Sep Kamvar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this talk, I will be discussing my book Syntax and Sage, which weaves together ideas about software, nature, art, and urban design to show how software shapes the world, how the world shapes people, and how people shape software. More specifically, I will introduce two ideas from the book: the idea of creating things that reduce the need for themselves, and the idea of using software to unlock people's natural capacities to shape the physical world around them. I will then show some examples of software/architecture couplets that arise naturally from these concepts, including a new kind of school called Wildflower Montessori schools.
Sep Kamvar is an associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab. Prior to MIT, Sep led the personalization team at Google and was a consulting professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired by Google in 2003.
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