Fox Harrell, "The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab"

Published: Sept. 26, 2010, midnight

b'Professor Fox Harrell\\u2019s research group \\u2014 the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab \\u2014 builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts \\u2014 \\u201cphantasmal media\\u201d systems.\\n\\nIn particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related types of expressive digital media. In this talk, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the \\u201cLiving Liberia Fabric,\\u201d an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war, \\u201cGenerative Visual Renku,\\u201d an AI-based form of generative animation, and several other projects.\\n\\nHarrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project \\u201cComputing for Advanced Identity Representation.\\u201d He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).'