out before me. I charge forward, and a road emerges behind me. Kotaro Takamura だ。そこには観客も審判もストップウォッチも存在しない。 Neither spectators nor referees nor stopwatches exist here. 【道程力】100mトラックを人より速く走る事は、真の競創で はない。誰も分け入った事の無い原野を一人切り開き、まだ
Build The reason I chose to come to MIT…It was a mountain so high that the peak was beyond the clouds. There seemed to be no path leading to the top. But…I soon realized there was no existing mountain to climb. I had to be the one to create the mountain from the ground up, to be the first to reach the peak. That’s how you survive in MIT.
risks, pioneer new ideas, and push beyond established boundaries. Photo Credit: Timothy Poulton https://timothypoultonphotography.com/gallery-2?itemId=dv5asexxypb0z8nms3bjph648afs23
Kay 1971 This is the century in which you can be proactive about the future; you don't have to be reactive. The whole idea of having scientists and technology is that those things you can envision and describe can actually be built. Photo courtesy of Nobukazu Kuriki Envision Technical Embody Social Engage Artistic Inspire Conceptual art & philosophy design, engineering & science empathy, respect & collaboration Photo courtesy of Nobukazu Kuriki art & narrative
of nature Photo Credit: Mohamed Elsayed https://unsplash.com/photos/oMnP8RbVy-s 海のあをにも染まずただよふ 若山牧水 White bird, are you not sad? You drift, never dyed by the navy blue of the sea or the sky’s blue. “Umi no Koe” by Bokusui Wakayama (1885–1928) English translation by Janine Beichman Photo Credit: Mohamed Elsayed https://unsplash.com/photos/oMnP8RbVy-s Photo Credit: Ali Abdul Rahman https://unsplash.com/photos/jiI2vW8If18
SAPPORO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 06: (L to R) Silver Medallist Akitsugu Konno, gold medalist Yukio Kasaya and bronze medalist Seiji Aochi of Japan pose on the podium after the ski jumping 70 metres at Miyanomori Jump Stadium during the Sapporo Olympic on February 6, 1972 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Superhighway” enabled by B-ISDN (Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network) and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Technologies in the 1980’s-90’s. My team at NTT Human Interface Labs focused on the creation of a new bi-directional realtime video-based distributed collaboration service, leading to the inventions of TeamWorkStation (1990) and ClearBoard (1992). ClearBoard-1 NTT Human Interface Labs with Minoru Kobayashi, et.al. 1980-1995 NTT Yokosuka ECL & NTT Human Interface Labs https://foursquare.com/v/ntt横須賀研究開発センタ/4b62542ef964a52097422ae3? openPhotoId=597ec130898bdc5ce5364cd8 CHI 92, CSCW 92, CACM 94, TOIS 93
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte#/media/File:Nicholas_Negroponte_USNA_20090415_cropped.jpg Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer. 1997. Tangible bits. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’97. Hiroshi Ishii. 2008. Tangible bits. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction - TEI ’08. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_orrery_in_Putnam_Gallery,_2009-11-24.jpg
Credit: Webb Chappell MIT Media Lab FRAMES 1996 “Getting in Touch with the Digital World” Tangible Bits ABACUS graspable media & ambient media foreground (center) & background (periphery) Tokyo, Japan PERVASIVE 2004 in Vienna AXIS magazine Vol. 142
Bits and Atoms March 1997 Presented at CHI ‘97 in Atlanta http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=258715 https://dl.acm.org/conference/chi The most cited CHI paper
like a stone cast into the sea. Most stones sink quietly, vanishing into the depths, forgotten by time. But a rare few— imbued with purpose—send ripples across the surface, ripples that swell into waves, crossing oceans, reaching distant shores. This is true impact— an unseen force that shapes the tides of thought. Citeology: Visualizing Paper Genealogy (2012) By Justin Matejka,Tovi Grossman,George Fitzmaurice, Autodesk Research CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages 181–190https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212796 Tidal Wave
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· 2017 https://www.advancedtreecareinc.com/caring-small-young-trees/ That's why community matters! Individual success is not solely based on personal effort or intrinsic merit, but largely depends on how one's work is perceived and recognized by others. Success is a collective verdict, not an individual attribute. The book reframes success as less about what you do and more about how the world responds to it.
called simply The Orrery) is a painting (oil on canvas, ca. 1766) by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a public lecture about a model solar system, with a lamp—in place of the sun—illuminating the faces of the audience.
