Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
Michael Sensat missed the email
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Has not watched Arrival
Sasha Daraskevich
Has not watched Arrival
Michael Sensat
Has watched Arrival
Edward Smith
Watched Arrival at release on a buffering iPhone
Unfinished Business
Groupchat needs to be made
Made, Mr. Sensat will be added once he shares his #
New Business
Watch the movie.
Read the short story
Story of Your Life
Open Forum & Discussion
Work timeline
Evaluated aspects of movie during the portions of class devoted to course topic
Let’s watch the movie / read story, and take notes
Evaluate society / tech/ compute during story release
Evaluate society / tech/ compute during movie release
Need to make a timeline of featured compute / tech
OTHER BUSINESS
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Shoot for Wednesday deadline
Recurring Meetings
5:30 - 6:30 Wednesdays
4:00 - 4:30 Saturdays
Michael Alicea
Watch the movie, read the story, take notes
Sasha Daraskevich
Watch the movie, read the story, take notes
Will send meeting links for recurring stuff
Michael Sensat
Rewatch the movie, read the story, take notes
Edward Smith
Rewatch the movie, read the story, take notes
Will post minutes in outlook and transcribe to website
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Movie watched, short story read, notes
Sasha Daraskevich
Movie watched, short story read, notes
Michael Sensat
Movie watched, short story read, notes
Different technologies
Edward Smith
Movie watched, short story read, notes
Unfinished Business
None
New Business
Movie significances
Technology
Use of radio, tv to disseminate info
Public opinion & paranoia
Indirect vs. Direct Communication
The linguist v. the scientist
Experts and Policy
First encounter aliens
Bring in experts in related fields
Use expertise to inform policy and decision-making
Importance of Communication
Proving 1/12th of information
Avoid brain drain
Historical metaphor a la post-Cold War scientific collab.
Open Forum & Discussion
Project Topics & Technology Discussion
Translation technologies & mistranslation/limited-translation
Harm of censorship & non-collaboration
Conclusions on the Film & Story?
Communication is a problem-solver/unifier
“If you knew the future, would you take the steps to improve/avoid”
Technologies and their futures?
DUE DATE 9/20/2022
Freedom of Speech
Intellectual Property
Data Privacy
Privacy and the Gov’t
Crime
NOTES ON SUBJECT DUE SATURDAY
OTHER BUSINESS
Timeline work
Computing Technology Audit
Short story
Heptapod A & B → Theory & Practice?
Good for Author intent
Good for comparisons
Heptapod Screen vs. Movie Screen
Movie
First 15 mins → Like Independence Day
After base/1st contact → Like Contact
Timeline -
Forward and backwards time
Time understanding
Tool vs. weapon vs. gift → technological perspective/utilization?
Good faith / bad faith? Difference of cultures?
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Technology Audit
Take notes across all four topic areas and post in research
Crime in Arrival
Sasha Daraskevich
Timeline on the plot
Take notes across all four topic areas and post in research
Freedom of Speech in Arrival
Michael Sensat
Technology Audit
Take notes across all four topic areas and post in research
Intellectual Property in Arrival
Edward Smith
Timeline on the plot
Take notes across all four topic areas and post in research
Privacy in Arrival
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Tech timeline work & crime in the film
Sasha Daraskevich
Added my timestamps and original notes about timeline to document
Mostly technology focused with a few events
Can go back and add more event and story based items later if we feel like we need more
Finished freedom of speech paragraph
Michael Sensat
Created technology audit and added technologies listed in timestamps, and made timeline of most technologies
Edward Smith
Cross evaluated my timestamps w/ Sasha and added mine
Working on Privacy entry for Arrival
New Business
Sasha- going forward with project ideas
Is there a way we want to edit and check each other’s work to make sure everyone feels comfortable with what’s posted?
Spencer- does anyone have any ideas for Privacy in the film?
