Apr
26
Farewell (for now)
April 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
It’s with great excitement that I embark upon the next challenge of my career, moving on to work for Teach for America. But it is with great sadness that I leave behind the Graduate Center and my work with the American Social History Project and the New Media Lab. I wrote a little about my […]
Jul
26
On Creativity
July 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Recently, Eathan Janney, a graduate student researcher in the New Media Lab from the Biology – Neuroscience department interviewed me for his Locateflow project about the nature of creativity. We had a pretty interesting discussion, and this is the one minute clip he produced out of our 20+ minute discussion.
Jun
21
On Data Visualization
June 21, 2012 | 2 Comments
This won’t be a particularly long post, but it’s something that I’ve been working on a little bit that has excited me. There’s a lot of great javascript tools for designing sleek visualizations on the web right now (and to do with no more than just code!). Raphaël and D3 are among those which have gained a […]
Sep
28
Envisioning the Future Technology of the New Media Lab
September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Lately I’ve been having a rather interesting dilemma. I’ve been thinking about if we were to update a few of our oldest Windows machines, what would I get? We’ve had these top-of-the-line all-the-bells-and-whistles Dells for many years now. I can only hope that many others look on them as I do- as valiant machines who […]