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Wednesday, January 30, 2002 Prof. John F. Canny EECS Professor |
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Berkeley Institute of Design (BID) |
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Prof. Canny discusses the inspiration behind the hot new Berkeley Institute of Design (BID). As the world around us is being reshaped by I/T, we witness the evolution of the built environment into the interactive environment, whose design requires a new kind of designer. The challenge is to design complex behaviors for artifacts, and to integrate them into systems that provide a coherent experience for the individual. BID, the Berkeley Institute of Design, defines a new design discipline that spans computer science, architecture, industrial and mechanical engineering. BID includes a teaching (MS and Ph.D. degrees) and a research component. The design of the MS curriculum and BID's space (now in Hearst mining) is our first project. It is a unique opportunity to co-design a studio-based curriculum and a digitally-enhanced, adaptive research/teaching space. We are looking for more participants in planning BID and ultimately making it a reality. All EECS faculty and grad students are invited to attend and contribute feedback and suggestions on the BID project. |
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| Biography: | ||||
| John Canny graduated from the
MIT AI Lab in 1987. His MS thesis described an edge detector that is still
widely used, & his Ph.D. dissertation won the ACM award in 1987. His
post-PhD work was about applying differential topology & algebra to
improve the skills of robots. He has worked on manufacturing technologies,
physically-based simulation, geometric modeling & computational geometry,
& maintains an interest in 3D imaging & display. In 1998, he started
building the Human-Centered Computing group. Current research interests
are rich media for CSCW, collaborative learning, & context-aware computing. Professor Canny is at jfc@eecs.berkeley.edu. |
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