The ideas I can come up with are reaching at best
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Crime due 9/20
Sasha Daraskevich
Freedom of Speech due 9/20
Michael Sensat
Intellectual Property due 9/20
Edward Smith
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Added more to Crime conclusion
Sasha Daraskevich
Added more to Freedom of Speech conclusion
Michael Sensat
Finished Intellectual Property conclusion
Edward Smith
Posted all relevant work onto website
Finished Privacy Conclusion
Unfinished Business
9/17
Sasha- going forward with project ideas
Is there a way we want to edit and check each other’s work to make sure everyone feels comfortable with what’s posted?
Spencer- does anyone have any ideas for Privacy in the film?
The ideas I can come up with are reaching at best
New Business
Work for the next few chapters:
Errors, Failures, & Risks
Work
Salient conclusions on Arrival
How do we want to steer the presentation?
Presentation framework
Website Work
Artistic intent?
Themes? Motifs? Metaphors?
Web Design
Open Forum & Discussion
Discussion on conclusions
Good: Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Property, & Privacy
Needs improvement: Crime
Let’s call Crime the right-off paragraph
There is Crime, but Arrival isn’t about Crime
Discussion w/ steering
Paper minutes for Saturday the 24th
Reflect on best conclusions, intentions, & metaphor on/of Arrival
OTHER BUSINESS
Pipeline of work
24th prepare conclusions
25th read 9/24 minutes, be ready to begin work on presentation
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Rework Crime conclusions
Reflect on best conclusions, intentions, & metaphor on/of Arrival
Sasha Daraskevich
Reflect on best conclusions, intentions, & metaphor on/of Arrival
Michael Sensat
Reflect on best conclusions, intentions, & metaphor on/of Arrival
Edward Smith
Reflect on best conclusions, intentions, & metaphor on/of Arrival
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Individual Reports
Unfinished Business
New Business
We need to discuss conclusions
BE READY FOR SUNDAY 9/25 MEETING
Open Forum & Discussion
OTHER BUSINESS
Add anything y’all want to discuss for Sunday 9/25
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Read CONCLUSIONS of other members & comment
Start making conclusions on tech in Arrival
Sasha Daraskevich
Read CONCLUSIONS of other members & comment
Refine details on the website
Michael Sensat
Read CONCLUSIONS of other members & comment
Start making conclusions on tech in Arrival
Edward Smith
Read CONCLUSIONS of other members & comment
Post minutes
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Unfinished Business
New Business
Conclusions for the Project
1) COMMUNICATION
Imperative to society, interpersonal & intrapersonal, new means of communication/thinking
Heptapods interpretive of learning & comms approach
1/12 information to encourage collab
Goal of movie → important to work together, show us how to break down those barriers
Working together
2) POLICY-MAKING
Source experts to render decisions and inform policy
Observation
Differences betw. short story and film
Technology-focused vs. theory-focused
Open Forum & Discussion
OTHER BUSINESS
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Tech timeline
Sasha Daraskevich
Film Maker Intent
Michael Sensat
Tech timeline
Edward Smith
In-Depth Conclusions
A Very Special Episode with Professor Pray
Open Forum & Discussion
CONCLUSIONS
1. Comms Technology’s ability for different cultures to connect (verbally and compatibility)
2. How learning another language can change the way you think
3. How difference sciences (CS et al.) change how you view the world
How learning different systems of programming languages gives you different ways of problem solving
“To a man with a hammer, everything is a nail” - Abraham Maslow
4. How immersing oneself in a topic entirely can aid in understanding
Full-immersion learning
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Unfinished Business
New Business
Debrief of meeting with Professor Pray
Open Forum & Discussion
Solid on conclusions
Tech timeline ready to be posted into the website?
