Upcoming Lectures
Selection of Past Lectures
EmTech 2011 at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 18-19, 2011
IASCL 2011, Montreal, Canada, July 19-23, 2011
SRD 2011 at the Center for Cognitive Sciences, UMN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 28, 2011
TED 2011, Long Beach, California, February 28 - March 4, 2011
Access to Minds, Boston, Massachusetts, December 8-9, 2010
Access to Minds, Berkeley, California, December 7-8, 2009
Social Fusion, Berkeley, California, December 7, 2009
IDEAS Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1, 2009
Cognitive Science Colloquium at Cornell, Ithaca, New York, September 25, 2009
Interspeech 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom, September 9, 2009
ACORNS Workshop, Brighton, United Kingdom, September 11, 2009
4th Annual UNDERBANKED Financial Services Forum, Dallas, Texas, June 1, 2009
IdeaCity. Toronto, Canada, 2008
Business Innovation Factory. Providence, Rhode Island, 2008
Spring Science Lecture: "Meaning Machines." Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 2008
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche Conferenze (from animals to animats 9). Rome, Italy, 2006
NCPW9, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 2004
Selected Media Coverage
Games That Design Themselves. H + Magazine, July 27, 2009.
Big brother untangles baby babble. BBC News, July 1, 2009.
Someone to watch over me. The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2008.
New Ways to Diagnose Autism Earlier. The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2008.
Revelations from the mouth of a babe. The Boston Globe, June 22, 2008.
Announcement of Center for Future Banking. MIT News Office, March 31, 2008.
MIT Media Lab and Bank of America Announce Center for Future Banking. Bank of America Newsroom, March 31, 2008
Self-Experimenters: Can 200,000 Hour of Baby Talk Until a Robot's Tongue? Scientific American, March 17, 2008.
MIT Media Laboratory: The Human Speechome Project, Stepping into a Child's Shoes. Apple Science Profiles.
Science of Babies. National Geographic Channel, Sept 19, 2007.
Searching Sportscasts. Technology Review, June 2007.
The Power of Babble. WIRED Magazine, April 2007.
Virtual dining provides tips for cyber characters. New Scientist, March 25, 2007.
The Inner World of Ripley the Robot. NPR Radio, July 10, 2006.
Baby's First Petabyte. PC Magazine, June 21, 2006.
Pioneers. Science Magazine, June 16, 2006.
'Big brother' informs baby talk. BBC News, May 17, 2006.
Watch language grow in the 'Baby Brother' house. New Scientist, May 15, 2006.
Five paths to the walking, talking, pie-baking humanoid robot. Popular Science, 2006.
Bring on the Robot Monkey Butler: The present and future of robotic research. CBC Radio, June 11, 2005.
Robots on Display. Time for Kids, June 9, 2005. (The featured robot, Dagane, is our robot Ripley in disguise)
Robot Pals. Scientific American Frontiers, April 13, 2005.
I, Robot – By Baby Steps. Globe and Mail, March 23, 2003.