world. These "mediating technologies" are only in the first stages of their modern evolution; they are still crude, unwieldy, unpersonalized and poorly matched to the human needs of their users. Their fullest development in those terms is emerging as one of the principal technical and design challenges of the emerging information age.

At MIT, the phrase Media Arts and Sciences signifies the study, invention and creative use of enabling technologies for understanding and expression by people and machines. The field is rooted in modern communication, computer and human sciences, and the academic program is intimately linked with research programs within the Media Laboratory. Computers and computation are the most prominent common denominators of this multi-disciplinary merger of previously separate domains. For underlying the explosive advances of the various technologies involved, we are discovering and cultivating a new set of shared intellectual and practical concerns that are becoming the foundations of a new academic discipline. In its simplest form, the field of Media Arts and Sciences can be thought of as exploring the technical, cognitive and aesthetic bases of satisfying human interaction as mediated by technology. In more forward-looking terms, it addresses the quality of life in the information-rich environment of the future.

For more information, go to http://www.media.mit.edu/mas/.

本土消息
美国麻省理工学院媒介实验室MIT Media Lab简介媒介实验室于1980年成立时，本着“传播与资讯通讯科技终将汇聚合一”的愿景，研究有形的原子(atoms)与无形的位元(bits)为人类感官、知觉、互动科技整合带来的创新领域。详全文...
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尼葛洛庞帝教授演讲实况！这是工研院三十周年国际周时，邀请到麻省理工学院媒介实验室的创办人尼葛洛庞帝教授（纽约时报畅销书《数字革命》一书的作者）的两场演讲。详全文...

大学部
课号	课程名称
MAS.110	2003春季课程：媒介设计运算基础 (Fundamentals of Computational Media Design, Spring 2003)
MAS.450	2003春季课程：全息成像 (Holographic Imaging, Spring 2003)

研究所
课号	课程名称
MAS.478	2003秋季课程：多媒介制作特论：互动艺术的经验 (Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art, Fall 2003)
MAS.622	2000秋季课程：图形辨识与分析 (Pattern Recognition & Analysis, Fall 2000)
MAS.630	2002春季课程：情意运算 (Affective Computing, Spring 2002)
MAS.666	2003秋季课程：开拓的创业精神 (Developmental Entrepreneurship, Fall 2003)
MAS.712	2001春季课程：如何学习（几乎）一切 (How to Learn (Almost) Anything, Spring 2001)
MAS.714J	2004秋季课程：创意学习的技术 (Technologies for Creative Learning, Fall 2004)
MAS.742	2003秋季课程：工业设计智能：以认知角度进行工程 (Industrial Design Intelligence: A Cognitive Approach to Engineering, Fall 2003)
MAS.845	2004春季课程：戏剧叙事特论 (Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling, Spring 2004)
MAS.857J	2002春季课程：光学工程 (Optical Engineering, Spring 2002)
MAS.863	2002秋季课程：如何制造（几乎）一切 (How to Make (Almost) Anything, Fall 2002)
MAS.878	2003秋季课程：多媒介制作特论：互动艺术的经验 (Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art, Fall 2003)
MAS.961	1998秋季课程：数字摄影 (Numeric Photography, Fall 1998)
MAS.961	2001春季课程：设计社交媒介 (Designing Sociable Media, Spring 2001)
MAS.961	2004秋季课程：深层投入专题研究 (Seminar on Deep Engagement, Fall 2004)
MAS.961	2005春季课程：智能型环境感知 (Ambient Intelligence, Spring 2005)NEW!
MAS.962	2002秋季课程：媒介科技特论：运算语意学 (Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics, Fall 2002)
MAS.962	2003春季课程：建构式教学的本质 (The Nature of Constructionist Learning, Spring 2003)
MAS.962	1997秋季课程：数字印刷 (Digital Typography, Fall 1997)
MAS.963	2004春季课程：智能型环境感知 (Ambient Intelligence, Spring 2004)
MAS.963	2002春季课程：科技身份：我们是谁，我们如何看待自己和他人 (Techno-identity: Who we are and how we perceive ourselves and others, Spring 2002)
MAS.963	2001秋季课程：关联性之万：能够适应和学习关联性的计算机系统 (Out of Context: A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context, Fall 2001)
MAS.964	2002秋季课程：互动应用的常识分析 (Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications, Fall 2002)
MAS.965	2003年秋季课程：媒介科技特论：合作机械 (Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines, Fall 2003)
MAS.965	2004秋季课程：社会形象化 (Social Visualization, Fall 2004)
MAS.965	2005春季课程：相关机械 (Relational Machines, Spring 2005)NEW!
MAS.966	2003春季课程：数字人类学 (Digital Anthropology, Spring 2003)

大学部/研究所
课号	课程名称
MAS.160	2001秋季课程：媒介科技的讯号、系统与资讯 (Signals, Systems, and Information for Media Technology, Fall 2001)