Cloud Creativity

CloudCreativity

Andrés Monroy-Hernández MIT Media Lab

Twitter/Identi.ca @andresmh

Ars Electronica 2009

Cloud Computing

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DemocratizingCloud Computing

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London  NY  Sydney Melbourne  Brisbane  LA  Perth  Minneapolis

projects per day

more than...

500,000 projects12 million scripts3 million sprites created 78 million "lines" of code3 million comments 72,000 contributors  320,000 registered users 

July 15, 2009

Age distribution (self-reported)

12, 13 years old

Source: Demographics for scratch.mit.edu (Source: Quantcast)

Gray Bear Productions

Founders: 8, 13, 15 years old18 members

Different time zonesCollective decision making

6 games in 3 months

How to leveragethe cloud as a  social platform for creative expression?

I'm @andresmhon Twitterand Identi.caand I'd be happy to chat with you.

Acknowledgements 

Mitchel Resnick, John Maloney, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Amon Millner, Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum,Karen Brennan

 Amos Blanton, Anupom Syam, Ashok Gond, Vladimir Vuksan

The members of the Scratch community

 Financial support

National Science Foundation, Microsoft,

Intel Foundation Nokia,

MIT Media Lab research consortia