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um as you know this is the next to the last meeting of our seminar on feeling and imagination in art science and and technology uh the since the first two that were filmed we've dealt with um different chapters of my book feeling and imagination we've dealt with the entirety of marvin minsky's book the emotion machine and we've dealt in discussions uh some all of which were run by you uh in relation to andy and as well as me um on various subjects about the nature of creativity and the way in which imagination feeling interact with rationality today we're going to have a presentation of the final uh paper the five the the major paper that elsa castilla here on my left uh is going to submit next week as the final evidence of the work she's done in the course before she starts there are a couple of things that have been developing in me that i haven't really dealt with adequately but perhaps because of the course because this is related to my own...

STEVE LERMAN: Welcome. I know there'll be a few additional people. And if people could slide over, that'd be great, as new people arrive. It's my pleasure to welcome all of you here today. My name's Steve Lerman. And I've been at MIT a long time, but I certainly, for this occasion, my singular honor has been to be associated with OpenCourseWare since its inception. I served as chair of the Interim Management Board and am now chair of the Faculty Advisory Board. It's my privilege to be your emcee today. But in fact, while this event is meant to honor the achievements of OpenCourseWare, I sort of like to emphasize my own view that the best is still yet to come. In 2001, MIT made an extraordinary commitment to publish in electronic form the teaching materials we use in virtually all our courses, the entire undergraduate and graduate curriculum of this institution. And we committed to make those materials freely and openly available for any non-commerc...