Ready to begin formulating the presentation & script
Two more class topics to cover and add to website
OTHER BUSINESS
Saturday meeting: 1-2:30
Begin presentation on Saturday
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Comms Technology’s ability for different cultures to connect (verbally and compatibility)
Research topic, take legible notes PLEASE, keep links
Tech timelines
Sasha Daraskevich
How immersing oneself in a topic entirely can aid in understanding
Research topic, take legible notes PLEASE, keep links
Director’s intent
Errors, Risks, & Failures in Arrival
Book a tech suite in SmartWorld please
Michael Sensat
How learning another language can change the way you think
Research topic, take legible notes PLEASE, keep links
Tech timelines
Edward Smith
How difference sciences (CS et al.) change how you view the world
Research topic, take legible notes PLEASE, keep links
Conclusion stuff
Work in Arrival
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Thoughts: Comms technology communication conclusions most typically case by case surveys, find more data on efficacy of “real time” translators; ex: google pixel translation beans
Sasha Daraskevich
Finished Errors, Failures, and Risk conclusion
Kind of strange in between of fitting with movie v. not fitting with movie
General approach -> focus on how potential defects in software could have been bad
Finished director's intent
Not directly about computing, but used computing and language as backbone
Thoughts:
Limited data and statistics
Mostly explaining how immersion learning is set up and how implemented
Michael Sensat
Thoughts: Data is missing statistics, although it suggests that your language can influence your thoughts.
Edward Smith
Thoughts:
We can have two hypotheses, one data-driven, one opinion driven
I.E. - 1) Communication Technology bridges gaps
2) Immersion Good, Science/Language Good
Unfinished Business
New Business
The presentation
Skeleton Outline
Conclusions??
Work to be done on the website
Additions of Work, Error, Artistic Intent, Tech Timeline, Conclusions
Open Forum & Discussion
OTHER BUSINESS
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
LINK FOR NEXT MEETING
Meeting Monday
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Research into real-time comms tech
Study into ML improvements & deep learning application
SELT & Real-Time Translators
Survey
Sasha Daraskevich
Put information into skeleton / rough draft of website
We’ll have to see where it all fits
Michael Sensat
Put information from working tech audit onto website
Contributed to the ongoing research of how language affects how you think
Edward Smith
Lots of revisions to the website
Minutes: converted to styles
Submitted the Error entry, wrote the Work entry
Entered my section in the conclusion
Reformatted landing page
Edited the ribbon page for topic analyses
Reformatted and pasted images for Tech Timeline
Presentation
I low-key sweated from 11-3 today
Unfinished Business
Presentation Format Debate
Decided on template
New Business
Time to get this presentation DONE
From meeting to 3PM Tuesday: finish your slides & speaker notes
Open Forum & Discussion
Time to Begin Presentation
OTHER BUSINESS
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
@Everyone, do your slides
Michael Alicea
Write your 2-cents on your conclusion on the website (1-2 paragraphs)
See Edward’s entry for guidance
Sasha Daraskevich
Write your 2-cents on your conclusion on the website (1-2 paragraphs)
See Edward’s entry for guidance
Canva for plot timeline of events
Michael Sensat
Write your 2-cents on your conclusion on the website (1-2 paragraphs)
See Edward’s entry for guidance
Edward Smith
Slide Work
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Worked on slide presentation
Conclusion 1 for slides
Sasha Daraskevich
Submitted presentation on Tuesday
Wrote take-away conclusion
Reformatted movie timeline
Worked on slides for presentation
Director’s intent
Impact of language
Website conclusion
Michael Sensat
Communications Arrival vs Reality
Learning another language changes how you think first slide
Started with Conclusion 2 slides: Intellectual Growth
Wrote learning language conclusion on website
Edward Smith
Worked on slide presentation
Made figure for plot timeline
Further revisions to sciences slide
Amended a few changes to the website
Unfinished Business
Slide Presentation
Do your slides PLEASE
Make sure you have a fully fill-out speaker notes
Once we get all those done
We can commence to added the citation and references slide
New Business
Walking through the presentation
Some slides need work
Nevermind, y’all will add your notes
Everyone go on the website, check all links and pages
More eyes will find more defects (probably)
Final Draft of Presentation
Will probably be made at some point Thursday afternoon
Do your slides, and leave your links
I’ll fill the references slides by 10AM Thursday -Edward
Assuming we get evaluated between now and Thursday morning
Between now & then: refine your slides, match formatting
SEMIFINAL MEETING: THURSDAY NIGHT 6:30-8PM on Zoom
FINAL MEETING: FRIDAY 12 - 1PM in Person
Open Forum & Discussion
OTHER BUSINESS
I think we did a bang-up job with this project - Edward
Good pacing, good work, good collab
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Do your slides and add speaker notes
Add the conclusion to website & slide presentation
Sources
Sasha Daraskevich
Slide work & speaker notes
Sources
Michael Sensat
Slide work & speaker notes
Sources
Edward Smith
Slide work & speaker notes
I will do the references slides by 10AM Thursday
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Added conclusion to website
Finished slides in presentation
Sasha Daraskevich
Emailed presentation to get feedback
Michael Sensat
Finished working on conclusion 2 slide
Edward Smith
Finished the reference slide
Added changes to website to fix typos, spelling, & errors
Finished my slide work
Unfinished Business
New Business
Meeting tomorrow before class @ 12-1PM in the library room 111
Open Forum & Discussion
Debate on tomorrow’s in-person/Zoom status?
