Mind, Magic & Mischief

On October 30, 2015, the Media Lab marked its 30th anniversary with a day-long symposium, Mind, Magic & Mischief at Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, on the MIT campus in Cambridge.

Hosted by magicians Penn & Teller, the event celebrated the Lab’s roots as a Salon des Refusés, engaging a distinguished roster of speakers who presented on topics emblematic of the Lab’s history: creative, contrarian, and counter-intuitive, with humanitarian, artistic, scientific, and social purposes.

Agenda

Mind, Magic and Mischief
Hosted by Penn & Teller
Robert B. Millard
Joi Ito, Steve Pinker
Danny Hillis
Marvin Minsky
Danny Hillis with Stewart Brand and Rosalind W. Picard

11:30am
Alan Kay with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and Ayah Bdeir
Tod Machover

2:00pm
Maria Zuber
Nolan Bushnell
John Maeda
Mary Lou Jepsen
Mary Lou Jepsen with George Church and Kevin Esvelt

4:00pm
Hosted by Tom Ashbrook
Emma Rothschild
MIT President L. Rafael Reif
Kofi Annan
Megan Smith
Nicholas Negroponte
Neri Oxman
Marco Tempest