Collaborative ITP timeline

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Collaborators George Agudow, Midori Yasuda, John Dimatos
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last edit was made on: 10/8/2009

Add a story or a note about something you remember by year. If you have trouble remembering a project class or person from the last 5 years, do a search on ITPedia and you may very well find something to prompt your memory. This a completely freeform exercise, add a new topic if you think it's needed, add a prompting question you think is relevant and could spur along other people. Enjoy!


Contents

Prompting Questions

  • Where can you found the best solution in custom term paperabout IT?
  • Who was the first speaker ever in Red's Class?
  • When did we switch to processing? What came before that?
  • Perhaps in 2002 or 2003? Director, baby! When did we start using Director? Jeremy Rotztain
  • When was the first glove project made at ITP?
  • Why is the japanese room called the japanese room?
  • When did the resident researchers start and who were the first ones?
  • when did we install the lockers?
  • How many students were in the first class at ITP? who were they?
  • In addition to pic/syquest/jaz, when did handycams, cable boxes, cd-rom authoring tools, maya installs, sgi boxen go away? - Clay Shirky
  • when did Applications start? - Clay Shirky
  • What year was floor4.org made, and what was the name of the ITP online journal that Lisa Cavender and Jessica Safran made before it? That was '95. - Tom Igoe
  • what year was the first ITP show? - Marianne Petit
  • re: old days / pre-Yorb --- Window ... when did that start? It was definitely running in summer 1987 when I got here and is what Dan's apartment appeared on. - Marianne Petit
  • Why do I remember a Pee Wee's Playhouse connection back in the late 80's, or am I making that up? - Marianne Petit
  • What did NAPLS stand for? They were the big desk-sized graphics machines that used huge 10" floppy discs-we had a whole room full of them.....-Frank Migliorelli Frank - you're close, it was NAPLPS, which stood for North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax. Canadian-developed protocol for online communications that introduced graphics to a text-dominated world. "Bill Herring"

Requests

Hey! Some of us are working on a timeline visualization of ITP's history and we're looking for content mainly GRAPHICAL; here's a list of the things we're looking for:

  • Front page of the ITP Web site
  • photos
    • people
    • projects
    • group photos/class photos
    • floor pictures
    • show pictures
    • faculty/administration (RED!!)
    • technology that's used (floppy disks, drives, etc)
    • screenshots of software, programs that you wrote
    • special events
  • press clipings
  • ITP Turning points
  • floor plans http://www.timszetela.com/floorplan.html
  • post urls

IMPORTANT: it's a timeline so please upload your images with YEAR and what it is, any tags are welcome.

Post them here please!!!

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By Topic

Programming

Physical computing

Red's Applications class

The ITP show

The Floor

By Year

1979

First year of instruction, with class of approx 30 students if memory serves correctly. Martin Elton was the chairman of the program, and created the environment of learning and exploration that has persisted through ITP's history. Initial home of the program was on Bleecker Street, near MacDougal St.

There are actually two entities at this stage. The Alternate Media Center (AMC), founded in the mid70s, had been working on "new media" projects, including the Reading Project (the first two-way cable test)and the WETA Teletext project. Pat Quarles and Eileen Connell had been working on projects such as these for Red prior to ITPs founding.

In 1979, ITP was founded. In addition to Martin Elton, John Carey and Martin Nisenholtz came on board both to work on the WETA research project and teach at ITP.

1980

ITP moves to 725 Broadway, 4th floor. Brian Champness, visiting researcher and lecturer from Plymouth Polytechnic (now University of Plymouth), brings Monty Python-style social psychology to NYU - beautiful to behold. Students and guests are in stitches during his lecture on de-umbilification - the universal angst created when we are separated from the connections to communications and computing devices. In a pre-wireless world with its reliance on wires, there was clear similarity to the notion of being separated from the umbilical cord. The theory may need some tweaking now given the emergence of wireless tech...

Friday night wine and cheese parties, anchored by a guest speaker, are a big hit.

Several staff members and students are involved in a trial of teletext service in Washington, D.C.

