Future of Innovative Learning Takes Center Stage at Stanford : Media X Program [Video]
In just the past few years, high-performance computing has awoken to a new era in the enterprise. Today’s hyper-connected knowledge workers have access to cloud-enabled social tools. Martha G. Russell, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford University, talked to SiliconAngle’s Founder John Furrier on SiliconANGLE.tv’s premier video production, theCube, on the new trends of innovative ideas from students and researchers at the 17th Stanford-Accel Symposium event.
Russell briefed us on the importance of the Media X as it connects businesses with Stanford University’s world-renowned faculty to study new ways for people and technology to intersect. She said Media X, a program that supports research focused on new technologies, promotes collective learning and how people use technology, how technology affects people’s lives, how to better design technology to make it more usable, and how innovative use of technologies in research will uncover the vast opportunities on the horizon.
The Media X Director said this year’s event is focused on transforming 21st century enterprise and Media X is working on Silicon Valley enterprises and other parts of the world on research that will help to produce new insights on how we measure and improve the productivity of knowledge worker.
Based on industry feedback, the Media X program is developing interactive technologies related to learning and training, focusing on the integration of technology and an understanding of future knowledge demands to enhance understanding and performance of knowledge workers relevance to business. Media X is focused on research related to collaboration; participation; human machine interaction and sensing; image, speech and language processing, and form factors.
Russell added Media X programs are approached by firms and partners with a wide variety of backgrounds about projects. An example is research projects by big businesses such as construction industry on file-sharing communication.
You can check out our coverage of the event on SiliconANGLE.com and theCube, and see more information on Media X programs at mediax.stanford.edu.
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