suggests focusing on a romantic, long-term, and nonspecific future state rather than immediate, short-term objectives, as a key to fostering true innovation. He argues that a powerful, long-term vision acts as a "magnetic field from the future" that inspires and aligns brilliant people to create novel solutions, whereas rigid goals often lead to incremental thinking and short-sighted optimization. Dr. Alan Kay • https://jackyeh.me/newsletter/visions-not-goals/ https://www.google.com/search?q=Visions%2C+not+Goals+by+ALAN+KAY&sca_esv=5a5c6b72fce1dff2&rlz=1C5OZZY_enUS1153US1153&sxsrf=AE3TifMM6BWK_dXczQyn_c12pD_FNiPQ5g%3A1761907932962&ei=3JQEac-8Os2o5NoPrPHQA&ved=0ahUKEwjPmuLDos6QAxVNFFkFHfrZEQgQ4dUDCBM&uact=5&oq=Visions%2C+not+Goals+by+ALAN+KAY&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHlZpc2lvbnMsIG5vdCBHb2FscyBieSBBTEFOIEtBWTIFEAAY7wUyCBAAGKIEGIkFMggQABiABBiiBDIFE AAY7wUyBRAAGO8FSJQRUI4FWPgOcAJ4AJABAJgB5wGgAdEFqgEFNC4yLjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgigAp0FwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAggQABiwAxjvBcICCxAAGLADGKIEGIkFmAMA4gMFEgExIECIBgGQBgSSBwU1LjIuMaAH6ROyBwUzLjIuMbgHmgXCB wM3LjHIBwU&sclient=gws-wiz-serp • https://jackyeh.me/newsletter/visions-not-goals/
MIT Media Lab 1995-2010 Tangible Bits “REBOOT!” 2005-2030 Radical Atoms TRANSFORM 2014 Urp 1998 Nicholas Negroponte Feb. 10th, 1995 1990-1994 Seamless Telepresence musicBottles 2000 Communicating with those no longer with us through Tangible Memories to remember them MIT inTouch 1999 bioLogic 2015 2020-2200 TeleAbsence 1998-2030 Tangible Telepresence NTT ClearBoard 1992 SandScape 2003 inFORM 2014 mirrorFugue 2013 Presence of Absence ▶︎ TeleAbsence
Atoms Exhibition @ Ars Electronica Center Tangible Media Group | MIT Media Lab RADICAL ATOMS AND THE ALCHEMISTS OF OUR TIME bioLogic KinetiX Cilllia aeroMorph
& Hiroshi Ishii CHI ’04, ’07, Ars Electronica ‘04 Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti & Hiroshi Ishii CHI ’04, ‘07 I/O Brush Exhibition Ars Electronica Center Sep. 2004 ~ Aug. 2005 Where does the ink come from? Your environment becomes a color palette to draw with Capturing and weaving the (hi)story for/with every stroke
Exhibition @ Ars Electronica Center Tangible Media Group | MIT Media Lab RADICAL ATOMS AND THE ALCHEMISTS OF OUR TIME bioLogic KinetiX Cilllia aeroMorph
Ishii UIST ’13, ‘14 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards: Winner Experimental Red Dot Award: Best of the Best - Design Concept Laval Virtual 2014 Award - INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & SIMULATION Core 77 Award - Interaction Student Winner IDSA IDEA Award Bronze
Alex Olwal, Akimitsu Hogge, Hiroshi Ishii. UIST ’13, ‘14 Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Amit Zoran, Philipp Schoessler, Jared Counts CHI ’15, Milan Design Week ’14, LEXUS DESIGN AMAZING 2014 MILAN Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards: Winner - Experimental Red Dot Award: Best of the Best - Design Concept Laval Virtual 2014 Award - INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & SIMULATION Core 77 Award - Interaction Student Winner IDSA IDEA Award Bronze “Beyond Tangible Bits, Toward Radical Atoms”
they die. Then when they are forgotten.” Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016) "I want to always remember you.” “I want to always be remembered by you." Telepresence Connecting to Remote Space “Being There and Being Together” ClearBoard NTT Human Interface Labs Hiroshi ISHII & Minoru Kobayashi CHI 92, CSCW 92, CACM 94, TOIS 93
now past future time now past future time Illusory communication here birth death "I want to always remember you.” “I want to always be remembered by you." birth death here afterlife
memory of self and family in childhood/youth Enabling Remembrance for Loved Ones Memory Birth Revisiting Personal Past Past Evoking fading memories of past life encounters with friends and loved ones with whom connection was lost. The First Death (Biological Death) Preparing for death by archiving and curating memories together with family and friends Afterlife Remembering the memory of departed loved one Grieving family and friends communicating through tangible and ambient media for remembrance The Second Death “Being forgotten” Remembering Departed Loved Ones To Appear in “PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality “
lost.” Loneliness (c) noell oszvald https://www.facebook.com/noellosvald/posts/ pfbid032WY1k56wH4hMCpcb9Fb4G83M8vbQxPvCtVahdq1GsMJaVQwD4xzPAfNtoNzGak6Ul “TeleAbsence addresses the vast emotional and temporal distance caused by the memory of loved ones who drifted apart and faded away.”