Slow-scan TV and videotext live event on the night of the Carter-Reagan presidential election between ITP and Mazzo nightclub in Amsterdam produced by Tom Klinkowstein and Martin Niesenholtz.

1981

Martin Nisenholtz is awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to teach artists about interactive media. Using the Telidon Information Provider System, invited street artist John Fekner generates single page Telidon images into a two minute animation, Toxic Wastes from A to Z (Coming After You and Me) shown at the New Museum in January 1982. Keith Haring, Maria Manhattan and several other visual and performing artists create interactive art pieces that are later shown at the American Film Institute in Washington and Los Angeles.

1982

Michael Mills teaching cognitive psychology in Montreal gets a call from Red. Red: "Hello, this is Red Burns calling." Mike: "Hi Red. What a surprise? We only met once for 20 minutes" Red: "You want a job at NYU or what?" Mike: "But Red, you hardly know me!" Red: "I have one full time position in this new program I'm starting. You want a job or what?" Mike: "Why me? I'm doing cognitive science, not media" Red: "It's just a hunch. I don't care about this cognitive sh-t" Mike: "OK." Red: "You aren't a rigid type, are you? Be prepared to work your ass off" Mike: "OK".

1983

George Agudow joins ITP. Things are looking up. We are getting organized. Red, Mike and Pat go out on Broadway in the middle of winter to recruit students. George teaches a toddler Ben Mills how to cut paper and make design patterns with coins and paper.

1984

Coincident with the Bell System breakup date, ITP offers the "Telecommunications in Transition" course, taught by AT&T Senior VP Ed Goldstein. Each week a different industry luminary addressed the students, and at times debated Goldstein. Guest Lecturers included Brian Thompson, President of MCI, Ed Larkin, head of the NY State Public Service Commission, and Rick Neustadt of the FCC, among many others.

1985

Mike Mills creates ICM. Mike gives an insane class blending programming ("logo for computer science") with theories of mind. Mike has his one and only teaching "high" at ITP with then student Stacy Horn. We actually place butcher paper all over the walls one of the labs and diagram the output of a recursive logo program that draws "trees". Stacy stares at the drawing and has an ah-ah moment. (Oh God, I will never ever forget that moment as long as I live. --Stacy.)

Apple (not computer) Bites appears on public access

<Bob Bossert> Red's fall class guy who started MTV spoke. </Bob Bossert>

1986

Nick West completes his thesis and heads to San Francisco where he subsequently joins the Apple Multimedia Lab in 1987.

Abbe Don complains about smoking in the lounge, which was a seating area you'd hit soon after getting off the elevators. This blows my mind that not all that long ago, we smoked openly on the 4th floor (but not Abbe). I might have the year wrong though. It might have been the next year. This is Bob, I think she was talking to me. --I started the program part-time in the fall of 1986. I'm horribly allergic to cigarette smoke so it definitely could have been me.

Bill Fallon completes his thesis about AT&T and somewhat ironically gets a tip from fellow ITP Alum Bill Herring about a new group being formed at AT&T Bell Labs to conceive of, prototype and develop new consumer services for the soon-to-be deregulated AT&T. He gets the job and is plunged into an environment with virtually unlimited budgets or boundaries. His first project brings to life a collaborative eduction concept he conceived at ITP, linking elementary and secondary school classrooms in six countries via e-mail and a collaborative curriculum plan.

<Bob Bossert> Wasn't this when we first go Macrovision (MacroMedia, a.k.a Flash)that summer we received Macrovision Interactive. Created the moon illusion on one of our first Macs for Mike Mills Cognitive Perception class.

Gary's class my project was a Video Conference single camera controlled via a stepper motor, with a breadboard interface to an Apple II. Where when a participant spoke the microphone would trigger its' movement to the speaker. Identified "Cough" bug.

Pat's design class we worked with AT&T Frame Creation System (FCS) ... also used a Prodigy ... and the big table size PDP11s. Remember the 12 inch disks.

