[4eyes] FW: [FACULTY] Fwd: Reminder: MAT candidate talk today at 12:00

[Matthew Turk]

The title and abstract finally arrived....

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MAT Candidate: Rehmi

PostDate: Monday, April 4

Time and Place: 12:00 in 1601 Elings Hall

Title: Material Computing: Artfully crafting new technologies

Abstract:

A new class of materials with integrated intelligence promises to bring
our physical reality closer to the vision of Ubiquitous Computing,
radically transforming the way we interact with computers, each other,
and the world we create. More so than traditional engineering practice,
Material Computing seeks to blur the line between "hardware" and
"software" by intimately coupling logic and transduction into physical
media.  Crucially, it is guided by intuition, design, and art and can
lead to new ways to solve engineering problems.  I will show examples of
new technologies that are emerging - perhaps uniquely - as a result of
this approach.

Bio:

Rehmi Post is a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms,
where he develops novel inertial sensors and applications exploiting the
electronic properties of materials.  In 1996 he earned a B.Sc. in
Physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he worked in
the Tuominen Nanostructures Lab building superconducting single-electron
transistors and wearable computers.  As an Interval Research Fellow at
the MIT Media Lab, he earned an M.Sc. in 1998 for his pioneering work
demonstrating multi-layer electronic circuits in textiles. In 2000 he
co-founded ThingMagic, an RFID industry leader acquired in 2010 by
Trimble Navigation Ltd.  Under a Motorola Fellowship he earned a Ph.D.
in 2003 for the development of a novel inertial sensor based on the
dynamics of levitated particles. His early work on interactive
multi-touch surfaces appeared at MoMA (NY) in 1999, winning a Silver
Medal in I.D. Magazine's Interactive Media Design Review (2000) for "its
social dynamic and its capacity to integrate technology into a domestic
space."   Most recently he has been interested in methods to harvest
power and information from "static" electricity arising in textiles and
other media.



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