die twice. First, when they die. Then when they are forgotten.” Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36761497 The nature of memory and legacy, suggesting that physical death is only the first end. The final, true death occurs when all memory of a person fades away. This idea has resonated with many and has been explored in works of art and culture, such as the MIT Media Lab project "TeleAbsence," which uses the quote to frame its mission of creating communication channels with those who have passed. When someone or something is gone, the memory, emotional impact, or what is implied by their absence can become more potent and felt than their physical presence. The idea is that an empty space can make the person or thing that was there even more real and vivid through contemplation, memory, or longing. Prompt to Google: “absence is the highest form of presence” https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce#/media/ File:James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig,_1915_cropped.jpg Prompt to Google: “People die twice. First, when they die. Then when they are forgotten.” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ei_Rokusuke.jpg
a human being captured on the steps of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima-city right after an atomic bomb explosion in 1945 (Serena, 2023) Hiroshima Shadow 1945
the beloved thing, made painful by its absence’ Teixeira de Pascoaes 1912 “Saudade is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.” Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade (c) noell oszvald https://www.fl
emptiness does not mean nothingness but rather the absence of inherent existence in all things. Everything is dependent on other conditions for its existence: we exist in this context in relationship to others or in relationship to emptiness. In Buddhism, impermanence reflects on how nothing remains the same; everything is subject to birth, growth, decay, death, dissolution and recomposition. Impermanence refers to the understanding that all phenomena are in a constant state of flux and change. 諸法空相 真空妙有 一期一会 会者定離 生者必滅 泡沫夢幻 無常迅速 有為転変 http://www.r-photoclass.com/07-shutter-speed/
February 10, 1926 died: August 30, 1998 I loved 文学, but WW2 made it impossible for me to study 文 学. I went to 東京薬科大学 instead. 石井裕 @ishii_mit is my son. （2010/01/24〜）
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/158451 Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Pillis, Pat Pataranutaporn, Xiao Xiao, Hayoun Noh, Lucy Li, Alaa Algargoosh, Jean-Baptiste Labrune; TeleAbsence: A Vision of Past and Afterlife Telepresence. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality 2025; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00441
connects us.” Reflecting on Remote Time, I have come to believe that we can deepen our bonds across time itself—with lost loved ones, our former selves, our ancestors, and even descendants we may never meet. Across time, absence becomes a new form of presence. What once felt impossibly distant begins to feel closer than before—almost within reach. TeleAbsence expands our capacity to care, to remember, and to see ourselves as part of a longer human arc. It becomes a living medium, stretching across generations and weaving fragments of identity into continuity. In this way, memory becomes more than remembrance. It becomes a human bond. https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=%2522electrical%2Barc%2522&asset_id=1744060687 Hiroshi Ishii April 14, 2026 CHI 2026 in Barcelona
lost. An *amber* remembers the light it once held. An *ember* remembers the warmth it once gave. Between them breathes *TeleAbsence* — the quiet glow of what remains, and the gentle lingering echo of what is gone.” Hiroshi Ishii
Perspective of Hubble Space Telescope http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star/pr2010013a/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_01.jpg http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star/pr2005037a/
(1977~ ) Voyager 2 (1977~ ) http://www.nasa.gov/ http://www.nasa.gov/ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ Gravitational Slingshot Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 used the power of this slingshot to shift their trajectory and accelerate from planet to planet April 2016 Member Meeting Hiroshi Ishii MIT Media Lab
Sagrada Familia basilica, which became the world’s tallest church on Thursday after a section of its central tower was lifted into place, in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-barcelonas-sagrada-familia-becomes-the-worlds-tallest-church/ https://velvetescape.com/sagrada-familia-highlights/
solution explains the world around us BUILDING SPIRAL TOWER OF THE BABEL TRANS-DISCIPLINARY STUDY THAT TRANSCENDS ART, DESIGN, SCIENCE, and TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY enables the solution The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) & ART DESIGN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Spiral by Hiroshi Ishii
Pragmatic Be Romantic & Realistic https://www.fl Photo by Graham Holtshausen on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/milky-way-galaxy-wallpaper-fUnfEz3VLv4
becomes obsolete But the future is never-ending But true vision is ever-lasting Photo courtesy of Nobukazu Kuriki http://kurikiyama.jp “Cradle of Stars” by Scott Cresswell
becomes obsolete, but Vision is ever-lasting. What legacy do you wish to leave for those living in 2200? Thanks! Hiroshi Ishii 2200 “Cradle of Stars” by Scott Cresswell 石井 裕 Hiroshi Ishii MIT Media Lab [email protected] @ishii_mit ishii.mit ishii-mit
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