Nicholas Spies

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since June 21, 1999

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June 21, 1999, on Alex:
I had a lovely Samoyed named Alex; coming across this page was like finding him in dog heaven... Thank you.
June 21, 1999, on MIT Media Laboratory:
MIT has no monopoly in this area: Carnegie Mellon University (which prides itself as being as recognizable a CS giant as MIT and Stanford ... But does the world?) had an active interactive multimedia research program a few years ago, presumably competing for some of the play money Mr. Negroponte mines so skillfully. One project consisted of boiling down two narrative videos, totalling 90 min, to 30 "interactive" minutes on an videodisc, somehow "gaining" information/value along the way! Another placed the entire known output of an artist (along with some forgeries) on a videodisc along with hundreds of pair-wise comparisons (in dreadful NTSC) even though printed illustrations, with a far higher resolution, could easily be compared side-by-side by hand. The suggestion of seeking funds to conduct efficacy studies establishing the advantages of "interactive multimedia" over conventional media (if any) was met with dirision and incredulity, because, after all the whole exercise...