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In this video, Pattie Maes shows us a demo on the new Sixth Sense technology, a wearable device that has a projector and interacts actively with the environment.
One of Maes's students, Pranav Mistry, spearheaded the designing of the technology.
Maes was the key architect behind what was once called "collaborative filtering" and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations - or "things like this" - fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes' Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology (and then a startup) that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they'd never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste.
Currently, Maes is running her newly founded Fluid Interfaces Group, also part of the MIT Media Lab, which aims at rethinking the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer.
TED.com
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