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September 16, 2010
Christopher & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What the Bible Teaches us About Robotics
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a researcher and author on creativity, renowned as the architect of the idea of “flow” in creative work, and recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers on positive psychology. His son, Christopher, works at the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts, lecturing and exhibiting world-wide. He currently directs the MIT Media Lab’s Computing Culture group, as well as the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.
A featured event of the “Play makes life worth living” theme semester collaboration with support from Arts Engine, University Musical Society (UMS), and the LSA Theme Semester.
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Selected Bibliography
- 4.09: Go With The Flow.
- Chris Csikszentmihályi | MIT Media Lab
- Csikszentmihályi, Chris. 2005. Chris Ciskszentmihályi: skin control. Milano: Charta ; Location one.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow | Video on TED.com.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Biography from Answers.com.
- How to shape ourselves. Psychology Today 27, no. 1 (January 1994): 38.
- Cheryl Hall. 2010. The Dallas Morning News Cheryl Hall column: Professor's radical ideas on happiness have caught on in business world. McClatchy - Tribune Business News (February 28).
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1996. Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers.
- Sobel, Dava. 1995. Interview: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Omni 17, no. 4 (January): 73.
- Timothy J Madigan. 1998. How to find flow. Free Inquiry 18, no. 3 (Summer): 25.
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