Barbara A. Barry
451 Pine St., Marshfield, MA, USA
barbara@media.mit.edu
http://www.media.mit.edu/~barbara

Objective: To design and engineer narrative systems that support artistic practice, scientific inquiry, and technology research.

Education

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Media Arts and Science, June 2005
Dissertation: Mindful Documentary
Committee Members: Glorianna Davenport, Walter Bender, and Erik Mueller (IBM Research)

M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Media Arts and Science, September 2000

B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Painting, May 1991

Fields of Research: Artificial Intelligence; Design Research; Documentary practice; Multimedia Computing; Neuromedia

Research Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Media Laboratory,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Associate
Supervisors: Professor Frank Moss, Professor Edward Boyden
June 2006 - Present

Intel Corporation
Research Scientist
Portland, OR, USA
Domestic Designs and Technologies Research
Supervisor: Dr. Genevieve Bell
September 2005 - May 2006

Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Media Laboratory,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Assistant
Interactive Cinema and Commonsense Computing Research
Supervisor: Glorianna Davenport
September 1998 - May 2005

Motorola Incorporated
New York, NY, USA
Mobile Application Design and Development
iDEN Wearables project, in collaboration with Frog Design, Inc.
Supervisor: Franco Lodato
May 2003 - August 2003

Professional Activities

Committees:
Suksapattana Foundation, MIT Media Lab liaison, 2007 – present.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Council for the Arts, 2007-2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab, Diversity Committee, January 2007-Present
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Multimedia, Programming Committee for Application Track, 2007
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Multimedia, Programming Committee for Poster Sessions, 2005-6

Peer Referee:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI), 2007
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2007
IEEE Computer Journal, 2007
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Magazine, 2005
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Multimedia Journal, 2006-7
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Multimedia Conference, 2004-7
IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2003-2004

Summits and Professional Meetings:
Suksapattana Foundation, Education Reform Meeting, Chiang Rai, Thailand 2007
European Union ICT in Education, Dublin, Ireland 2004
MLE Education Technology Conference, Dublin, Ireland 2002
BBC Creativity and Education Conference, London England 2001

Skills Programming languages:
Proficient in: Python, Ruby (on Rails), Lisp, Cyc-l (representation language of Cyc), and an assortment of web-development tools such as Flash and PHP.
Familiar with: Java, Processing, Scratch

Research and Teaching Skills:
Documentary videography; Ethnographic fieldwork and analysis; Digital video production; Website design; Digital fabrication (2-D printing, 3-D printing, electronic embroidery).

Extended CV Further detail about Publications, Exhibitions, Citations, Research Projects, Invited talks, and Press available on request.

Selected Publications
Barry, B. (2008). Narrative Computing. (in preparation).

Boyden, E. & Barry, B (2008). Engineering Algorithmic Therapies. (in preparation)

Barry, B. (2007). Creativity & Commonsense: Leveraging collective knowledge for documentary practice. (in submission for IEEE Computer special issue)

Barry, B. (2005). Mindful Documentary. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. thesis

Williams, R., Barry, B. and Singh, P. (2005). ComicKit: Acquiring Story Scripts Using Commonsense Feedback. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2005). San Diego, CA, USA.

Lieberman, H., Liu, H., Singh, P. & Barry, B. (2004). Beating some common sense into interactive applications. AI Magazine, Winter 2004, 25(4): 63-76. AAAI Press.

Davenport, G., Barry, B., Kelliher, A., and Nemirovsky, P. (2004). Media Fabric. BT Technology Journal, 22(4):160-170.

Singh, P., Barry, B. and Liu, H. (2004). Teaching machines about everyday life. BT Technology Journal, 22(4):227-240.

Barry, B. (2003) The Mindful Camera: Common Sense for Documentary Videography. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference. California, USA.

Singh, P. & Barry, B. (2003) Collecting Common Sense Experiences. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2003). Florida, USA.

Barry B., & Davenport G. (2003). Documenting Life: Videography and Commonsense. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Baltimore, Maryland, 2003.

Davenport, G., Bradley, B., Agamanolis, S., Barry, B., & Brooks, K. (2000). Synergistic storyscapes and constructionist cinematic sharing. IBM Systems Journal. v. 39 no. 3-4, 2000, p. 456-69.

Barry, B. (2000). StoryBeads: a wearable for distributed and mobile storytelling. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. Thesis.


