Event Category: Lecture

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Siqi Zhu is a senior designer at Boston-based design firm Sasaki, and a lecturer in information design in the MFA Program in Information Design and Visualization. Previously, he was a research fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab and led the lab’s visualization projects in Cambridge and Singapore. Working at the intersection between information design and […]

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Drew Berry is a biomedical animator who creates beautiful, accurate visualisations of the dramatic cellular and molecular action that is going on inside our bodies. He commenced his career as a cell biologist and his raw materials are technical reports, research data and models from scientific journals. As an artist, he works as a translator […]

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Astronomers have a long history of visualization. Going back only as far as Galileo, discoveries were made using sketches of celestial objects moving over time. Today, Astronomy inquiries can, and often do, make use of petabytes of data at once. Huge surveys are analyzed statistically to understand tiny fluctuations that hint at the fundamental nature […]

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Rather than automating people out of the equation, our current golden age of artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to realize Douglas Engelbart’s 1960s vision of “Augmenting Human Intellect.” To be effective, collaboration between people and machines must share a representation of tasks — one that systems can tractably reason about and that people can easily […]

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In this talk, I will first outline some of the fundamental principles that cartographers have been using –for hundreds of years– for designing maps and map-like representations of geo/spatial phenomena. Then I will draw links between the cartographic principles and modern visualization practices, taking into account our understanding of perceptual and cognitive processes. Following this, […]