ITP received IBM PC with Video Tape controller card, and we worked on interactive video "Tristan & Isulda (SP)". </Bob Bossert>

Spring of 1986: In Pat's class (Introduction to Communications ?), we get a shared account to participate in The WELL (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), one of the first online communities that was subsequently named "The Hippest Place in Cyberspace" by either The New York Times or Time Magazine in the early 90s. We connected at 14.4k baud via a modem with that now obsolete "modem connection" sound. [corey menscher - a 14.4k baud modem in 1986? Are you sure? Even 9600 baud would've been a luxury then. 2800 baud was pretty much the standard.]


1987

ITP gets Amiga Computers

Rename Apple Bytes to Window, jeeze we should have added an "s"; and we could have stopped Bill Gates. I think Pat made the final call, maybe Red.

HyperCard is released by Apple Computer and becomes the de facto "interactive multimedia authoring tool."

Mike Mills transfers his knowledge of the Logo programming language and becomes an expert Hypertalk hacker.

<Bob Bossert> Presented Thesis: Icon based interactive video creation system, in "C" fully functional interface on the Amiga. Drag and drop from 3 edges of screen into main section, imagine building with blocks. The system supported full logic and looping. </Bob Bossert>

Joe Rosen takes a summer class with Mike Mills. Abbe Don is there too. Begins a lifelong relationship. Joe claims Mike closes his office door in his face.

1988

Summer 1988: Abbe Don is the first ITP student to do a summer internship at Apple Computer in the Human Interface Group.

Mike Mills goes to Apple

Fall 1988: The first color Mac II's appear on the ITP floor complete with a "really big" 13-inch monitor.

1989

ITP obtains 4 mac classics (one had a full .5 megs of RAM!) Our graduation ceremony was held at Grace Church, which was lovely. Joe Rosen is Mike's first intern at Apple. Joe develops first digital movie editing application -- precursor to Quicktime. Blows crowd away at the end of summer show. ITP is on the map.

Large class of incoming multimedia artists, Marianne Petit, Rachel Leventhal, Kevin Russell, Sally Applin,  Patricia Decker,  Jaime Levy, Dan O'Sullivan and Kenny Miller land on the 4th floor, much hacking and art ensues.

Lili Cheng visits her Cornell roommate Rachel Leventhal in NY, becomes enamored with ITP.

1990

ITP Alum Stacy Horn forms Echo Communications Group. (Actually I did that in 1989, during my last year at ITP!)

Room full of Mac Quadras appears (Thank you Linda Stone)

Jaime Levy organizes the first ever public ITP art show. It (and the large quantities of alcohol that was served on the 4th floor) was not authorized by Red Burns.

The Art of Human Computer Interface Design is published: edited by Brenda Laurel, funded by Joy Mountford, with articles by Abbe Don and Mike Mills.

Super genius professor John Thompson invents Lingo, and turns Macromedia director into a full authoring system. ITP Programming class beta tests and pushes the limits.

1991

ITP gets Applenet network in the labs On Red's recommendation, Mike Mills hires Dan O'Sullivan as a summer intern at Apple's Human Interface. Group. Mike can't understand what Dan is working on -- something about navigating real world scenes. Red tells Mike to relax and trust Dan. Dan blows away the engineers at the end of summer show with a precursor to QuickTime VR.

Connect Cable Access programming with telephone network(Dan's Apartment)

Proto Show II (Pam Payne and Marianne Petit organize. dano shows body as cursor controls rc car, discovers he is going bald)

Physical computing takes a big step forward with the introduction of the Goldbrick, interfacing nintendo controllers to hypercard and director.

Rachel Leventhal and Kenny Miller build interactive floor installation called 'How do we dance a story' where participants walk on a nintendo power pad and control midi synthesizers and voice samples to create noun, verb adverb cuttups,  homage to Burroughs in full effect.

Kevin Russell and Kenny Miller build Swallowtail, an interactive art experience with music, games and poetry. 2 Macs + Midi Instruments + First generation Director programming are combined to take over the audio lab.   ITP's First audio instructor Bob Faire is moved to tears (in a good way) by the experience.

