Explore miSci's latest interactive exhibits and experiences!
Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine
Designed for visitors of all ages, Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine presents technology in easy-to-understand terms with accessible games and hands-on interactives. In the exhibit, kids and adults explore what “smart machines” are and how they work. They also learn that the concept of man-made intelligence, popularized by Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” has been around for thousands of years.
Visitors will get to interact with numerous examples of practical AI: computers translating stories into different languages; an “intelligent piano player” that helps make any person sound like a virtuoso; a real-time AI “painter,” that creates real-time images of visitors in different classical art styles; applications that try to guess visitors’ emotions and ages; software that recognizes objects around it; and much more. The exhibit also shows how the human brain goes through the process of learning, and how that is different from trying to teach a machine to “think.”
Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine is a Touring Exhibition of the Relayer Group
GE Comic Books: Adventures in Science
GE Comic Books: Adventures in Science showcases the impact of comic books on inspiring young people to study science and engineering. The exhibit features a collection of 26 comic books created by General Electric (GE) between 1945 and 1964, that told the story of electricity and other scientific innovations through the eyes of a fictional teenager named Johnny Powers. Visitors to the exhibit will be able to see the original comic books, as well as learn about the impact they had on inspiring a generation of students to pursue careers in science and engineering,
The exhibit also features the work of veteran comic artist George Roussos, who created the vibrant, colorful style of the GE science comics. Roussos was also coloring DC Comic’s Batman and later went on to work with Marvel, inking and coloring early issues of Fantastic Four and other important titles.
Design Zone
On view now in the Jane Golub Gallery
What does it take to create an addictive and fun videogame? How many beats per second does a DJ need to get bodies moving on the dance floor? What goes behind creating a roller coaster or a skate park that produces the most fun and biggest thrills? Discover the secrets behind how videogame developers, music producers, roller coaster designers, and other creative problem solvers do what they do.
Design Zone is an exciting interactive exhibition that highlights the importance of science and mathematical thinking in areas critical to building creativity and innovation: art, music, and engineering and presents the creative concepts behind the processes and tools needed to create a successful design.