Selected Citations

Livingston, K. and Riesbeck, C. K. (2007). Knowledge acquisition from simplified text. In Proceedings of the 12th international Conference on intelligent User interfaces (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 28 - 31, 2007). IUI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 198-205.

Snoek, C. G., Worring, M., and Hauptmann, A. G. (2006). Learning rich semantics from news video archives by style analysis. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 2, 2 (May. 2006).

von Ahn, L., Kedia, M., and Blum, M. (2006.). Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds. CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 75-78.

K. Falkovych and F. Nack. (2006). Context aware guidance for multimedia authoring: harmonizing domain and discourse knowledge. Multimedia Syst., 11(3):226-235.

Chklovski, T. & Gil, Y. (2005) “Towards Managing Knowledge Collection from
Volunteer Contributors”, in Proceedings of 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium
on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors. (FIX)

Davis, M. 2003. (2003). Active capture: automatic direction for automatic movies. In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Berkeley, CA, USA, November 02 - 08, 2003). MULTIMEDIA '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 602-603.

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): AI Topics https://www.aaai.org/aitopics/html/common.html

Patents and Patent Applications
Software Engine, Platform, and System for Customizable, Adaptive Therapy, U.S. Application # 60/916,880.

Open Source Licenses: Openmind Commons (multi-author).

Selected Oral Storytelling Works:
“Accident” (1998); “Face” (1999); “Diamond” (2000); “Peabody” (2001); “Perfect Day (2002); “Rock” (2002); “Houdini” (2002); “Pinecone, Matches, Thread” (2003); “Shop” (2004); “Spider Skeleton” (2003); “Spell” (2004); “Cry” (2005); “Ocean” (2005); “Marita” (2007); “Evan” (2007); “Felicity” (2007)

Selected Exhibitions

Flights
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, April 2001

Dream Machine
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 1999

Hybrid
New York Film Festival, New York, NY, September 1998

Teaching Experience:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Freshman Arts Seminar
Advising Program Co-advisor, 2003 – 2004

Computer Clubhouse, Computer Museum, Boston, MA
Beyond Black Boxes, NSF funded program
Mentor, 1998 - 2001

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant in Media Arts and Science
Course: Cinematic Story
Spring 2004

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant in Media Arts and Science
Course: Digital Artist Seminar and Studio
Spring 2002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maine Youth Center, Portland, ME
Future of Learning Group, MIT Media Lab
Project: MYC
April 2000 – November 2000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant in Media Arts and Science
Course: Story Representation and Process
Fall 1999

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant in Media Arts and Science
Course: Elastic Movie Time
Fall 1998

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant in Media Arts and Science
Course: Elastic Movie Time
Fall 1997 (Volunteer)

Mass College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting lecturer for student reviews, 1997 - 1999

Research Supervisionß
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Advisees
1998 - Present

Michael Daugherty, (2007) Commonsense Story Parsing (Senior Thesis).
Cinjon Resnick, (2007) Knowledge Capture in Adaptive Therapy.
Brendan Fay, (2007) Story-driven Web Mining.
Gilwoo Lee, (2007) Storytelling and Commonsense Capture in Second Life.
Daniel Jang, (2007) Storytelling and Commonsense Capture in Second Life.
Jason Uh, (2007) Storytelling and Commonsense Capture in Second Life.
Gabriel Fouasnon, (2007) Markov Reasoning for Customized Therapies.
Ryan Murphy, (2004) Comic Kit: Acquiring Story Scripts Using Commonsense Feedback (M.Eng. Thesis).
Tina Hsieh, (2002). Video and Commonsense.
Austin Kim, (2001-2003) Context-driven commonsense reasoning.
Grace Lim, (2001-2002) Commonsense Knowledge Collection on the Web.
Eric Gunther, (1998-2000) Desktop Interfaces for Wearable Computers.
Dan McGuire, (1998-2000) Optical displays and Wireless Communication for Networked Devices (Senior Thesis).
Marc Knight (1999) Circuit design for Infrared Communication.

Awards and Fellowships

Warner Brothers Fellow
MIT Media Lab
September 2004 – June 2005

Media Lab Europe Fellow
MIT Media Lab
September 2003 – September 2004

Motorola Fellow
MIT Media Lab
September 2000 – September 2003

References available upon request.