Dan O'Sullivan and Kenny Miller Interactive Cable Shows (Dan's Apt and Mindful respectively) are featured in the Economist as Avant Garde Art ... August 1991.   ITP is exposed to the international business elite.

Rachel Leventhal's creates master work and thesis project Kiosk Woman  an interactive videodisc sculpture with pressure sensitive floor made from hacked nintendo power pads and scrap metal, allows characters to follow users around a space while delivering a continuous monologue.

1992

Spring; First Physical Computer Class

ITP Spring Show Canceled at last minute due to riots LA.

First Apple Design Competition held, ITP participates,  Rachel Leventhal designs camera hat.   Apple is totally perplexed by our fashion orientation.   Wait for the iPhone camera hat to debut in 2011.

1993

The Chaos CD project...what began as a creative look at chaos theory became Myst with an attitude. Mike Mills hires Lily Cheng as Apple intern. Lily goes on to be famous.

1994

The first ITP web server set up as a thesis project by Mike Cosaboom, with assistance from Art Johnson and Eric Brietbard, on an old Mac II and other scavenged parts. Eventually Red is convinced to purchase an SGI Indy for the department's official site.

ITP goes to Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques conference: Nick West and Shannon McGarity took Yorb to SIGGRAPH.

Bridget McGraw [1] presents her thesis project, The Amazing McScent™ Machine, at the end of year show and takes away the entire body of her ITP work on a 44 MB Syquest disk.

ITP Alums Kenny Miller and Rachel Leventhal featured in New York Magazine Cyber Soho Issue.

ITP press machine continues in Rolling Stone,  Kenny and Rachel and Stacey Horn are featured.    Magazines begin their long fascination with digital culture as the next big thing.

1995

1st Interval Design Competition. (Was Apple Design Competition - Organized by Joy Mountford)

Mike Connor bursts into the first day of Red's class late, having swallowed some lamp oil trying to teach himself to breathe fire...and therefore having his stomach pumped.

Toshio Otaka, a student from Japan, starts keeping an online diary (the word blog does not yet exist) that details his interactions with students and faculty at ITP in reasonably intimate detail. (It remains one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. - Stacy Horn.)

http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~student/toshi/diary.html

Toshi took the diary part down, but what remains of his website is at echonyc where he describes ITP as "the hottest institution in the world pursuing multimedia field." When his diary was up it began with the headline, "It's PRIVATE! Nevertheless, You'll Keep Reading, Won't You?" It kills me that it's gone. You can get a small idea of what made it so great when you read his restaurant reviews, but it might be a you had to be there kind of thing. There were articles written about it at the time, and I thought there was one in the New York Times, but I can't find it. I found one at the Chicago Sun Times, but you have to be a member to read it.

Toshi's Private Diary has been restored.

1996

Fall; The origin of TNO: Rani Kalal started it as Tuesday Night Out, by standing up at the end of Red's class and saying "Who needs a *drink*?" Most of the class followed her. She and Gabrielle Lupe continued it in the spring, moving it to Thursday night.

Sean Kelly starts mailing list

January; ITP floor doubles in size

Summer; YORB comes to an end

Dan O'Sullivan joins FT faculty, gets tenure

1997

Faculty Member Pat O'Hara retires

First online ITP Radio station - Better Living Through Radio (BLT Radio)

With expanded floor space, size of incoming class grows from 70 to 115 (not totally sure, but I think. -Midori)

Midori Yasuda starts work at ITP as the new student and faculty services coordinator, replacing the much beloved JiMi Choi

Maybe the first ITP Halloween party extravaganza on the floor?

1998

Marianne Petit joins the faculty

Spring '98: Masamichi Udagawa teaches "Designing Experience" for first time.

Midori moves over into the admissions, special events and alumni coordinator role, replacing Justin Davila who moves on to bigger and better things.

