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== Sugar Digest ==

== Sugar Digest ==

1. I mostly look forward rather than back, so it is not often that I think about my time at the MIT Media Lab. But I had three occasions to think about it in the past week. I joined Yumi Mori and Toshi Takasaki in Tokyo last week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of [http://www.pangaean.org Pangaea], a project they started while I was director of the lab. I met some old friends, including K. Nishi, a pioneer in electronic publishing and Bernie Kirsher, who started the rural school program in Cambodia that was the catalyst for our founding One Laptop per Child program. Next, I gave a lecture at Kyoto University at the launch event of a new research program meant to bring Japanese industry and the university's design school together. I dusted off an old presentation, [http://www.media.mit.edu/publications/bttj/ForwardPages5-6.pdf ''The Seven Secrets of the Media Lab''] and then went on to describe how the same principles of design apply to Sugar: the foundation for learning is the same, whether you are 8 or 80. Finally, I was reminiscing with John Maeda, president of RSID and former colleague at MIT, about Jerome Wiesner. Jerry was the true visionary behind all of the programs in the arts at MIT, a proponent of "STEAM" rather than STEM [[[Archive/Current_Events/2011-08-07|3],[http://stemtosteam.org/ 2]] since the 1960s. Jerry's one-sentence mission statement for the Media Lab, still has relevance:

1. I mostly look forward rather than back, so it is not often that I think about my time at the MIT Media Lab. But I had three occasions to think about it in the past week. I joined Yumi Mori and Toshi Takasaki in Tokyo last week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of [http://www.pangaean.org Pangaea], a project they started while I was director of the lab. I met some old friends, including K. Nishi, a pioneer in electronic publishing and Bernie Kirsher, who started the rural school program in Cambodia that was the catalyst for our founding One Laptop per Child program. Next, I gave a lecture at Kyoto University at the launch event of a new research program meant to bring Japanese industry and the university's design school together. I dusted off an old presentation, [http://www.media.mit.edu/publications/bttj/ForwardPages5-6.pdf ''The Seven Secrets of the Media Lab''] and then went on to describe how the same principles of design apply to Sugar: the foundation for learning is the same, whether you are 8 or 80. Finally, I was reminiscing with John Maeda, president of RSID and former colleague at MIT, about Jerome Wiesner. Jerry was the true visionary behind all of the programs in the arts at MIT, a proponent of "STEAM" rather than STEM [[[Archive/Current_Events/2011-08-07|3]],[http://stemtosteam.org/ 2]] since the 1960s. Jerry's one-sentence mission statement for the Media Lab, still has relevance:

"Technology in support of learning and expression by people and machines"

"Technology in support of learning and expression by people and machines"