Building 32
The Distributed Robot Garden
The robotic garden demo will show flowers that light up and change colors and display basic algorithmic concepts through the use of the changing colors of the flowers.
The Baxter Soft Hand Grasping Demo
This demo will show an object grasping with a soft hand attached to the Baxter robot.
Literature Workshops
10:00-10:45AM
On-line Shakespeare Modules
See great performances from around the globe,
and vote for your favorite Hamlet!
Emily Griffiths Jones
11:00-11:45AM
What did Beowulf sound like? Was King Arthur really real? What were books like before the printing press? Come find out!
Arthur Bahr
12:00-12:45PM
How to Read a Poem
Mary Fuller
1:00-1:45PM
Children’s Story Time
Dear Diary, I went into the wild to have fun with a cat. Unfortunate things happened...
Daria Johnson
The DIGI-COMP II Educational Toy
The CSAIL DIGI-COMP II is an oversized recreation of the original DIGI-COMP II, which was a classic educational computer kit produced from the 1960’s. The machine is an automatic binary digital mechanical computer, capable of conducting basic operations like adding, multiplying, subtracting, dividing, counting, and calculating complements. Come see for yourself!