Edward "Gordie" Gordon joins ITP in Midori's old role as student and faculty services coordinator

Interactive 360 Degree Panoramic Photograph of Classes of 1998, 1999 (and Red) shot in ITP Lounge by Bill Swersey

1999

Red wine is thrown against the wall in the ITP lounge. Red bans the consumption of alcohol during ITP Friday Night social hours, that still stands to this day. Long live the boxed wine. Watch video from the 1999 Halloween Party here - at the end of this video are some clips of Jaime's Chihuahuas, Tracy's shaking Egg Eyeballs, Harry Borrelli's spinning? project: http://itp30.shiffman.net/files/ITP_halloweenpty1999.mov (you will need an MP4 video codec to see this)

First ITP Haircutting Day! Watch video here: http://itp30.shiffman.net/files/haircuts.avi (you will need an MP4 video codec to see this)

ITP Discarded Computer Junk Seance / Dance

R142 NYC Subway car released - cars partly designed by Antenna Design a.k.a ITP adjunct faculty Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa (cars would go live onto the tracks in 2000)

Subway Vending Machines also designed by Antenna

First (and last) ITP Prom held in May, downstairs in Tisch Commons - Jaime rented a disco ball and was in heaven. Jonah's band played at the Prom.

ITP Spring Show, 1999. Watch video from this here: http://itp30.shiffman.net/files/ITP_Show_1999_JBC_SA.mov (you will need an MP4 video codec to see this)

2000

ITPoetry! Once a semester for 2 or three semesters (I can't remember)

Jean-Marc Gauthier joins FT faculty

Interval Research Corporation officially closed its doors in April 2000

ITP goes to SIGGRAPH New Orleans: Danny, Camille, Jonah, Katherine, Rania showing work.

Danny Rozin's Wooden Mirror turns on for the first time

Golan Levin and colleagues from MIT Media Lab's Aesthetic Computing Group shows off their work in the old Japanese room

Haiku's take over the student listserves

ITP Halloween party extravaganza

Rob Ryan joins the Tech Staff

Marlon Evans joins the Tech Staff

2001

ITP in Cuba

Phys comp becomes a core class

Tom Igoe joins Full Time faculty

Japanese room moves from the Lab to its current location

Physical Computing shop moves from room 406 to the Lab

Nicole Ridgway arrives at ITP; Nathaniel Stern's heart goes a-flutter.

"Telecom in Transition" is no more

ITP News streaming show

Dr. Groovealicious starts his morning talk show

Tom Igoe: Master Teacher is up for an NYU teaching award.

First and maybe only ITP Talent Show

Scored from a dot-bomb fire sale, ITP gets a foosball table! Quickly banned from play during class hours (loud). Many vicious late-night foos matches ensue.

Toshio Iwai visits ITP and presents his work in the new Japanese Room

2002

Al Gore visits ITP

Nancy Hechinger starts teaching thesis,(this is Nancy with a question:I don't think there was a thesis show the first year. I thought it was just in-class presentations. I invited some outside guests the first year. Red was a bit miffed with me for doing that, I remember. Miffed is a mild word, by the way. The second or third year<<MIchael Schneider's year, we started a very low key version of thesis week, I think)

The first and only "Thesis Show"

Yuri Gitman and Carlos de Llarena create NodeRunner. Yuri Gitman & Jonny Goldstein on Tech TV playing the game.

Mattias is asleep on the couch

ITP net radio starts up again

ITP in Cuba II

ITP goes to the Villette-Numerique festival in Paris, where several ITP students presented work.

ITP begins Assistive Tech curriculum in collaboration with Montefiore Children's Hospital

Nicole Ridgway comes back from South Africa to teach a few classes - and marries Nathaniel Stern while she's here. His heart goes a-flutter again.

ITP's GAs become Lab Assistants after the GAs tried to unionize

Survivor Thailand airs from September 19 – December 19, 2002 on CBS featuring ITP Alumnus, Shii Ann Huang. From Wikipedia: "When only ten players remained, the usual time for a merge, the two tribes moved onto one beach, with a feast awaiting them. The two tribes took this to mean that they were merging, and Shii Ann Huang attempted to use this to her advantage by openly trying to ally herself with the "former" opposing tribe. At the next challenge they attended, however, the two tribes were informed that they were living on one beach, but were not merged. This backfired on Shii Ann when her tribe lost the Immunity Challenge and she was voted off for her excessive scheming. Despite this, Shii Ann was the only representative of the season to appear as a contestant on Survivor: All-Stars which aired on February 1, 2004, where she placed 6th."

