媒體藝術與科學(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）教授的音樂瓶作品同時是數位資訊的控制器和容器，該資訊來自Edouard Lalo的C小調鋼琴三重奏作品第七號中小提琴、中提琴和鋼琴的聲音。
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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.

如果說未來有任何事情是可以確定的，那就是科技的影響，特別是數位科技的影響將會持續增加，改變我們表現自己的方式，改變我們彼此溝通的方式，以及我們感知、思考和與週遭世界互動的方式。這些「媒介科技」只不過開始了進化的第一個階段：他們依然簡陋、使用不便、沒有量身定做，不符合使用者的習慣。如何將它們的潛力完全發展出來？這就成了這個資訊時代最基本的技術和設計議題。

在麻省理工學院中，媒體藝術與科學專精於研究、發明和創意運用能增進人類與機械之間表達和理解的科技。這個領域奠基於現代通訊、電腦和人類科學，相關的學位課程和媒體實驗室中的研究計畫密切相關。電腦與運算是這個跨領域學門中最主要的角色。為了跟上相關知識的爆炸性發展，我們研發並培育了新的理論與實務並重的研究，它們也成為了這個新興學門的基礎。媒體藝術與科學最簡單的模式可以被描述成從技術面、認知面和審美觀來探究如何透過科技滿足人類的互動需求。以更前瞻的說法來說，這個領域所追求的是未來資訊豐富的環境中的生活品質。

若要瞭解更多資訊，請前往http://www.media.mit.edu/mas/。

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/.

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大學部
課號	課程名稱
MAS.110	2003春季課程：媒體設計運算基礎 (Fundamentals of Computational Media Design, Spring 2003)
MAS.450	2003春季課程：全像技術 (Holographic Imaging, Spring 2003)

研究所
課號	課程名稱
MAS.478	2003秋季課程：多媒體製作特論：互動藝術的經驗 (Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art, Fall 2003)
MAS.622	2000秋季課程：圖形辨識與分析 (Pattern Recognition & Analysis, Fall 2000)
MAS.630	2002春季課程：情意運算 (Affective Computing, Spring 2002)
MAS.666	2003秋季課程：促進社會發展的開創企業 (Developmental Entrepreneurship, Fall 2003)
MAS.712	2001春季課程：如何學習（幾乎）一切 (How to Learn (Almost) Anything, Spring 2001)
MAS.714J	2004秋季課程：創意學習的技術 (Technologies for Creative Learning, Fall 2004)
MAS.742	2003秋季課程：工業設計智慧：以認知角度進行工程 (Industrial Design Intelligence: A Cognitive Approach to Engineering, Fall 2003)
MAS.845	2004春季課程：戲劇敘事特論 (Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling, Spring 2004)
MAS.857J	2002春季課程：光學工程 (Optical Engineering, Spring 2002)
MAS.863	2002秋季課程：如何製造（幾乎）一切 (How to Make (Almost) Anything, Fall 2002)
MAS.878	2003秋季課程：多媒體製作特論：互動藝術的經驗 (Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art, Fall 2003)
MAS.961	1998秋季課程：數字攝影 (Numeric Photography, Fall 1998)
MAS.961	2001春季課程：設計社交媒體 (Designing Sociable Media, Spring 2001)
MAS.961	2004秋季課程：深層投入專題研究 (Seminar on Deep Engagement, Fall 2004)
MAS.961	2005春季課程：智慧型環境感知 (Ambient Intelligence, Spring 2005)NEW!
MAS.962	2002秋季課程：媒體科技特論：運算語意學 (Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics, Fall 2002)
MAS.962	2003春季課程：建構式教學的本質 (The Nature of Constructionist Learning, Spring 2003)
MAS.962	1997秋季課程：數位印刷 (Digital Typography, Fall 1997)
MAS.963	2004春季課程：智慧型環境感知 (Ambient Intelligence, Spring 2004)
MAS.963	2002春季課程：科技身份：我們是誰，我們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秋季課程：關聯性之萬：能夠適應和學習關聯性的電腦系統 (Out of Context: A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context, Fall 2001)
MAS.964	2002秋季課程：互動應用的常識分析 (Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications, Fall 2002)
MAS.965	2003年秋季課程：媒體科技特論：合作機械 (Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines, Fall 2003)
MAS.965	2004秋季課程：社會形象化 (Social Visualization, Fall 2004)
MAS.965	2005春季課程：相關機械 (Relational Machines, Spring 2005)NEW!
MAS.966	2003春季課程：數位人類學 (Digital Anthropology, Spring 2003)

大學部/研究所
課號	課程名稱
MAS.160	2001秋季課程：媒體科技的訊號、系統與資訊 (Signals, Systems, and Information for Media Technology, Fall 2001)