The Intersection Between Computer Science and Digital Media: An Interview with D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D.

Authors

  • Joseph Nicolls Stanford University

Abstract

D. Fox Harrell, currently a tenured associate professor of Digital Media at MIT, earned his B.S. in Logic & Computation and B.F.A. in Electronic & Time-based Media at Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, both with University & College Honors. In addition to work in television production and game design, he earned a M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2000. He then gained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from UCSD in 2007. In 2013, he published a book through the MIT Press entitled Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, which focuses on the expressive potential of computational media, particularly concerning how this type of media portrays 'cultural ideas and sensory imagination.' Currently, he is serving out a fellowship at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Among his recent work, discussed in the conversation below, is a platform called Chimeria, a system that models the dynamics of group membership and individual identity. Demos of the platform include Gatekeeper (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/chimeria-gatekeeper/conv.html) and the  Chimeria Music Simulator. (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/chimeria/)

Author Biography

  • Joseph Nicolls, Stanford University
    Current freshman at Stanford University; undeclared major.

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Published

2015-03-21

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Interviews

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