2003

Photo of Red from 2003

Jonathan's Throbbing Boil emerges, stretching the membranes of interactivity with a weekly talk show from the 4th floor. Sadly the "lance the boil" feature is currently inactive.

ITP begins the practice of Thesis Week

WhatIsVictoriaSecret I think this was in 2003. Feel free to move it if that's not correct.

Marc Maleh, Quin Charity, and Jonny Goldstein create the PowerSuit

Helper-Monkey.com the ITP physical computing superstore starts up.

Liz Goodman and Michelle Chang launch Wiki

ITP begins Tech & Social Justice with funding from the Nathan Cummings Foundation

ITP goes to Ubicomp: 12 ITP students were a major part of the gallery at ubicomp that year, conference organizers still reference it as "what we should do again"

ITP goes to SIGGRAPH: Mark Argo and Ahmi Wolf make a big boom at the conference with Bass Station

ITP Brother / Sister team Dan Mikesell and Elizabeth Mikesell present their thesis "The Head Reliquary of Karen Carpenter".....and graduate.

ITP Lab Assistants become Resident Researchers

Residents move from 407 to 445

407 becomes The Firmware Lab

James Clar makes 3D Display Cube, ID Design Distinction Award, Wired NextFest 2004 & 2005

Network Lab goes away

Nancy Lewis '98, Tony Tseng and John Duane join the Tech Staff

Long Lab becomes first Quiet Room

2004

Megatron launches Drivey-bys

Ayad's sculpture of a crucified Jesus hangs in the middle of 4th floor

ITP's last Syquest and Jaz drives die

Jonny Goldstein launches W.I.G. The Wearables Interest Group

Tom Igoe and Dan O'Sullivan's book "Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers" published

ITP goes to Ubicomp: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki, Younghui Kim, Milena Iossifova (Berry), Dan Mikesell, Daniel Hirschmann, Yuriko Fujii, Dan Melinger, Christine Brumback, and Tom Igoe. [| photos]

Pac Manhattan http://pacmanhattan.com/

Christina Goodness and Megatron launch Drive-bys (for real)

George Agudow is given the NYU Distinguished Administrator Award.

ITP Hosts the Big Picture Summit

Video and Audio labs move to 447

ITP goes to SIGGRAPH: Daniel Shiffman, Milena Iossifova, Younghui Kim, Dan Mikesell

2005

Dodgeball launches, later sold to Google

itp-flash listserve launches

jelloCube (replacement piece for the Alamo sculpture at Astor Place) http://www.santram.net/jellocube/

For a short time, there was also TNOOT (Thursday Night Out on Tuesday), instigated by Jaki Levy in 2005 as an excuse to get drinks after Red's class.

Interactive Bag of Hammers makes its NYC debut at the Winter Show

"Stage" the ITP server is destroyed by hackers

Long Lab (Quiet Room) becomes 3D Lab

Audio and Video move to the Intel Lab and gets renamed The Time Warner Post Production Lab

ITP goes to Korea, Gwangju Design Biennale - Despina Papadopoulos, Younghui Kim, Milena Berry, Amy Parness, Ari Churi - as well as Antenna

Tikva Morowati takes on being TNO Queen, passed on by Jun Oh.

2006

Rob Moon takes on role as DriveBy King, passed on by Josh Knowles and Dan Phiffer

Michael Dory takes on role as TNO King, passed on by Tikva Morowati

A Botanicalls plant makes its first phone call.

"Firmware Lab" torn out as result of switch to Arduino, the Physical Computing Lab doubles in size

Rob Faludi launches ITP BlogBlender.

ITP goes en masse to Maker Faire

ITP goes to FutureFashion Event in Pisa, Italy showcasing wearable technology projects

Jenny Chowdhury's Popularity Dialer

Matty Sallin's Family Hedge (now known as kinfo)

Residents move to 441

Andy Maskin launches the ITP Jukebox

2007

Xavier University's Department of Art comes to ITP / ITP goes to New Orleans

Tom Igoe's book "Making Things Talk, Practical Methods For Connecting Physical Objects" published

ITP goes en masse to Maker Faire

ITP goes en masse to SxSW

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo creates the video blog "The Residents".