Slide presentation looks great everyone
OTHER BUSINESS
Regular Saturday meeting for Thorns & Roses
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
Michael Alicea
Will add pictures to 4 & 10
Sasha Daraskevich
Will practice slides
Will cut down slide 8
Michael Sensat
Will add pictures 5, 6, 7
Will finalize my speaker notes for slide 5
Will cite the source on slide 6
Edward Smith
Condense plot presentation
Will rework presentation conclusion entry
Finalize notes on slide 9
Next meeting is our final productive meeting
Tomorrow, 3 hours before we present
Be ready (either with flashcards or your reading notes)
We are meeting in-person
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Open Forum & Discussion
Revisions and additions to slides
Photos to plot, languages, comms slides
Slide timings look solid
Planning for Thorns & Roses: tomorrow
OTHER BUSINESS
Thanks guys for humoring me with Thorns & Roses - Edward
I do this with every project group I’m with, it’s a great way to improve yourself as a team member, especially after the whole project is done
A great opportunity to be candid and levy some constructive criticism
I encourage y’all to try it with your project groups going forward too!
RESOLUTIONS, PROGRESS, & ASSIGNMENTS
We need to schedule our post-presentation evaluation
In the books for tomorrow
Let’s ace this presentation!
EDIT: We did.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Attendance
All Present
Individual Reports
Michael Alicea
Finished slides
We did pretty good, I mean like really good
Sasha Daraskevich
Finished polishing slides and practiced presentation
Turned in final slideshow to canvas
We did great on presentation
Michael Sensat
Finished slide work
Smoothed out some speaker notes
Practiced presenting
We did good on the presentation
Edward Smith
Finished slide work & speaker notes
Wrote questions for Tuesday’s presenters
Practiced presentation in meeting
We nailed the presentation, answered some good questions
OTHER BUSINESS
THORNS & ROSES
THORN - what we disliked, what we wish we did better, what went wrong
ROSE - what we liked, what we are satisfied with, what went right
BUD - what we plan to do next, what we learned, response to criticism
Michael Alicea
THORN
I felt like I held the group back a little bit
ROSE
Y’all are great members
We did some good work
BUD
Consistent group meetings
Communication
Sasha Daraskevich
THORN
Forgot that you need to hit publish
ROSE
Good job spacing out the project & breaking up the assignment
Everyone pulled their weight
Good to see Thorns & Roses revealing a consensus
BUD
Good training for more ambiguous projects
We did a good job exercising a creative background
Michael Sensat
THORN
We approached the professor pretty late in the game
ROSE
Communication went super well, very well coordinated.
We were very ahead of the game and on top of work.
Best group I’ve had at WPI
BUD
Ask the professor for insight earlier and more often
It’s important to communicate earlier
Edward Smith
THORN
We approached the professor pretty late in the game
Could have been more timely with edits to the presentation
ROSE
Great communication
Great timeline, regular meetings
Great website
BUD
Carry forward with regular meetings, especially with term-long projects
Do a mid-point Thorns & Roses