11.948 Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design
and Development (MIT) This workshop provides an introduction to
urban environmental design and explores the potential of
information technology and the Internet to transform public
education, city design, and community development in inner-city
neighborhoods. Integration of comprehensive ("top-down") and
grassroots ("bottom-up") approaches to design and planning is a
major theme. Students will work in a real neighborhood with real
people on a real project, putting theory into practice and
reflecting on insights gain 6.829 Computer Networks (MIT) How
does the global network infrastructure work and what are the
design principles on which it is based? In what ways are these
design principles compromised in practice? How do we make it
work better in today's world? How do we ensure that it will work
well in the future in the face of rapidly growing scale and
heterogeneity? And how should Internet applications be written,
so they can obtain the best po