Tech Staff moves next door to Red Nancy Hechinger joins FT Faculty


Fall

  • Oscar T., Stella K. and Andrea D. Spontaneously begin to host ITP "Half Time" at local bars which entails the consumption of food and beer at an incredibly fast rate to avoid being late to Red's Applications Class!
  • First 'Big Screens" class
  • Old Tech Office become Adjunct Office

Spring

  • Kristin O'Friel takes on role as TNO Queen, passed on by Mike Dory
  • Adjunct Office moves to Long Lab

2008

  • Dan Shiffman's book "Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction" published
  • Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" published
  • ITP goes en masse to Maker Faire


Spring

  • Brian Kim joins Tech Staff
  • The Google Groups interface for the ITP Student listserv is created.
  • Zannah Marsh launches modern version of student-run crits
  • ITP goes to Panama
  • Shawn Van Every wins the TSOA David Payne-Carter Award for teaching Excellence
  • Matt Parker gifts a new foosball table to the floor. Students enjoy the Luxury of temporarily having two foosball tables, the new one nicknamed "The Tron Table." Rob Ryan later forces a "Sophie's Choice" moment to the community to choose the old or new table due to lack of space. The old table wins out, and is renamed "Parker Field" in honor of Matt's generosity. (Wasn't the new foosball table sold on Craigslist?)


Summer

  • Residents hold first x in x event: 7 in 7
  • Students hold second x in x event: 5 in 5
  • The mounted rotating LCD displays are installed in the walkway past the lobby


Fall

  • Ceiling Crash of 08. First Saturday after school started. Students Elizabeth Fuller and Oscar G. Torres come within inches of being hit by debris. Foosball Table and metal chair not so lucky. [Oscar's blog entry]
  • ITP Eating Club launched
  • ITP gets fit with PLANKOFFS
  • Sonaar Luthra and gang throw an amazing ITP Haunted House Halloween Party
  • Life sized cardboad of Jean-Luc Picard graces the floor for the semester. He is dressed up in many hats

2009

Winter Break

  • Faculty Offices and Lounge undergo emergency ceiling replacement, everyone works out of the Japanese Room
  • Rob Ryan weaves some magic and we get a ceiling grid installed during construction
  • Students run 4 in 4 from the lower concourse of TSOA


Spring

  • Oscar T. attempts to organize earth hour at ITP on March 28th, 2009. ITP turns off 1/2 of its lights.
  • ITP hosts a team for the Global Game Jam, organized by ITP Alumnus, Oren Ross.
  • John Dimatos launches ITPedia v1.0
  • Sonaar Luthra takes on role as DriveBy King, passed on by Corey Menscher
  • Nancy Hechinger offers a non-credit Writer's Workshop "for students whose projects have a story at their core"
  • ITP goes to Peru
  • We all got very misty eyed singing along to Dip-a-loma song at Ithai Benjamin's amazing Princes of Persuasion Thesis presentation
  • Several of Mattias' succulents in Jonny Goldstein's care still live after moves to DC and Philly. They are huge.
  • Lee-Sean Huang takes on role as TNO King/Queen, passed on by Kristin O'Friel
  • Several ITP projects are invited to present at the 2009 CHI conference's "Design Expo" in Boston.

Summer

  • ITP hosts 2 Barcamps
  • BeeMe awarded Best Product Concept at Microsoft Design Expo '09
  • ITP shows work at Sony Wonder Technology Lab. Participants include: Matt Parker, Asli Sevinc, Xiaoyang Feng, Oscar G. Torres, Mooshir Vahanvati, Hye Jin Yoo


Fall

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Fall

  • Tom Igoe's head in a jar teaches "Physical Bio-Nanocomputing" for the first time as a core class, which includes ITP's first ever group of students from Omicron Persei 8.
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