CONFERENCE GRANT: Image and Meaning: Communicating Science and Technology (I & M), June 14-16, 2001, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

麻省理工学院正在举办一个为期三天的研讨会，讨论如何使用图像来最有效地传播科学和技术。参与者将包括科学家、成像技术专家、计算机科学家、摄影师、科学作家、插图画家、计算机建模师、数学家以及其他参与传播基础科学和研究成果的人。会议的重点将是从科学界到公众以及科学界内部的交流。300名与会者将听取在该地区工作的专业人士的演讲。然而，他们将花费大部分时间合作解决模型问题的解决方案，例如如何表示受体与配体的相互作用，如何在所有尺度上直观地显示时间的流逝，以及如何直观地解释一系列事件。那些承诺参加会议的人将在会议前后在一个会议网站上参加几个月。该网站将使参与者能够对用于传播科学的各种图像和文本进行“批评”和修改。它还将用于使参与者能够在工作组中协作解决模型问题。该项目的PI是Boyce Rensberger和Felice Frankel。伦斯伯格是麻省理工学院骑士科学新闻奖学金项目的主任。他是一名科学作家和编辑，曾在《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》担任过这些职务。弗兰克尔是麻省理工学院电气工程和计算机科学系的驻院艺术家和研究科学家。她对科学和工程领域的研究数据进行拍照和数字成像。她与乔治·怀特赛兹合作出版了《在事物的表面：科学中非凡的图像》。

0001042RENSBERGERThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting a three-day symposium to consider how to use images to communicate science and technology most effectively. Participants will include scientists, imaging technologists, computer scientists, photographers, science writers, illustrators, computer modelers, mathematicians, and others involved with communicating the basic science and findings from research. The focus of the conference will be on communication -- both from the scientific community to the general public, and within the scientific community. The 300 conference attendees will hear presentations from professionals working in the area. However, they will spend the majority of the time working collaboratively on solutions to model problems such as how to represent the interaction of a receptor with a ligand, how to make visually explicit the passage of time at all scales, and how to explain visually a sequence of events. Those who have committed to attend the conference will participate for several months in a conference web site prior to and after the meeting. The web site will enable participants to "critique" and make modification to various images and text used to communicate science. It also will be used to enable participants to collaborate in working groups on the model problems.The PI's for the project are Boyce Rensberger and Felice Frankel. Rensberger is director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at MIT. He is a science writer and editor and has worked in these capacities for both the New York Times and The Washington Post. Frankel is Artist-in-Resident and research scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She photographs and digitally images research data in science and engineering. She has collaborated with George Whitesides to publish "On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science."