Neil Gershenfeld

"When Things Start to Think."

Event Date: March 28, 2005

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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presents a series of evening lectures on "Managing Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context" featuring some of the best known experts in digitally networked communications. The series examines how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified.

Neil Gershenfeld, the eighth and final speaker in the series gave his talk on March 28, 2005. The director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of "When Things Start to Think", presents his concept, Internet Zero (0), and proposes a new infrastructure for the existing Internet that would give an IP address to all electronic devices -- from light bulbs to Internet addresses and URLs -- and interconnect them directly, thereby eliminating much intermediating code and server technology.

The moderators and coordinators for these events are Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and Derrick de Kerckhove, holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the John W. Kluge Center.

Webcasts of earlier presentations in the series are found at CyberLC:

and through C-SPAN.org at:

http://www.c-span.org/