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students who already hybridized literary theory, media studies, and computer
science. These were students who were trained both in semiotics and program-
ming languages as undergraduates and expected media technology research to
combine them.
The future
Whileweaccomplishedmuchinthe6yearsoftheNarrativeIntelligenceRead-
ing Group at the MIT Media Lab, there is so much more to be done. Most
humanities departments still look at computation as a mere instrumentality
and not as a serious and relevant area of intellectual inquiry. Most computer
science programs, and even media technology programs, do not offer courses
in which literary and media theory are taught and applied. The challenges fac-
ing the humanities and computer science demand not merely an interdisci-
plinary dialogue, but a redrawing of disciplinary boundaries. Training students
and practitioners at this historical moment - as our means of communication
are being radically transformed - requires that we develop a theoretically in-
formed praxis that combines the best of our humanistic and computational
sciences. The work of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group was an early
step in the important process of redefining what it means to practice (and to
teach) a hybridized discipline of computational media studies.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our local members who blazed the trail in the early years: Edith
Ackermann, James Berkeley, Kathy Biddick, Amy Bruckman, Janet Cahn, Anil
Chakravarthy, Abbe Don, Michelle Evard, Michelle Fineblum, Lenny Foner,
Larry Friedlander, Ricki Goldman-Seagal, Jennifer Gonzalez, Gregory Gargar-
ian, Nira Granott, Joel Henderson, Ian Horswill, Gilberte Houbard, Alex Ja-
cobson, Henry Jenkins, Michael Johnson, Yasmin Kafai, Greg Kimberly, Golan
Levin, Henry Lieberman, Pattie Maes, Kevin McGee, Teri Mendelsohn, Mar-
garet Minsky, Shawn O'Donnell, Martin Roberts, Alan Ruttenberg, Warren
Sack, Josh Smith, Carol Sperry, Carol Strohecker, Jeremy Wertheimer, Alan
Wexelblatt, and Uri Wilensky. Thanks also to our active remote members: Joe
Bates, Brenda Laurel, Stuart Moulthrop, Tim Oren, Sandy Stone, and Terry
Winograd. For any of the NIers that we have inadvertently left out, our apolo-
gies, and please let us know.
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